Daily astrology, Tuesday, November 10, 2026: the Moon in the Ostriches, a Mars Day

Based in Vancouver, BC.

Daily basics, in short form

• Moon: waxing crescent, about 2 percent lit, in Sagittarius most of the day (Western tropical). The Moon entered Sagittarius about 12:36 a.m. PST, just after midnight, leaving the Sting of Scorpio behind.
• Sun: in Scorpio, about 18 degrees (Western tropical).
• Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, Venus retrograde in Libra, both until November 13 (Western tropical). Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are also retrograde.
• Before dawn: the Moon is a thin sliver, rising about 9:16 a.m. PST. Venus stands low in the east as the morning star, with Mars and Jupiter as morning planets in Leo. Saturn is the evening planet, well placed after dark.
• Late Monday night, Venus retrograde in Libra stood in sextile to Mars in Leo, exact about 10:48 p.m. PST.
• The Moon stands in trine to Neptune about 4:20 a.m. PST, and in opposition to Uranus about 9:04 a.m. PST.
• Tuesday is the day of Mars.

Mars hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:15 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:37 p.m. PST on November 10, with sunrise the next morning at 7:16 a.m. PST. Day hours are about 47 minutes each and night hours are about 73 minutes each, so they are not fixed 60 minute hours. The first hour after sunrise belongs to Mars, and the hours then follow the Chaldean order Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, repeating, following Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy for the planetary hours method.

Mars hours on Tuesday, November 10, PST: 7:15 to 8:02 a.m., 12:43 to 1:30 p.m., 7:04 to 8:17 p.m., and 3:36 to 4:50 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

These times are Vancouver times. In November, Vancouver local clocks run 1 hour ahead of California PST clocks, so California readers will find different hours. Los Angeles sunrise is 6:21 a.m. PST with sunset 4:52 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 31 minutes. San Francisco sunrise is 6:45 a.m. PST with sunset 5:02 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 17 minutes. Vancouver's day is 9 hours 22 minutes. Work out your hours from your own local sunrise and sunset, not from the Vancouver hours. The Moon sign, Mansion, and Moon phase are the same sky everywhere.

Today the Moon crosses from Al-Shaula, the Sting of Scorpio, into the 20th mansion, Al-Na'am, the Ostriches, at about 9:05 a.m. PST, and stays there for the rest of the day. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Al-Na'am runs from 4 degrees 17 minutes Sagittarius to 17 degrees 8 minutes Sagittarius. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33, as Abnahaya, a beam: it helps for the taming of wild beasts, for the strengthening of prisons, it destroys the wealth of societies, and it compels a man to come to a certain place. It is a swift and martial mansion.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix calls this mansion Al-Na'aim, in Book I, chapter 4, and gives talismans in it for the discipline of riding animals that are hard to tame, for speedy travel and making the distance shorter, for bringing a concerned person home, for promoting friendship, for restricting captives, and for worsening the situation of partners. The same chapter warns that in all benevolent workings the Moon must be safe from the combustion of the Sun and from Saturn and Mars, and must not be slow in course. Today the Moon is slow, moving only about 12 degrees a day, and she is dark, only two days past the New Moon and still within the Sun's rays. That is not a clean election. Take the mansion's honest workings and leave the binding ones alone.

In the evening the Moon passes close by Antares, the Heart of the Scorpion, at about 7:49 p.m. PST. Antares is one of the four Royal Stars, of the nature of Mars and Jupiter in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos. But the Moon sets in Vancouver at about 4:51 p.m. PST, so the meeting happens below the horizon here, out of sight.

Mars is closing on Jupiter in Leo, and the two meet around November 15 to 16. That meeting is not a clean election, and a teaching post will follow on why it cannot be used as one. Do not plan a Mars working for November 16 on the strength of the conjunction alone.

Magical use today

In a Mars hour today, make the seal of the 20th mansion. Agrippa gives the image in Book II, chapter 46: for hunting, a seal of tin, being the image of Sagittarius, half a man and half a horse, perfumed with the head of a wolf. Take tin and fashion the Archer with his bow. Cense it in the Mars hour, and speak plainly what it is for: a swift and safe journey, the road made short, and a traveller brought home; or the taming of a spirited beast, a horse that will not be ridden, or a dog that will not heel. Carry the seal on the journey, or keep it where the animal is kept. That is the work: one small, swift, martial seal from a hard mansion, made on Mars's own day, in Mars's own hour, under a young and dark Moon. Use the midday Mars hour, 12:43 to 1:30 p.m. PST, or the evening Mars hour, 7:04 to 8:17 p.m. PST. Readers elsewhere can use the same working under the same Moon, in the Mars hour of their own place.

Rate it honestly: the Moon is slow and burnt by the Sun, so this is a small working, not a great election. The seal is for the road and the beast, not for a great undertaking. A great working waits for a cleaner Moon.

A caution from the same mansion: Agrippa says this mansion helps the taming of wild beasts, but also the strengthening of prisons and compelling a man to come to a place, and the Picatrix names restricting captives and worsening a partner's situation. Do not use this Moon to bind or compel any person, and do not begin a love working or a new venture under this Moon, while Mercury and Venus are retrograde. The Archer's seal for the road and the beast is the work, and the rest waits.

A light general note: if the day feels restless and the road calls, keep the working short, and let the night stay quiet after the thin Moon sets.

System used: tropical Western, with the Arabic Mansions labelled as Arabic tradition, and the Picatrix note labelled as Picatrix.