The direct answer: Moon Today — Sign, Nakshatra & Chandra Gochar | AskSoma Panchang: Where the Moon is right now in the sidereal zodiac — today's rashi, nakshatra, pada, and what that means for mood and muhurat. Live Lahiri ephemeris. AskSoma publishes this at asksoma.ai/panchang/moon-today as a free Vedic astrology resource using Swiss Ephemeris calculations and classical Jyotish interpretation — not generic sun-sign copy.
Where the Moon is right now in the sidereal zodiac — today's rashi, nakshatra, pada, and what that means for mood and muhurat. Live Lahiri ephemeris.
Aaj Ka Panchang · आज का पंचांग · 2026-09-18
आज का पंचांग · September 18, 2026 · Moon Today: Shukla Saptami, नक्षत्र Jyeshtha, राहुकाल 10:43 AM–12:15 PM। सूर्योदय 06:08 AM, सूर्यास्त 06:23 PM।
Aaj Ka Panchang for Friday, September 18, 2026 in Moon Today: Tithi is Shukla Saptami. Nakshatra is Jyeshtha. Rahu Kaal runs 10:43 AM–12:15 PM local time. Timings use local sunrise for this city (Lahiri / Swiss Ephemeris).
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The Moon changes sign roughly every 2 days 5 hours, so its position is the fastest-moving input in a panchang and the one that sets the emotional tone of a day. Its sign (rashi) and its nakshatra together decide the tithi, the yoga and the karana shown on this page.
Vedic practice reads the day from the Moon rather than the Sun. Your daily transit reading is counted from your natal Moon sign — the Chandra lagna — which is why a day that lifts one person flattens another born the same week.
Tithi and nakshatra are angular relationships between the Sun and Moon, so the moment one ends is the same everywhere — but it is expressed in local time, and the sunrise that anchors the Hindu day is not. A tithi ending at 14:20 in Delhi ends at a different clock time in London and may fall on a different Hindu day entirely.
Timings on this page are computed from live ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa rather than read from a fixed almanac table.
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Written by Savan Vyas, founder of AskSoma.
The astrology is not written from memory: every chart position, dasha period and panchang timing AskSoma shows is computed with the Swiss Ephemeris on the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa. How we calculate.