Sun
Sidereal: tropical longitude minus the ayanamsa, Lahiri25°56′Virgo
20°10′LibraTropical: true ecliptic and equinox of date
+0.99°/day
Measuring today’s sky…
06Sign horoscope
Sidereal: tropical longitude minus the ayanamsa, LahiriSidereal Virgo: 174°14′–204°14′ of tropical longitude
Tuesday 13 October 202613 October · the UTC day
A balanced dayThe arc on the sky · 12:00 UTC
Planets stay put when you switch frames; the labels move.
Measured · 12:00 UTC
1 body inside sidereal Virgo (Lahiri).
25°56′Virgo
20°10′LibraTropical: true ecliptic and equinox of date
Crossing the boundaries today
Nothing enters or leaves sidereal Virgo (Lahiri) during this UTC day.
Traditional rulerMercuryat20°54′LibraSidereal: tropical longitude minus the ayanamsa, Lahiri
In tropical Virgo: no planet
Sidereal Virgo · Tuesday 13 October 2026
A balanced day
In astronomy-based astrology, such a day is traditionally read as balanced, with the Sun–Jupiter sextile set against the Moon–Jupiter square.
Weighed most
The Sun and Jupiter are 58.5° apart along the ecliptic (1.5° from an exact sextile), with the Sun applying. In astronomy-based astrology, this aspect is traditionally interpreted through opportunity, vitality and purpose, and growth and expansion. The sextile is one of Ptolemy’s aspects, classically harmonious but milder than the trine (Tetrabiblos I.13). The angle between the Sun and Jupiter is the same in every zodiac; only their sign labels depend on the frame.
The Moon and Jupiter are 91.6° apart along the ecliptic (1.6° from an exact square), with the Moon separating; it is exact at 08:46 UTC. Many practitioners read the square as a matter of friction that prompts action; the Moon stands for moods and rhythms, and Jupiter for growth and expansion. The square is one of Ptolemy’s aspects, classically a hard aspect of disharmony (Tetrabiblos I.13). Hard and soft are traditional labels, not verdicts.
In the tradition, the Sun–Jupiter sextile is associated with opportunity, something that can surface in effort and craft.
Classically, the Moon–Jupiter square is read in terms of friction that prompts action; unhurried hours may be where it is easiest to notice.
Traditional astrologers associate the Moon’s void-of-course interval with pause, a quality that may find its way into making things.
Sidereal Virgo (Lahiri) is the 30° arc of the ecliptic from 150° to 180° of sidereal longitude. On this day the Sun stands inside it, at 25°56′ sidereal Virgo (Lahiri).
Interpreted · by UTC day
Tradition’s weighting of each day’s sky for sidereal Virgo (Lahiri), from the measured positions: a reading of the sky, not a prediction. Written readings open up to a week ahead; the stars look a month ahead.
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Stars from the measured sky; the written reading opens 7 days ahead.
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Two frames, one sky
Both zodiacs cut the same band of sky, the ecliptic, into twelve 30° signs. They differ only in where they start counting. The tropical zodiac starts at the March equinox, where the Sun crosses the celestial equator; the sidereal zodiac is anchored to the stars (the Lahiri standard sets its zero so that the star Spica sits almost exactly at 180°).
Earth’s axis slowly wobbles — precession — so the equinox slides west against the stars by about 1° every 72 years. The two zodiacs coincided around 285 CE; today they differ by 24°14′, most of a sign.
So “Virgo” names two stretches of sky: tropical Virgo, from 150° to 180° of longitude, and sidereal Virgo, 24°14′ further east. Spica sits at 24°13′ tropical Libra and 29°59′ sidereal Virgo: one star, two labels. A sign is a label on the sky; the planets are the objects.
Longitude increases to the right (east). Gold: tropical signs. Silver: sidereal signs (Lahiri).