The sky on May 12, 1935 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 50.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 162.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 67.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 90.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 186.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 228.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 338.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 69% 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]
first quarter, 69% lit; the Moon was 403,764 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
91.4 orbits of the Sun — 85,898 million km, that is 111,731 return trips to the Moon; 33,385 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 663.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.6 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 105 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.3×).
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 July 10, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — May 12, 2044
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,572″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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