The sky on November 10, 1994 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 227.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 320.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 210.0° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 216.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 138.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 233.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 335.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 53% 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]
first quarter, 53% lit; the Moon was 385,089 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
31.9 orbits of the Sun — 29,983 million km, that is 39,000 return trips to the Moon; 11,653 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 231.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 8.9 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 189 million km away; today it is 244 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 (83% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 1, 2026; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — November 10, 2030
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,584″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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