The sky on September 2, 1956 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 160.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 127.9° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 186.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 114.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 350.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 161.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 237.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 8% 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, 8% lit; the Moon was 361,312 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
70.1 orbits of the Sun — 65,872 million km, that is 85,682 return trips to the Moon; 25,601 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 508.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 19.6 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 57 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 4.3×).
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 (23% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 22, 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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