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# Void of course from 21:55 UTC tonight
- URL: https://astro-notes.ghost.io/void-of-course-from-21-55-utc-tonight/
- Published: 2026-10-15T14:42:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T14:42:10.000Z
- Description: A sextile to the Sun, then fifteen hours without an aspect before the Moon reaches Capricorn.
- Author: Astro Notes

| The record for 15 October 2026 14° Sagittarius Waxing crescent, a fifth lit. 0h · 6h · 12h · 18h                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| SignSagittarius, fourteen degreesPhaseWaxing crescentConditionPeregrine                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| ​ The word to know today Void of course The interval after the Moon completes her last major aspect in a sign and before she enters the next. Tonight it opens at 21:55 UTC and closes with her ingress into Capricorn at 12:57 UTC tomorrow.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Void of course begins tonight at 21:55 UTC. Until then the Moon travels through Sagittarius, at fourteen degrees this morning, a waxing crescent about a fifth lit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| The term names an interval: the stretch after the Moon completes her last major aspect in a sign and before she enters the next. Shortly before 21:00 UTC she trines Jupiter, ruler of the sign she is passing through. Her last contact follows within the hour: a sextile to the Sun, the sixty-degree aspect the tradition counted as mildly favorable. After it she makes no further aspect in Sagittarius, and she does not cross into Capricorn until 12:57 UTC tomorrow. The void runs about fifteen hours. |
| Guido Bonatti, in thirteenth century Italy, listed the void Moon among the conditions that weakened a chart’s judgment. William Lilly, writing in London in 1647, read it in a horary question as a sign that the matter would come to little. The tradition applied it chiefly to questions asked and times chosen, not to the day at large.                                                                                                                                                                      |
| The older writers did not reckon the void quite as a modern calendar does. They worked with orbs, a zone of influence around each planet, so a Moon still within reach of a planet across the sign boundary might not count as void at all. One condition, two methods, and the hours do not always match.                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Capricorn, her detriment, waits on the other side.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| From the shelf Guido Bonatti Thirteenth century Italy, where the void Moon was counted among the conditions that weakened a chart’s judgment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |