The sky on June 2, 1951 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 71.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 46.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 48.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 115.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 68.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 8.4° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 175.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ 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]
waning crescent, 5% lit; the Moon was 402,335 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75.3 orbits of the Sun — 70,809 million km, that is 92,103 return trips to the Moon; 27,520 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 546.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.1 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 378 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.6×).
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 13, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — June 2, 2034
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,780″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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