🌑 New Moon 2026
New Moon in Scorpio
Double retrograde intensifies Scorpio's transformative power — descend into the depths and plant seeds that only the brave will harvest.
What This New Moon Brings
The Scorpio New Moon on November 9 at 16°52' is not for the faint of heart. Arriving while both Mercury and Venus are retrograde, this lunation pulls you into the deepest waters of the zodiac with two planets swimming backward through your emotional history. If this year's other New Moons planted seeds in sunlit gardens, this one plants them in volcanic soil — dark, mineral-rich, and extraordinarily fertile for those willing to dig.
Scorpio doesn't do surfaces. It wants the truth beneath the truth, the feeling beneath the feeling, the motive beneath the motive. With Mercury retrograde stirring up old thoughts and conversations, and Venus retrograde revisiting past loves and values, this New Moon becomes an archaeological dig into your own psyche. What you buried is coming back up — not to haunt you, but to be composted into something that can fuel your next transformation.
The double retrograde gives this lunation an almost fated quality. Old lovers may reappear with unfinished business. Financial matters tied to the past demand resolution. Secrets — yours and others' — press against the surface. The invitation isn't to run from any of it. Scorpio's gift is the ability to face what everyone else looks away from and find power in the confrontation. Set intentions around the transformation you've been circling but never fully committed to. The darkness isn't the enemy — it's the soil where your most important new beginning takes root.
Astrological Analysis
As with every New Moon in Scorpio, it gets intense but this time even more so, because we have Mercury and Venus retrograde at
the same time. The urge for renewal and cutting connection with the past and toxic aspects of our life (Scorpio New Moon) is
enhanced by the intense introspection of Retro Mercury in Scorpio and retro Venus! We are brooding over the past and liking for
faults in the current narrative, and even if we are not, such faults will reveal themselves- unsolved problems, unseen till now issues
will surface, irritations which can no longer be avoided, unspoken communications will erupt so they can be addressed by the
ruthlessly honest energy of the Scorpio new moon. No nonsense approach- if it/works- great, if not- out of my life- ready for a rebirth!
On a more positive eleven- deep reflection and profound realizations or even provocations can become the catalyst for new
beginnings and self-empowerment!
Active Retrogrades During This New Moon
How It Affects Your Sign
Select your Sun, Moon, or Rising sign for a personalized reading.
Aries
Your 8th house of transformation, shared resources, and intimate bonds is activated. This is the New Moon to face the financial or emotional entanglement you've been avoiding. Set intentions around shared finances, deepening trust with a partner, or beginning the inner transformation you've been talking about but not doing. Mercury and Venus retrograde may bring an old debt — financial or karmic — back for resolution.
Taurus
This New Moon opposes your sign, activating your 7th house of partnerships with Scorpionic intensity. Relationships are stripped to their essence right now — pretense falls away, and what's real is revealed. Set intentions around the depth of connection you're willing to create. Venus retrograde may bring a past partner back into view. The question isn't whether to engage, but what you've learned since then.
Gemini
The 6th house of daily life and health receives Scorpio's penetrating energy. Surface-level wellness isn't enough — this New Moon wants you to investigate the emotional roots of physical habits. Set intentions around healing the connection between your thoughts and your body. Mercury retrograde helps you recognize the mental patterns that sabotage your health. Name them, and they lose their power.
Cancer
Your 5th house of creativity and romance is flooded with Scorpionic depth. Creative work produced now will come from your most authentic, unguarded self. Set intentions around creating something that reveals rather than performs. Venus retrograde adds a layer of romantic nostalgia — an old flame may reignite, or you may finally understand why it had to burn out.
Leo
The 4th house of home and roots receives this intense energy. Family secrets, inherited patterns, and the emotional foundation of your entire personality are up for examination. Set intentions around healing your relationship with your origins — not by rewriting history, but by understanding it more honestly. The brave lion's most heroic act right now is vulnerability at home.
Virgo
Your 3rd house of communication gets Scorpio's unflinching honesty. Set intentions around saying what you've been afraid to say — the words that are too honest, too raw, too real for polite conversation. Mercury retrograde supports revisiting a conversation that went wrong and getting it right this time. Your analytical gifts combined with Scorpio's depth make you a truth-speaker of extraordinary precision.
Libra
The 2nd house of income and self-worth receives Scorpio's transformative attention. Your relationship with money is about to undergo surgery — and that's a good thing. Set intentions around financial honesty, eliminating spending driven by emotional avoidance, and building wealth from a place of genuine self-worth rather than status anxiety. What you value needs to align with who you actually are.
Scorpio
This is YOUR New Moon — intensified by both Mercury and Venus retrograde. The 1st house of identity is activated, making this a profoundly personal rebirth. Set intentions around who you're becoming on the other side of whatever you've been going through. The retrogrades ensure this isn't a superficial makeover — it's a phoenix moment. Let the old version of yourself rest. The new one is already forming in the ashes.
Sagittarius
Your 12th house of the subconscious, dreams, and hidden patterns is stirred by Scorpio's probing energy. The material surfacing right now may be uncomfortable — suppressed emotions, denied truths, dreams that feel more like messages. Set intentions around therapy, shadow work, or any practice that helps you access what you've been avoiding. Freedom — your ultimate value — begins with facing what you've locked away.
Capricorn
The 11th house of community and future vision gets Scorpio's intensity. Friendships are tested — not destructively, but revealingly. Set intentions around the depth of connection you expect from your social circle. Casual acquaintances and genuine allies will sort themselves during this transit. Mercury retrograde may reconnect you with someone from a past group or cause that still matters.
Aquarius
Your 10th house of career and public life receives Scorpio's transformative energy. Professional power dynamics are illuminated — who has it, how it's wielded, and whether you're claiming yours. Set intentions around professional transformation: the career change, the power move, or the honest reckoning with whether your current path reflects your actual ambitions. The retrogrades may revisit a professional relationship worth reclaiming.
Pisces
The 9th house of beliefs, travel, and higher meaning is deepened by your fellow water sign's energy. Your spiritual beliefs may undergo a dark night of the soul — and emerge stronger for it. Set intentions around the spiritual truths you want to embody, not just believe in. Venus retrograde adds a layer of questioning around spiritual values. What you thought was faith may turn out to be something more — or less — and both revelations are valuable.
Intention Setting
New Moons are for planting seeds. Set intentions with these practices.
Shadow Journal Ritual
In a journal reserved for this purpose, write the heading: "What I'm afraid to admit." Then write for fifteen minutes without stopping or censoring. Let the pen move even when the mind resists. Scorpio's New Moon magic activates when you name what lives in the shadows. When you're done, read what you've written once — then close the journal. You don't have to solve it. You just have to see it. That's the seed.
Transformation Burning Ceremony
Write down a pattern, belief, or identity you've outgrown — not to release it (that's Full Moon work) but to declare your intention to transform it into something new. Fold the paper and place it in a fireproof bowl with a small handful of dried rosemary (for remembrance) and cinnamon (for rebirth). Light it. As it burns, state what you intend to become from these ashes. Scatter the cooled ashes in soil.
Retrograde Love Letter
With Venus retrograde active, write a love letter — to yourself, to a past version of a relationship, or to love itself. Don't send it. The act of writing it transmutes the emotional charge. Set an intention about what you want love to feel like going forward — not who you want it to be with, but the quality of depth and truth you're ready for. Scorpio respects honesty more than romance.
Obsidian Mirror Meditation
Hold a piece of black obsidian — Scorpio's stone of truth and protection — or simply gaze into a darkened mirror by candlelight. Ask yourself: what am I becoming? Sit with whatever images, feelings, or words arise. Don't analyze; just witness. The Scorpio New Moon reveals what's forming in the dark before it's visible in the light. Your intention is whatever the mirror shows you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the Scorpio New Moon during double retrograde so intense?
Mercury retrograde revisits old thoughts, conversations, and information, while Venus retrograde resurfaces past relationships, values, and desires. When both retrogrades coincide with a New Moon in Scorpio — the sign of depth, transformation, and unflinching truth — the result is an extraordinarily introspective lunation. Past and present collide, hidden things surface, and the emotional intensity is palpable. It's challenging, but the transformative potential is unmatched.
Is this a bad time to start something new?
Not at all — but the "new" thing that wants to start may look different than expected. This isn't the New Moon for launching a product or beginning a casual relationship. It's the New Moon for beginning deep inner work, committing to therapy, transforming a financial habit, or planting the seeds of a personal rebirth. The newness is internal. What you start in your inner world during this lunation can reshape your outer world for years to come.
How do I work with shadow energy constructively?
Shadow work means acknowledging the parts of yourself you've rejected, suppressed, or denied. During this Scorpio New Moon, try journaling about what triggers you, what you envy, or what you're ashamed of — these are doorways to shadow material. The goal isn't to eliminate these parts but to integrate them. A skilled therapist or trusted spiritual practice can be invaluable. The shadows aren't your enemies; they're your unrecognized strengths.
Should I reconnect with an ex during this transit?
Venus retrograde during the Scorpio New Moon may bring past lovers to mind — or to your doorstep. The transit doesn't automatically mean you should reconnect. Instead, use the encounter as information: what does this person represent in your emotional history? What pattern does the relationship illuminate? If reconnection happens naturally, proceed with extreme honesty and zero nostalgia-goggles. Scorpio can smell pretense from a mile away.
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