The sky on October 20, 1946 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 206.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 153.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 228.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 241.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 227.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 215.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 128.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 20% 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 crescent, 20% lit; the Moon was 383,159 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80 orbits of the Sun — 75,146 million km, that is 97,744 return trips to the Moon; 29,206 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 580.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.4 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 360 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
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 September 5, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — October 20, 2040
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,996″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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