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The sky today: 21 September 2026

Where every body stands today, how fast it moves and which way, and what happens in the sky over the next seven days.

Calculated today Tropical · geocentric Times in UTC

Updated · Recalculated every day at 00:00 UTC

These are the positions for . The table lists the 17 bodies and points the product calculates, in its own order. Retrograde today: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Chiron, Pallas, Vesta. The Moon is waxing gibbous, 74.1% lit; the Moon has its own page.

Positions on 21 September 2026

BodyLongitudeSign and degreeSpeed, °/dayStatus
Sun178.5297°28°32′ Virgo0.9775direct
Moon297.3643°27°22′ Capricorn12.0531direct
Mercury197.2413°17°14′ Libra1.4990direct
Venus216.0026°6°00′ Scorpio0.4006direct
Mars116.0656°26°04′ Cancer0.6006direct
Jupiter137.8309°17°50′ Leo0.1912direct
Saturn12.3099°12°19′ Aries-0.0750retrograde
Uranus65.6484°5°39′ Gemini-0.0090retrograde
Neptune3.1253°3°08′ Aries-0.0276retrograde
Pluto303.2084°3°13′ Aquarius-0.0110retrograde
North Node (true)329.5584°29°34′ Aquarius0.0297direct
Chiron29.8732°29°52′ Aries-0.0380retrograde
Lilith (osculating apogee)265.5287°25°32′ Sagittarius-2.0349retrograde
Ceres103.4197°13°25′ Cancer0.2945direct
Pallas17.9220°17°55′ Aries-0.2430retrograde
Juno295.7370°25°44′ Capricorn0.0304direct
Vesta25.1240°25°07′ Aries-0.1937retrograde

Status follows the speed: a negative speed is retrograde, a speed under 0.01° a day is stationary, anything else is direct. The true node and the osculating apogee move backwards most of the time; that is their ordinary motion.

The next seven days

EventMoment, UTCFrom nowMore
Equinox: the Sun enters Librain 29 hoursSky events in your chart
Full Moon in Ariesin 5 daysMoon phase today
Mars enters Leoin 6 daysSky events in your chart

The whole month is on the sky in September 2026. Next: equinox: the sun enters libra.

What this page does not say

  • What any of it means for you. The same sky touches every chart differently, and that needs your birth data: see transits to your natal chart.
  • What you can see from your window. Visibility depends on your place, the hour and the weather.
  • What will happen. A position is astronomy; reading it is symbolic, and it is not a forecast of events.

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Method

Swiss Ephemeris with its data files, the speed flag on. Positions are geocentric and apparent, in the tropical zodiac, calculated for , one fixed moment, so the same date always gives the same numbers. The node is the true node and Lilith is the osculating lunar apogee. This is the same calculation the apps and the public API use; how closely it agrees with NASA’s JPL Horizons is in the accuracy report.

Next: September 2026 · Sky events in your chart · Live transits · Accuracy report

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