Daily astrology, Saturday, November 14, 2026: Mars Meets the South Node, the Moon Enters the Luckiest Mansion, a Saturn Day

Gold on black engraving of a waxing crescent moon above a curved ram's horn, with Saturn's ringed planet in the dark sky above

Based in Vancouver, BC.

Daily basics, in short form

  • Moon: waxing crescent, about 23 percent lit, in Capricorn all day (Western tropical). She enters Aquarius Sunday, November 15, about 1:24 a.m. PST. First Quarter comes Tuesday, November 17, about 3:48 a.m. PST.
  • Sun: in Scorpio, about 22 degrees (Western tropical).
  • Mercury and Venus turned direct yesterday, November 13, after weeks retrograde. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are still retrograde.
  • Mars meets the South Node in Leo about 9:50 a.m. PST, at about 25 degrees Leo. Jupiter met the South Node on November 11, and Mars meets Jupiter on November 16.
  • The Moon sextiles the Sun about 9:54 a.m. PST, then squares Venus about 10:55 a.m. PST, and goes void of course about 10:56 a.m. PST until she enters Aquarius at 1:24 a.m. PST on Sunday. She rises about 12:25 p.m. PST and sets about 8:37 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.
  • Saturday is the day of Saturn.

Saturn hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:21 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:31 p.m. PST on November 14, with sunrise the next morning at 7:23 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 Saturn, 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.

Saturn hours on Saturday, November 14, PST: 7:21 to 8:06 a.m., 12:41 to 1:27 p.m., 6:59 to 8:14 p.m., and 3:40 to 4:54 a.m. on Sunday 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 6:24 a.m. PST with sunset 4:50 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 26 minutes. San Francisco sunrise is 6:49 a.m. PST with sunset 4:59 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 10 minutes. Vancouver's day is 9 hours 10 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-Bula, the Fortune of the Swallower, into the 24th mansion, Sa'd al-Su'ud, the Fortune of Fortunes, at about 4:45 p.m. PST, and stays there until Sunday evening. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Sa'd al-Su'ud runs from 25 degrees 43 minutes Capricorn to 8 degrees 34 minutes Aquarius. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33, as Sadabath or Chadezoad, that is the Star of fortune: it is prevalent for the benevolence of married folk, for the victory of soldiers, and it hurteth the execution of government, and hindreth that it may not be exercised.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix calls this mansion Caadacohot, in Book I, chapter 4, and gives its planetary ruler as Mars. Its table of intentions lists the 24th mansion for putting love between spouses, for increasing trade and profit, and for soldiers to report victory. 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, she is in detriment in Capricorn, and she goes void of course at about 10:56 a.m. PST, hours before she reaches this mansion. That is not a clean election. The luckiest mansion arrives on a Moon that cannot carry it tonight. Take the mansion's name as a sign for the days ahead, and leave its great workings alone until the Moon is in course again.

Agrippa gives the image of the 24th mansion in Book II, chapter 46: for the multiplying of herds of cattle, they took the horn of a ram, bull, or goat, and sealed in it, burning with an iron seal, the image of a woman giving suck to her son, and hanged it on the neck of the cattle who was the leader of the flock, or sealed it in his horn. Name it plainly. It is a herdsman's image for increase, and it is not a working for a modern reader to copy. The mansion's honest side is the love of married folk and the increase of honest trade, and that is what the mansion is for, when the Moon is fit to carry it.

Mars meets the South Node today, and that is the heart of the day. Mars stands on the South Node in Leo at about 9:50 a.m. PST, at about 25 degrees Leo, and the Moon sextiles the Sun four minutes later, at about 9:54 a.m. PST. Jupiter met the South Node on November 11, and Mars meets Jupiter on November 16, so today is the middle of a three part meeting, and all three gather within one degree of each other. The South Node is the place of what is spent and done with. Mars there is an old fight, an old pride, an old claim, coming back to be finished. The morning sextile from the Moon to the Sun gives the day one clear opening, and then the Moon squares Venus at about 10:55 a.m. PST and goes quiet until after midnight. Whatever is to be ended should be ended in the morning. After that, the day is for letting it lie.

Magical use today

In the first Saturn hour, 7:21 to 8:06 a.m. PST, while the Moon is still in course in Capricorn, Saturn's own sign, take a small piece of iron or lead and mark it with the thing to be ended: the old pride, the stale quarrel, the habit Mars at the South Node keeps dragging back. Name it plainly on the token, in as few words as will hold it. Then put the token away out of sight, buried or shut in a box, and leave it there. Do it in Saturn's hour on Saturn's day, under a Moon still in course, before Mars meets the South Node at about 9:50 a.m. PST. That is the work: one small, plain ending, made while the Moon still speaks, and finished before she goes quiet at about 10:56 a.m. PST. Readers elsewhere can use the same working under the same Moon, in the Saturn hour of their own place.

Rate it honestly: the Moon is slow and in detriment, she squares Venus late in the morning and then goes void of course until after midnight, and the 24th mansion opens on that void Moon. This is a small ending, not a great beginning, and not an election for the mansion's workings. The mansion's honest work, love between spouses and increase of trade, waits for a Moon in course. The ending is the work, and the rest waits.

A caution from the same sky: Mars on the South Node is not a day to start a fight or press a claim. Agrippa says this mansion hurts the execution of government, so do not use today to push an authority or force a decision. End what is spent, and let the night stay quiet after the thin Moon sets.

A light general note: Saturday on Saturn's day, with the luckiest mansion opening in the evening, feels like a door left ajar. Step through it when the Moon is in course again, and let today be for putting the old thing down.

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

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