The sky on April 20, 1953 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 30.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 114.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 3.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 18.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 52.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 55.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 203.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 45% 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, 45% lit; the Moon was 396,540 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
73.5 orbits of the Sun — 69,039 million km, that is 89,801 return trips to the Moon; 26,832 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 533.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 20.6 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 358 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.5×).
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 14, 2028; Jupiter — in 2036.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,672″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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