Settled date · day 15 of 31 in the sign

4 May — Taurus

Taurus in every year from 1930 to 2029 — no ambiguity, no dependence on the hour. Here is what else this specific date produces.

Where in Taurus this falls

Sun's degree on this date 14.05° of Taurus
Day within the sign 15 of 31
Same sign in 100 of 100 years — settled

Moon-ruled decan of Taurus

Decan 2 of 3 · 10°–20°
Sub-ruler Moon
Sign ruler Venus
Sun on this date 14.05°

Moon pulls the sign inward, toward memory and mood, and makes it react before it decides. The middle ten degrees are the sign at full strength: past the entry, not yet leaning toward what follows.

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Every year, computed

All 100 years for 4 May. Each row is calculated for that exact day — sun position, life path, the Moon's sign and nakshatra, and which planets were retrograde. Find your year.

Year Sun Life path Moon Nakshatra Retrograde
1930 Taurus 13.29° 4 Cancer Pushya 1 Saturn
1931 Taurus 13.06° 5 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2 Mercury Saturn
1932 Taurus 13.79° 6 Taurus Ashwini 3
1933 Taurus 13.56° 7 Virgo Magha 3 Jupiter
1934 Taurus 13.32° 8 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 1 Jupiter
1935 Taurus 13.09° 9 Gemini Rohini 1 Mars Jupiter
1936 Taurus 13.82° 1 Libra Chitra 2 Jupiter
1937 Taurus 13.59° 11 Aquarius Dhanishta 2 Mercury Venus Mars
1938 Taurus 13.35° 3 Cancer Ardra 4 Mercury
1939 Taurus 13.12° 4 Scorpio Vishakha 4
1940 Taurus 13.85° 5 Aries Revati 1
1941 Taurus 13.62° 6 Leo Ashlesha 2
1942 Taurus 13.38° 7 Capricorn Mula 4
1943 Taurus 13.15° 8 Taurus Bharani 3
1944 Taurus 13.88° 9 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Mercury
1945 Taurus 13.65° 1 Aquarius Shravana 1 Venus Jupiter
1946 Taurus 13.42° 11 Gemini Mrigashira 3 Jupiter
1947 Taurus 13.18° 3 Scorpio Swati 2 Jupiter
1948 Taurus 13.92° 4 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3 Jupiter
1949 Taurus 13.68° 5 Cancer Punarvasu 4
1950 Taurus 13.45° 6 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2 Mercury Saturn
1951 Taurus 13.21° 7 Aries Ashwini 1 Mercury Saturn
1952 Taurus 13.95° 8 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1 Mars Saturn
1953 Taurus 13.71° 9 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4 Venus Saturn
1954 Taurus 13.48° 1 Gemini Rohini 2 Saturn
1955 Taurus 13.24° 11 Libra Hasta 4 Saturn
1956 Taurus 13.98° 3 Aquarius Dhanishta 4 Saturn
1957 Taurus 13.74° 4 Cancer Ardra 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1958 Taurus 13.51° 5 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Jupiter Saturn
1959 Taurus 13.28° 6 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Taurus 14.01° 7 Leo Ashlesha 3 Jupiter Saturn
1961 Taurus 13.78° 8 Capricorn Mula 3
1962 Taurus 13.54° 9 Taurus Bharani 4
1963 Taurus 13.31° 1 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3
1964 Taurus 14.04° 11 Aquarius Shravana 2 Mercury
1965 Taurus 13.81° 3 Gemini Mrigashira 3
1966 Taurus 13.57° 4 Scorpio Swati 3
1967 Taurus 13.34° 5 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Mars
1968 Taurus 14.07° 6 Cancer Pushya 1
1969 Taurus 13.84° 7 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2 Mars Jupiter
1970 Taurus 13.61° 8 Aries Ashwini 2 Mercury Jupiter
1971 Taurus 13.37° 9 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1 Jupiter
1972 Taurus 14.11° 1 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4 Jupiter
1973 Taurus 13.87° 11 Gemini Rohini 1
1974 Taurus 13.64° 3 Libra Chitra 2
1975 Taurus 13.4° 4 Aquarius Dhanishta 4
1976 Taurus 14.14° 5 Cancer Ardra 4
1977 Taurus 13.9° 6 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Mercury
1978 Taurus 13.67° 7 Aries Revati 1
1979 Taurus 13.43° 8 Leo Ashlesha 2 Saturn
1980 Taurus 14.17° 9 Capricorn Mula 3 Saturn
1981 Taurus 13.93° 1 Taurus Bharani 4 Jupiter Saturn
1982 Taurus 13.7° 11 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Mars Jupiter Saturn
1983 Taurus 13.47° 3 Aquarius Shravana 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1984 Taurus 14.2° 4 Gemini Mrigashira 3 Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn
1985 Taurus 13.97° 5 Scorpio Swati 3 Saturn
1986 Taurus 13.73° 6 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Saturn
1987 Taurus 13.5° 7 Cancer Punarvasu 4 Saturn
1988 Taurus 14.23° 8 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2 Saturn
1989 Taurus 14° 9 Taurus Ashwini 2 Saturn
1990 Taurus 13.76° 1 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3 Mercury
1991 Taurus 13.53° 11 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3
1992 Taurus 14.26° 3 Gemini Rohini 1
1993 Taurus 14.03° 4 Libra Chitra 2 Jupiter
1994 Taurus 13.79° 5 Pisces Shatabhisha 2 Jupiter
1995 Taurus 13.56° 6 Cancer Ardra 2 Jupiter
1996 Taurus 14.29° 7 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Mercury
1997 Taurus 14.06° 8 Aries Revati 1 Mercury
1998 Taurus 13.83° 9 Leo Magha 1
1999 Taurus 13.59° 1 Sagittarius Mula 1 Mars
2000 Taurus 14.33° 11 Taurus Bharani 4
2001 Taurus 14.09° 3 Libra Hasta 1
2002 Taurus 13.86° 4 Aquarius Shravana 4
2003 Taurus 13.62° 5 Gemini Rohini 4 Mercury
2004 Taurus 14.36° 6 Scorpio Swati 3 Jupiter
2005 Taurus 14.12° 7 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Jupiter
2006 Taurus 13.89° 8 Leo Pushya 3 Jupiter
2007 Taurus 13.65° 9 Sagittarius Anuradha 3 Jupiter
2008 Taurus 14.39° 1 Taurus Ashwini 2
2009 Taurus 14.15° 2 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Saturn
2010 Taurus 13.92° 3 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Mercury Saturn
2011 Taurus 13.69° 4 Taurus Krittika 3 Saturn
2012 Taurus 14.42° 5 Libra Chitra 2 Saturn
2013 Taurus 14.19° 6 Pisces Shatabhisha 3 Saturn
2014 Taurus 13.95° 7 Cancer Punarvasu 1 Mars Saturn
2015 Taurus 13.72° 8 Scorpio Vishakha 2 Saturn
2016 Taurus 14.45° 9 Aries Revati 1 Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn
2017 Taurus 14.22° 1 Virgo Magha 3 Jupiter Saturn
2018 Taurus 13.98° 2 Capricorn Mula 4 Jupiter Saturn
2019 Taurus 13.75° 3 Taurus Bharani 1 Jupiter Saturn
2020 Taurus 14.48° 4 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4
2021 Taurus 14.25° 5 Aquarius Dhanishta 2
2022 Taurus 14.01° 6 Gemini Mrigashira 3
2023 Taurus 13.78° 7 Libra Chitra 4 Mercury
2024 Taurus 14.51° 8 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4
2025 Taurus 14.28° 9 Leo Ashlesha 1
2026 Taurus 14.05° 1 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2
2027 Taurus 13.81° 2 Aries Revati 3
2028 Taurus 14.55° 3 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3 Jupiter
2029 Taurus 14.31° 4 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Mercury Mars Jupiter

The Moon and nakshatra columns change every year because the Moon returns to the same calendar date in a different position — which is why a birth date alone cannot tell you those, and why this table exists.

A century of 4 May

Day of the year 125 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 20 of 100 years (20%)
Most recent of those 1997, 2003, 2010, 2016, 2023, 2029
Full moon fell on this date in 7 years — 1966, 1985, 2004, 2015, 2023
Most frequent moon phase Waning Gibbous · 19 years

Every figure here is specific to 4 May: the Moon returns to a given phase on the same calendar date only every 19 years or so, so the counts differ from one date to the next. Mercury’s retrograde periods drift by about 30° of the zodiac each year, which is why the share is near 20% but never identical. How that 20% is computed →

Year by year

2006 Taurus life path 8
2007 Taurus life path 9
2008 Taurus life path 1
2009 Taurus life path 2
2010 Taurus life path 3
2011 Taurus life path 4
2012 Taurus life path 5
2013 Taurus life path 6
2014 Taurus life path 7
2015 Taurus life path 8
2016 Taurus life path 9
2017 Taurus life path 1
2018 Taurus life path 2
2019 Taurus life path 3
2020 Taurus life path 4
2021 Taurus life path 5
2022 Taurus life path 6
2023 Taurus life path 7
2024 Taurus life path 8
2025 Taurus life path 9
2026 Taurus life path 1
2027 Taurus life path 2
2028 Taurus life path 3
2029 Taurus life path 4

The sign column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 4 with 12 years; the scarcest is 2 with just 3. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 8 of those years. Master numbers are never reduced further, which is exactly why they are scarcer than single digits on any fixed day and month. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →

Why the answer holds

4 May sits 14 days past the start of Taurus and reached 14.05° this year — far enough from either boundary that no birth year or hour changes it. The question worth asking on this date is where in the sign, not which sign.