The sky on May 21, 1936 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 60.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 69.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 73.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 49.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 65.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 262.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 351.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 1% 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]
new moon, 1% lit; the Moon was 365,883 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
90.4 orbits of the Sun — 84,930 million km, that is 110,471 return trips to the Moon; 33,008 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 655.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.3 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 378 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer 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 July 19, 2028; Jupiter — in 2031.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,536″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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