The sky on February 8, 1933 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Capricornus, while the horoscope says "Aquarius". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 319.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 115.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 319.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 301.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 168.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 171.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 308.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 96% 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, 96% lit; the Moon was 393,540 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93.7 orbits of the Sun — 88,015 million km, that is 114,483 return trips to the Moon; 34,207 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 679.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.2 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 110 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.2×).
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 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — February 7, 2031
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,680″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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