The sky on March 24, 1931 — 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 — 2.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 60.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 11.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 321.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 118.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 100.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 292.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 23% 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, 23% lit; the Moon was 392,938 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
95.5 orbits of the Sun — 89,784 million km, that is 116,785 return trips to the Moon; 34,895 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 693.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.8 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 145 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.7×).
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 24, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — March 23, 2035
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,788″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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