The sky on October 21, 1960 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 208.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 221.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 231.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 239.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 103.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 269.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 282.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 1% 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]
new moon, 1% lit; the Moon was 373,418 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
66 orbits of the Sun — 61,981 million km, that is 80,620 return trips to the Moon; 24,089 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 478.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 18.5 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 135 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 1.8×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, on the decline (62% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 7, 2028; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — October 21, 2059
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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