The sky on August 31, 1994 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 157.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 92.6° · sign Cancer · constellation Orion
- ☿︎ Mercury — 174.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 203.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 99.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 219.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 339.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 29% 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 crescent, 29% lit; the Moon was 395,699 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
32.1 orbits of the Sun — 30,164 million km, that is 39,236 return trips to the Moon; 11,723 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 233 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 264 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (81% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 9, 2028; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — August 31, 2042
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
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