The sky on April 21, 1930 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 30.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 306.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 49.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 48.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 357.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 75.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 281.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 45% 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, 45% lit; the Moon was 404,323 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
96.5 orbits of the Sun — 90,647 million km, that is 117,907 return trips to the Moon; 35,230 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 700.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27 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 315 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.3×).
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 February 9, 2028; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — April 20, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,824″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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