The sky on September 25, 1949 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 182.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 224.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 198.0° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 222.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 131.4° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 292.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 162.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 13% 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, 13% lit; the Moon was 362,732 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
77 orbits of the Sun — 72,391 million km, that is 94,161 return trips to the Moon; 28,135 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 559.1 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 304 million km away; today it is 243 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 November 6, 2026; Jupiter — in 2032.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,852″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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