The sky on July 11, 1960 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 109.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 326.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 117.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 114.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 45.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 266.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 284.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 90% 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]
waning gibbous, 90% lit; the Moon was 365,470 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
66.2 orbits of the Sun — 62,247 million km, that is 80,967 return trips to the Moon; 24,193 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 480.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 18.6 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 225 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, near maximum (60% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 27, 2028; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — July 10, 2063
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,312″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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