The sky on January 3, 1952 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 282.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 3.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 259.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♀︎ Venus — 240.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 201.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 6.2° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 194.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 43% 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]
first quarter, 43% lit; the Moon was 379,493 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
74.8 orbits of the Sun — 70,254 million km, that is 91,381 return trips to the Moon; 27,304 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 542.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 20.9 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 227 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.1×).
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 March 29, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — January 3, 2045
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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