Daily astrology, Monday, November 9, 2026: the Moon in the Sting of Scorpio, a Moon Day

Based in Vancouver, BC.

Daily basics, in short form

• Moon: New Moon just past, Sunday November 8 at 11:02 p.m. PST, at about 17 degrees Scorpio. Now a waxing crescent, about 1 percent lit by evening, in Scorpio all day (Western tropical). The Moon enters Sagittarius after midnight, early Tuesday morning.
• Sun: in Scorpio, about 17 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 Moon is dark and not to be seen. Venus stands low in the east as the morning star, with Mars and Jupiter as morning planets in Leo. Saturn is the evening planet.
• Algol minimum today, about 2:39 p.m. PST.
• Monday is the day of the Moon.

Moon hours for Vancouver, in PST

Sunrise in Vancouver is 7:12 a.m. PST and sunset is 4:39 p.m. PST on November 9, with sunrise the next morning at 7:14 a.m. PST. Day hours are about 47 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 Moon, 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.

Moon hours on Monday, November 9, PST: 7:12 to 7:59 a.m., 12:43 to 1:30 p.m., 7:05 to 8:18 p.m., and 3:35 to 4:48 a.m. on Tuesday 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 6:19 a.m. PST with sunset 4:53 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 34 minutes. San Francisco sunrise is 6:43 a.m. PST with sunset 5:03 p.m. PST, a day of 10 hours 20 minutes. Vancouver's day is 9 hours 27 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 Alchas, the Heart of Scorpio, into the 19th mansion, Al-Shaula, the Sting of Scorpio, at about 7:55 a.m. PST, just after sunrise, and stays there for the rest of the day. In the Arabic tradition of the Mansions of the Moon, Al-Shaula runs from 21 degrees 25 minutes Scorpio to 4 degrees 17 minutes Sagittarius. Agrippa lists it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, chapter 33, as Alienha or Achala, the tail of Scorpio: it helps in the besieging of cities and the taking of towns, in the driving of men from their places, and for the destruction of seamen and the perdition of captives. It is a hard mansion, and it is ruled by Jupiter in the Picatrix table.

Picatrix note, labelled as Picatrix: the Picatrix calls this mansion Exaula, in Book I, chapter 4, and gives images in it for besieging cities and villages and entering and taking them, for driving men from a place, for ruining the wealth of whomever you will, for benefiting men travelling by wagons through the countryside, for increasing harvests, for making captives escape, for dividing and ruining the riches of associates, for destroying ships, and for killing captives. 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 is dark, only hours past the New Moon and still within the Sun's rays. That is not a clean election. Take the mansion's one gentle working and leave the rest alone.

Algol, the Demon Star, reaches its minimum today at about 2:39 p.m. PST, dimming from its usual brightness to a faint point for about two hours around that time. Agrippa lists Algol among the Behenian fixed stars, Book II, chapter 47, a Hermetic Behenian tradition, not the Picatrix. Its image is the head of a man with a bloody neck, and it gives good success to petitions, makes the bearer bold and magnanimous, preserves the body sound, and helps against witchcraft. The afternoon minimum is a hard hour, not a time to begin anything new.

Mars is closing on Jupiter in Leo, and the two meet around November 15 to 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 Moon hour today, make the seal of the 19th mansion. Agrippa gives the image in Book II, chapter 46: a seal of copper, being the image of a woman holding her hands upon her face, perfumed with liquid storax, for facilitating birth and for provoking the menses. Take copper and fashion the woman with her hands before her face. Cense it with liquid storax in the Moon hour, and speak plainly what it is for: an easy birth, or the return of delayed courses. Keep the seal by the woman it is made for. That is the work: one small, bodily, protective working from a harsh mansion, made on the Moon's own day, in the Moon's own hour, under a dark and slow Moon. Use the midday Moon hour, 12:43 to 1:30 p.m. PST, or the evening Moon hour, 7:05 to 8:18 p.m. PST. Readers elsewhere can use the same working under the same Moon, in the Moon hour of their own place.

A caution from the same mansion: Agrippa says this mansion helps besieging and taking towns, driving men from their places, and the destruction of seamen and captives, and the Picatrix says the same. Do not use this Moon for any working against another person, and do not begin a love working or a new venture under this Moon, while Mercury and Venus are retrograde. The seal for birth and for the courses is the work, and the rest waits for a kinder Moon.

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

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