The sky on March 21, 1967 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 0.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 116.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 335.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 31.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 212.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 114.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 2.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 72% 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]
waxing gibbous, 72% lit; the Moon was 375,785 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
59.5 orbits of the Sun — 55,955 million km, that is 72,782 return trips to the Moon; 21,747 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 432.2 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 104 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 2.4×).
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 (22% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 28, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — March 21, 2038
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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