The sky on November 13, 1986 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.7° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 230.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 16.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 230.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 218.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 321.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 343.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 249.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 91% 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, 91% lit; the Moon was 393,093 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
39.9 orbits of the Sun — 37,489 million km, that is 48,763 return trips to the Moon; 14,570 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 289.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 11.2 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 146 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 1.7×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, right at the minimum (2% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 31, 2028; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — November 13, 2065
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,980″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.7° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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