The sky on January 8, 1946 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 287.6° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 347.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 268.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 281.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 115.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 205.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 111.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 25% 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, 25% lit; the Moon was 378,696 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.7 orbits of the Sun — 75,877 million km, that is 98,696 return trips to the Moon; 29,490 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 586 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.6 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 96 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 2.6×).
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 November 24, 2026; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — January 8, 2050
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,032″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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