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June 21 zodiac sign: Gemini or Cancer?

If you were born on June 21, you're Gemini or Cancer depending on the time: Gemini before the Sun enters Cancer, Cancer after. The Sun crosses from one sign to the other on this date in 45 of the 51 years from 1980 to 2030, and the minute shifts from year to year (2026: June 21, 08:25 UTC). At noon UTC it's Cancer in 63% of years; the exact minute of the change for every year is below.

Gemini or Cancer? Check your year

The Sun's entry into Cancer shifts by a few hours from year to year. Find your birth year, convert your birth time to UTC, and compare: born before the time shown, you're Gemini; after it, Cancer. Years missing from the list had the crossing on a neighbouring day (the Sun was in one sign for the whole of June 21).

1980 05:46 UTC1981 11:44 UTC1982 17:23 UTC1983 23:08 UTC1984 05:02 UTC1985 10:44 UTC1986 16:30 UTC1987 22:10 UTC1988 03:56 UTC1989 09:52 UTC1990 15:32 UTC1991 21:18 UTC1992 03:14 UTC1993 08:59 UTC1994 14:48 UTC1995 20:34 UTC1996 02:23 UTC1997 08:20 UTC1998 14:02 UTC1999 19:49 UTC2000 01:47 UTC2001 07:37 UTC2002 13:25 UTC2003 19:10 UTC2004 00:56 UTC2005 06:46 UTC2006 12:25 UTC2007 18:06 UTC2009 05:45 UTC2010 11:28 UTC2011 17:16 UTC2013 05:04 UTC2014 10:51 UTC2015 16:37 UTC2017 04:24 UTC2018 10:07 UTC2019 15:54 UTC2021 03:32 UTC2022 09:13 UTC2023 14:57 UTC2025 02:42 UTC2026 08:25 UTC2027 14:10 UTC2029 01:48 UTC2030 07:31 UTC

Not sure about the time zone or the minutes? Compute your chart — it does the conversion and settles the sign. Or read the Gemini–Cancer cusp: which are you?

Your sign: Cancer (or Gemini)

The cardinal water sign that protects what it loves and remembers everything.

A Cancer Sun is built around emotional intelligence. You feel the room before anyone has spoken; you know who's about to cry, who's lying, and who's having a bad week. This is a real gift. It's also exhausting. The world doesn't have an off switch for empathy, and you absorb things you didn't sign up to absorb.

The date fixes the Sun; the year and hour fix the rest. A Cancer born June 21 with the Moon in Taurus runs on a different inner weather from one with the Moon in Cancer: see Cancer Sun, Taurus Moon. Your rising sign needs the birth time; the twelve Cancer Sun combinations show what each one changes.

Cancer dates, traits & compatibility → · What a Cancer birth chart looks like → · Gemini dates and traits →

In the US (2000–2014), an average of 11,605 babies were born on each June 21, rank 116 of 366 dates; Cancer is number 3 of 12 signs (8.84%). What's the most common zodiac sign?

The Moon on June 21, 1980–2030

Across the 51 years from 1980 to 2030, the Moon at noon UTC on June 21 was most often in Libra (6 years) and least often in Virgo and Scorpio (3 years each). Unlike the Sun, the Moon sign depends on the birth year. On June 21, 2026, the Moon moves from Virgo into Libra at 20:55 UTC.

In 23 of those 51 years (45%) the Moon changed sign during June 21 itself, so in those years the birth time decides the Moon as well as the rising sign. Cells with an arrow mark them, with the UTC time of the change. The Moon was exactly new on June 21 in 1982, 2001, and 2020; it was never full on this date between 1980 and 2030.

Find your birth year. One sign means the Moon spent the whole UTC day there; an arrow means it changed sign that day, at the UTC time shown: born before it, the first sign; after it, the second. The Moon sign calculator settles it in seconds; your birth chart adds the rising sign and houses.

Times in UTC: a birth late in the evening in the Americas, or early in the morning in Asia, can fall on the neighbouring UTC date.

June 2026: full moon June 29, 2026, Capricorn · new moon June 15, 2026, Gemini.

Your decan: the first decan of Cancer

Each sign is divided into three 10° decans, and each decan has a sub-ruler that shades the sign's core. Degrees 0–10 of Cancer belong to Venus: how you love, what you find beautiful, and what you value. Read it as Cancer with a Venus accent — the water core is unchanged, the emphasis moves.

Decan tarot card · Golden Dawn attribution

Two of Cups

Partnership · Mutual attraction · Connection. The card assigned to this ten-degree slice of the zodiac — a birthday card in the same sense a sun sign is a birthday sign: one lens on the date, not a verdict.

Read the Two of Cups in full on My Day Check →

All the tarot cards for June 21: decan, sign, ruling planet and year card →

What the date can't tell you

The Sun is one placement out of ten. Your Moon sign changes every two to three days, so Cancers born on June 21 in different years have different Moons; your rising sign changes every two hours and needs a birth time and place. Those two carry most of what people mean by "personality" in a chart.

Born June 21? Add your year, time and place

Your Moon and rising depend on the year and hour. Computed here in a few seconds — then your full chart with a preview of its reading, no sign-up.

Or browse the twelve possibilities: Cancer Sun with each Moon → · just my Moon sign · how the free birth chart calculator works

Classic matches for a June 21 birthday

By sun sign, Cancer pairs most easily with Scorpio, Pisces, Taurus, Virgo. Sun-sign compatibility is the coarse layer; the couple reading compares both full charts.

Common questions

Is June 21 Gemini or Cancer?

Both are possible. On June 21 the Sun moves from Gemini into Cancer in most years, at a time that ranges from 00:56 UTC to 23:08 UTC UTC across 1980–2030 (in some years the crossing falls on the neighbouring day). Convert your birth time to UTC and compare it with the crossing for your year in the table above — before it you're Gemini, after it Cancer.

What zodiac sign is June 21?

June 21 is a cusp day between Gemini and Cancer; at noon UTC it falls in Cancer in 63% of years between 1980 and 2030. Your birth year and hour decide it.

What decan is June 21?

The first decan of Cancer (0°–10°), sub-ruled by Venus. Decans divide each sign into three 10° slices; the sub-ruler adds a second flavour to the sign's core — here how you love, what you find beautiful, and what you value.

What tarot card is June 21?

In the Golden Dawn system each decan has a minor arcana card: for the first decan of Cancer it is the Two of Cups (partnership, mutual attraction, connection). It's a birthday card in the same way a sun sign is — one lens, not a verdict.

What Moon sign is someone born on June 21?

It depends on the year, and in 45% of years on the hour too. For example: in 1980, Libra; in 1990, Gemini; in 2000, Aquarius; in 2010, Libra or Scorpio; in 2020, Gemini or Cancer. Over 1980–2030 the Moon on June 21 was most often in Libra. A birth time and place pin it down.

Does everyone born on June 21 have the same chart?

No. They share the Sun in Cancer or Gemini, but the Moon changes sign every two to three days, the rising sign every two hours, and the outer planets by year. Two people born June 21 in different years can have almost nothing else in common in their charts.