The sky on July 8, 1935 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 105.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 190.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 86.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 150.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 199.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 223.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 340.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 46% 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]
first quarter, 46% lit; the Moon was 401,595 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
91.2 orbits of the Sun — 85,750 million km, that is 111,537 return trips to the Moon; 33,327 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 662.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.6 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 159 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 1.5×).
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 September 5, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — July 8, 2036
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,572″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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