The sky on July 13, 1940 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 110.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 216.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 124.4° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 87.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Orion
- ♂︎ Mars — 126.4° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 41.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 43.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon 64% 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, 64% lit; the Moon was 372,570 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
86.2 orbits of the Sun — 81,034 million km, that is 105,403 return trips to the Moon; 31,494 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 625.9 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 391 million km away; today it is 245 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 January 19, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,320″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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