The sky on March 8, 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 — 347.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 51.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 5.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 355.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 105.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 206.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 108.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 28% 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, 28% lit; the Moon was 367,666 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.6 orbits of the Sun — 75,727 million km, that is 98,500 return trips to the Moon; 29,431 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 584.9 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 141 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.7×).
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 22, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029.
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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