The sky on March 22, 1975 — 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 — 1.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 112.6° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 338.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 33.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 314.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 0.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 102.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 68% 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, 68% lit; the Moon was 370,026 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
51.5 orbits of the Sun — 48,438 million km, that is 63,005 return trips to the Moon; 18,826 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 374.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 14.4 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 286 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 (92% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 19, 2027; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — March 22, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,592″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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