New Moon in Scorpio, November 9, 2026

The next New Moon after the Full Moon in Taurus on October 26 falls on Monday, November 9, 2026. The Sun and the Moon meet at 16°53′ Scorpio, at about 2:02 am Eastern, which is 07:02 UTC. They are in conjunction: the same degree of the same sign, the classical picture of a dark moon. The time and the degree are tropical and geocentric, from the same ephemeris this site uses for its reports. Eastern clocks that morning are five hours behind UTC.

A New Moon is the moment the Moon and the Sun share a degree. The Moon's earthward face is lost in the Sun's light. Traditional texts treat this as a seeding. Something in the topics of the sign can be named, begun, or set down on a page. The naming is symbolic. The lunation does not deliver a result on a schedule, and it does not require a ritual in order to occur. A ritual is a way of paying attention. The sky proceeds either way.

This one is not an eclipse. An eclipse is a New or Full Moon near the lunar nodes. On November 9 the Moon is far from both nodes, so the lunation is ordinary: a dark moon in Scorpio, with a sign and a degree, and no eclipse attached.

Scorpio weather

Scorpio is fixed water, traditionally ruled by Mars. Fixed signs hold. Water signs hold feeling, bond, and what is not yet easy to say. Together they describe a New Moon that prefers a private, exact sentence over a public announcement. The Moon is in fall in Scorpio, opposite her exaltation in Taurus. Fall is a poor fit between the planet's usual style and the sign's weather. It is not a defect in anyone who has a planet there, and it is not a verdict on this month. The Moon can still begin something here. The style of the beginning is quiet and unwilling to leave a half-truth standing.

Mars, the traditional ruler of the sign, is direct that morning, at 22°41′ Leo. He is not in Scorpio. The lunation sits in his water domicile. He himself is in Leo, a sign without a major dignity or debility for him. The modern co-ruler, Pluto, is also direct, at 3°12′ Aquarius. Neither fact is an instruction. They say where the rulers stand while the lights meet in Scorpio.

The house this New Moon occupies depends on a birth time. In whole-sign houses the rising sign is the whole of the first house, and Scorpio falls in a different house for each Ascendant. Without a birth time, stay with the sign. The houses explain the twelve places. How to read a birth chart walks through that count.

Which planets are retrograde

Five planets are retrograde at the moment of this New Moon. The count is what the ephemeris shows at that minute. It is not a round number borrowed from a headline. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the five. Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto are direct. The Sun and the Moon do not retrograde.

What retrograde means is apparent backward motion. Nothing in the orbit reverses. From Earth, the planet seems to retrace degrees it has already crossed. Traditional astrology treats that retracing as review. The planet's topics come back for a second look. A sky with several retrogrades is not a stop sign for the month. It is a list of which topics are in review, and which are not.

At the New Moon the five stand here. Each degree is given to the nearest arcminute.

• Mercury is retrograde at 6°52′ Scorpio, in the same sign as the lunation.
• Venus is retrograde at 23°19′ Libra, a sign she rules.
• Saturn is retrograde at 8°48′ Aries, the sign of his fall, opposite his exaltation in Libra.
• Uranus is retrograde at 4°22′ Gemini.
• Neptune is retrograde at 1°56′ Aries.

Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are slow. Each of them is retrograde for a long stretch of a year, so their names on a retrograde list are ordinary weather for the outer sky. Uranus and Neptune are modern planets. This library does not assign them a classical domicile. Retrograde, for them, is still the same apparent motion, lasting many months at a time. The crowded feeling comes from the company they have. Mercury and Venus are retrograde together, and both are still inside that review when the New Moon arrives. Mercury's topics are speech, messages, routes, and trade. Venus's topics are affection, taste, alliance, and the sense of what is enough. That overlap is what makes the list look full, even though three of the five are the slow planets.

Mars at 22°41′ Leo and Jupiter at 25°15′ Leo are direct, within a few degrees of each other in the same sign. Direct motion is ordinary forward travel along the zodiac. It is not a promise that effort or increase arrives on November 9. Pluto at 3°12′ Aquarius is direct as well.

Mercury and Venus turn direct on November 13

Both of those planets station direct a few days after the New Moon. Both stations fall on Friday, November 13, 2026, in Eastern time; in UTC the Venus station has already rolled into November 14. A station is the moment apparent motion stalls and turns. The direct station is the turn forward. The degree is a place the sky lingers. It is not an appointment in a person's life.

Mercury turns direct at 5°02′ Scorpio at about 10:52 am Eastern (15:52 UTC). The whole retrograde stays in Scorpio. The essay on Mercury retrograde in Scorpio keeps the shadow, the earlier station, and the longer reading. This page only needs the turn that follows the New Moon. He is still retrograde at 6°52′ Scorpio on November 9, walking back toward 5°02′, and he stations there on November 13.

Venus turns direct at 22°52′ Libra at about 7:21 pm Eastern (00:21 UTC on November 14). She is in a sign she rules. On November 9 she is still retrograde at 23°19′ Libra, a short walk from that station degree. The essay on Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Libra keeps the October station and the story of the two signs. Direct motion releases the review. It does not promise that an agreement repairs itself on that date.

The shared Friday is a fact of the calendar. Speech is under review in Scorpio. Alliance is under review in Libra. They turn forward on the same day, hours apart. The New Moon has already happened by then, in the sign Mercury is still walking.

A simple way to keep it

A New Moon in Scorpio does not need an audience. Write one sentence about something that has been half-said: a loyalty, a shared resource, a fact that was easier to leave unnamed. Read it once. Keep it, or cross it out. Leave the slogan that nothing may be signed, sent, or begun while a planet is retrograde. A retrograde is poor support for a brand-new performance of that planet's topics. It is not a ban on mail, a conversation, or a decision. Leave also the idea that waiting itself produces a result.

The following Full Moon falls on Tuesday, November 24, 2026, at about 9:53 am Eastern (14:53 UTC). The Moon stands at 2°20′ Gemini and the Sun at 2°20′ Sagittarius. That is the next time the light is full. This page stays with the dark moon that comes first.

Questions the dates answer

When is the New Moon in Scorpio in November 2026?

Monday, November 9, 2026, at about 2:02 am Eastern (07:02 UTC). The Sun and the Moon meet at 16°53′ Scorpio. It is not an eclipse.

Which planets are retrograde on November 9, 2026?

Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto are direct. The Sun and the Moon do not go retrograde.

When do Mercury and Venus station direct?

Both station direct on Friday, November 13, 2026. Mercury turns at 5°02′ Scorpio at about 10:52 am Eastern (15:52 UTC). Venus turns at 22°52′ Libra at about 7:21 pm Eastern (00:21 UTC on November 14).

What is a New Moon for?

A New Moon is the conjunction of the Sun and the Moon, treated in the traditional craft as a seeding. It is a moment for naming one topic. It is not a promise that a plan succeeds, and it is not a medical, legal, or financial instruction.

Pythic Cosmos reads this lunation as sky weather for study. What a person does with the night remains their own.