Daily Astrology, Sunday, November 8, 2026: New Moon in Scorpio, a Sun Day

Based in Vancouver, BC.

Daily basics, in short form

• Moon: waning crescent, about 1 percent lit, in Scorpio all day (Western tropical). New Moon tonight at 11:02 p.m. PST, at about 17 degrees Scorpio.
• Sun: in Scorpio, about 16 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 crescent is nearly gone, a hair of light low in the east. Venus stands low in the east as the morning star, with Mars and Jupiter as morning planets in Leo. Saturn is the evening planet.
• No Algol minimum tonight. The next falls Monday afternoon, November 9, about 2:39 p.m. PST.
• Sunday is the day of the Sun.

Sun hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:11 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:41 p.m. PST on November 8, with sunrise the next morning at 7:12 a.m. PST. Day hours are about 48 minutes each and night hours are about 73 minutes each, so they are not fixed 60 minute hours. The first hour after sunrise belongs to the Sun, 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.

Sun hours on Sunday, November 8, PST: 7:11 to 7:58 a.m., 12:43 to 1:31 p.m., 7:06 to 8:19 p.m., and 3:34 to 4:47 a.m. on Monday 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 6:18 a.m. PST with sunset 4:54 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 36 minutes. San Francisco sunrise is 6:41 a.m. PST with sunset 5:04 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 23 minutes. Vancouver's day is 9 hours 30 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 leaves Al-Iklil, the Crown, behind, crossing into the 18th mansion, Alchas, the Heart of Scorpio, at about 7 a.m. PST, just before sunrise, and stays there for the rest of the day. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Alchas runs from 8 degrees 34 minutes to 21 degrees 25 minutes Scorpio. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33: it causes discord, sedition, conspiracy against princes and mighty ones, and revenge from enemies, but it frees captives and helps edifices. Its image, in Agrippa's list, is a snake holding its tail above its head.

The New Moon falls tonight in this same mansion, at about 17 degrees Scorpio. A New Moon is a beginning, but not every New Moon begins something. This one falls in a mansion that cuts, guards, and frees, while Mercury and Venus are both retrograde. It is a New Moon for ending a bond and guarding a house, not for starting a love or a venture.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix gives the 28 Mansions of the Moon their own chapter, Book I, chapter 4, on making images in the mansions, and Book IV, chapter 9, gives the working for this mansion. In Book I, chapter 4, the 18th mansion is called Alcakl: images may be made in it for victory over enemies, for strengthening buildings, and for destroying friendship. In Book IV, chapter 9, the same mansion is called Alcab, and it is for the healing of fevers and infirmities of the belly. When the Moon has travelled into this mansion, fashion from wax the image of an adder holding its tail above its head. Cense it with the horn of a stag and say: You, Egribel, guard this house of mine that no serpent may enter nor any other hurtful beast. Place the image in a vessel and bury it beneath your house, and no serpent or hurtful creature will enter. If the image is to relieve a fever or illness of the belly, carry it with you and it will free you from them. Egribel is the name of the lord of this mansion.

Mars is closing on Jupiter in Leo, and the two meet around November 16. 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 Sun hour tonight, make the adder of the Picatrix. Take wax and fashion the image of an adder holding its tail above its head, the image of the 18th mansion. Cense it with the horn of a stag, as the Picatrix directs, and speak the words: You, Egribel, guard this house of mine that no serpent may enter nor any other hurtful beast. Then place the image in a vessel and bury it beneath your threshold or your house, as the guard itself. That is the work: a house guarded by the mansion's own image, made under a New Moon in the Heart of Scorpio, in the Sun's hour, on the Sun's day. Do it in the evening Sun hour, 7:06 to 8:19 p.m. PST, while the Moon darkens toward the New Moon at 11:02 p.m. If you are working for healing rather than guarding, carry the image with you instead of burying it, for a fever or an illness of the belly. Readers elsewhere can use the same working under the same Moon, in the Sun hour of their own place.

A caution from the same mansion: Agrippa says this mansion causes discord and revenge from enemies, and the Picatrix says its images destroy friendship, so keep the work to guarding and freeing. Do not begin a love working or a new venture under this Moon, and do not start anything new while Mercury and Venus are retrograde. The guarding is the work, and the rest waits for a kinder Moon.

A light general note: if the day feels heavy and close, keep the working short, and let the night stay quiet after the New Moon.

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