The sky on July 13, 1943 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 110.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 235.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 104.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 154.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 33.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 122.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 80.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 78% 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 gibbous, 78% lit; the Moon was 373,614 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
83.2 orbits of the Sun — 78,217 million km, that is 101,740 return trips to the Moon; 30,399 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 604.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.3 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 181 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther 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 March 2, 2028; Jupiter — in 2038.
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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