And in six instances groupings occur on successive new Moons, as in February-March 1524 and in April 1821. Six of these events are represented in the following diagrams. In most cases this involves the Moon, due to its fast apparent motion. The author's representations of six groupings of the Sun, Moon, and naked-eye planets take into consideration the latitudes of these bodies. The horizontal line through the Sun is the ecliptic.
North is up.
Positions of the Moon are geocentric. For the grouping of A.D. 194, three planets were almost simultaneously in conjunction with the Moon. The terrified astrologers predicted floods, earthquakes, and other catastrophes, but nothing special happened. The Sun will be inside the grouping, the extreme planets being Mars to the east and the Venus-Jupiter couple to the west. Furthermore, this Venus-Jupiter conjunction will be a very close one, the least separation between the centers of the two disks is only 42 arcseconds.