November 9, 2026 • 2:02 AM ET • 16° Scorpio
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An Invitation Into the Depths
While new moons typically bring us an opportunity to set intentions and plant seeds for the coming cycle, the Scorpio New Moon on November 9 brings a different energy and invitation. It asks us to go deep into our inner worlds, to peer into the darkness beneath the surface, and release longstanding patterns that block our growth and progress.
There's nothing wrong with our shadows. Often, there's great power waiting to be found in the darker corners of our spirit. That power is often rooted in compassion and grace. Here under the dark skies of the new moon we can find healing for past wounds, traumas, and beliefs we've held. We can sacrifice them at the altar of this new moon, not to kill them off, instead to transform them in a way that offers resolution. What happens when we allow the discomfort, knowing that the discomfort is what can spur us on towards our true desires and passions?
While we're considering what we're sacrificing, Scorpio energy also teaches us that it's okay to want more than what we've been handed. That we're allowed to want more than the status quo. That forgiveness and meaning are often found through seeking to understand others' motivations as well as our own. The discomfort of how things have been is often what spurs us forward toward healing and new beginnings.
The Pull Between Old and New
Most new moons feel like a fresh page. This one feels more like a reckoning with what we keep repeating. If an old reaction shows up fast, or a worry you thought you'd outgrown returns, this may be part of why. The Moon is squaring Mars and Jupiter in Leo, planets that stir up pride, impulse, and the urge to do what we've always done.
Alongside that is a pull toward more. More honesty, more room, more of what we want. Astrologers track that tug with the Nodes, points that mark the difference between the familiar path and the one calling us forward. The Moon squares them too, which gives this one its karmic edge.
Where do you feel that tug in your own life right now?
Healing What Came First
This New Moon falls at 16° Scorpio, in the sign's second decan. In the Golden Dawn tarot tradition, that decan belongs to the 6 of Cups, a card of childhood, memory, and the gifts and wounds we carry from the past. It holds the sweetness of remembering and the pull to stay there.
Mercury and Venus are both retrograde at this New Moon and turn direct on November 13, so the past is already circling back. Some of what we're invited to release goes as far back as childhood, to the beliefs and habits that took root when we were young.
The Scorpio Full Moon on May 1 fell at 11° Scorpio, in this same decan, so these two moons are in conversation six months apart. If you haven't read that guide yet, it makes a good companion to this one. Read or revisit it here.
What you’ll find below:
Rising Sign Reflections
Scorpio New Moon Tarot Spread
A Small Ritual
Rising Sign Reflections
Find your rising sign to see which area of your life this New Moon is lighting up, then take the prompt to your journal or a card pull.
Not sure what your rising sign is? Visit the free natal chart tool for a simple, clear breakdown of your placements and houses.
Aries Rising — 8th House
Intimacy, shared resources, transformation. The New Moon lands in the house Scorpio calls home. Trust, vulnerability, and what you share with others are all in view.
What from your past still shapes how close you let people get?
Taurus Rising — 7th House
Partnership, commitment, mirrors. Your closest one-to-one relationships come into focus. Early lessons about love and conflict often travel with us into the people we choose.
What did you learn about love as a child that you're ready to revisit?
Gemini Rising — 6th House
Daily routines, work, health. The New Moon moves through your everyday rhythms. Some habits began as comfort or protection long ago and are worth a second look.
Which daily habit grew out of an old way of coping?
Cancer Rising — 5th House
Creativity, joy, play. Your house of creativity and play lights up, and with it the child you once were.
What did you love to do as a child that you've set aside?
Leo Rising — 4th House
Home, family, roots. The New Moon lands in the house of childhood and ancestry. Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node are in your own sign and square this moon, which makes the question of what you inherited a personal one.
What did your home teach you to expect from the world?
Virgo Rising — 3rd House
Communication, learning, early environment. This house holds the first stories we heard about ourselves and the world. The New Moon invites a closer look at them.
Which story about yourself have you carried since childhood?
Libra Rising — 2nd House
Money, possessions, self-worth. The New Moon moves through your house of resources and worth. Ideas about what we deserve are often learned early.
Where were you taught to want less than you do?
Scorpio Rising — 1st House
Self, body, identity. This is the New Moon in your own sign and your own first house, a fresh page for the self.
Which version of yourself are you ready to thank and set down?
Sagittarius Rising — 12th House
Rest, dreams, the unconscious. The New Moon falls in the house where old memories and dreams gather. Solitude and rest give them room to surface.
What keeps returning to you in dreams or memory?
Capricorn Rising — 11th House
Friendship, community, hopes. Your house of friends and future vision lights up. The groups we join as adults often echo the first group we belonged to, our family.
Which role in your community goes back to childhood?
Aquarius Rising — 10th House
Career, reputation, public life. The New Moon lights up your path in the world, with the North Node in your own sign pointing toward growth.
Whose approval have you been working toward?
Pisces Rising — 9th House
Beliefs, higher learning, meaning. Your house of philosophy and faith is lit up. Scorpio looks beneath what we were taught to believe and asks what still belongs to us.
Which belief did you inherit that you're ready to examine?
Scorpio New Moon Tarot Spread
Don’t work with tarot? Use these as prompts for your journal.
What from my past is asking for my attention?
Where did this pattern first begin for me?
What has this pattern been protecting?
What am I ready to place on the altar and transform?
What do I want more of as this cycle begins?
A Small Ritual at Scorpio’s Altar
Take what calls to you. Karma follows what we do next, so this ritual ends with a choice. It takes about ten minutes and suits the night of the New Moon or a day or two after.
You'll need a candle (black or deep red if you have one), two slips of paper, a pen, a heatproof dish, and a small cup of water for the 6 of Cups.
Light the candle and take three slow breaths.
On the first slip, write the pattern, belief, or story you're ready to transform. If you know where it began, add that too.
On the second slip, write what that pattern has been protecting.
Burn the first slip in the flame and let it fall into the dish. This is your sacrifice, offered for transformation.
Hold the second slip and the cup of water. Name one thing you'll do differently this cycle, then pour the water onto the earth as a gift to the child you were.
Keep the second slip on your altar for the rest of
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Meet the High Witch
Erin Harker
I'm Erin Harker, a practitioner of ancestral magic and student of Druidry whose path weaves together Irish, Scottish, and German heritage with modern spiritual practice. My journey began in childhood with candlelit spells and family traditions, growing into a devotion to sacred hospitality and community care. Today, I serve as a bridge between worlds—helping others reconnect with their own magic through community, workshops, and spiritual guidance. Whether you're just beginning your journey or returning to a practice long forgotten, you'll find a welcoming space here where ancient wisdom meets modern needs.
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