The sky on October 6, 1956 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 193.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 222.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 177.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 150.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 343.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 168.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 239.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 7% 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]
waxing crescent, 7% lit; the Moon was 382,143 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
70 orbits of the Sun — 65,782 million km, that is 85,565 return trips to the Moon; 25,566 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 508.1 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 66 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 3.7×).
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 (24% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 27, 2028; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — October 5, 2055
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,492″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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