The sky on July 13, 1956 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 111.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 184.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 103.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 82.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 348.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 151.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 236.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 36% 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]
first quarter, 36% lit; the Moon was 376,509 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
70.2 orbits of the Sun — 65,998 million km, that is 85,845 return trips to the Moon; 25,650 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 509.7 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 83 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 3×).
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 (22% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 2, 2028; Jupiter — in 2027.
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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