The sky on October 5, 1951 — 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 — 191.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 248.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 185.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 154.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Sextans
- ♂︎ Mars — 150.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 8.8° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 186.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 23% 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, 23% lit; the Moon was 370,742 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75 orbits of the Sun — 70,487 million km, that is 91,685 return trips to the Moon; 27,395 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 544.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21 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 338 million km away; today it is 243 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 December 29, 2026; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — October 5, 2036
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,744″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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