The sky on May 13, 1995 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 52.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 213.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 73.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 25.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 144.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 252.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 352.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 97% 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]
full moon, 97% lit; the Moon was 362,245 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
31.4 orbits of the Sun — 29,505 million km, that is 38,378 return trips to the Moon; 11,467 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 227.9 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 188 million km away; today it is 245 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 (88% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 4, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — May 12, 2063
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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