The sky on June 6, 1978 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 75.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 83.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 65.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 108.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 145.9° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 100.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 145.2° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 1% 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, 1% lit; the Moon was 404,202 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
48.3 orbits of the Sun — 45,419 million km, that is 59,078 return trips to the Moon; 17,652 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 350.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 13.5 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 252 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the rise to maximum (22% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2037.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,412″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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