The sky on May 8, 1943 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 47.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 94.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 65.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 86.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 345.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 109.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 72.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 16% 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]
waxing crescent, 16% lit; the Moon was 401,610 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
83.4 orbits of the Sun — 78,391 million km, that is 101,966 return trips to the Moon; 30,467 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 605.4 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 234 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 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 December 27, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — May 8, 2039
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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