Daily astrology, Thursday, November 5, 2026: Waning Crescent Moon in Libra, a Jupiter Day

Daily basics, in short form

• Moon: waning crescent, about 14 percent lit, in Virgo until about 6:39 a.m. PST, then in Libra for the rest of the day (Western tropical).
• Sun: in Scorpio, about 13 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 thin waning crescent stands low in the east, with Mars and Jupiter as morning planets and Venus now returning as a morning star, very low in the east. Saturn is the evening planet.
• New Moon: Sunday, November 8, at 11:02 p.m. PST, in Scorpio (Western tropical).
• No Algol minimum tonight. The next falls on the evening of November 6.
• Thursday is the day of Jupiter.

Jupiter hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:06 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:46 p.m. PST on November 5, with sunrise the next morning at 7:08 a.m. PST. Day hours are about 48 minutes each and night hours are about 72 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 5, PST: 7:06 to 7:54 a.m., 12:44 to 1:32 p.m., 7:09 to 8:21 p.m., and 3:32 to 4:44 a.m. on Friday morning.

Today the Moon crosses into Libra just before sunrise, and leaves the mansion of Spica behind. The morning still belongs to Virgo's close work, but the day itself belongs to Libra, to weighing what is owed and what is due.

In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, the Moon spends the day in the 15th mansion, Al-Ghafr, the Covering, which runs from 0 degrees to 12 degrees 51 minutes Libra. Agrippa lists this mansion in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33, as profitable for the extracting of treasures and the digging of pits, and as hindering travellers. The plain reading is that this is a day for recovering what is buried or withheld, not a day for setting out on a journey or starting a new venture.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix also lists these 28 Mansions of the Moon, so today's crossing into Al-Ghafr is a Picatrix timing a practitioner can actually use, in a Jupiter hour. No new Picatrix talisman election is claimed for today beyond the Mansion crossing itself. The next larger timing to watch is the New Moon on Sunday, November 8, at 11:02 p.m. PST, in Scorpio.

Mercury is retrograde, so this is not a day to launch a new message into the world and hope it lands. It is a day to call back what already belongs to you. Venus, still retrograde, is just now returning as a morning star, very low in the east before sunrise, which suits a quiet claim made before the day gets loud.

Magical use today

In a Jupiter hour, recover one thing that is owed to you. Take one unpaid debt, one unreturned item, or one sum or document that belongs to you and has not come back. Write the claim plainly, in a few short lines: what it is, who holds it, and what return you require. Read it aloud once, then send the demand by the route it needs, message, email, or letter. Do not chase it a second time today. Then close the file, clean the working area, and speak a short licence to depart for anything bound to that matter. That is the work itself: a claim for return, made under a waning Libra Moon in Al-Ghafr, in Jupiter's hour, not a new promise made in a retrograde week.

A caution from the same mansion: Agrippa says Al-Ghafr also stirs discord, so keep the claim to what is plainly owed, and leave travel and love work alone today.

A light general note: if the morning feels thin and grey, keep the claim short, and let the evening stay quiet.

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