The sky on April 2, 1971 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.5° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 12.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 100.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 30.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 334.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 282.6° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 246.3° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 50.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon 49% 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, 49% lit; the Moon was 390,045 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
55.5 orbits of the Sun — 52,170 million km, that is 67,859 return trips to the Moon; 20,276 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 402.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 15.6 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 173 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, near maximum (57% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on September 4, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — April 1, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,772″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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