The sky on January 21, 1929 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Capricornus, while the horoscope says "Aquarius". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 301.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 68.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 319.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 347.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 81.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 31.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 266.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 81% 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, 81% lit; the Moon was 364,472 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
97.7 orbits of the Sun — 91,817 million km, that is 119,429 return trips to the Moon; 35,685 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 709.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.4 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 108 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 2.3×).
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 11, 2026; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — January 21, 2038
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,896″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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