The sky on May 7, 1961 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 46.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 314.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 53.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 13.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 120.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 306.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 299.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 52% 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]
last quarter, 52% lit; the Moon was 369,831 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
65.4 orbits of the Sun — 61,475 million km, that is 79,963 return trips to the Moon; 23,893 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 474.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 18.3 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 244 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, on the decline (68% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 6, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — May 7, 2031
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,276″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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