The sky on February 1, 1926 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Capricornus, while the horoscope says "Aquarius". The gap is 22.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 311.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 170.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 301.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 321.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 264.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 306.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 235.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 89% 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]
waning gibbous, 89% lit; the Moon was 403,560 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
100.7 orbits of the Sun — 94,613 million km, that is 123,066 return trips to the Moon; 36,772 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 730.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 28.2 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 302 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on August 27, 2027; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — January 31, 2037
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 5,040″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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