Cancer today
About Cancer today
The column for Cancer: the verdict, the column and the counsel, written the night before from the day's exact aspects, ingresses and stations. The sky it was written from is beneath it.
The column · Wednesday 16 September 2026
Sympathy flows without draining.
Mars in your sign pairs with the Moon to sponsor emotional honesty and steady work. Sympathy flows without draining. Spend it on someone who needs it; the reading it gives you is a feeling, not a finding.
Verify before you spend feeling on vague worries.
Where this comes from
Drawn from 2 passagesin Aspicio’s library:
Dotted sentences are not traced to our library or the day’s sky.
Written by Gemini (gemini-3.5-flash-lite) under prompt f1 from the sky facts below and the passages above.
The sky today
| Body | Position at 12:00 UT | Motion | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉︎Sun | 23°38' Virgo | direct | +0.98°/day |
| ☽︎Moon | 27°37' Scorpio | direct | +12.17°/day |
| ☿︎Mercury | 9°31' Libra | direct | +1.59°/day |
| ♀︎Venus | 3°39' Scorpio | direct | +0.53°/day |
| ♂︎Mars | 23°02' Cancer | direct | +0.61°/day |
| ♃︎Jupiter | 16°51' Leo | direct | +0.20°/day |
| ♄︎Saturn | 12°40' Aries | -0.07°/day | |
| ♅︎Uranus | 5°40' Gemini | -0.00°/day | |
| ♆︎Neptune | 3°15' Aries | -0.03°/day | |
| ♇︎Pluto | 3°16' Aquarius | -0.01°/day |
Moon in Scorpio, waxing crescent, 28% lit. Next : First Quarter on 18 September at 20:44 UT.
Exact today
- 02:30 UT△︎Moon trine Mars
- 03:29 UT⚹︎Sun sextile Moon
- 08:31 UT⚹︎Neptune sextile PlutoNeptune, Pluto retrograde
- 23:08 UT△︎Moon trine NeptuneNeptune retrograde
- 23:09 UT⚹︎Moon sextile PlutoPluto retrograde
- 16:41 UTMoon enters Sagittarius
No station today.
- 16 September 03:29 → 16 September 16:41 UTafter Moon sextile Sun, into Sagittarius
For Cancer ♋︎
Ruled by Moon (modern rulers), now at 27°37' Scorpio, direct, the fifth sign from Cancer.
In Cancer today: Mars.
- Sunthird sign
- Moonfifth sign
- Mercuryfourth sign
- Venusfifth sign
- Marsfirst sign
- Jupitersecond sign
- Saturntenth sign
- Uranustwelfth sign
- Neptunetenth sign
- Plutoeighth sign
Positions are apparent geocentric tropical longitudes at 12:00 UT from astronomy-engine. Exact aspects are the five Ptolemaic aspects perfecting between 00:00 and 24:00 UT, found by bisection to the minute. Rulers follow the modern set. Nothing here reads your birth chart; for that, open Transits.