The sky on November 3, 1964 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 221.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 211.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 232.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 183.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 148.6° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 52.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 328.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 1% 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, 1% lit; the Moon was 394,523 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
61.9 orbits of the Sun — 58,192 million km, that is 75,692 return trips to the Moon; 22,617 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 449.4 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 242 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 20, right at the minimum (1% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 28, 2026; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — November 2, 2047
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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