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June 21 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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June 21 is a cusp birthday, usually Gemini; in some years the Sun enters Cancer on this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 3 and a Personal Year 2 in 2027; Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Lana Del Rey (1985) and Chris Pratt (1979) were born on June 21 too.

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June 21 zodiac sign: Gemini or Cancer

Sun sign: Gemini or Cancer, a cusp day
Sun at noon UTC: 29.2° to 30.0° Gemini, or 0.0° to 0.6° Cancer
Decan: Third of Gemini, 20° to 30°
Element and mode: Air, mutable
Ruling planet: Mercury

June 21 is a cusp birthday, usually Gemini; in some years the Sun enters Cancer on this date, so check your birth year and time: in 74 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Gemini into Cancer during June 21 counted in UTC, most recently in 2030, and at noon UTC it stood in Gemini in 52 of the years and in Cancer in 39. For a birth on June 21 the year, the time and the place settle the sign: convert the time of birth to UTC and compare it with the minute the Sun changed sign that year, or let the zodiac sign calculator do it from your date, time and city.

At noon UTC on June 21 the Sun is in the third decan of Gemini in 52 of those years and in the first decan of Cancer in 39, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The third decan of Gemini is a face that belongs to the Sun in the Chaldean order and is read through Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from June 11 to June 21, and June 21 is its eleventh day.

In most years June 21 is the 32nd day of the Sun’s season in Gemini, which runs from May 21 to June 21 counted at noon UTC, the last day of it. June 21 is the 172nd day of a common year and the 173rd of a leap year, with 193 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous June 21 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Pope Leo IX, in 1002, and the most recent Lana Del Rey, in 1985; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Lana Del Rey (born 1985), American singer-songwriter
Chris Pratt (born 1979), American actor
William, Prince of Wales (born 1982), heir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom
Michel Platini (born 1955), French football player, manager and executive
Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990), Soviet rock musician
Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian-Icelandic poet, academic and essayist

Born from 1900 to 1949

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French existentialist philosopher
Andrzej Sapkowski (born 1948), Polish novelist
Ian McEwan (born 1948), British author

Born in the 1800s

Machado de Assis (1839–1908), Brazilian writer

Born before 1800

Pope Leo IX (1002–1054), Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840), French mathematician, mechanician and physicist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 72 people the Almanac’s table keeps for June 21, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

June 21 birthday personality

The Sun rules the last face of Gemini in the Chaldean scheme and Aquarius, under Saturn, holds it by triplicity, so the twins’ quick mind is read as turning toward ideas that serve many people at once. Tradition credits it with clarity in a crowd and asks for the same warmth in private.

Born on the 21st, 2 and 1 add to 3: partnership and initiative turning into expression. Numerology reads it as a sociable, creative birthday, the host who is also the entertainer. The tradition reads air with a 3 as the communicator’s pairing, whose talk is best when it builds a bridge rather than a stage.

Where Gemini gives way to Cancer the talker turns homeward at the June solstice, ideas meeting feeling. Some readers take a birthday this close to the change to carry something of both signs, a symbolic reading the calculation cannot measure; which sign the Sun was in at a birth is a matter of fact, settled by the year, the time and the place.

A question to carry from June 21: what would your curiosity make if it set aside the fear of how it will be received?

The Sun in Gemini and the number 3 are only part of the story: your Moon, your rising sign and the rest of your chart have as much to say, and the tradition offers all this as a mirror, never a verdict.

Birthday number 3

Born on the 21st, 2 + 1 = 3, so your birthday number is 3: a 3 vibration supports creativity, communication, joy, and expressive movement, with creative communication as its gift and scattered focus, avoidance, or emotional dramatization as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

Pythagoras with a small lyre, pointing to a triangle of ten pebbles in his palm, an engraving — Pythagoras, the philosopher of number

For a birthday on June 21 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: June, the 6th month, gives 6, the 21st reduces to 3, and 6 + 3 + 11 = 20, which reduces to 2, so 2027 is your Personal Year 2.

A Personal Year 2 is read as a year of patience and partnership, when things grow out of sight and timing matters more than force. With 2027 a Universal Year 11, whose base is also 2, the tradition reads it as doubly a year for listening and for the right alliances.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 2: Jan 3 Feb 4 Mar 5 Apr 6 May 7 Jun 8 Jul 9 Aug 1 Sep 11 Oct 3 Nov 4 Dec 5

In 2027 June 21 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 11 (8 + 21 = 29, then 11) in a Personal Month 8 (2 + 6 = 8), while September is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

June birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones: Pearl, moonstone and alexandrite
Birth flowers: Rose, and honeysuckle as the second flower

June’s pearl, moonstone and alexandrite come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its rose and honeysuckle from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is June 21?

Usually Gemini; in some years the Sun enters Cancer on this date, so check your birth year and time. In 74 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Gemini into Cancer during June 21 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.

Is June 21 a cusp birthday?

Yes. In 74 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 2030, the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer during June 21 (UTC), and which side of the change a birth fell on depends on its year and its minute, converted to UTC.

Who was born on June 21?

Among the best known people born on June 21 are Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), Lana Del Rey (born 1985) and Chris Pratt (born 1979), with William, Prince of Wales, Michel Platini and Viktor Tsoi and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for June 21?

3. Born on the 21st, 2 + 1 = 3, so your birthday number is 3: a 3 vibration supports creativity, communication, joy, and expressive movement, with creative communication as its gift and scattered focus, avoidance, or emotional dramatization as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a June 21 birthday?

2. For a birthday on June 21 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: June, the 6th month, gives 6, the 21st reduces to 3, and 6 + 3 + 11 = 20, which reduces to 2, so 2027 is your Personal Year 2.