The sky on August 8, 1936 — 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 — 135.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 27.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 151.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 146.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 118.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 254.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 351.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 66% 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]
last quarter, 66% lit; the Moon was 368,172 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
90.2 orbits of the Sun — 84,729 million km, that is 110,210 return trips to the Moon; 32,930 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 654.4 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 382 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.6×).
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 November 19, 2026; 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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