The sky on April 25, 1939 — 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 — 34.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 107.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 8.5° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♀︎ Venus — 359.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 288.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 356.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 22.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 36% 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]
first quarter, 36% lit; the Moon was 371,532 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
87.4 orbits of the Sun — 82,184 million km, that is 106,899 return trips to the Moon; 31,941 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 634.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 24.5 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 130 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.9×).
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 September 18, 2027; Jupiter — in 2034.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,392″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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