The sky on June 25, 1962 — 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 — 93.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 10.2° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 73.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 129.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 50.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 342.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 310.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 44% 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, 44% lit; the Moon was 370,171 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
64.3 orbits of the Sun — 60,410 million km, that is 78,577 return trips to the Moon; 23,479 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 466.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 18 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 296 million km away; today it is 244 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 (78% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 23, 2028; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — June 24, 2040
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,240″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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