The sky on January 8, 1933 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 287.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 70.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 270.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 262.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♂︎ Mars — 169.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 173.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 304.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 90% 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 gibbous, 90% lit; the Moon was 404,346 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93.7 orbits of the Sun — 88,094 million km, that is 114,586 return trips to the Moon; 34,238 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 680.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.3 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 142 million km away; today it is 245 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 January 24, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — January 8, 2050
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,716″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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