The sky on September 13, 1964 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 170.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 256.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 154.5° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 125.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 118.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 56.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 330.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 46% 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]
first quarter, 46% lit; the Moon was 403,686 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
62.1 orbits of the Sun — 58,320 million km, that is 75,859 return trips to the Moon; 22,666 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 450.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 17.4 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 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 (100% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on October 8, 2026; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — September 13, 2057
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,096″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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