The sky on November 7, 1979 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 224.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 86.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 245.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♀︎ Venus — 243.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 144.1° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 156.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 173.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 87% 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, 87% lit; the Moon was 383,718 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
46.9 orbits of the Sun — 44,086 million km, that is 57,344 return trips to the Moon; 17,134 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 340.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 13.1 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 216 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.1×).
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 (35% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 15, 2026; Jupiter — in 2026; a full moon exactly on this date — November 6, 2033
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,340″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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