New moon in Scorpio, 9 November 2026: a quiet beginning

The new moon in Scorpio is exact at 07:02 UTC on Monday 9 November 2026, at 16 degrees Scorpio. You cannot see it: a new moon is the moon at its darkest, between the Sun and the Earth. It is the quietest point of the lunar month, and a Scorpio new moon in particular suits private beginnings, the kind you make before you tell anyone.

Here is when it happens where you are, what a new moon in Scorpio tends to stir, what else is happening that week, a small ritual and a three card spread.

When is the new moon in November 2026

The moon is exactly new at 07:02 UTC on Monday the ninth of November. In local time that is:

• 11:02 at night on Sunday the 8th on the Pacific coast of America
• 2:02 in the morning on Monday the 9th on the East Coast
• 7:02 in the morning on Monday in the UK
• 8:02 in the morning on Monday across most of western Europe
• 6:02 in the evening on Monday in Sydney and Melbourne

The exact moment matters less than the days around it. The useful window is the new moon day itself and the two evenings after, until the first thin crescent shows low in the west just after sunset, usually on the tenth or eleventh. The moon phase page shows tonight’s moon, and the rest of the year is in the full and new moon calendar.

What a new moon is, and what it is not

At new moon the Sun and Moon sit in the same part of the sky, so the side of the moon facing us is unlit. Nothing dramatic happens: no tide is strong enough to change your week, and nothing about the date decides anything for you. What a new moon offers is a natural starting line, repeated every twenty nine and a half days, that many people find easier to keep than a date on a calendar. It is a good moment to begin something small and see where it is by the full moon two weeks later.

A new moon in Scorpio

Scorpio is the sign of depth, privacy and trust: what we share with one other person, what we keep to ourselves, and what we are finally ready to let end. A new moon here tends to ask a quieter question than most. Not what do I want to start, but what am I ready to stop pretending about?

The card that belongs to Scorpio is Death, which is almost never about dying in a reading. It is the card of an ending that makes room, of a door closing so another can open. If this new moon has a theme, it is that one: let one thing finish properly, so that what comes next has space.

Scorpio also rules shared money, intimacy and the things we inherit, from habits to heirlooms. If a conversation about any of those has been waiting, the days after this new moon are a gentle time to begin it, one honest sentence at a time.

What else is happening that week

Mercury is still retrograde, also in Scorpio, until Friday the thirteenth of November, so this is a better week for reviewing and finishing than for signing something brand new; I have written about what Mercury retrograde does and does not do. Two days after the new moon comes the 11:11 portal on Wednesday 11 November, which pairs naturally with a new moon intention. And two weeks later the moon is full again: the Beaver Moon on 24 November, the first of three supermoons this winter.

A small new moon ritual

This one takes five minutes and a scrap of paper. Write one sentence you have not said out loud to anyone: a wish, a worry, or the thing you are ready to let end. Fold it once and put it somewhere private. Do not reread it yet.

On the night of the full moon, the twenty fourth, take it out and read it again. Notice what has moved, even slightly. That is the whole ritual, and it is very Scorpio: something kept close for two weeks, then looked at honestly.

A three card new moon spread

If you would like to ask the cards, lay out three in a row:

• What is quietly ending for me
• What wants to begin, privately, before I tell anyone
• Who or what I can trust with it

Read the first card gently. Swords there often point to a way of thinking you have outgrown; Cups to a feeling or a relationship changing shape; Pentacles to a habit around money or the body; Wands to a plan you have lost the fire for. If you would rather have the cards drawn for you, the reading below lays out three; write your question first in your own words.