Daily Astrology, November 11, 2026

Based in Vancouver, BC.

Daily basics, in short form

• Moon: waxing crescent, about 5 percent lit, in Sagittarius all day (Western tropical). The Moon enters Capricorn tomorrow, about 12:27 p.m. PST.
• Sun: in Scorpio, about 19 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 10:19 a.m. PST and setting about 5:34 p.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 Tuesday evening, the Moon stood in trine to Saturn, exact about 5:48 p.m. PST. Tonight the Moon stands in sextile to Venus, about 10 p.m. PST, and in trine to Mars just after midnight, about 12:35 a.m. PST Thursday.
• No Algol minimum today. The next falls tomorrow, about 11:28 a.m. PST.
• Wednesday is the day of Mercury.

Mercury hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:16 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:35 p.m. PST on November 11, with sunrise the next morning at 7:18 a.m. PST. Day hours are about 47 minutes each and night hours are about 74 minutes each, so they are not fixed 60 minute hours. The first hour after sunrise belongs to Mercury, 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.

Mercury hours on Wednesday, November 11, PST: 7:16 to 8:02 a.m., 12:42 to 1:28 p.m., 7:02 to 8:15 p.m., and 3:37 to 4:50 a.m. on Thursday 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 6:22 a.m. PST with sunset 4:52 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 30 minutes. San Francisco sunrise is 6:46 a.m. PST with sunset 5:02 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 16 minutes. Vancouver's day is 9 hours 19 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-Na'am, the Ostriches, into the 21st mansion, Al-Baldah, the Desert, at about 10:35 a.m. PST, and stays there for the rest of the day. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Al-Baldah runs from 17 degrees 8 minutes Sagittarius to the end of Sagittarius. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33, as Abecla or Albeldach, a desert: it is good for harvests, gain, buildings and travellers, and it causeth divorce. It is a Saturn mansion in the Picatrix table, and it closes the third quarter of the heavens.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix calls this mansion Al-Bal'dah, in Book I, chapter 4, and gives talismans in it for the strengthening of buildings. 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 three days past the New Moon and still within the Sun's rays. That is not a clean election. Take the mansion's honest workings, the road and the house, and leave the rest alone.

A hard truth from the same mansion: Agrippa gives the image of the 21st mansion in Book II, chapter 46, and it is for the destruction of some body, a man with a double countenance, before and behind, perfumed with brimstone and jet. Do not make that image. It is not a working for today, and it is not a working to keep.

Mars is closing on Jupiter in Leo, and the two meet around November 15 to 16, with the Sun in Scorpio square to Mars. 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 Mercury hour today, make the seal of Mercury for the road. Agrippa gives the image in Book II, chapter 43: a handsome young man, bearded, holding in his left hand a rod with a serpent twined about it, carrying a dart in his right hand, his feet winged. They report that it confers knowledge, eloquence, diligence in merchandising and gain, and that it begets peace and concord. Take the image and fashion it on a small seal. Cense it in the Mercury hour, and speak plainly what it is for: a safe road for the traveller, fair gain on the journey, and the house left standing strong behind them. Carry the seal on the journey, or set it at the door of the house. That is the work: one small, swift, Mercurial seal from the travellers' mansion, made on Mercury's own day, in Mercury's own hour, under a young and dark Moon. Use the midday Mercury hour, 12:42 to 1:28 p.m. PST, or the evening Mercury hour, 7:02 to 8:15 p.m. PST. Readers elsewhere can use the same working under the same Moon, in the Mercury 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 gain, not for a great undertaking. A great working waits for a cleaner Moon.

A caution from the same mansion: Agrippa says this mansion is good for harvests, gain, buildings and travellers, but it also causeth divorce, and its seal in chapter 46 is made for destruction. Do not use this Moon to bind, break, or work against any person, and do not begin a love working or a new venture under this Moon, while Mercury and Venus are retrograde. Mercury's seal for the road is the work, and the rest waits.

A light general note: if the day feels dry and far, 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.