The sky on May 30, 1937 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 68.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 306.1° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 46.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 26.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 234.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 297.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 3.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 77% 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 gibbous, 77% lit; the Moon was 394,370 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
89.4 orbits of the Sun — 83,972 million km, that is 109,225 return trips to the Moon; 32,636 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 648.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25 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 76 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 3.2×).
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 September 10, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — May 30, 2064
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,500″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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