The sky on August 28, 1937 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 154.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 58.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 179.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 117.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 249.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 287.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 3.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 56% 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]
last quarter, 56% lit; the Moon was 369,973 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
89.1 orbits of the Sun — 83,739 million km, that is 108,922 return trips to the Moon; 32,545 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 646.7 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 134 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.8×).
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 December 9, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — August 27, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,464″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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