The sky on July 16, 1955 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 113.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 71.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 93.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 100.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 123.3° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 127.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 224.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 13% 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]
waning crescent, 13% lit; the Moon was 362,490 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
71.2 orbits of the Sun — 66,935 million km, that is 87,064 return trips to the Moon; 26,014 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 517 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 395 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer 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 (12% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 4, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — July 16, 2038
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,564″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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