The sky on November 29, 1931 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Scorpius, while the horoscope says "Sagittarius". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 246.3° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☽︎ Moon — 116.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 267.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 267.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 262.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 142.5° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 290.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 82% 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]
waning gibbous, 82% lit; the Moon was 383,335 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
94.9 orbits of the Sun — 89,141 million km, that is 115,948 return trips to the Moon; 34,645 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 688.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.6 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 355 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 November 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2026; a full moon exactly on this date — November 28, 2031
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,752″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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