The sky on March 6, 1967 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 345.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 292.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 340.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 13.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 213.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 114.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 0.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 20% 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 crescent, 20% lit; the Moon was 393,148 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
59.6 orbits of the Sun — 55,998 million km, that is 72,838 return trips to the Moon; 21,764 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 432.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16.7 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 120 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, on the rise to maximum (21% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 13, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — March 6, 2061
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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