The sky on January 6, 1941 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 285.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 25.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 282.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 260.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♂︎ Mars — 241.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 35.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 37.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon 59% 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, 59% lit; the Moon was 404,220 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
85.7 orbits of the Sun — 80,581 million km, that is 104,814 return trips to the Moon; 31,318 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 622.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 24 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 318 million km away; today it is 245 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 July 15, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — January 6, 2042
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,284″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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