♊︎ Gemini · ♋︎ Cancer

June 22 Zodiac Sign: Gemini or Cancer — Traits

The June 22 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 22, 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 Sun is in Cancer throughout June 22 (UTC). The year-by-year list further down shows which.

Meryl Streep, Dan Brown and Cyndi Lauper were born on June 22. StarMap has birth charts for 18 people born on this date, listed here with the best known first.

The stars over any place on June 22 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 22? 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 22

Meryl Streep, Dan Brown and Cyndi Lauper were born on June 22. StarMap has birth charts for 18 people born on this date, the best known first.

June 22, 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 22

1901 at 03:27
1902 at 09:15
1903 at 15:05
1905 at 02:51
1906 at 08:42
1907 at 14:23
1909 at 02:06
1910 at 07:48
1911 at 13:35
1913 at 01:09
1914 at 06:55
1915 at 12:29
1917 at 00:14
1918 at 05:59
1919 at 11:54
1922 at 05:26
1923 at 11:03
1926 at 04:30
1927 at 10:22
1930 at 03:53
1931 at 09:28
1934 at 02:48
1935 at 08:38
1938 at 02:03
1939 at 07:39
1942 at 01:16
1943 at 07:12
1946 at 00:44
1947 at 06:19
1951 at 05:25
1955 at 04:32
1959 at 03:49
1963 at 03:04
1967 at 02:23
1971 at 01:19
1975 at 00:26

Cancer all day: 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.

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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