The sky on July 13, 1976 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.5° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 111.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 315.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 108.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 118.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 154.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 54.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 124.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 95% 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, 95% lit; the Moon was 385,777 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
50.2 orbits of the Sun — 47,202 million km, that is 61,397 return trips to the Moon; 18,345 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 364.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 14.1 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 336 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, right at the minimum (4% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 25, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,520″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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