The sky on October 16, 1933 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 202.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 167.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 224.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 246.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 245.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 187.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 309.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 9% 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 crescent, 9% lit; the Moon was 382,789 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93 orbits of the Sun — 87,372 million km, that is 113,647 return trips to the Moon; 33,957 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 674.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.1 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 302 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.2×).
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 November 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — October 15, 2027
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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