The sky on February 28, 1933 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 339.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 26.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 355.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 326.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 161.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 169.5° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 310.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 16% 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, 16% lit; the Moon was 398,118 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93.6 orbits of the Sun — 87,963 million km, that is 114,417 return trips to the Moon; 34,187 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 679.4 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 101 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.4×).
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 March 16, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — February 28, 2040
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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