The sky on March 9, 1980 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 349.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 253.3° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 342.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 33.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 150.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 153.5° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 174.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 55% 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]
last quarter, 55% lit; the Moon was 390,691 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
46.6 orbits of the Sun — 43,772 million km, that is 56,935 return trips to the Moon; 17,012 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 338.1 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 104 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 2.3×).
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 (38% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 18, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — March 9, 2031
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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