The sky on August 25, 1976 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.5° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 152.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 153.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Sextans
- ☿︎ Mercury — 179.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 171.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 180.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 60.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 130.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 0% 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]
new moon, 0% lit; the Moon was 368,976 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
50.1 orbits of the Sun — 47,095 million km, that is 61,257 return trips to the Moon; 18,303 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 363.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 14 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 365 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, right at the minimum (5% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on June 7, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — August 25, 2056
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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