Daily Astrology, Thursday, November 12, 2026: the Moon Enters the Slaughterer's Luck, a Jupiter Day

Gold on black engraving of a winged-footed man in a helmet carrying a torch beneath a crescent moon, with a goat on a far hill

Based in Vancouver, BC.

Daily basics, in short form

  • Moon: waxing crescent, about 11 percent lit, in Sagittarius until about 12:27 p.m. PST, then in Capricorn for the rest of the day (Western tropical). First Quarter falls tomorrow, about 3:47 a.m. PST.
  • Sun: in Scorpio, about 20 degrees (Western tropical).
  • Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, Venus retrograde in Libra, both station direct tomorrow, November 13: Mercury about 7:53 a.m. PST, Venus about 4:27 p.m. PST (Western tropical). Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are also retrograde.
  • The Moon is void of course from about 3:29 a.m. PST, after a trine to Jupiter, until she enters Capricorn at about 12:27 p.m. PST. She rises about 11:12 a.m. PST and sets about 6:28 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.
  • Algol stands at its dimmest about 11:28 a.m. PST.
  • Thursday is the day of Jupiter.

Jupiter hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:18 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:34 p.m. PST on November 12, with sunrise the next morning at 7:20 a.m. PST. Day hours are about 46 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 Jupiter, 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.

Jupiter hours on Thursday, November 12, PST: 7:18 to 8:04 a.m., 12:42 to 1:29 p.m., 7:02 to 8:16 p.m., and 3:38 to 4:52 a.m. on Friday 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 4:50 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 28 minutes. San Francisco sunrise is 6:47 a.m. PST with sunset 5:00 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 13 minutes. Vancouver's day is 9 hours 16 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-Baldah, the Desert, into the 22nd mansion, Sa'd al-Dhabih, the Slaughterer's Luck, at about 12:27 p.m. PST, and stays there until about 2:32 p.m. PST tomorrow. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Sa'd al-Dhabih runs from 0 degrees Capricorn to 12 degrees 51 minutes Capricorn. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33, as Sadahacha or Zodeboluch, or Zandeldena, that is a pastour, a shepherd: it promoteth the flight of servants and captives, that they may escape, and helpeth the curing of diseases. It opens the last quarter of the heavens.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix calls this mansion Caadaldeba, in Book I, chapter 4, and gives its planetary ruler as the Sun. Its table of intentions lists the 22nd mansion for healing the sick by drugs and medicines, and for allying good men with each other. 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 young and dark, only four days past the New Moon. That is not a clean election. Take the mansion's honest workings, escape and healing, and leave the rest alone.

Agrippa gives the image of the 22nd mansion in Book II, chapter 46: for the security of runaways, a seal of iron, being the image of a man with wings on his feet, bearing an helmet on his head, perfumed with argent vive, quicksilver. Quicksilver is poison, so do not handle it. Cense the seal with frankincense instead, and keep the iron and the winged image.

Mars is closing on Jupiter in Leo, and the two meet around November 15 to 16, about 25 degrees Leo, 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 Jupiter hour today, make the iron seal of the 22nd mansion for the safe getting-free of one who is bound, and for healing after. Fashion the winged-footed man with the helmet on a small piece of iron, or draw him on a plain token if you have no iron plate. Cense the seal with frankincense in the Jupiter hour, and speak plainly what it is for: safe passage out of the binding place, no pursuer catching them, and healing for the body once they are free. Carry the seal, or set it at the door of the house they are leaving. That is the work: one small, plain seal for escape and healing, made on Jupiter's own day, in Jupiter's own hour, under a young Moon newly in Capricorn. Use the midday Jupiter hour, 12:42 to 1:29 p.m. PST, just after the Moon enters the mansion, or the evening Jupiter hour, 7:02 to 8:16 p.m. PST. Readers elsewhere can use the same working under the same Moon, in the Jupiter hour of their own place.

Rate it honestly: the Moon is slow and young, and Mercury and Venus are still retrograde until tomorrow, so this is a small working, not a great election. The seal is for getting free and healing, not for a great undertaking. A great working waits for a cleaner Moon.

A caution from the same mansion: its name is the Slaughterer's Luck, but its work is escape and healing, not attack. Do not use this Moon to bind, break, or work against any person. Algol stands at its dimmest about 11:28 a.m. PST, so do no working of the head or of striking then. The morning is void of course until 12:27 p.m. PST, so finish old work and start nothing new before the Moon enters Capricorn. The seal for escape is the work, and the rest waits.

A light general note: if the day feels heavy and held, 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.

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