The sky on August 28, 1930 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 154.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 213.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 181.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 200.0° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 90.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 103.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 275.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 25% 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, 25% lit; the Moon was 375,034 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
96.1 orbits of the Sun — 90,317 million km, that is 117,479 return trips to the Moon; 35,102 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 697.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.9 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 240 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1×).
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 June 17, 2028; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — August 27, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,824″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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