The sky on March 1, 2025 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 24.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 341.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 1.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 357.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 10.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 107.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 72.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 350.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 3% 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]
new moon, 3% lit; the Moon was 362,072 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
1.6 orbits of the Sun — 1,501 million km, that is 1,953 return trips to the Moon; 583 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 11.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 0.4 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 130 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.9×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 25, near maximum (50% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 17, 2027; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — February 28, 2029
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 72″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 24.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr - Picture of the day [EXACT]
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for this date: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250301.html
NASA APOD
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