Daily astrology, Friday, November 6, 2026: Waning Crescent Moon in Libra, a Venus Day

Waning crescent Moon above the scales of Libra, with the Demon Star dimming above, in gold on black

Daily basics, in short form

  • Moon: waning crescent, about 8 percent lit, in Libra all day (Western tropical). It enters Scorpio tomorrow, Saturday, at about 2:39 p.m. PST.
  • Sun: in Scorpio, about 14 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 a morning star, very low in the east. Saturn is the evening planet.
  • Algol minimum tonight: about 5:50 p.m. PST, the Demon Star at its faintest.
  • New Moon: Sunday night, November 8, at 11:02 p.m. PST, in Scorpio (Western tropical).
  • Overnight, the Moon draws close to Venus, still retrograde, before dawn on Saturday.
  • Friday is the day of Venus.

Venus hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:08 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:44 p.m. PST on November 6, with sunrise the next morning at 7:09 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 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 6, PST: 7:08 to 7:56 a.m., 12:44 to 1:32 p.m., 7:08 to 8:20 p.m., and 3:33 to 4:45 a.m. on Saturday morning.

Today the Moon leaves Al-Ghafr behind in the early morning, crossing into the 16th mansion, Al-Zubana, the Claws, at about 6:30 a.m. PST, and stays there for the rest of the day. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Al-Zubana runs from 12 degrees 51 minutes to 25 degrees 42 minutes Libra. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33: it hinders journeys and wedlock, harvest and merchandise, and it prevails for the redemption of captives. Its image, in Agrippa's list, is a man seated holding a balance in his hands.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix, Book I, chapter 4, gives the same 16th mansion, Acubene, and says images may be made in it for the liberation of captives from prison, alongside workings for destruction and discord. Where the two books agree is on release. This mansion frees what is bound. The working below stays pointed at release, not at another person.

Tonight the Demon Star winks. Algol, Beta Persei, the head of Medusa, dims from magnitude 2.1 to 3.4 every 2.87 days, and tonight its minimum falls at about 5:50 p.m. PST. Agrippa counts Algol, Caput Algol, among the fifteen Behenian fixed stars, of the nature of Saturn and Jupiter, its stone the diamond and its plant black hellebore. The old books call it the most malefic of the fixed stars, and its talismanic image is a severed head. No new venture is begun under it, and nothing is bound under it.

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 cut a bond that has already run its course. Venus, still retrograde, is just now a morning star, very low in the east before sunrise, which suits a quiet release made before the day gets loud.

Magical use today

In a Venus hour, release one thing that binds you. Take one binding obligation: a debt bond, an unfair contract term, a promise that holds you past its use, or a sum or item withheld from you as leverage. Write the bond plainly, in a few short lines: what binds, who holds it, and what release you require. Weigh it: set down what has already been paid or done against what is still claimed. Then cut the paper in two and burn it, as the act of release itself. Speak a short licence to depart for anything bound to that matter, clean the working area, and do not chase it a second time today. That is the work itself: a formal release from a binding obligation, made under a waning Libra Moon in Al-Zubana, the mansion that prevails for the redemption of captives, in Venus's hour, on Venus's day. Do it in the daytime Venus hour, 12:44 to 1:32 p.m., or the evening Venus hour, 7:08 to 8:20 p.m.

A caution from the same mansion: Agrippa says Al-Zubana hinders journeys, weddings, harvest and buying and selling, so leave those alone today. Do not begin a love working or a money working under a retrograde Venus in this mansion. The release is the work, and the rest waits for the New Moon.

A light general note: if the morning feels thin and grey, keep the release 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.

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