The sky on October 17, 1929 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 203.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 11.0° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 188.0° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 176.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 217.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 76.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 265.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 99% 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]
full moon, 99% lit; the Moon was 381,429 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
97 orbits of the Sun — 91,129 million km, that is 118,534 return trips to the Moon; 35,418 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 703.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.2 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 375 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
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 August 7, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — October 17, 2035
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,860″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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