The sky on March 9, 1990 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.7° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 348.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 145.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 340.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 304.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 298.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 91.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 292.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 96% 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, 96% lit; the Moon was 389,229 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
36.6 orbits of the Sun — 34,373 million km, that is 44,710 return trips to the Moon; 13,359 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 265.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 10.2 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 281 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.2×).
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 (35% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on October 21, 2027; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — March 9, 2031
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,836″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.7° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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