The 6th degree of Cancer
“A man holding a goat in a brass-pot.”
It signifies a fool or idiot.Johannes Angelus, Astrolabium planum (1488), in Raphael, The Faces and Degrees of the Zodiac, 1879.
This degree covers 5°00′ to 5°59′ of Cancer.
When the Sun is on this degree
In 2026: 27 June in the tropical zodiac; 22 July in the sidereal zodiac. The date shifts by a day from year to year.
In the directory
- Moses Dobruška: Jupiter (sidereal)
- John Yarker: Mars (tropical)
- A. E. Waite: Saturn (sidereal)
- George William Russell: Moon (tropical)
- Gerald Gardner: Venus (sidereal)
- Miguel Serrano: Pluto (tropical)
- Bejan Daruwalla: Jupiter (sidereal)
- Pekka Siitoin: Mars (sidereal)
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