The sky on April 2, 1952 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 12.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 104.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 17.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 350.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 228.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 23.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 191.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 51% 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, 51% lit; the Moon was 403,392 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
74.5 orbits of the Sun — 70,024 million km, that is 91,082 return trips to the Moon; 27,215 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 540.8 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 102 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 2.4×).
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 June 27, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — April 1, 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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