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June 23 Zodiac Sign: Gemini or Cancer — Traits

The June 23 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 23, 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 23 (UTC). The year-by-year list further down shows which.

Zinedine Zidane, Frances McDormand and Joss Whedon were born on June 23. StarMap has birth charts for 21 people born on this date, listed here with the best known first.

The stars over any place on June 23 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 23? 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 23

Zinedine Zidane, Frances McDormand and Joss Whedon were born on June 23. StarMap has birth charts for 21 people born on this date, the best known first.

June 23, 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.

Cancer all day: 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 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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