The sky on September 16, 1983 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 173.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 289.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 171.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 143.2° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 141.6° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 244.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 212.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 73% 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, 73% lit; the Moon was 403,220 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
43.1 orbits of the Sun — 40,462 million km, that is 52,629 return trips to the Moon; 15,725 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 312.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 12.1 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 360 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (72% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on December 20, 2026; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — September 15, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,160″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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