The sky on August 7, 1989 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.7° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 135.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 200.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 154.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 167.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 152.5° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 91.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 278.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 30% 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 crescent, 30% lit; the Moon was 404,672 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
37.2 orbits of the Sun — 34,924 million km, that is 45,427 return trips to the Moon; 13,573 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 269.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 10.4 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 389 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.6×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the rise to maximum (30% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 21, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — August 7, 2036
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,872″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.7° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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