The sky on October 16, 1992 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 203.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 79.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 223.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 236.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 107.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 181.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 311.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 78% 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, 78% lit; the Moon was 381,512 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
34 orbits of the Sun — 31,924 million km, that is 41,525 return trips to the Moon; 12,407 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 246.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 9.5 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 155 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 22, on the decline (62% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 12, 2028; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — October 15, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,692″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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