The sky on April 2, 1943 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 11.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 340.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 9.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 44.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 318.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 105.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 68.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 7% 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, 7% lit; the Moon was 369,748 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
83.5 orbits of the Sun — 78,485 million km, that is 102,088 return trips to the Moon; 30,504 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 606.2 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 266 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.1×).
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 November 21, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — April 1, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,176″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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