The sky on December 29, 1969 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 277.6° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 160.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 297.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 271.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 340.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 212.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 32.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 73% 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, 73% lit; the Moon was 402,306 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
56.8 orbits of the Sun — 53,350 million km, that is 69,394 return trips to the Moon; 20,735 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 412 billion km around the Galactic centre, 15.9 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 234 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, near maximum (46% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 19, 2028; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — December 28, 2031
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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