The sky on April 2, 1955 — 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 — 12.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 135.4° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 352.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 333.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 54.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 110.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 230.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 78% 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, 78% lit; the Moon was 382,393 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
71.5 orbits of the Sun — 67,207 million km, that is 87,418 return trips to the Moon; 26,120 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 519.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 20 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 319 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.3×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, right at the minimum (10% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on August 8, 2028; Jupiter — in 2038; 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 3,600″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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