The sky on July 4, 1926 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 22.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 101.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 36.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Cetus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 127.2° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 66.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 13.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 326.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 229.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 29% 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 crescent, 29% lit; the Moon was 379,690 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
100.3 orbits of the Sun — 94,222 million km, that is 122,557 return trips to the Moon; 36,620 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 727.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 28.1 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 144 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.7×).
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 January 27, 2028; Jupiter — in 2033.
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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