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.
Planetary Stations and Sign Changes
All the planets stay in their signs today. Sometimes it happens, even when you’re looking at 120 or so planets. Where do we find them all? Most of our minor planet data comes from Serennu.com.
Interesting Selected Aspects
— Mars square Elatus at 5:21 am PDT / 8:21 am EDT (12:20:38 UTC).
— Saturn square Teharonhiawako at 11:29 am PDT / 2:29 pm EDT (18:28:39 UTC).
If Your Birthday is Sept. 28
(The Day of Seductive Charm) | Get Your Birthday Reading
The more you strive to be rational and realistic, the more likely you are to get lost in your dreams. You may as well start there, and stoke your imagination, and consider what may be. Later you have the option to reality check and make sure you’re taking the right approach. Listen to what people say to you and you’ll understand their desires and their intentions.
Written in the Planets
We’re at the end of the lunar cycle and are heading for a New Moon on Sept. 30. Now is a good time to wrap up business from the rather eventful past month. Between two eclipses, Mercury retrograde, many major aspects and Jupiter changing signs, you may have a lot to review. Yet events may be more distant than they appear in the rearview mirror of life. The point, of course, is not to spend your life looking back (as people so often do) but to proceed forward with as little encumbrance as possible. We’ll have more on the New Moon chart in Thursday’s edition.