The sky on April 2, 1929 — 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 — 12.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 284.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 357.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 37.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 99.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 43.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 270.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 48% 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]
last quarter, 48% lit; the Moon was 402,943 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
97.5 orbits of the Sun — 91,640 million km, that is 119,199 return trips to the Moon; 35,616 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 707.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.3 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 205 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther 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 January 21, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — April 1, 2045
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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