The sky on November 19, 1966 — 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 — 236.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 321.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 232.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 239.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 172.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 124.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 353.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 45% 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, 45% lit; the Moon was 400,365 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
59.9 orbits of the Sun — 56,273 million km, that is 73,196 return trips to the Moon; 21,871 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 434.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16.8 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 272 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, right at the minimum (19% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 26, 2027; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — November 18, 2040
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,988″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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