The sky on June 8, 1942 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 77.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 17.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 83.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 37.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 116.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 89.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 64.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 25% 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, 25% lit; the Moon was 396,329 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
84.3 orbits of the Sun — 79,250 million km, that is 103,083 return trips to the Moon; 30,801 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 612.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.6 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 346 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.4×).
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 27, 2027; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — June 8, 2047
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,212″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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