The sky on October 16, 1941 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 202.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 148.0° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 222.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 246.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 15.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 81.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 57.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 21% 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]
waning crescent, 21% lit; the Moon was 378,731 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
85 orbits of the Sun — 79,854 million km, that is 103,868 return trips to the Moon; 31,035 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 616.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.8 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 63 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 3.8×).
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 April 23, 2028; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — October 15, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,248″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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