Weekly Astro Forecast: November 1 - 8
A Mercury Cazimi, a Quiet Middle, and the New Moon in Scorpio That Plants the Rest of Your Year
🌘♌ Sunday, November 1st
- Moon in Leo
- Moon in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 12:50 AM PT
- Moon in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius at 1:39 AM PT
- Moon in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini at 4:15 AM PT
- Moon in Leo trines Saturn in Aries at 12:08 PM PT
- Last Quarter Moon at 12:28 PM PT, 9º Leo
- Moon in Leo squares Mercury in Scorpio at 10:25 PM PT
- Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 AM, clocks fall back one hour (United States)
☕ Monday, November 2nd
- Moon in Leo
- Moon in Leo conjunct Mars in Leo at 5:48 AM PT
- Moon in Leo conjunct Jupiter in Leo at 2:50 PM PT
- Moon in Leo sextiles Venus in Libra at 4:10 PM PT
📝 Tuesday, November 3rd
- Moon enters Virgo at 12:28 AM PT
- Moon in Virgo squares Uranus in Gemini at 8:36 AM PT
- Moon in Virgo sextiles the Sun in Scorpio at 9:33 PM PT
- Moon in Virgo sextiles Mercury in Scorpio at 10:57 PM PT
☀️ Wednesday, November 4th
- Moon in Virgo
- Venus in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 2:31 AM PT
- Mercury in Scorpio conjunct the Sun in Scorpio at 6:24 AM PT (Mercury Cazimi)
🎭 Thursday, November 5th
- Moon enters Libra at 6:38 AM PT
- Moon in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries at 10:17 AM PT
- Moon in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius at 12:28 PM PT
- Moon in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 2:54 PM PT
- Moon in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 11:11 PM PT
🛁 Friday, November 6th
- Moon in Libra
- Moon in Libra sextiles Mars in Leo at 11:01 PM PT
🖤 Saturday, November 7th
- Moon in Libra conjunct Venus in Libra at 2:49 AM PT
- Moon in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 5:19 AM PT
- Moon enters Scorpio at 2:40 PM PT
- Moon in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 8:44 PM PT
🌚♏ Sunday, November 8th
- Moon in Scorpio
- Moon in Scorpio conjunct Mercury in Scorpio at 5:01 AM PT
- New Moon in Scorpio at 11:03 PM PT at 16º Scorpio
This is the week the story turns.
The Moon is dark for most of it. It empties out from the Last Quarter all the way to the New Moon the following Sunday night, and that long exhale is the container for everything else. Only two planetary aspects land in the whole stretch and they land within four hours of each other on Wednesday morning. One of them is the most important moment of this entire retrograde season.
On Wednesday, Mercury meets the Sun in Scorpio. This is the Cazimi, the exact heart of the Mercury retrograde. Mercury has been moving backward since the middle of October, pulling you back through a story you thought you already understood, and this is the turning point where the backward motion stops being confusion and starts being clarity. The seed of the next Mercury cycle is planted here. Whatever you understand on Wednesday is the thing you have been digging for since October.
Then the week opens up and gets quiet. Thursday through Saturday the sky asks almost nothing of you, so use the quiet. Mercury and Venus are both still retrograde and they both station direct on November 13, so this is still a week for finishing rather than launching.
And then Sunday night the New Moon arrives at 16º Scorpio at 11:03 PM PT. This is the most powerful manifestation point of the season and the one the last three weeks have been clearing room for. Scorpio does not play small. It plants the thing you have been afraid to say out loud.
One release at the front. One revelation in the middle. One seed at the end.
🌘♌ Sunday, November 1st
- Moon in Leo
- Moon in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 12:50 AM PT
- Moon in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius at 1:39 AM PT
- Moon in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini at 4:15 AM PT
- Moon in Leo trines Saturn in Aries at 12:08 PM PT
- Last Quarter Moon at 12:28 PM PT, 9º Leo
- Moon in Leo squares Mercury in Scorpio at 10:25 PM PT
- Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 AM, clocks fall back one hour
The clocks fall back at 2:00 AM and you get an extra hour. Spend it on yourself rather than handing it straight back to your inbox.
At 12:28 PM the Last Quarter Moon arrives at 9º Leo. This is the final checkpoint of the lunar cycle, the moment that asks what you are carrying into the New Moon that does not belong there. In Leo the question is about pride. What are you still performing, and who is the audience that stopped watching a long time ago? Leo is not vanity. Leo is the heart. This phase asks you to put down whatever is costing you energy to keep up, so that what is actually yours has somewhere to live.
Twenty minutes before the exact phase the Moon trines Saturn, and that is a real gift. It means the release can be clean and structured instead of dramatic. Sit down, name the three things you are done carrying, and write them somewhere you will see them again on the eighth. One week from today you will be planting in that exact space.
Late tonight the Moon squares Mercury retrograde and the old story comes back for one more round. You do not have to argue with it. You only have to notice that it is old.
What are you still holding up for an audience that is no longer watching?
☕ Monday, November 2nd
- Moon in Leo
- Moon in Leo conjunct Mars in Leo at 5:48 AM PT
- Moon in Leo conjunct Jupiter in Leo at 2:50 PM PT
- Moon in Leo sextiles Venus in Libra at 4:10 PM PT
This is the warmest Monday we have had in a while, and it arrives the day after you emptied something out. That is not an accident.
The Moon meets Mars early this morning and you may wake up with more fire than usual. Then in the afternoon it meets Jupiter in Leo, and this is the one to pay attention to. Jupiter has been in Leo since the end of June and it is the biggest expansion story of your year. When the Moon crosses it, you get a short window where your emotional read on your own life matches the size of what is actually possible. Courage feels available. Something you have been describing as too much to ask for feels normal sized for a few hours.
Do something with that. Make the ask. Send the message you have been drafting in your head. Say the number out loud. Jupiter does not reward caution and the Moon only sits here once a month.
Late in the day the Moon sextiles Venus retrograde in Libra and it softens. The right thing to do with this evening is to share the fire with someone instead of keeping it to yourself.
If you believed the thing you want was normal sized, what would you ask for today?
📝 Tuesday, November 3rd
- Moon enters Virgo at 12:28 AM PT
- Moon in Virgo squares Uranus in Gemini at 8:36 AM PT
- Moon in Virgo sextiles the Sun in Scorpio at 9:33 PM PT
- Moon in Virgo sextiles Mercury in Scorpio at 10:57 PM PT
The Moon slips into Virgo just after midnight and the temperature drops. Yesterday was fire. Today is sorting.
Virgo is the sign of the useful detail, and the Moon here wants a list, a clear surface, and one thing actually finished. The square to Uranus mid morning can scatter you with an interruption you did not plan for, so hold your schedule loosely before noon and expect the day to rearrange itself once.
The real value of today is the night. The Moon sextiles the Sun and then Mercury retrograde late in the evening, and that is the sky quietly sorting your thoughts the day before the cazimi. Something you have been turning over for weeks starts to come into focus. Do not force it into a conclusion tonight. Just write down what you notice, because tomorrow morning is when it lands.
Today is also the day the podcast drops an episode made for exactly this energy. Your Moon sign explains everything you have been judging yourself for, and Moon in Virgo is the most self critical placement the Moon passes through all month. Listen to it on a walk.
What have you been quietly working out, and what would it look like to let it be unfinished for one more night?
☀️ Wednesday, November 4th
- Moon in Virgo
- Venus in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 2:31 AM PT
- Mercury in Scorpio conjunct the Sun in Scorpio at 6:24 AM PT (Mercury Cazimi)
Here it is. The most important morning of the season.
At 6:24 AM Mercury meets the Sun at the exact center of its retrograde. This is the cazimi, which means Mercury is sitting in the heart of the Sun. For a few hours the planet of the mind is completely invisible, burned clean, and then it begins its journey back out. Astrologers have treated this moment as a gift for centuries, because the planet closest to the Sun is the planet carrying the clearest message.
In Scorpio, the message is the truth underneath. Mercury has been moving backward through Scorpio since the middle of October, taking you back through the same conversation, the same memory, the same question about what is actually going on with you or with someone close to you. This is the morning the answer arrives. Not the version you have been telling. The real one.
Here is how to use it. Wake up early if you can. Sit with a blank page before you look at your phone. Ask one question, the one you already know you have been circling, and then write without stopping for ten minutes. What comes out of a cazimi morning is usually simple and slightly uncomfortable and completely obvious the moment you see it on paper. Keep that page. You are going to want it on Sunday night.
Earlier in the night Venus retrograde sextiles Jupiter in Leo, which is a kind and generous aspect and makes the whole day easier to be a person in. If a relationship has felt stuck since Venus started moving backward in September, this is an opening. Grace is available. Take it.
What is the thing you already know, that you have not let yourself say plainly?
🎭 Thursday, November 5th
- Moon enters Libra at 6:38 AM PT
- Moon in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries at 10:17 AM PT
- Moon in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius at 12:28 PM PT
- Moon in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 2:54 PM PT
- Moon in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 11:11 PM PT
The Moon moves into Libra at 6:38 AM and the day turns toward other people.
It is a day of contrasts. The morning opposition to Neptune can blur your sense of where you end and someone else begins, so if you feel foggy or overly responsible for another person's mood before noon, that is the sky, not a character flaw. Then the afternoon is excellent. The Moon trines Pluto at lunchtime and Uranus mid afternoon, which is depth and surprise working together. Conversations go further than you expected. Somebody tells you something real.
Libra is where Venus is retrograde right now, so every Libra day this month has a backward tilt to it. Old relationships surface. Old agreements ask to be renegotiated. Let them. Venus has eight more days of this and then it stations direct on November 13.
The late opposition to Saturn can land as loneliness or as the sense that you are the only one holding something up. Go to bed before it peaks. It is not a good hour for conclusions about your life.
Where have you stopped noticing the line between caring for someone and carrying them?
🛁 Friday, November 6th
- Moon in Libra
- Moon in Libra sextiles Mars in Leo at 11:01 PM PT
The quietest day of the week, and after Wednesday morning you have earned it.
There is almost nothing in the sky today. One sextile late at night, and that is all. The Moon keeps shrinking toward Sunday's New Moon, which means you are in the darkest and most inward stretch of the lunar cycle. This is the phase that asks for rest, not productivity. If you have been pushing since Wednesday to make something of what you saw, stop pushing. The understanding needs a few days to settle before you build on it.
Use the evening for something restorative that does not require you to be impressive. The late sextile to Mars gives you a second wind around 11:00 PM, so if inspiration arrives after you are already in bed, write it down rather than acting on it.
Today the podcast mini episode is about the 11/11 portal in a 1 Year, which arrives on Wednesday the eleventh. 2026 adds up to a 1 Year, a year of beginnings, and 11/11 inside a 1 Year is the strongest manifestation gateway on the calendar. This forecast ends the night before the New Moon opens that door. Listen now so you walk into next week knowing what you are doing.
What would actually restore you tonight, as opposed to what would distract you?
🖤 Saturday, November 7th
- Moon in Libra conjunct Venus in Libra at 2:49 AM PT
- Moon in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 5:19 AM PT
- Moon enters Scorpio at 2:40 PM PT
- Moon in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 8:44 PM PT
The Moon meets Venus retrograde in the small hours and you may dream about someone from before. Pay attention to it. Venus retrograde brings people back for a reason, and the reason is almost never to restart the thing. It is to finish it properly inside yourself.
The day is soft and slow until mid afternoon. Then at 2:40 PM the Moon enters Scorpio and joins the Sun and Mercury there, and the mood drops into depth. This is the dark Moon, the last hours before the cycle turns over. Something is being composted in you right now.
In the evening the Moon squares Pluto and whatever you have been avoiding gets one more chance to surface. Do not wrestle it. Scorpio does not respond to force. Let it come up, look at it, and understand that this is exactly what you are meant to carry into tomorrow night. The New Moon wants the real material, not the presentable version.
Tonight is the night to prepare. Find the page you wrote on Wednesday. Read it again. Get your workbook out. Tomorrow is the biggest manifestation point of Scorpio season and the people who show up with something specific are the people it works for.
What is surfacing right now that you are tempted to push back down?
🌚♏ Sunday, November 8th
- Moon in Scorpio
- Moon in Scorpio conjunct Mercury in Scorpio at 5:01 AM PT
- New Moon in Scorpio at 11:03 PM PT, 16º Scorpio
The New Moon in Scorpio arrives tonight at 11:03 PM at 16º, and this is the one.
New Moons are for planting. Scorpio is the sign of depth, power, intimacy, and everything that lives underneath the surface of your life. A New Moon here is not about adding something pleasant to your calendar. It is about naming the thing you actually want, including the part of it you have been embarrassed to admit you want, and committing to it in the dark where nobody is watching.
Look at what this New Moon is sitting next to. Mercury is still retrograde in Scorpio, and the Moon crosses it at 5:01 AM, almost a full day before the New Moon itself. That is rare and it matters. It means this seed is being planted with everything you remembered during the retrograde built into it. You are not starting fresh and blind. You are starting with the information you dug up over the last three weeks, and especially with whatever arrived on Wednesday morning. This is a New Moon with a memory.
Here is the practice. Tonight, somewhere between dark and 11:03 PM, get quiet. Read what you wrote on Wednesday. Then write what you are calling in, in the present tense, as specifically as you can stand. Scorpio wants precision and it wants honesty. Vague intentions do not take root in this sign. Then say one of them out loud, to yourself or to one person you trust, because Scorpio makes you prove you mean it.
Mercury and Venus both station direct on Friday the thirteenth, five days from now. The sky is about to move forward again, and what you plant tonight is what moves forward with it.
What do you actually want, including the part you have not said out loud yet?
Your Tools for the New Moon in Scorpio
🌑 The Scorpio Season and New Moon Workbook is built for Sunday night. It carries you through this whole season, October 23 to November 21, and it holds the New Moon in Scorpio on the eighth with the ritual, the journal prompts, and the intention setting practice that make a Scorpio New Moon actually land.
🎙️ Two episodes of the Spirit Daughter Podcast drop this week. On November 3, Your Moon Sign Explains Everything You Have Been Judging Yourself For, which arrives on a Moon in Virgo day and is the one to send to the friend who is hardest on herself. Then on November 6 the mini episode is The 11/11 Portal in a 1 Year, your preparation for the manifestation gateway that opens next Wednesday.
📱 The Venus and Mercury Retrograde Challenge in the Moment App runs through November 13, the day both planets station direct. You can join on any day of it. Every morning you get one notification with where the Moon is, what the sky is doing, and one track chosen for that energy, whether that is a meditation, an activation, a visualization, a ritual, or a pep talk. Wednesday's cazimi track and Sunday's New Moon track are the two to catch.
📖 If Wednesday morning hands you something you are ready to build on, Spirit Daughter the book is the full method for turning what you know into what you are living.
Here is to a week of clarity, quiet, and planting the real thing.
xx ❤︎
