The sky on Saturday, September 12, 2026

Sun in	Virgo
Moon in	Libra
Moon phase	New Moon
Illumination	2%
Exact aspects	Sun sextile Mars
Mercury retrograde	No

Sun and Mars stand about sixty degrees apart today, a sextile, traditionally read as an easy, cooperative angle. The Moon is in Libra, near new and all but invisible beside the Sun.

What does the Sun or Moon in Libra mean?

Libra is a cardinal air sign ruled by Venus, and it reads as the search for a fair arrangement between people who both have a point.

The Sun enters Libra at the September equinox and stays about a month. A Libra Moon lasts about two and a half days and usually reads as a stronger than usual pull toward company, pleasant surroundings and keeping the peace.

Cardinal means it takes initiative, which in Libra looks like proposing the compromise rather than winning the argument. Air means it thinks it through in words. Its cost is that fairness to everyone can turn into silence about what you want, and saying the unpopular half is a choice available to you.

In the tropical zodiac Libra begins exactly at the September equinox, one of the four seasonal anchors the whole system is built on.