The sky on March 8, 1968 — 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 — 348.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 90.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Auriga
- ☿︎ Mercury — 321.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 321.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 15.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 148.7° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 11.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 61% 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, 61% lit; the Moon was 398,174 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
58.6 orbits of the Sun — 55,049 million km, that is 71,603 return trips to the Moon; 21,395 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 425.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16.4 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 336 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.4×).
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 (30% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 15, 2028; Jupiter — in 2027.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,916″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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