The sky on May 22, 1947 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 60.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 87.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 68.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 32.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 31.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 231.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 124.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 5% 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, 5% lit; the Moon was 361,452 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
79.4 orbits of the Sun — 74,595 million km, that is 97,028 return trips to the Moon; 28,992 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 576.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.2 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 328 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 April 6, 2028; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — May 22, 2035
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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