The sky on August 5, 1937 — 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 — 132.6° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 119.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 156.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 90.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Orion
- ♂︎ Mars — 238.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 289.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 4.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 2% 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, 2% lit; the Moon was 369,489 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
89.2 orbits of the Sun — 83,799 million km, that is 109,000 return trips to the Moon; 32,569 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 647.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25 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 115 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.1×).
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 16, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — August 5, 2028
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,464″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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