September 2026, day by day

September 2026 ends in the fortnight kept for the ancestors, and that reorganises the rest of it. The month begins in a waning fortnight carried over from August. The Moon goes dark on the 11th, a waxing fortnight runs from the 12th to the full moon on the 26th, and from the 27th the Moon wanes again. That closing fortnight is the one observed as Pitru Paksha, when families keep shraddha and tarpan for the dead. Its exact observance dates differ by regional reckoning, so check yours rather than a single national figure. The month's last week therefore has a different character from anything before it, and it is the part most families plan around.

The Sun crosses from Leo into Virgo on the 18th, which changes what the second half of the month rewards. Leo's stretch asks to be seen and answers to effort in public. Virgo's asks for the opposite: attention to detail, repair, service, the unglamorous work that holds a thing together. If the month feels like it changes its mind partway through, that is the crossing.

The lunar month turns names on two different dates depending on the reckoning your family keeps. Under the amanta system of western and southern India, Shravana gives way to Bhadrapada on the 12th. Under the purnimanta system of the north, Bhadrapada runs until the full moon and Ashwina begins on the 27th. Both are correct, and a calendar showing only one of them is partial rather than wrong.

What follows is every day of the month, each read from its own computed panchang rather than from a template. Each entry gives that day's character in a line. The day's own page carries the tithi and nakshatra handover times, what the day supports and what it resists, and the form that reads the day against your own birth chart.

The dates to plan around

• New moon, 11 September. Amavasya in Leo, ending 08:58. The waxing fortnight begins after it.
• Full moon, 26 September. Purnima in Pisces, ending 22:20. The waning fortnight begins after it.
• The Sun enters Virgo, 18 September, leaving Leo. What the rest of the month rewards changes here.
• Shravana gives way to Bhadrapada on 12 September under the amanta reckoning kept in western and southern India.
• Bhadrapada gives way to Ashwina on 27 September under the purnimanta reckoning kept in the north.

Every day in September 2026