The sky on August 9, 1943 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 136.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 230.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 156.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 169.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 51.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 128.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 83.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 54% 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]
first quarter, 54% lit; the Moon was 381,153 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
83.2 orbits of the Sun — 78,153 million km, that is 101,655 return trips to the Moon; 30,374 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 603.6 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 159 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.5×).
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 29, 2028; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — August 8, 2044
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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