The sky on June 23, 1994 — 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 — 91.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 272.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 94.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 129.6° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 52.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 214.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 342.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 100% 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]
full moon, 100% lit; the Moon was 366,533 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
32.3 orbits of the Sun — 30,342 million km, that is 39,467 return trips to the Moon; 11,792 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 234.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 9 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 308 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer 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 (79% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 1, 2028; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — June 23, 2032
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,620″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
Other dates
Computed from the date only; nothing about you is stored.