The sky on August 8, 1946 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 135.3° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 264.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 125.9° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 179.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 179.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 201.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 120.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ 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]
waxing gibbous, 82% lit; the Moon was 403,186 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.2 orbits of the Sun — 75,332 million km, that is 97,987 return trips to the Moon; 29,278 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 581.8 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 325 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 24, 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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