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The Sun is in sidereal Virgo from September 17, 2026 to October 17, 2026 in 2026, computed with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The window covers September 17 through October 17 — the stretch when the Sun physically passes through the Virgo constellation, home to Spica (α Virginis) and the Virgo galaxy cluster behind the ecliptic.
Tropical Virgo opens August 22–23 and closes September 22, tethered to the equinox-based ecliptic division. Sidereal Virgo opens about 24 days later, when the Sun actually enters the Virgo star region. The Lahiri ayanamsa — currently about 24.21° as of 2026 — represents the accumulated precession drift since the two zodiacs were last aligned (around 285 CE). Earth’s axis wobbles at roughly 50.3 arcseconds per year; over 1,741 years that compounds to about 24.3°. The Vedic tradition accounts for this drift in every chart calculation; Western tropical astrology does not. The result: the tropical Virgo Sun that western astrology associates with August–September birthdates corresponds to a sidereal Leo Sun under Lahiri — except for the last six degrees of tropical Virgo, which finally cross into sidereal Virgo territory.
Why sidereal differs from tropical →
The sidereal Virgo ingress advances by about 20 minutes per decade as the Lahiri ayanamsa grows at 50.3 arcseconds annually. In 2026 the Sun enters sidereal Virgo around September 17 and exits around October 17 — a 30-day window. Anyone born September 16–18 or October 16–18 should verify their birth year’s exact UTC ingress time in the table below, since the boundary crossing can shift by several hours across the seven years shown. For all other Virgo Suns the September 17 entry is reliable to within a day across any modern year.
| Year | Sun enters | Sun exits |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | September 17, 2023 | October 17, 2023 |
| 2024 | September 16, 2024 | October 17, 2024 |
| 2025 | September 16, 2025 | October 17, 2025 |
| 2026 | September 17, 2026 | October 17, 2026 |
| 2027 | September 17, 2027 | October 17, 2027 |
| 2028 | September 16, 2028 | October 17, 2028 |
| 2029 | September 16, 2029 | October 17, 2029 |
Enter your birth date to find which sidereal sign the Sun was in.
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