The sky on November 6, 1958 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 223.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 157.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Sextans
- ☿︎ Mercury — 242.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♀︎ Venus — 222.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 57.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 222.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 263.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 30% 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, 30% lit; the Moon was 371,181 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
67.9 orbits of the Sun — 63,825 million km, that is 83,019 return trips to the Moon; 24,806 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 492.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 19 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 73 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 3.3×).
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 (44% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on June 9, 2028; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — November 5, 2044
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
Other dates
Computed from the date only; nothing about you is stored.