Today is Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016
Hebrew date is 26 Elul, 5776
Islamic date is 27 Dhul Hijjah 1437
Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 4 Etz’nab’
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.3.14.18
Julian Day is 2457661

Today’s Birthdays: Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935), Les Claypool (1963), Debelah Morgan (1977).

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
— Miguel de Cervantes, author of ‘Don Quixote’

Special Comment: Libra New Moon, part 1
The Libra New Moon takes place Friday evening or overnight Friday to Saturday in most time zones where our readers are (see aspects below for exact times). The New Moon is the conjunction of the Moon and the Sun: part of the basic heartbeat of astrology, which takes us from New Moon to Full Moon and then back to New Moon. A person who lives 80 years will experience about a thousand of these cycles; each one is precious.

For today, the Moon is in Virgo, in the extreme waning phase. Overnight Wednesday to Thursday it is making a conjunction to Mercury, still slow and powerful in Virgo, which looks like the perfect blend of intuition and intellect. You may solve a problem overnight that has vexed you for months. You might sleep with a notebook and pencil just in case. You might have an idea that will spark your mind into action. Be sensitive to your own thoughts and value your ideas.

The last days of a lunar cycle are extraordinarily influential, as they are the seed moment of the new cycle. This is the time to come to a new understanding with yourself. Many people say that the New Moon is the time to ‘set intentions’. I say it’s the time to vote with your body, by taking action on what you know to be true and what you know you want.

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CORRECTION: We initially mailed this without the date of the Moon’s sign change into Libra. This has now been added below.

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016
Hebrew date is 25 Elul, 5776
Islamic date is 26 Dhul Hijjah 1437
Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 3 kab’an
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.3.14.17
Julian Day is 2457660

Today’s Birthdays: Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Moon Unit Zappa (1967), Hilary Duff (1987).

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius

Moon Phase: Moon is in waning crescent (or Balsamic) phase. Next New Moon is Sept. 30 at 5:11 pm PDT / 8:11 pm EDT (00:11:19 10/1 UTC) in Libra. Corresponding Full Moon in Aries is Oct 15/16 at 9:23 pm 10/15 PDT / 12:23 am 10/16 EDT (04:23:02 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Virgo and enters Libra Sept. 30 at 12:52 am PDT / 3:52 am EDT (07:52:18 UTC).
Sun Degree: 06-07 Libra.

This is Your Brain on the Internet
In the edition of Planet Waves FM that we just published, Eric Francis continues his investigation of the impact of the internet on people and on society, through considering Monday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The program looks at Mars ingressing Capricorn, and we have a special segment featuring an interview with someone who made a trip out to the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota with a trailer full of restaurant equipment to help them set up a proper kitchen for the community that’s forming there.

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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016
Hebrew date is 24 Elul 5776
Islamic date is 25 Dhul Hijjah 1437
Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 2 k’ib’
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.3.14.16
Julian Day is 2457659

Today’s Birthdays: Samuel Adams (1722-1803), Hiram R. Revels (1827-1901), Bud Powell (1924-1966), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), Avril Lavigne (1984).

“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus’d among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.”
— Samuel Adams

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Today is Monday, Sept. 26, 2016

Hebrew date is 23 Elul 5776
Islamic date is 24 Dhul Hijjah 1437
Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 1 Men
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.3.14.15
Julian Day is 2457658

Today’s Birthdays: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Olivia Newton-John (1948), Serena Williams (1981).

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
— T.S. Eliot

Special Comment: Sun conjunct Jupiter

Once each year, the Sun aligns in a conjunction with Jupiter, and that happens today. Jupiter entered Libra on Sept. 9, with plenty of other events distracting our attention (Mercury retrograde in Virgo, a series of eclipses and the last Saturn square Neptune).

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