The sky on July 6, 1951 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 103.6° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 127.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 116.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 148.5° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 91.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 12.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 176.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 4% 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, 4% lit; the Moon was 402,827 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75.3 orbits of the Sun — 70,720 million km, that is 91,987 return trips to the Moon; 27,485 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 546.2 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 380 million km away; today it is 244 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 August 16, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — July 6, 2039
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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