The sky on Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Sun in	Virgo
Moon in	Taurus
Moon phase	Waning Gibbous
Illumination	80%
Ingresses	Moon enters Taurus
Exact aspects	Mercury sextile Mars Mars square Saturn Jupiter trine Saturn
Mercury retrograde	No

Mercury and Mars stand about sixty degrees apart today, a sextile, traditionally read as an easy, cooperative angle. Mars and Saturn stand about ninety degrees apart today, a square, which astrologers read as friction between two ways of moving. The Moon is in Taurus, past full and thinning.

What does the Sun or Moon in Taurus mean?

Taurus is a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus, and it reads as the part of anyone that wants what it has to be steady, comfortable and actually enjoyable.

The Sun spends about a month here each spring, roughly late April into late May. The Moon passes through in about two and a half days, and that shorter visit tends to read as wanting food, rest, familiar music and no sudden changes of plan.

Fixed means it holds a position, so Taurus is patient and slow to be talked out of things. Earth means it trusts what can be touched, counted or tasted. The cost of that steadiness is that it can hold on past the point where holding on is useful, and noticing where the line falls is your call to make.

In the tropical zodiac Taurus is the stretch of the year about thirty to sixty degrees after the March equinox, which is why it lands in mid spring in the northern hemisphere.