The sky on March 5, 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 — 344.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 31.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 317.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 303.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 135.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 254.3° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 344.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 16% 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]
waxing crescent, 16% lit; the Moon was 398,537 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
31.6 orbits of the Sun — 29,685 million km, that is 38,612 return trips to the Moon; 11,537 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 229.3 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 109 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.2×).
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 24, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — March 5, 2034
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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