The sky on July 7, 1949 — 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 — 105.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 249.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 85.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 126.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 79.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 298.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 152.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 91% 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, 91% lit; the Moon was 375,268 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
77.2 orbits of the Sun — 72,594 million km, that is 94,425 return trips to the Moon; 28,214 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 560.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.6 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 352 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.4×).
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 July 5, 2028; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — July 6, 2028
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,888″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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