The sky on June 9, 1956 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 78.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 87.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Orion
- ☿︎ Mercury — 60.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 97.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 333.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 145.4° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 238.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 1% 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]
new moon, 1% lit; the Moon was 360,031 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
70.3 orbits of the Sun — 66,090 million km, that is 85,965 return trips to the Moon; 25,686 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 510.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 19.7 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 113 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, on the rise to maximum (21% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 29, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — June 8, 2036
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,528″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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