The first National Book Festival was held September 8, 2001. This year’s expanded Library of Congress event begins Friday this week, and ends the following Sunday hours before a midnight Mercury station retrograde.
Other writerly anniversaries this month: Ernest Hemingway married his first wife, Hadley, 100 years ago on September 3, 1921, which is a family interest for the four or more geographical locales we share with his life (including that one), also coinciding calendar days, including one with the date of his death.
Monday, September 13, 2021, local, CDT:
Moon 21° 16′ Sagittarius square Sun 21° 16′ Virgo 15:39
Moon 21° 48′ Sagittarius square Neptune 21° 48′ Rx Pisces 16:33
Tuesday, September 14th, local, CDT:
Sun 21° 47′ Virgo opposite Neptune 21° 47′ Rx Pisces 4:21
Neptune discovery, September 24, 1846, Berlin, 0:00:15 LMT:
Neptune 25° 53′ Rx conjunct Saturn 25° 08′ Rx Aquarius
Neptune/Saturn sextile Pluto 25° 23′ Rx Aries
Mars 25° 58′ Virgo
Hemingway, July 21, 1899, Oak Park, IL, 8:00 AM (Rodden AA):
Mercury 25° 30′ Leo sextile Neptune 25° 45′ Gemini
Neptune quintile Virgo 7° 34′ rising
Image: Ernest Hemingway wedding photograph September 3, 1921, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, National Archives and Records Administration, John F. Kennedy Library (NLJFK).