The sky on March 31, 1940 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 10.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 290.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 347.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 55.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 59.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 19.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 31.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 42% 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, 42% lit; the Moon was 395,034 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
86.5 orbits of the Sun — 81,306 million km, that is 105,757 return trips to the Moon; 31,600 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 627.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 24.2 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 305 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.3×).
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 October 7, 2026; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — March 31, 2037
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,356″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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