The sky on March 24, 1928 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 3.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 40.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 336.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 337.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 319.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 13.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 259.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 10% 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, 10% lit; the Moon was 361,776 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
98.5 orbits of the Sun — 92,602 million km, that is 120,450 return trips to the Moon; 35,990 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 715.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.6 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 291 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 30, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — March 23, 2035
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,932″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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