The sky on June 9, 1963 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 77.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 282.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 55.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 56.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 153.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 14.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 323.1° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 96% 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, 96% lit; the Moon was 393,803 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
63.3 orbits of the Sun — 59,511 million km, that is 77,407 return trips to the Moon; 23,129 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 459.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 17.7 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 235 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther 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 (88% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 21, 2027; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — June 8, 2036
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,168″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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