The sky on August 1, 1935 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 128.3° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 151.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 118.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 168.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 211.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 224.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 338.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 4% 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, 4% lit; the Moon was 405,310 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
91.2 orbits of the Sun — 85,688 million km, that is 111,457 return trips to the Moon; 33,303 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 661.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.5 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 182 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 1.3×).
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 29, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — August 1, 2061
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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