Today is Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017
Hebrew date is 4 Tishrei 5778
Islamic date is 3 Muharram 1439

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 13 Etz’nab’
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.18
Julian Day is 2458021

Today’s Birthdays: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Howard Florey (1898-1968), Theresa Merritt (1922-1998) John Moffatt (1922-2012), Fats Navarro (1923-1950), Jim Henson (1936-1990), Linda McCartney (1941-1998), Harriet Walter (1950), Peter Halley (1953), Kevin Sorbo (1958), Nia Vardalos (1962), Robert Irvine (1965), Jessica Lucas (1985), Ben Platt (1993).

“It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Moon Phase: Moon is in Waxing Crescent phase and enters First Quarter phase on Sept. 27-28 at 7:53 pm PDT / 10:53 pm EDT (02:53:27 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Libra is on Oct. 19 at 12:12 pm PDT / 3:12 pm EDT (19:11:58 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Scorpio and enters Sagittarius tonight at 9:01 pm PDT / 12:01 am Sept. 25 EDT (04:00:48 UTC).
Sun Degree: 2-3 Libra.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Ceres enters Leo at 10:41 pm Sept. 23 PDT / 1:41 am EDT (05:41:15 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Venus trine Juno at 9:11 pm Sept. 23 PDT / 12:11 am EDT (04:11:14 UTC).
— Venus opposite Nessus at 11:07 pm Sept. 23 PDT / 2:07 am EDT (06:07:32 UTC).
— Venus conjunct Rhiphonos at 5:20 am PDT / 8:20 am EDT (12:19:47 UTC).
— Mars opposite Neptune at 12:49 pm PDT / 3:49 pm EDT (19:49:03 UTC).
— Mercury opposite Borasisi at 6:07 pm PDT / 9:07 pm EDT (01:07:04 Sept. 25 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 24
(The Day of the Wanderer) | Libra Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
Libra is the sign of relationships, and yours will take their own unique form this year. This is unlikely to be the typical manifestation of romance. You are on call to be a facilitator in the lives of others, as they grow and change. For a while, you may need to put the needs of others above your own, in return for extraordinary experiences of learning and healing.

Written in the Planets
With Venus and Mars both making rather tricky oppositions today, it’s probably best to take things cautiously and gently. If you’re experiencing a little more nervous energy than you’d like, it’s worth taking the time to find the most constructive outlet possible. Writing may be a useful tool, especially if any challenging emotions make an appearance. Getting things out on paper, even by and for yourself, can be an enormous relief and may also help you explore fresh conceptual ground.

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Today is Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017
Hebrew date is 3 Tishrei 5778
Islamic date is 2 Muharram 1439

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 12 kab’an
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.17
Julian Day is 2458020

Today’s Birthdays: Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), Ellen Hayes (1851-1930), Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), Walter Pidgeon (1897-1984), Clifford Shull (1915-2001), Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) John Coltrane (1926-1967), Ray Charles (1930-2004), Julio Iglesias (1943), Mary Kay Place (1947), Neal Smith (1947), Dan Grolnick (1947-1996), Bruce Springsteen (1949), Ani DiFranco (1970), Jermain Dupri (1972), Layzie Bone (1975), Anthony Mackie (1978).

“I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.”
— Ani DiFranco

Moon Phase: Moon is in New phase and enters Waxing Crescent phase tonight at 5:47 pm PDT / 8:47 pm EDT (00:47:11 Sept. 24 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Libra is on Oct. 19 at 12:12 pm PDT / 3:12 pm EDT (19:11:58 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Scorpio and enters Sagittarius on Sept. 24-25 at 9:01 pm PDT / 12:01 am EDT (04:00:48 UTC).
Sun Degree: 1-2 Libra.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
No changes today.

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Mercury square Varda at 2:42 am PDT / 5:42 am EDT (09:42:36 UTC), and Asbolus at 4:50 am PDT / 7:50 am EDT (11:50:03 UTC).
— Sun opposite Salacia at 5:50 pm PDT / 8:50 pm EDT (00:49:48 UTC).
— Uranus opposite Rhadamanthus at 5:53 pm PDT / 8:53 pm EDT (00:52:57 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 23
(The Day of the Breakthrough) | Birthday Readings: Virgo | Libra | Others
Stand back and look out at the world. Know that, on some level, everything you see is related to your responses to it. This is a challenging lesson for many people, who would feel better if everything was ‘out there’ rather than ‘in here’. You, though, are ready to take a more sincere approach to what is in truth a spiritual matter. As you change the world will change.

Written in the Planets
We’re in the midst of a bunch of inner planet sign changes. This might be considered a preview of the outer planet changes starting later in the year; over the next several months, Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron and Uranus will all enter new signs. Watch carefully as this week unfolds, and see what patterns you pick up: there could be some valuable clues in terms of where you might direct your energies.

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Today is Friday, Sept. 22, 2017
Hebrew date is 2 Tishrei 5778
Islamic date is 1 Muharram 1439

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 11 Kib’
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.16
Julian Day is 2458019

Today’s Birthdays: Michael Faraday (1791-1867), Alma Thomas (1891-1978), Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981), Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002), Hans Scholl (1918-1943), David Sive (1922-2014), James Lawson (1928), Paul Hoffert (1943), Andrea Bocelli (1958), Joan Jett (1958), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Scott Baio (1960), Sue Perkins (1969), Mystikal (1970), Elizabeth Bear (1971), Billie Piper (1982), Tom Felton (1987).

“Life is strong and fragile. It’s a paradox…It’s both things, like quantum physics: It’s a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.”
— Joan Jett

An astonishing photo of three simultaneous cyclones: Hurricane Katia making landfall over Mexico, Hurricane Irma approaching Cuba, and Hurricane Jose reaching peak intensity on September 8, 2017.

Great American Eclipse: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Dear Friend and Reader:

Astrology may be the most objective means of studying the world, since it’s inherently meaningless. Every experiment needs a control of some kind, and astrology, removed as it is from any known law of cause and effect, provides the perfect null value.

The charts and other tools used by astrologers provide information about the timing of celestial events, but no information whatsoever about their relevance to mundane life, with the exception of information about the seasons changing (good for farming) and the lunar phases (good for hunting and for farming).

I love these people. Gretchen and Ron Levine of A Paw Above in Hollywood, FL, after Hurricane Irma. They reportedly cared for 24 dogs, 21 cats and one chinchilla rabbit in their own home. Photo by Susan Stocker.

We bring all the meaning astrology has, through our stories, myths, observations, speculation and the ability to “read” a chart, which is a different form of reading from reading a book. It’s still a form of literacy, though it uses entirely different capacities of the mind. So in this sense, astrology is also the most subjective means of studying the world. We see what we see, and assign meaning as a willful act.

Keeping that in mind, I’m here today to evaluate what has happened in the wake of the Great American Eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017. This was the first eclipse in U.S. history to move from coast to coast, and where totality was over the American continent itself rather than over the ocean. In a video presentation that came out shortly before the event, astrologer Dale O’Brien gave the history of eclipses that have cast shadows over the United States, and described the timing of what happened in the months after they occurred (a Google search for “Eclipse Paths” and the author’s name will get you to the right video).

To sum up Dale’s excellent research and presentation, there are always cascades of history-changing events after eclipses touch our country. However, they usually take slightly longer to manifest, around a month to six months.

If you study old astrology textbooks, eclipses (like comets) have a terrible reputation, and are usually associated with pestilences and disasters. Leo eclipses in particular are associated with extreme weather patterns, and Leo itself is associated with flooding events. (Hurricane Floyd, the first of what I would call the global warming hurricanes to arrive in the Northeast, happened right after an unusual Leo total solar eclipse. Hurricanes Rita and Katrina happened shortly after Saturn entered Leo in 2005.)

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Moon Phase: Moon is in New phase and enters Waxing Crescent phase on Sept. 23-24 at 5:47 pm PDT / 8:47 pm EDT (00:47:11 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Libra is on Oct. 19 at 12:12 pm PDT / 3:12 pm EDT (19:11:58 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Libra and enters Scorpio today at 10:40 am PDT / 1:40 pm EDT (17:39:52 UTC).
Sun Degree: 30 Virgo-1 Libra.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Moon enters Scorpio at 10:40 am PDT / 1:40 pm EDT (17:39:52 UTC).
Sun enters Libra at 1:02 pm PDT / 4:02 pm EDT (20:01:42 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Sun square Orius at 3:47 am PDT / 6:47 am EDT (10:47:38 UTC).
— Jupiter sextile Pholus at 8:03 am PDT / 11:03 am EDT (15:03:24 UTC).
— Mercury trine Pluto at 11:01 am PDT / 2:01 pm EDT (18:01:03 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 22
(The Day of Restless Drive) | Birthday Readings: Virgo | Libra | Others
All good things are possible, if you keep a positive outlook. Negativity is often justified on the basis of being real, though it’s just as real to look for the opportunity in every situation, to focus on learning and to see the best in others. Real is what you say is real, and you can take a chance on expressing that in a creative and adventurous way.

Written in the Planets
The Sun enters Libra today, marking the Northern fall equinox (spring in the Southern Hemisphere). The equinoxes are pretty special moments: for this short space of time, day and night are of pretty much equal length anywhere on the planet, energetically linking the whole species together. This is something well worth keeping in mind: at root, our differences are tiny, and our common ground is far more real and substantial. Offer some love to your fellow beings today.

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Today is Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017
Hebrew date is 1 Tishrei 5778
Islamic date is 30 Zul-Hijjah 1438

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 10 Men
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.15
Julian Day is 2458018

Today’s Birthdays: Barbara Longhi (1552-1638), H.G. Wells (1866-1946), Allen Lane (1902-1970), Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), Agnivesh (1939), Fannie Flagg (1944), Kay Ryan (1945), Stephen King (1947), Marsha Norman (1947), Bill Murray (1950), Ethan Coen (1957), Faith Hill (1967), Anne Burnell (1969), Alfonso Ribeiro (1971), Luke Wilson (1971), Taral Hicks (1974), Doc Brown (1977), Maggie Grace (1983), Wale (1984), Jason Derulo (1989).

“Melancholic and lovable is the trick, right? You’ve got to be able to show that you have these feelings. In the game of life, you get these feelings and how you deal with those feelings. What you do when you are trying to deal with a melancholy. A melancholy can be sweet. It’s not a mean thing, but it’s something that happens in life — like autumn.”
— Bill Murray

Moon Phase: Moon is in New phase and enters Waxing Crescent phase on Sept. 23-24 at 5:47 pm PDT / 8:47 pm EDT (00:47:11 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Libra is on Oct. 19 at 12:12 pm PDT / 3:12 pm EDT (19:11:58 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Libra and enters Scorpio on Sept. 22 at 10:40 am PDT / 1:40 pm EDT (17:39:52 UTC).
Sun Degree: 29-30 Virgo.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
No changes today.

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Mercury square Great Attractor at 9:56 pm Sept. 20 PDT / 12:56 am EDT (04:56:22 UTC).
— Sun square Quaoar at 5:12 am PDT / 8:12 am EDT (12:11:43 UTC).
— Juno conjunct Hylonome at 7:15 am PDT / 10:15 am EDT (14:15:31 UTC).
— Venus square Huya at 9:29 am PDT / 12:29 pm EDT (16:29:06 UTC).
— Sun sextile Ceres at 5:45 pm PDT / 8:45 pm EDT (00:44:47 Sept. 22 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 21
(The Day of Current Taste) | Virgo Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
So often, it seems that how we feel about ourselves depends on how intimate partners, friends and the wide world feel about us. The key to true emotional freedom is to liberate yourself from this and, in the process, to feel good about yourself all the time. This calls for detachment and self-awareness, which open the potential for a whole different kind of love.

Written in the Planets
As the saying goes, “Divide and conquer.” Set two groups at loggerheads, and you can gain power over them both. This tactic is being applied to its height in these turbulent days; yet, as aspects from Mercury and the Sun imply, you need not fall for it. As Eric has said in recent pieces, try to find common ground instead. We are all human beings; that’s somewhere to start. We only have the one planet. Furthermore, we are a social species and we depend on each other. This is unfashionable thinking; yet it’s the truth, and the more people are willing to admit it, the better.

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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017
Hebrew date is 29 Elul 5777
Islamic date is 29 Zul-Hijjah 1438

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 9 Ix
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.14
Julian Day is 2458017

Today’s Birthdays: Kate Harrington (1831-1917), Sidney Olcott (1872-1949), Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), Anne Meara (1929-2015), Sophia Loren (1934), Rajinder Puri (1934-2015), Andrew Davies (1936), George R.R. Martin (1948), Gary Cole (1956), Debbi Morgan (1956), Lisa Bloom (1961), Kristen Johnston (1967), Van Jones (1968), Asia Argento (1975), Aldis Hodge (1986), Jack Lawless (1987).

“There are many different kinds of writers, I like to use the analogy of architects and gardeners. There are some writers who are architects, and they plan everything, they blueprint everything, and they know before they drive the first nail into the first board what the house is going to look like and where all the closets are going to be, where the plumbing is going to run, and everything is figured out on the blueprints before they actually begin any work whatsoever. And then there are gardeners who dig a little hole and drop a seed in and water it with their blood and see what comes up, and sort of shape it. They sort of know what seed they’ve planted — whether it’s an oak or an elm, or a horror story or a science fiction story, but they don’t how big it’s going to be, or what shape it’s going to take. I am much more a gardener than an architect.”
— George R. R. Martin

Moon Phase: Moon is in New phase and enters Waxing Crescent phase on Sept. 23-24 at 5:47 pm PDT / 8:47 pm EDT (00:47:11 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Libra is on Oct. 19 at 12:12 pm PDT / 3:12 pm EDT (19:11:58 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Virgo and enters Libra today at 3:06 am PDT / 6:06 am EDT (10:05:54 UTC).
Sun Degree: 28-29 Virgo.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Typhon enters Scorpio at 10:49 pm Sept. 19 PDT / 1:49 am EDT (05:49:32 UTC).
Moon enters Libra at 3:06 am PDT / 6:06 am EDT (10:05:54 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Mercury square Altjira at 1:17 am PDT / 4:17 am EDT (08:17:25 UTC).
— Mercury opposite Teharonhiawako at 2:12 am PDT / 5:12 am EDT (09:11:52 UTC).
— Vesta opposite Salacia at 12:14 pm PDT / 3:14 pm EDT (19:14:22 UTC).
— Mercury trine Pallas at 6:22 pm PDT / 9:22 pm EDT (01:21:50 Sept. 21 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 20
(The Day of the Managers) | Virgo Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
You can never really change for the sake of another person, but you certainly can change because of them. Let others have their liberating influence on you. Be open-minded and as flexible as you can be. Mostly that means letting go of any attachment to your self-concept, and seeing what you discover about your actual self. Spontaneity will help a lot.

Written in the Planets
Today’s New Moon in Virgo is the first New Moon since the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse. Many people have been feeling the reverberations of that event quite palpably, both in their personal lives and in our collective experience. Today’s New Moon brings one phase of this experience to a close, and opens up the next stage. (Eric’s Astrology Diary for this week has a more detailed reading of the New Moon chart.) Also today: Mercury in Virgo (finally out of shadow phase) opposes Neptune in Pisces. Although this might seem to mimic some of the mental fuzziness of the recent retrograde, it’s also possible to experience great spiritual awareness of what’s usually below surface level. How do you know whether you’re perceiving deep truths or are just confused? Wait a few days, and see how things sort themselves out.

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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017
Hebrew date is 28 Elul 5777
Islamic date is 28 Zul-Hijjah 1438

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 8 B’en
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.13
Julian Day is 2458016

Today’s Birthdays: William Kirby (1759-1850), Mabel Vernon (1883-1975), Sarah Louise Delany (1889-1999), William Golding (1911-1993), Billy Ward (1921-2002), Adam West (1928-2017), Brian Epstein (1934-1967), Cass Elliot (1941-1974), Jeremy Irons (1948), Nile Rodgers (1952), Mario Batali (1960), Sunita Williams (1965), Victor Williams (1970), Sanaa Lathan (1971), Jimmy Fallon (1974), Tegan and Sara Quin (1980).

“We question free will, doubt it, dismiss it, experience it. We declare our own triviality on a small speck of dirt circling a small star at the rim of one countless galaxies and ignore the heroic insolence of the declaration. We have diminished the world of God and man in a universe ablaze with all the glories that contradict that diminution.”
— William Golding

Moon Phase: Moon is in Balsamic (waning crescent) phase and enters New phase tonight on Sept. 19-20 at 10:30 pm PDT / 1:30 am Sept. 20 EDT (05:29:47 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Corresponding New Moon in Libra is on Oct. 19 at 12:12 pm PDT / 3:12 pm EDT (19:11:58 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Virgo and enters Libra on Sept. 20 at 3:06 am PDT / 6:06 am EDT (10:05:54 UTC).
Sun Degree: 27-28 Virgo.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Mercury leaves shadow phase at 9:01 am PDT / 12:01 pm EDT (16:00:45 UTC).
Venus enters Virgo at 6:15 pm PDT / 9:15 pm EDT (01:15:14 Sept. 20 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Sun opposite Chiron at 12:32 am PDT / 3:32 am EDT (07:32:17 UTC).
— Sun trine Sedna at 4:39 am PDT / 7:39 am EDT (11:39:18 UTC).
— Mars conjunct Orcus at 10:23 am PDT / 1:23 pm EDT (17:23:32 UTC).
— Mars trine Chariklo at noon PDT / 3:00 pm EDT (18:59:59 UTC).
— Sun square Galactic Center at 1:47 pm PDT / 4:47 pm EDT (20:46:40 UTC).
— Haumea opposite Eris at 8:41 pm PDT / 11:41 pm EDT (03:41:38 Sept. 20 UTC).
— Mercury opposite Neptune at 8:49 pm PDT / 11:49 pm EDT (03:49:25 Sept. 20 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 19
(The Day of Fine Appearance) | Virgo Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
If you want the freedom to begin a new phase of your life, it will help if you tie up the loose ends from prior phases. Fresh starts are based on being unimpeded by the past: done with your commitments, emotional attachments released and, most of all, your mind in the present, looking ahead. You now have the perfect leverage to make all of this real.

Written in the Planets
If you’re one of the people for whom the shadow periods on either side of Mercury’s recent retrograde have been more challenging than the actual retrograde, some relief should come today. Mercury finally leaves the section of the zodiac where it has ambled back and forth, and enters new territory in mid-Virgo. Take a deep breath, and take a new step. In addition, Venus enters Virgo today. You can think of this as a reminder to be intentional about offering warmth and compassion to others. It’s rare that being critical of loved ones serves anything other than the speaker’s need to project their own pain or insecurity onto someone else. If you hear a call to service, heed it with a touch of humility and grace.

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Today is Monday, Sept. 18, 2017
Hebrew date is 27 Elul 5777
Islamic date is 27 Zul-Hijjah 1438

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 7 Eb’
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.12
Julian Day is 2458015

Today’s Birthdays: Leon Foucault (1819-1868), Anton Mauve (1838-1888), Toni Wolff (1888-1953), Doris Blackburn (1889-1970), Walter Koch (1895-1970), Greta Garbo (1905-1990), June Foray (1917-2017), Grayson Hall (1922-1985), Dee Dee Ramone (1951-2002), James Gandolfini (1961-2013), Tara Fitzgerald (1967), Aisha Tyler (1970), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971), Jason Sudeikis (1975), Ronaldo (1976).

“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.”
— Greta Garbo

An Unusual Virgo New Moon

At the core of this week’s astrology is the Virgo New Moon, exact at 1:29 am EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Can you believe it’s been a month since the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse? And quite a month it’s been, as superstorms have wiped the infrastructure off of whole islands, and have rearranged much of Florida and Texas.

Barred spiral galaxy — in this case, an artist’s image of the Milky Way.

The Virgo New Moon is a high-impact event, if you measure by the many aspects it makes to slow-moving planets and deep-space points, particularly the Galactic Core.

The Moon and Sun form their conjunction in an opposition to Chiron. The is the last of seven Sun-Chiron oppositions during Chiron’s run through Pisces, which began in 2010. So it’s the first of several send-offs to this phase of history, as Chiron gets ready to enter Aries.

The message here seems to be about understanding the purpose and the impact of our relationships. The purpose must, on some level, involve healing. The impact could be anything, though it’s essential to remember that it exists. Our relationships are the primary way that we teach one another, and define our reality. For its part, Chiron in Pisces has offered a thread of reality though a decade of ever-increasing human indulgence in fantasy.

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Moon Phase: Moon is in Balsamic (waning crescent) phase and enters New phase on Sept. 19-20 at 10:30 pm PDT / 1:30 am EDT (05:29:47 UTC).
Next New Moon is in Virgo on Sept. 19-20 at 10:30 pm PDT / 1:30 am EDT (05:29:47 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Virgo and enters Libra on Sept. 20 at 3:06 am PDT / 6:06 am EDT (10:05:54 UTC).
Sun Degree: 26-27 Virgo.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Moon enters Virgo at 9:52 pm Sept. 17 PDT / 12:52 am EDT (04:52:13 UTC).
Vesta enters Libra at 12:47 am PDT / 3:47 am EDT (07:47:29 UTC).
Asbolus stations retrograde at 2:22 pm PDT / 5:22 pm EDT (21:22:36 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Venus trine Uranus at 9:26 pm Sept. 17 PDT / 12:26 am EDT (04:26:35 UTC).
— Sun square Pholus at 3:46 pm PDT / 6:46 pm EDT (22:46:15 UTC).
— Sun trine Bienor at 8:55 pm PDT / 11:55 pm EDT (03:55:12 Sept. 19 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 18
(The Day of Internal Mystery) | Virgo Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
You may have learned to make healing the top item on your personal agenda. It’s the one thing that makes every other thing possible. This is particularly true where your relationships are concerned. It’s essential to allow others to have an impact on you, which means learning how to feel safe being vulnerable. That’s the golden ticket to a satisfying life.

Written in the Planets
The movements of Vesta and the Sun today suggest the importance of channeling your energies using compassion and empathy. Devotion is a powerful force; it’s important to make sure this kind of strength is applied to a cause that heals rather than harms. At an everyday level, remember that the outcome of even the smallest ethical dilemma can have a ripple effect, both outward and inward. That is to say: every decision you face is really an opportunity to offer service or aid in your unique capacity.

How will you activate your potential and passion to grow and become? You can start by ordering your Virgo Birthday Reading — recently published and currently at just $44 for some of the clearest, most immediately useful astrology you can find on the internet, designed for anyone with a Virgo Sun, Virgo rising or Virgo Moon.

Today is Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017
Hebrew date is 26 Elul 5777
Islamic date is 26 Zul-Hijjah 1438

Mayan Tzolk’in Day is 6 Chuwen
Mayan Long Count is 13.0.4.14.11
Julian Day is 2458014

Today’s Birthdays: Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), Edgar Wayburn (1906-2010), Hank Williams (1923-1953), Dorothy Loudon (1925-2003), Anne Bancroft (1931-2005), Ken Kesey (1935-2001), Gail Carson Levine (1947), John Ritter (1948-2003), Kyle Chandler (1965), Doug E. Fresh (1966), Cheryl Strayed (1968), Bobby Lee (1971), Mirah (1974), Flo Rida (1979), Danielle Brooks (1989), Ella Purnell (1996).

“I’m for mystery, not interpretive answers… The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”
— Ken Kesey

Moon Phase: Moon is in Balsamic (waning crescent) phase and enters New phase on Sept. 19-20 at 10:30 pm PDT / 1:30 am EDT (05:29:47 UTC).
Next New Moon is in Virgo on Sept. 19-20 at 10:30 pm PDT / 1:30 am EDT (05:29:47 UTC).
Next Full Moon is in Aries on Oct. 5 at 11:40 am PDT / 2:40 pm EDT (18:40:02 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Leo and enters Virgo tonight at 9:52 pm PDT / 12:52 am Sept. 18 EDT (04:52:13 UTC).
Sun Degree: 25-26 Virgo.

Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
Chariklo stations direct at 2:53 am PDT / 5:53 am EDT (09:53:22 UTC).

Interesting Selected Aspects | Data by Serennu
— Venus square Sedna at 1:57 am PDT / 4:57 am EDT (08:56:53 UTC).
— Vesta square Orius at 3:34 am PDT / 6:34 am EDT (10:34:24 UTC).
— Juno square Elatus at 12:52 pm PDT / 3:52 pm EDT (19:52:34 UTC).
— Ceres square Uranus at 3:24 pm PDT / 6:24 pm EDT (22:24:13 UTC).
— Mercury conjunct Orcus at 5:36 pm PDT / 8:36 pm EDT (00:36:05 Sept. 18 UTC).

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If Your Birthday is Sept. 17
(The Day of Perseverance) | Virgo Birthday Reading | All Other Signs
It’s been an interesting few years, with barely a dull moment. Yet your real process of transformation is just getting going. You are being challenged by the universe to be yourself and only yourself at all times. Ultimately this is your only option, though it will come as a relief when you throw out anything but your actual being and reality.

Written in the Planets
As Amanda Painter discussed in her Thursday article, Ceres squaring Uranus today might serve as a reminder to consider (or reconsider) your habits around eating, nutrition and health. It might also draw attention to how the disembodying effect of the internet has influenced our relationship to food and to the planet itself. Cooking a good meal from scratch, getting out among lots of growing green entities or simply doing something kind are all useful ways of grounding, should you need it.

How will you activate your potential and passion to grow and become? You can start by ordering your Virgo Birthday Reading — recently published and currently at just $44 for some of the clearest, most immediately useful astrology you can find on the internet, designed for anyone with a Virgo Sun, Virgo rising or Virgo Moon.