The sky on February 21, 1943 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 332.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 166.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 305.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 355.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 288.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 105.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 65.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 98% 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]
full moon, 98% lit; the Moon was 396,448 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
83.6 orbits of the Sun — 78,582 million km, that is 102,214 return trips to the Moon; 30,541 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 606.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.4 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 303 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.2×).
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 12, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — February 20, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,212″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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