The sky on April 24, 1968 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 34.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 359.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 33.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 19.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 50.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 145.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 17.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 9% 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, 9% lit; the Moon was 398,744 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
58.4 orbits of the Sun — 54,929 million km, that is 71,448 return trips to the Moon; 21,348 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 424.2 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 365 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
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 (31% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 1, 2028; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — April 24, 2043
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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