On November 9th, 2026, we have a New Moon at 16° Scorpio.
The New Moon is square to its own ruler, Mars, now in Leo – so in a way, the New Moon goes against itself. But this is not a sabotaging, self-limiting, or defeatist New Moon. On the contrary.
There’s a delicious irony to this New Moon. Yes, it’s square to Mars, its traditional ruler. But the Sun is also in mutual reception with it. The Sun is in Mars’ sign, and Mars is in the Sun’s sign.
This suggests that the solution lies in the problem itself. The very thing we’re struggling with holds the key to moving forward.
Mars is approaching a conjunction with Jupiter and the South Node – there’s a tremendous buildup of life force that can no longer be contained, and we may feel at the end of our tether.
We want something – desperately – but we just can’t let go, can’t seem to push through the resistance that has created the very stalemate we’re trying to break.
There’s A LOT going on in the sky.
Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio. Venus is still retrograde – and while now in Libra, the retrograde started in Scorpio. In the past couple of months, we’ve had a lot of Scorpio stuff to deal with.
And Scorpio energy is all-or-nothing.
When it’s good, it’s really, really good. Intimate, intense, determined, alive.
And when it’s bad, it’s really torturous. Of all the signs in the zodiac, Scorpio simply cannot be fooled by half-truths, emotional bypassing, or pretty much anything that hasn’t gone deep enough to get to what’s really going on.
Raise your hand if you don’t have any unfinished business. We all do.
And when the Scorpio stars eventually align – like they do now – all the stuff we’ve been hiding, stuffing down, choosing not to look at – all the secrets, the shame, the unprocessed feelings, the uncomfortable truths – simply.can.no.longer.be.ignored.
Something has to give.
The key to working with this New Moon is being willing to accept that things may not be as we tell ourselves they are. If we really, really want to understand what’s going on, we have to question our own version of the story.
There’s that familiar meme: someone is about to unmask the source of all their problems – the ultimate ‘villain’. They pull off the mask – and find themselves looking at their own face.
They’re the enemy.
The New Moon in Scorpio asks us to recognize where we are our own worst enemies.
It’s us. It’s been us all along.
And yes, of course, there is trauma and injustice. By any standard, some people do us wrong.
But while we are sometimes very good at seeing what’s wrong with the world, or how others have wronged us, we don’t have the same eagle eye when it comes to us.
How did we participate in the dynamic? What did we do – and, most importantly, what didn’t we do – that led to where we are now?
The New Moon in Scorpio is not about self-flagellation – although Scorpio likes a good sting – but about being radically honest about the part we do have control over: our own participation.
Once we see how our own actions have contributed to where we are – once we let the sting deliver its medicine – then, and only then, can we do something different.
Because as long as the whole problem is outside us, the solution is outside us too. We can only wait for someone to understand, apologize, change, or finally give us what we want.
When we see our own part, we also see where we can act.
And it’s not always about what we do – but also what we don’t do.
Not taking action, not taking personal responsibility when the situation requires it – Mars in Leo – can be the greatest form of self-sabotage.
When we can finally see the connection between what we’ve been doing – or not doing – and what keeps happening, the same energy that went into frustration is alchemized so we can move forward.
Venus is sextiling Mars, the ruler of the New Moon. There is beauty, there is grace, there is love within reach.
All the pain of these Scorpio retrogrades has not been in vain – and there’s a silver lining just around the corner.
But we have to claim it.
And that may mean taking a taste of our own medicine – seeing how we’ve been getting in our own way without even realizing it.
The New Moon in Scorpio invites us to recognize how lurking in the shadows, relying on hints instead of the spoken word, keeping score instead of taking action, or withholding the truth because “the other person should know”…
… have been sabotaging the very things we say we want.
This is where the Mars square and the mutual reception come together – the part of us that has been getting in the way is also the part that can do something about it.
Mars with Jupiter and the South Node in Leo say: Be honest. Be brave. Take accountability.
And the Mars square: Claim your part in the story – and with it, your power to change what happens next.
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