Settled date · day 13 of 31 in the sign

5 October — Libra

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

Where in Libra this falls

Sun's degree on this date 12.26° of Libra
Day within the sign 13 of 31
Same sign in 100 of 100 years — settled

Saturn-ruled decan of Libra

Decan 2 of 3 · 10°–20°
Sub-ruler Saturn
Sign ruler Venus
Sun on this date 12.26°

Saturn narrows and hardens the sign; slower to commit, and more durable once it has. 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 5 October. 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 Libra 11.52° 1 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 1
1931 Libra 11.28° 11 Cancer Punarvasu 2
1932 Libra 12.03° 3 Sagittarius Mula 1
1933 Libra 11.79° 4 Taurus Ashwini 4 Saturn
1934 Libra 11.55° 5 Virgo Magha 4 Saturn
1935 Libra 11.31° 6 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Saturn
1936 Libra 12.06° 7 Gemini Rohini 4 Mercury Saturn
1937 Libra 11.82° 8 Libra Chitra 3 Saturn
1938 Libra 11.58° 9 Aquarius Dhanishta 3 Jupiter Saturn
1939 Libra 11.34° 1 Cancer Ardra 1 Jupiter Saturn
1940 Libra 12.09° 11 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Jupiter Saturn
1941 Libra 11.85° 3 Aries Revati 2 Mars Saturn
1942 Libra 11.61° 4 Leo Ashlesha 2 Mercury Saturn
1943 Libra 11.38° 5 Sagittarius Mula 1
1944 Libra 12.12° 6 Taurus Krittika 3
1945 Libra 11.88° 7 Libra Hasta 1
1946 Libra 11.65° 8 Aquarius Shravana 1
1947 Libra 11.41° 9 Gemini Rohini 4
1948 Libra 12.15° 1 Scorpio Vishakha 2
1949 Libra 11.91° 11 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Mercury
1950 Libra 11.68° 3 Cancer Punarvasu 4 Jupiter
1951 Libra 11.44° 4 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Jupiter
1952 Libra 12.18° 5 Taurus Bharani 1 Jupiter
1953 Libra 11.95° 6 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3
1954 Libra 11.71° 7 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3
1955 Libra 11.47° 8 Gemini Krittika 4 Mercury
1956 Libra 12.22° 9 Libra Chitra 4 Mercury Mars
1957 Libra 11.98° 1 Pisces Shatabhisha 2
1958 Libra 11.74° 11 Cancer Ardra 2
1959 Libra 11.5° 3 Scorpio Vishakha 3
1960 Libra 12.25° 4 Aries Revati 3
1961 Libra 12.01° 5 Leo Magha 1
1962 Libra 11.77° 6 Sagittarius Mula 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1963 Libra 11.53° 7 Taurus Bharani 3 Jupiter Saturn
1964 Libra 12.28° 8 Libra Hasta 2 Jupiter Saturn
1965 Libra 12.04° 9 Aquarius Shravana 4 Saturn
1966 Libra 11.8° 1 Gemini Mrigashira 1 Saturn
1967 Libra 11.56° 11 Scorpio Swati 2 Saturn
1968 Libra 12.31° 3 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Mercury Saturn
1969 Libra 12.07° 4 Leo Pushya 3 Mercury Saturn
1970 Libra 11.83° 5 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Saturn
1971 Libra 11.59° 6 Aries Ashwini 1 Saturn
1972 Libra 12.34° 7 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1 Saturn
1973 Libra 12.1° 8 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Mars
1974 Libra 11.86° 9 Gemini Krittika 3 Jupiter
1975 Libra 11.62° 1 Libra Hasta 4 Mercury Jupiter
1976 Libra 12.37° 11 Pisces Shatabhisha 4 Jupiter
1977 Libra 12.13° 3 Cancer Ardra 4
1978 Libra 11.89° 4 Scorpio Vishakha 3
1979 Libra 11.65° 5 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4
1980 Libra 12.4° 6 Virgo Magha 3
1981 Libra 12.16° 7 Capricorn Mula 3
1982 Libra 11.92° 8 Taurus Bharani 2 Mercury
1983 Libra 11.68° 9 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3
1984 Libra 12.43° 1 Aquarius Dhanishta 2
1985 Libra 12.19° 11 Gemini Mrigashira 2
1986 Libra 11.95° 3 Scorpio Swati 2 Jupiter
1987 Libra 11.72° 4 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Jupiter
1988 Libra 12.46° 5 Leo Ashlesha 2 Mercury Mars Jupiter
1989 Libra 12.22° 6 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1
1990 Libra 11.98° 7 Aries Ashwini 1
1991 Libra 11.75° 8 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2
1992 Libra 12.49° 9 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Saturn
1993 Libra 12.25° 1 Gemini Rohini 1 Saturn
1994 Libra 12.02° 11 Libra Hasta 4 Saturn
1995 Libra 11.78° 3 Pisces Shatabhisha 1 Mercury Saturn
1996 Libra 12.52° 4 Cancer Punarvasu 3 Saturn
1997 Libra 12.29° 5 Scorpio Vishakha 4 Jupiter Saturn
1998 Libra 12.05° 6 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 3 Jupiter Saturn
1999 Libra 11.81° 7 Leo Magha 1 Jupiter Saturn
2000 Libra 12.55° 8 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Jupiter Saturn
2001 Libra 12.32° 9 Taurus Bharani 3 Mercury Saturn
2002 Libra 12.08° 1 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Mercury
2003 Libra 11.84° 11 Aquarius Shravana 4
2004 Libra 12.59° 3 Cancer Ardra 1
2005 Libra 12.35° 4 Scorpio Swati 2 Mars
2006 Libra 12.11° 5 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2
2007 Libra 11.87° 6 Leo Pushya 4
2008 Libra 12.62° 7 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Mercury
2009 Libra 12.38° 8 Aries Ashwini 2 Jupiter
2010 Libra 12.14° 9 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1 Jupiter
2011 Libra 11.9° 1 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3 Jupiter
2012 Libra 12.65° 11 Gemini Rohini 3 Jupiter
2013 Libra 12.41° 3 Libra Chitra 1
2014 Libra 12.17° 4 Pisces Shatabhisha 1 Mercury
2015 Libra 11.93° 5 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Mercury
2016 Libra 12.68° 6 Sagittarius Anuradha 2
2017 Libra 12.44° 7 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4
2018 Libra 12.2° 8 Leo Ashlesha 4
2019 Libra 11.96° 9 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1
2020 Libra 12.71° 1 Taurus Krittika 1 Mars
2021 Libra 12.47° 11 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2022 Libra 12.23° 3 Aquarius Shravana 4 Jupiter Saturn
2023 Libra 11.99° 4 Gemini Mrigashira 4 Jupiter Saturn
2024 Libra 12.74° 5 Scorpio Swati 4 Saturn
2025 Libra 12.5° 6 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Saturn
2026 Libra 12.26° 7 Leo Pushya 4 Venus Saturn
2027 Libra 12.02° 8 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 3 Saturn
2028 Libra 12.77° 9 Taurus Ashwini 3 Mercury Saturn
2029 Libra 12.53° 1 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1 Saturn

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 5 October

Day of the year 279 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 19 of 100 years (19%)
Most recent of those 2002, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2028
Full moon fell on this date in 7 years — 1971, 1979, 1990, 1998, 2017
Most frequent moon phase Waxing Crescent · 19 years

Every figure here is specific to 5 October: 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 Libra life path 5
2007 Libra life path 6
2008 Libra life path 7
2009 Libra life path 8
2010 Libra life path 9
2011 Libra life path 1
2012 Libra life path 11
2013 Libra life path 3
2014 Libra life path 4
2015 Libra life path 5
2016 Libra life path 6
2017 Libra life path 7
2018 Libra life path 8
2019 Libra life path 9
2020 Libra life path 1
2021 Libra life path 11
2022 Libra life path 3
2023 Libra life path 4
2024 Libra life path 5
2025 Libra life path 6
2026 Libra life path 7
2027 Libra life path 8
2028 Libra life path 9
2029 Libra life path 1

The sign column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 1 with 12 years; the scarcest is 9 with just 11. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 11 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

5 October sits 12 days past the start of Libra and reached 12.26° 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.