Daily Astrology, Friday, November 13, 2026: Two Planets Turn Direct, the Moon Enters the Swallower's Luck, a Venus Day

Gold on black engraving of a waxing crescent moon with two stars above a horned goat standing on a rocky hill

Based in Vancouver, BC.

Daily basics, in short form

  • Moon: waxing crescent, about 16 percent lit, in Capricorn all day (Western tropical). First Quarter comes Tuesday, November 17, about 3:48 a.m. PST.
  • Sun: in Scorpio, about 21 degrees (Western tropical).
  • Mercury stations direct about 7:54 a.m. PST at 5 degrees Scorpio, and Venus stations direct about 4:27 p.m. PST at 22 degrees Libra, both on this one day. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are still retrograde. Mercury's shadow runs to November 30, Venus's to December 15.
  • The Moon squares Saturn about 5:52 a.m. PST. She rises about 11:54 a.m. PST and sets about 7:29 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.
  • No Algol minimum falls today. The next is Sunday, November 15, about 8:17 a.m. PST.
  • Friday is the day of Venus.

Venus hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:20 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:32 p.m. PST on November 13, with sunrise the next morning at 7:21 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 Venus, 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.

Venus hours on Friday, November 13, PST: 7:20 to 8:06 a.m., 12:42 to 1:28 p.m., 7:00 to 8:14 p.m., and 3:39 to 4:53 a.m. on Saturday 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 6:23 a.m. PST with sunset 4:50 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 27 minutes. San Francisco sunrise is 6:48 a.m. PST with sunset 5:00 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 12 minutes. Vancouver's day is 9 hours 12 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 Sa'd al-Dhabih, the Slaughterer's Luck, into the 23rd mansion, Sa'd al-Bula, the Fortune of the Swallower, at about 2:32 p.m. PST, and stays there until about 4:30 p.m. PST tomorrow. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Sa'd al-Bula runs from 12 degrees 51 minutes Capricorn to 25 degrees 43 minutes Capricorn. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33, as Zabadola or Zobrach, that is swallowing: it maketh for divorce, liberty of captives and the health of the sick.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix calls this mansion Caadebolach, in Book I, chapter 4, and gives its planetary ruler as the Moon. Its table of intentions lists the 23rd mansion for healing the sick by drugs and medicines, for allying good men with each other, and for bringing friendship. 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 squared Saturn this morning. That is not a clean election. Take the mansion's honest workings, healing and joining friends, and leave the great undertaking alone.

Agrippa gives the image of the 23rd mansion in Book II, chapter 46, and it is a hard one: for destruction and wasting, a seal of iron, being the image of a cat having a dog's head, perfumed with the hairs of a dog's head and buried in the place where harm was meant. Name it plainly and do not make it. That image is for harm, and it is not today's work. The mansion's honest side is the healing and the joining, and that is what today is for.

Two planets turn on one day, and that is the heart of today. Mercury turns direct in Scorpio at about 7:54 a.m. PST, after being retrograde since October 24. Venus turns direct in Libra at about 4:27 p.m. PST, after being retrograde since October 3. Both have been moving backwards together since October 24, and both turn on a Friday the 13th. A planet at its station stands still for days, so the turn registers more than most aspects. But a station is not a fresh start. Both planets are standing still today, and the day opens with the Moon square Saturn at 5:52 a.m. PST. What was reviewed in the retrograde is ready to be spoken and settled, but slowly, and only what is already in hand.

Picatrix teaching note, labelled as Picatrix: Mars and Jupiter meet on November 16 at about 25 degrees Leo, and that meeting is not a usable election. Neither planet stands in domicile or exaltation in Leo. The Sun stands square to both, with the exact squares falling November 18 to Jupiter and November 19 to Mars. And the Moon opposes Mars and Jupiter on November 17, which is its own reason November 17 is no good either, not a reason against November 16. A conjunction alone does not make a timing. Do not plan a Mars working for November 16 on the strength of the meeting alone.

Magical use today

In the evening Venus hour, 7:00 to 8:14 p.m. PST, after Venus has turned direct, make the small joining image of the 23rd mansion. Fashion two small figures joined together on one token, drawn or engraved, for the mending of a friendship that has fallen out, or for the healing of a sick friend. Cense the token with frankincense in the Venus hour, and speak plainly what it is for: the two joined again, and health returning to the sick one. Keep the token where the two names sit together. That is the work: one small, plain image for joining and healing, made on Venus's own day, in Venus's own hour, after Venus has turned direct, under a Moon in the Swallower's Luck. Readers elsewhere can use the same working under the same Moon, in the Venus hour of their own place.

Rate it honestly: the Moon is slow and in detriment in Capricorn, she squared Saturn this morning, and both Mercury and Venus are standing still today, so this is a small mending, not a great election. The image is for joining friends and healing the sick, not for a great undertaking. A great working waits for a cleaner Moon.

A caution from the same mansion: its name is the Swallower's Luck, and Agrippa's image for it is for destruction and wasting. Do not make that image, and do not use this Moon to divide, bind, or work against any person. The morning's square to Saturn means the day opens on a firm limit, so finish old work first and keep the new work small. The joining image is the work, and the rest waits.

A light general note: Friday the 13th with two planets turning feels like a hinge. Let it turn something small and already in hand, 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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