The sky on October 28, 1944 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 214.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 352.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 219.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 247.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♂︎ Mars — 220.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 169.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 100.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 87% 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, 87% lit; the Moon was 362,240 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
81.9 orbits of the Sun — 77,002 million km, that is 100,159 return trips to the Moon; 29,927 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 594.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23 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 381 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.6×).
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 August 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — October 27, 2034
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,104″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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