The sky on August 24, 1958 — 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 — 150.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 274.6° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 149.2° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 130.3° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 49.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 207.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 259.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 78% 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 gibbous, 78% lit; the Moon was 382,708 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
68.1 orbits of the Sun — 64,015 million km, that is 83,266 return trips to the Moon; 24,879 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 494.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 19.1 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 117 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 (42% 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 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — August 24, 2029
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,420″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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