The sky on July 16, 1946 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 113.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 317.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 135.9° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 153.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 165.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 198.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 117.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 95% 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, 95% lit; the Moon was 392,584 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.2 orbits of the Sun — 75,392 million km, that is 98,064 return trips to the Moon; 29,301 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 582.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.5 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 306 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.3×).
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 June 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — July 16, 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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