The sky on February 25, 1995 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 336.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 285.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 309.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 293.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 137.9° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 253.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 344.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 19% 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, 19% lit; the Moon was 371,683 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
31.6 orbits of the Sun — 29,706 million km, that is 38,639 return trips to the Moon; 11,545 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 229.4 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 104 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.3×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (86% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 16, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,584″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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