The sky on June 21, 1993 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 90.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 108.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 114.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 44.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 149.0° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 185.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 330.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 3% 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]
new moon, 3% lit; the Moon was 375,543 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
33.3 orbits of the Sun — 31,283 million km, that is 40,690 return trips to the Moon; 12,158 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 241.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 9.3 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 288 million km away; today it is 246 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 decline (69% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 30, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — June 20, 2035
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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