The sky on December 4, 1936 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Ophiuchus, while the horoscope says "Sagittarius". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 252.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon — 147.6° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 261.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♀︎ Venus — 291.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 191.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 270.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 346.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 63% 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, 63% lit; the Moon was 389,878 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
89.8 orbits of the Sun — 84,430 million km, that is 109,820 return trips to the Moon; 32,814 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 652.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.2 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 286 million km away; today it is 242 million km (closer by 1.2×).
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 March 17, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — December 3, 2036
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,500″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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