June 29 Zodiac Sign: Cancer
The short answer
People born on June 29 are Cancer. On this date the Sun sits between 6.4° Cancer and 8.7° Cancer in every year from 1950 to 2025, in the first decan of Cancer.
June 29 at a glance
| Zodiac sign | Cancer (June 21 to July 22) |
|---|---|
| Sun position, 1950 to 2025 | 6.4° Cancer to 8.7° Cancer (usually 7.5° Cancer at noon UTC) |
| Decan | first decan of Cancer: Cancer (triplicity), Venus (Chaldean), Two of Cups (Golden Dawn) |
| Element | Water |
| Modality | Cardinal |
| Ruling planet | Moon |
| Nearest sign change | About 6.6 days away |
What a June 29 birthday means
On June 29 the Sun sits between 6.4° Cancer and 8.7° Cancer in every year from 1950 to 2025, counting every hour of the day in UTC. Its usual noon position is 7.5° Cancer.
That places June 29 in the first decan of Cancer. The modern triplicity system gives this decan to Cancer, the older Chaldean order gives it to Venus, and the Golden Dawn tradition pairs it with the Two of Cups.
Cancer is a water sign of the cardinal modality, ruled by the Moon. Water signs read the mood first; feeling is how they know what is true. Cardinal signs start things: each one opens a season.
June 29 is about 7 days from the nearest sign change, so the Sun is in Cancer on this date in every year charted.
Where these figures come from
The Sun's position was charted at 12:00 UTC on every day from 1950 to 2025, and the start and end of each date were placed on the straight line between neighbouring days, which is exact to a small fraction of a degree. The range covers every hour of June 29 in UTC across all 76 years; someone born far from UTC can sit up to about half a degree beyond it. Decans follow two traditional systems: the triplicity system, which gives each third of a sign to the three signs of its element in turn, and the older Chaldean order of faces, which runs through the seven classical planets from Mars at the start of Aries.
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