The sky on April 1, 1972 — 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 — 11.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 221.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 10.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 57.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 63.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 277.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 62.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 94% 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, 94% lit; the Moon was 406,103 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
54.5 orbits of the Sun — 51,229 million km, that is 66,635 return trips to the Moon; 19,910 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 395.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 15.3 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 298 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, on the decline (66% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on October 17, 2026; Jupiter — in 2031.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,736″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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