The sky on October 21, 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 — 207.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 238.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 230.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 251.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♂︎ Mars — 248.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 188.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 309.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 7% 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, 7% lit; the Moon was 365,227 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93 orbits of the Sun — 87,356 million km, that is 113,626 return trips to the Moon; 33,951 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 674.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26 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 305 million km away; today it is 246 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 6, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — October 21, 2059
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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