The sky on October 2, 1975 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.5° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 188.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 151.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Sextans
- ☿︎ Mercury — 202.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 149.1° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 85.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 21.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 121.3° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 11% 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 crescent, 11% lit; the Moon was 361,639 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
51 orbits of the Sun — 47,940 million km, that is 62,357 return trips to the Moon; 18,632 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 370.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 14.3 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 128 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.9×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, on the decline (96% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 31, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — October 2, 2039
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,556″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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