The sky on April 6, 1995 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 16.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 87.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Orion
- ☿︎ Mercury — 7.9° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♀︎ Venus — 341.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 134.1° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 255.3° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 348.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 34% 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, 34% lit; the Moon was 404,276 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
31.5 orbits of the Sun — 29,603 million km, that is 38,505 return trips to the Moon; 11,505 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 228.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 8.8 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 141 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.7×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (87% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 28, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — April 5, 2042
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,584″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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