The sky on April 1, 1986 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.7° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 11.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 277.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 348.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 29.0° · sign Aries · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 272.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 339.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 249.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 54% 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, 54% lit; the Moon was 371,923 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
40.5 orbits of the Sun — 38,073 million km, that is 49,523 return trips to the Moon; 14,797 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 294 billion km around the Galactic centre, 11.4 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 154 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.6×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (96% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on August 18, 2027; Jupiter — in 2033.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,016″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.7° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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