The sky on October 9, 1926 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 22.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 195.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 224.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 209.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 184.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 48.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 317.4° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 233.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 6% 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]
waxing crescent, 6% lit; the Moon was 396,557 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
100 orbits of the Sun — 93,971 million km, that is 122,231 return trips to the Moon; 36,522 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 725.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 28 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 72 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 3.4×).
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 May 3, 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 5,004″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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