September 22 Zodiac Sign

September 22 by year

A Virgo-only row needs no further reading. A timed row shows the equinox itself: Virgo before it, Libra after. Pacific times usually trail the Eastern ones by three hours.

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Times are clock times of that year in New York and Los Angeles, from the astronomy-engine ephemeris, rounded to the minute, with the daylight saving rules in force at the time. Central and Mountain time fall between the two columns.

Virgo and Libra: the two signs of September 22

Virgo is Mercury's earth sign, mutable in quality, and astrologers read its love as attention. It is the partner who notices the dripping faucet, remembers your allergy and shows care by fixing things. Trust comes slowly and rests on reliability, and a Virgo argument tends to arrive as a list of specifics rather than a mood.

Libra belongs to Venus, an air sign of the cardinal quality and, in the tradition, the sign of partnership itself. It is described as a courtship sign: charming, alert to manners and uneasy with open conflict. A Libra will often float a compromise before the quarrel has properly started, or go quiet to keep the peace. Where Virgo says what is wrong, Libra asks what would feel fair to both of you.

On this site: Moon in Virgo, Moon in Libra, Venus in Virgo, Venus in Libra, Mars in Virgo, Mars in Libra, Mercury in Virgo, Mercury in Libra.

Each sign in full: Virgo zodiac sign · Libra zodiac sign; how the two get along: Virgo and Libra compatibility.

The year ahead for both sides of September 22: Virgo horoscope 2027 · Libra horoscope 2027.

How often Virgo and Libra come up among birth dates from 1930 to 2025, and why websites name different signs for the same day: zodiac sign statistics. Where Virgo stands among Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn: earth signs.Libra and the two other signs of its element: air signs.

What time is the equinox on September 22?

Dinner hour is the most likely answer. Count the 37 years whose crossing landed on this date and 19 of them fall after 6 p.m., against 13 after noon and 5 before it; 0 came overnight. Our extremes are 8:43 a.m. for 2024 and 11:29 p.m. for 1977.

The crossing is the September equinox, when the Sun reaches 0° of Libra. This year it lands at 8:05 p.m. Eastern, or 5:05 p.m. in Los Angeles. A birth an hour before is Virgo; an hour after, Libra.

West Coast or East Coast: does September 22 change?

Libra's average slice of the date is 10.1% on Eastern clocks and 15.9% on Pacific ones. Virgo-only years number 59 in the East but 45 in the West, since Los Angeles clocks usually sit three hours behind New York's (four in 1940, when New York kept summer time and Los Angeles did not).

Take 1940. New York logged the entry at 12:45 a.m. (Sep 23, 1940), Los Angeles at 8:45 p.m. (Sep 22, 1940). Fourteen years work like that one, with the East reporting Virgo all day and the West reporting a Libra evening.

Feel like both Virgo and Libra? The cusp question

Birthday books call these days a blend of the two neighbors. Chart astrologers give every birth one Sun sign, and for this date it is usually Virgo.

Mercury offers a reason for the double feeling. On this date Mercury counted 58 Libra years and 38 Virgo years among the 96, so a Virgo Sun with a Libra Mercury is the commoner pairing.

Questions about the September 22 zodiac sign

Other cusp birthdays

Every date where the zodiac sign depends on the year or the hour, grouped by the change of sign:

• ♓︎ Pisces to ♈︎ Aries: March 19 · March 20 · March 21
• ♈︎ Aries to ♉︎ Taurus: April 19 · April 20
• ♉︎ Taurus to ♊︎ Gemini: May 20 · May 21
• ♊︎ Gemini to ♋︎ Cancer: June 20 · June 21 · June 22
• ♋︎ Cancer to ♌︎ Leo: July 22 · July 23
• ♌︎ Leo to ♍︎ Virgo: August 22 · August 23
• ♍︎ Virgo to ♎︎ Libra: September 22 · September 23
• ♎︎ Libra to ♏︎ Scorpio: October 22 · October 23 · October 24
• ♏︎ Scorpio to ♐︎ Sagittarius: November 21 · November 22 · November 23
• ♐︎ Sagittarius to ♑︎ Capricorn: December 21 · December 22
• ♑︎ Capricorn to ♒︎ Aquarius: January 19 · January 20 · January 21
• ♒︎ Aquarius to ♓︎ Pisces: February 18 · February 19

Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Every time and count on this page comes from our own run of the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac) over the years 1930 to 2030, with historical US time zone rules. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science.