Western: ૨૧ જૂન – ૨૧ જુલાઈ
If you are a Cancer in Western astrology, you are most likely Gemini (Mithuna) in Vedic astrology — about 84% of Cancers are. Cancers born ૨૧ જૂન – ૧૬ જુલાઈ are Gemini; those born ૧૭ જુલાઈ – ૨૧ જુલાઈ stay Cancer. The two zodiacs are measured from different starting points and sit about 24 degrees apart.
Boundary dates shift by about a day depending on the year, so use the calculator above if you were born within a day or two of one.
Enter your date of birth. Add a time if you were born near a sign boundary — a few hours can change the answer.
Gemini is the positive sign of Mercury, the third sign of the zodiac, and corresponds to the lower neck and shoulders of the Cosmic Man. As a dual-natured (dvisvabhava) Air sign, it gives an energetic nature oriented toward the mind — restless adaptability, curiosity, and a seeking of change, interchange, motion, and invention. The dual symbol reflects the capacity to hold two perspectives simultaneously, a gift that can become inconsistency when ungrounded.
Less than you might expect. Vedic astrology leads with the Moon sign (rashi) and the rising sign (lagna) rather than the Sun, and both of those need your birth time as well as your date.
Most Cancers — about 84% — are Gemini (Mithuna) in Vedic astrology, because the sidereal zodiac runs roughly 24 degrees behind the tropical one used in the West.
Cancers born ૨૧ જૂન – ૧૬ જુલાઈ are Gemini in Vedic astrology, and those born ૧૭ જુલાઈ – ૨૧ જુલાઈ are Cancer. The boundary moves by about a day depending on the birth year.
Western astrology measures the zodiac from the March equinox; Vedic astrology measures it from the fixed stars. The equinox drifts against the stars by about a degree every 72 years, and the gap now stands at roughly 24.2 degrees — most of a sign.
Neither is a mistake. They are two different measuring conventions, each internally consistent and each with its own body of interpretation. The signs disagree because the starting points disagree, not because one has miscalculated.
Less than you might expect. Vedic astrology leads with the Moon sign (rashi) and the rising sign (lagna) rather than the Sun, and both of those need your birth time as well as your date.