The sky on April 8, 1993 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 18.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 222.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 351.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 7.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 111.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 188.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 327.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ 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]
waning gibbous, 96% lit; the Moon was 364,859 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
33.5 orbits of the Sun — 31,478 million km, that is 40,945 return trips to the Moon; 12,234 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 243.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 9.4 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 192 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.3×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (67% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 15, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — April 7, 2031
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,656″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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