The sky on May 9, 1945 — 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 — 48.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 15.3° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 22.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 17.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 5.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 167.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 97.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 8% 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, 8% lit; the Moon was 360,437 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
81.4 orbits of the Sun — 76,508 million km, that is 99,516 return trips to the Moon; 29,735 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 590.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.8 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 288 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.2×).
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 February 10, 2028; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — May 8, 2028
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,068″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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