The sky on Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Sun in	Virgo
Moon in	Scorpio
Moon phase	Waxing Crescent
Illumination	28%
Ingresses	Moon enters Sagittarius
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 Scorpio, a young crescent growing in the evening sky.

What are whole sign houses?

Whole sign houses make each house exactly one sign, so the sign rising at your birth is the whole of your first house and the next sign is the whole of your second.

Houses are the twelve areas of life a chart is divided into: self, resources, communication, home and so on. Signs are segments of the zodiac. A house system is just the rule that maps one onto the other, and whole sign is the oldest and simplest rule there is.

The alternative systems cut the houses by time or by space, which makes them uneven, so a single sign can span two houses or vanish inside one. Whole sign avoids that entirely. It is the default in Undersky, and you can switch systems if you prefer another.

Houses need a birth time and a birth place. The sign, phase, ingress and aspect facts on these daily pages do not, which is why they are the same wherever you are reading from.