The sky on May 6, 1937 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 45.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 349.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 53.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 19.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 242.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 297.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 1.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 22% 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]
waning crescent, 22% lit; the Moon was 372,251 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
89.4 orbits of the Sun — 84,033 million km, that is 109,305 return trips to the Moon; 32,660 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 649 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.1 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 82 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 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 August 17, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032.
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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