The November 2026 New Moon in Scorpio

What is happening

A New Moon is the start of the lunar cycle, and this one falls at 17 degrees of Scorpio, the sign of depth, intimacy, shared resources, power and rebirth. Scorpio New Moons are traditionally the most potent of the year for anything that requires real honesty, because Scorpio has no patience for the surface version of a story.

The timing is what makes this one remarkable. It arrives on November 9, and on November 13, four days later, both Mercury and Venus station direct after six weeks of retrograde motion. So this Moon sits exactly at the hinge between the long autumn review and the forward motion that follows.

What it means now

This is the year's best lunation for beginning something that requires courage. Scorpio governs the things people avoid: money shared with another person, the truth beneath a relationship, power dynamics, grief, desire and everything held below the surface. A New Moon here is an invitation to start again in exactly the territory you have been circling.

Because it lands days before the retrogrades end, the intention you set now is unusually well-timed. You have spent six weeks reviewing, and this Moon lets you plant what that review taught you, right before the sky gives you permission to act. Set the intention on the 9th, then move on it after the 13th.

The Scorpio and Taurus axis

This Moon lights the Scorpio and Taurus axis: what we share against what is mine alone. Scorpio is joint finances, intimacy, merged lives and the vulnerability of depending on someone. Taurus is your own resources and your own solid ground.

Two weeks earlier, the Full Moon in Taurus on October 26 showed you the state of your own foundation. Now the Scorpio New Moon asks the other half of the question: what are you willing to share, to merge, to trust another person with. Healthy Scorpio is not about control. It is about the deliberate choice to be genuinely close to someone despite the risk.

Working the turn

There is a practical way to use this week that most horoscopes miss. The four days between the New Moon and the double direct station are a natural planning window. Use November 9 to 12 to write down precisely what the autumn taught you: what you renegotiated, what you decided you value, which relationships proved real. Then, from November 13, act on that list while the sky is finally moving forward.

Most people waste the end of a retrograde by celebrating rather than consolidating. Scorpio would tell you to consolidate. The insight only becomes power if you do something with it.

A ritual for this Moon

Scorpio rituals work best when they involve a real, uncomfortable truth. Write down one thing you have not said out loud, to yourself or to someone else. You do not have to send it. The act of naming it plainly is the point, because Scorpio's whole medicine is bringing the buried thing into the light where it loses its grip.

Then write one intention that follows from that truth, phrased as an action you will take after November 13. Burn or delete the first page if you like. Keep the second.

The aspects in play

This New Moon is the pivot of the autumn. Mercury has been retrograde in Scorpio since October 24 and Venus since October 3, both turning direct on November 13. Scorpio season runs until November 22, when the Sun moves into Sagittarius and the mood lifts. Read the October Mercury retrograde and Venus retrograde guides for the full arc this Moon is completing.

How to work with it

Do plant a deep, honest intention, name a truth you have been avoiding, prepare the decisions you will act on after the 13th and let yourself want something properly. Do not use Scorpio intensity to control another person, and do not launch the plan before the 13th when both planets are still backward. Seed it now. Move on it in four days.