The sky on October 21, 1948 — 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 — 208.0° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 67.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 204.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 167.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 243.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 265.3° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 153.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 89% 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, 89% lit; the Moon was 387,791 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
78 orbits of the Sun — 73,258 million km, that is 95,289 return trips to the Moon; 28,472 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 565.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.8 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 323 million km away; today it is 246 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 October 20, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — October 21, 2059
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,924″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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