The sky on January 7, 1960 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 286.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 35.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 274.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 246.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 265.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 260.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 280.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 66% illuminated
astronomy-engine ephemerides (VSOP87/ELP), IAU 1930 constellation boundaries. Positions accurate to a fraction of a degree.
The day’s dossier, from real data
Checkable facts with a tag and a source; the classical reading is in the chart.
- The Moon that day [EXACT]
first quarter, 66% lit; the Moon was 401,216 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
66.7 orbits of the Sun — 62,725 million km, that is 81,588 return trips to the Moon; 24,378 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 484.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 18.7 light-days.
29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre - Mars then and now [EXACT]
On that day Mars was 355 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, near maximum (55% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on September 23, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,348″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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