The sky on June 13, 1961 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 82.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 85.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 100.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 36.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 141.0° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 306.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 298.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 0% 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, 0% lit; the Moon was 397,113 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
65.3 orbits of the Sun — 61,377 million km, that is 79,835 return trips to the Moon; 23,854 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 474 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 290 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, on the decline (69% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 12, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — June 12, 2033
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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