The sky on June 1, 1964 — 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 — 71.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 318.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 47.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 96.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 48.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 41.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 334.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 70% 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, 70% lit; the Moon was 395,881 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
62.3 orbits of the Sun — 58,589 million km, that is 76,208 return trips to the Moon; 22,771 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 452.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 17.5 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 347 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, on the decline (97% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 13, 2028; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — June 1, 2053
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,132″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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