If your birthday is in June before 21 June, your star sign is Gemini. From 21 June onwards it is Cancer. The changeover can move by a day in some years, so for a birthday right on 21 June it's worth checking the year.
June zodiac sign dates
- Gemini: 21 May to 20 June
- Cancer: 21 June to 22 July
Where the Sun really is in June
The Sun is in Taurus until about 21 June, the solstice, and in Gemini after that. The start of Cancer is tied to the summer solstice, the longest day, which falls on 20 or 21 June.
The June gap between sign and constellation comes from the slow wobble of the Earth's axis. The zodiac signs and constellations guide explains why Gemini and Cancer have drifted, and Ophiuchus is the one the signs leave out.
What is in the June evening sky
June nights from the UK barely get dark. When they do, the Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair is rising in the east, and the top of Scorpius, with red Antares, sits very low in the south.
Gemini and Cancer in the sky
The brightest point of Gemini is Pollux, and of Cancer, the Beehive Cluster. Both are drawn in the series of twelve Gemini constellation print and Cancer constellation print, in near-black, gold and warm ivory.
Gemini and Cancer belong to different elements: the zodiac elements guide sorts all twelve signs into fire, earth, air and water.
For a June birthday, a personalised star map charts the stars over the place someone was born, on the night itself, and the preview is free.