The sky on April 6, 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 — 16.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 151.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 14.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 355.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 227.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 24.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 191.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 85% 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 gibbous, 85% lit; the Moon was 400,074 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
74.5 orbits of the Sun — 70,012 million km, that is 91,067 return trips to the Moon; 27,210 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 540.7 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 98 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.5×).
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 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — April 5, 2042
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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