The sky on April 20, 1984 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 30.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 271.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 33.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 15.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 236.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 282.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 224.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 74% 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, 74% lit; the Moon was 386,396 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
42.5 orbits of the Sun — 39,905 million km, that is 51,906 return trips to the Moon; 15,509 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 308.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 11.9 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 91 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 2.7×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (77% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 25, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,124″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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