♊︎ Gemini · ♋︎ Cancer

June 21 Zodiac Sign: Gemini or Cancer — Traits

The June 21 zodiac sign is Gemini or Cancer, depending on the year and the time of birth. The Sun leaves Gemini for Cancer on or about June 21, at a different moment each year, so a birth on this date can fall either side of the change. Gemini is a mutable air sign and Cancer is a cardinal water sign. In 2026 the change falls at 08:25 UTC on June 21. The year-by-year list further down shows which.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Lana Del Rey and Chris Pratt were born on June 21. StarMap has birth charts for 23 people born on this date, listed here with the best known first.

The stars over any place on June 21 stand differently in every year and at every hour: see the sky on this date for a year, a time and a place of your choosing, drawn as a star map.

Gemini or Cancer traits

If your Sun is in Gemini: You connect. Ideas, people and conversations are your element, and you learn by talking things through. A Gemini Sun is happiest with two projects and a question nobody has answered yet.

If your Sun is in Cancer: You protect. Home, memory and the people you have decided are yours sit at the centre of your life, and you read a room before anyone speaks. Your strength is care; your task is to include yourself in it.

Your Sun sign is one part of a chart. The Moon and the rising sign, which need the time and place of birth, say as much about you. StarMap is for entertainment and self-reflection.

Born on June 21? Find out which side of the change you are on.

Your Sun, Moon and rising sign from the real sky at your birth. Free, no account needed.

Famous birthdays on June 21

Jean-Paul Sartre, Lana Del Rey and Chris Pratt were born on June 21. StarMap has birth charts for 23 people born on this date, the best known first.

June 21, year by year: Gemini or Cancer

Times are UTC. A birth in another time zone happened at a different clock time, so within a few hours of the change the place of birth decides the sign as much as the hour does. A chart drawn from the full birth details settles it.

Years in which the Sun entered Cancer on June 21

1900 at 21:40
1904 at 20:51
1908 at 20:19
1912 at 19:16
1916 at 18:24
1920 at 17:40
1921 at 23:36
1924 at 16:59
1925 at 22:50
1928 at 16:06
1929 at 22:00
1932 at 15:23
1933 at 21:11
1936 at 14:21
1937 at 20:12
1940 at 13:36
1941 at 19:33
1944 at 13:02
1945 at 18:52
1948 at 12:10
1949 at 18:03
1950 at 23:36
1952 at 11:12
1953 at 17:00
1954 at 22:54
1956 at 10:24
1957 at 16:20
1958 at 21:57
1960 at 09:42
1961 at 15:30
1962 at 21:24
1964 at 08:56
1965 at 14:55
1966 at 20:33
1968 at 08:13
1969 at 13:55
1970 at 19:43
1972 at 07:06
1973 at 13:00
1974 at 18:37
1976 at 06:24
1977 at 12:14
1978 at 18:10
1979 at 23:56
1980 at 05:46
1981 at 11:44
1982 at 17:23
1983 at 23:08
1984 at 05:02
1985 at 10:44
1986 at 16:30
1987 at 22:11
1988 at 03:56
1989 at 09:53
1990 at 15:33
1991 at 21:18
1992 at 03:14
1993 at 09:00
1994 at 14:48
1995 at 20:34
1996 at 02:23
1997 at 08:20
1998 at 14:03
1999 at 19:49
2000 at 01:47
2001 at 07:38
2002 at 13:25
2003 at 19:11
2004 at 00:56
2005 at 06:46
2006 at 12:26
2007 at 18:06
2009 at 05:45
2010 at 11:28
2011 at 17:16
2013 at 05:04
2014 at 10:51
2015 at 16:38
2017 at 04:24
2018 at 10:07
2019 at 15:54
2021 at 03:32
2022 at 09:14
2023 at 14:57
2025 at 02:42
2026 at 08:25

Gemini all day: 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1971, 1975.

Cancer all day: 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024.

Signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, for every year from 1900 to 2026. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata. A sign is shown beside a name only when it holds for the whole of the birth date; where it does not, both possibilities are given. How to read a birth chart.

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