The sky on September 5, 1969 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 162.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 92.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Auriga
- ☿︎ Mercury — 189.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 128.8° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 260.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 189.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 38.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon 33% 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]
last quarter, 33% lit; the Moon was 404,323 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
57.1 orbits of the Sun — 53,647 million km, that is 69,780 return trips to the Moon; 20,850 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 414.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16 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 125 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.9×).
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 (43% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on December 26, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,844″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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