The sky on November 9, 1971 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.5° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 226.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 132.2° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 244.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♀︎ Venus — 245.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 331.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 250.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 64.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 54% 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, 54% lit; the Moon was 392,204 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
54.9 orbits of the Sun — 51,601 million km, that is 67,119 return trips to the Moon; 20,055 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 398.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 15.4 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 116 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, on the decline (62% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 12, 2028; Jupiter — in 2030.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,736″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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