The sky on February 20, 1946 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 331.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 201.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 339.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 335.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 104.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 207.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 108.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 82% 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 gibbous, 82% lit; the Moon was 399,976 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.6 orbits of the Sun — 75,769 million km, that is 98,555 return trips to the Moon; 29,448 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 585.2 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 121 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 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 January 6, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — February 19, 2038
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,032″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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