The sky on April 2, 1977 — 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 — 12.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 170.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 29.0° · sign Aries · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 18.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 340.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 59.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 130.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 96% 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]
waxing gibbous, 96% lit; the Moon was 370,041 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
49.5 orbits of the Sun — 46,531 million km, that is 60,525 return trips to the Moon; 18,084 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 359.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 13.9 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 318 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.3×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, right at the minimum (10% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 13, 2028; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — April 1, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,484″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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