The sky on October 4, 1955 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 190.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 46.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 208.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 199.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 174.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 143.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 228.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 91% 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 gibbous, 91% lit; the Moon was 367,714 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
71 orbits of the Sun — 66,733 million km, that is 86,801 return trips to the Moon; 25,936 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 515.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 19.9 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 389 million km away; today it is 243 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 (14% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 25, 2027; Jupiter — in 2026; a full moon exactly on this date — October 3, 2028
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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