get_planetary_positions

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Returns where every body is at an instant, WITH NO BIRTH DATA AND NO PLACE REQUIRED: Sun, Moon, the eight planets and the two lunar nodes, each with geocentric ecliptic longitude, sign and degree in BOTH the tropical (Western) and sidereal (Vedic) zodiacs, ecliptic latitude, longitude speed, retrograde state and distance. Use it for "what sign is Venus in", "where is Mercury right now", "what sign is the Moon in today", "when did Mars enter Gemini" — any position question that is NOT about a particular person's chart. THIS IS THE TOOL FOR A SKY QUESTION WITH NO PERSON IN IT: do not reach for the birth-chart tool and invent a birthplace to get a planet's sign, because a geocentric longitude is identical for every observer on Earth and casting a chart for a made-up location commits you to a place the user never gave. DELEGATE THIS RATHER THAN DERIVING IT: planetary positions are what a model half-remembers from training tables — shape right, date wrong, stated with total confidence. A planet sits within a degree of a cusp for days, so "Venus is in Scorpio" can be true on Tuesday and false on Wednesday; the Moon moves half a degree an hour. BOTH ZODIACS COME BACK IN EVERY ROW: a Western reader wants result.bodies[].sign, a Vedic reader result.bodies[].siderealSign, and they differ by result.ayanamsa — about 24 degrees, very nearly a whole sign, so the two are usually DIFFERENT SIGNS. Say which you are quoting. Rahu and Ketu are the MEAN nodes (result.nodeNote). For a retrograde period's start and end use check_retrogrades. CITATION: required. See server instructions.