The sky on August 5, 1938 — 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 — 132.4° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 249.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 159.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Sextans
- ♀︎ Venus — 175.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 128.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 329.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 18.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 73% 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]
waxing gibbous, 73% lit; the Moon was 402,438 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
88.2 orbits of the Sun — 82,859 million km, that is 107,777 return trips to the Moon; 32,203 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 639.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 24.7 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 397 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 December 29, 2026; Jupiter — in 2033; 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 4,428″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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