The sky on June 21, 1980 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 90.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 190.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 113.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 80.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 169.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 154.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 171.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 59% 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]
first quarter, 59% lit; the Moon was 404,126 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
46.3 orbits of the Sun — 43,499 million km, that is 56,581 return trips to the Moon; 16,906 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 336 billion km around the Galactic centre, 13 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 215 million km away; today it is 245 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 (41% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on June 30, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — June 20, 2035
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,304″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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