The sky on November 19, 1967 — 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 — 236.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 81.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 217.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 190.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 290.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 154.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 6.0° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ☽︎ Moon 95% 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 gibbous, 95% lit; the Moon was 400,769 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
58.9 orbits of the Sun — 55,334 million km, that is 71,975 return trips to the Moon; 21,506 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 427.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16.5 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 255 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1×).
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 (27% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 26, 2028; Jupiter — in 2026; 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 2,952″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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