The sky on November 1, 1954 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 218.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 281.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 212.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 239.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 307.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 119.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 221.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 27% 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, 27% lit; the Moon was 398,308 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
71.9 orbits of the Sun — 67,597 million km, that is 87,925 return trips to the Moon; 26,272 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 522.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 20.2 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 148 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.6×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, right at the minimum (6% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 9, 2028; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — October 31, 2039
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,600″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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