Edition 26: New Moon in Scorpio

November 9, 2026
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"Scorpio's ruling planet is Mars, and in this lunation Mars sits in Leo, in mutual reception with the Sun. This is a significant and empowering dynamic: Mars in Leo strengthens the Sun, and the Sun in Scorpio strengthens Mars. The two planets are working together and amplifying each other. The depth and truth Scorpio uncovers has genuine fire and will behind it. This is not a lunation of passive reflection. It is a lunation of honest excavation followed by courageous action."

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Something in you already knows what this New Moon is asking for.

It has been asking quietly for a while. Beneath the busyness, beneath the roles you have been playing, beneath the fears you have been carefully stepping around. The New Moon peaked this evening, and its energy is fully alive.

🌑 The New Moon In scorpio

The New Moon in Scorpio peaked this evening at 6:02 pm AEDT, at 16 degrees 53 minutes of Scorpio. New Moon energy is most potent in the first two to three days after the exact peak, and this one is just beginning. The Sun and Moon meet in the sign of depth, transformation and the hidden life of things. Where other signs skim the surface, Scorpio dives. This is a New Moon that does not ask what you want. It asks what is true, beneath everything you have been telling yourself, and beneath the fears you have been allowing to make decisions for you.

 

New Moons are beginnings. But Scorpio's beginnings are always seeded in honesty. You cannot plant something new here without first looking at what is already in the ground.

 

Scorpio's ruling planet is Mars, and in this lunation Mars sits in Leo, in mutual reception with the Sun. This is a significant and empowering dynamic: Mars in Leo strengthens the Sun, and the Sun in Scorpio strengthens Mars. The two planets are working together and amplifying each other. The depth and truth Scorpio uncovers has genuine fire and will behind it. This is not a lunation of passive reflection. It is a lunation of honest excavation followed by courageous action.

 

Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio, retracing the degrees where this whole Venus retrograde cycle began. Mercury rules the mind, our stories, the narratives we carry. When Mercury turns inward in Scorpio, we are being asked to revisit the stories we have absorbed, particularly those that came from outside us. The beliefs that were given to us before we were old enough to question them. The voices that told us to be smaller, quieter, less. Mercury retrograde is not a time to initiate new conversations. It is a time to have an honest conversation with yourself about what you have been thinking, and where those thoughts actually came from.

 

The Sun and Moon in Scorpio square Mars in Leo. There is tension here, and it is productive. Mars in Leo wants bold expression, creative fire, the courage to be seen. Scorpio wants depth and truth. The square between them creates a productive friction: the depth work of this New Moon is not meant to stay hidden. It is meant to eventually feed your creative life, your self-expression, your capacity to show up fully and without apology. The truth Scorpio uncovers becomes the fuel Leo burns with.

 

Mars is conjunct Jupiter and the South Node in Leo. The South Node represents what we are releasing, the past patterns we have outgrown. In Leo, that pattern is the smallness we took on when we believed that playing small kept us safe, or when fear of being seen kept us contracted. Jupiter expands whatever it touches, and here it amplifies the invitation to release that old contraction and the obstacles we have built around ourselves. What is being offered at this New Moon is the genuine capacity to step out of inherited smallness and into a more honest, expansive version of yourself.

 

Venus is in its final moments of retrograde in Scorpio, and Mars and Jupiter are actively supporting it out. The long, deep review of what you value, who you love, and how you treat yourself is reaching its completion. The love that has been under examination is not being lost. It is being clarified, and it is about to begin moving again.

 

Chiron retrograde in Aries trines Mars, Jupiter and the South Node. The wounded healer is in conversation with the planet of bold action, the planet of expansion, and the energy of release. Healing is available here, particularly around old wounds of visibility, self-expression and the right to take up creative space. The trine is a flowing aspect: this healing does not require force. It is available to whoever is willing to look.

 

This lunation is surrounded by retrogrades, and that is deliberate. The collective invitation is inward. This is not a time for external pushes or big external moves. It is a time for the kind of honest inner reckoning that makes all future movement more true.

 

The Scorpio New Moon reflection from Magic of I says it plainly: I make space to confront any and all fears.

Not to be consumed by them. Not to be controlled by them. To confront them, name them, and step past them. That is the alchemy this New Moon is offering.
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Universal Thread

The invitation to look honestly at what we fear, to name it rather than be governed by it, is one every wisdom tradition has had to reckon with.

 

In the Buddhist tradition, the concept of the second arrow describes how we suffer not only from difficulty itself, but from our resistance to it. The pain of a fear is one thing. The life we contract around it is another. The Scorpio New Moon, with its invitation to descend into what we have been avoiding, is an invitation to remove the second arrow.

 

In the West African Yoruba tradition, the concept of Ori refers to the personal spiritual intuition, the inner head, the deepest knowing of one's authentic self and life path. To live from one's Ori is to act from the deepest, most honest centre rather than from the fears accumulated along the way. The question this New Moon raises, what is genuinely yours and what has been fear speaking, resonates directly with this tradition's understanding of authentic selfhood.

 

The Sufi poet Rumi wrote about the false self and the real one: the self constructed from fear and borrowed opinion, and the soul beneath it, whole and unhurt. His invitation was always the same: stop running from the fire. The fire is not your enemy. It is what burns away what was never you in the first place.

 

In the Indigenous Australian concept of Songlines, identity and belonging are understood as woven into the land itself, into the specific country, stories and law that a person carries. What is genuinely yours is not a matter of performance or fear. It is something you can feel in the body, in the connection to what is true and original. This New Moon asks: what is genuinely in your Songlines? What is fear, and what is real?

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🔮 Energies to Work With

✦ Scorpio depth: Sun and Moon at 16° 53' Scorpio, asking you to descend below the surface, past the performed self, into what is actually true and what has actually been feared

 

✦ Mars as ruler empowered: Mars ruling Scorpio, sitting in Leo in mutual reception with the Sun, giving this lunation genuine fire and will behind its depth work

 

✦ Inherited stories and shadows: Mercury retrograde in Scorpio asking you to revisit the beliefs and fears you absorbed before you could choose them, and to honestly examine which ones are yours and which ones were given to you

 

✦ The tension that creates: Sun and Moon square Mars in Leo, the productive friction between depth and expression, what is uncovered below becoming the fire that fuels how you show up

 

✦ Releasing old obstacles: Mars conjunct Jupiter and the South Node in Leo, a powerful invitation to step out of old patterns of contraction and into your actual creative and expressive capacity

 

✦ Love in its final review: Venus in its last days of retrograde, Mars and Jupiter actively supporting it toward completion, the clarification of worth and love nearly complete

 

✦ Healing flowing: Chiron retrograde trine Mars and Jupiter, wounds around visibility and self-expression accessible for healing without force

 

✦ The collective inward turn: lunation surrounded by retrogrades, the invitation unmistakably toward depth and inner honesty rather than external action

 

✦ Spring in the Southern Hemisphere: the growing season at its most receptive, seeds planted in honest ground today have warmth and light ahead of them

 

What is genuinely yours has always been there. This New Moon is the descent that finds it.
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Ritual Practice: The Descent and the Seed

Honest. Still. Intentional.

 

1. Create Stillness

Sit somewhere quiet. Place one hand on your heart and one on your belly. Take seven slow breaths. With each exhale, let the surface level of your day dissolve. You are going deeper. You do not need to rush.

 

2. Prepare Your Cacao

Prepare your Tsokolate Regulate slowly. As you stir, hold this New Moon's question: what have I been afraid of, and has that fear been making decisions for me?

 

3. The Three Questions (10 minutes)

Write your honest answers to three questions. One paragraph each. No editing.

  • What is a fear I have been allowing to run quietly in the background, shaping my choices without being named?
  • Where did it come from? Not in accusation, but honestly: is this mine, or was it given to me?
  • If I named it clearly and stepped past it, what would become possible?

4. The Seed Intention

A New Moon is a planting. After the excavation, write one intention beginning with: "I am now planting..."

Not what you should want. Not what sounds impressive. What you genuinely, in this body, in the space that just opened, want to grow.

 

5. Seal with Edible Alchemy

 

✦ Tsokolate Regulate infused with lavender, skullcap and passionflower. Rich dark ceremonial cacao for the nervous system. Scorpio's depth work requires that the nervous system feel safe enough to descend. When we are activated or braced against fear, we cannot access the deeper layers, the ones where the honest answers live. Lavender calms the stress response. Skullcap is a traditional nervine that quiets an overactive mind without dulling awareness. Passionflower supports the gentle release of anxiety, creating the settled, open inner state from which honest excavation becomes possible. Sip slowly. Let your system settle. This is the preparation for depth.

 

✦ Expression Chocolate chocolate hazelnut praline with crunchy hazelnut pieces in 65% dark chocolate sweetened with dates, infused with tulsi and licorice root. Throat Chakra support. Mercury retrograde in Scorpio is at the heart of this lunation, asking us to revisit the stories we have been carrying and the fears that have shaped them. The Throat Chakra governs authentic expression: not the voice shaped by what was acceptable or what felt safe, but your genuine voice. The question this New Moon is ultimately asking is one of voice: have you been speaking from what is true, or from what fear permitted? Tulsi, also known as holy basil, is a revered adaptogen across Ayurvedic tradition, sharpening mental focus while calming the mind, supporting the clear-headed presence required to hear your own truth. Licorice root soothes and strengthens the voice at a physical level, and in its traditional use as a tonic for the throat and respiratory system, it has long been associated with the power of honest speech. After the descent, this is the beginning of finding the words for what you found.

 

✦ Power Chocolate infused with turmeric, Siberian ginseng and cinnamon. Solar Plexus Chakra support. Mars, the ruler of this New Moon, sits in Leo conjunct Jupiter: bold, expansive, fired with the will to step out of inherited contraction and into genuine personal power. The Solar Plexus is the seat of that power, the gut-level sense of one's own authority and right to take up space. Turmeric supports the body through the physical effects of this kind of honest reckoning. Siberian ginseng builds stamina and adaptogenic resilience for what is genuinely demanding work. Cinnamon sparks the inner fire of choosing yourself past the fear. This is the final seal: the fire that burns in the direction of what is true.

 

Savour slowly. Let each piece support the descent and the planting.
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Edible Alchemy for the new moon

✦ Tsokolate Regulate was chosen first, and deliberately. Scorpio's depth work is not available to a nervous system that is braced against threat. The fears this New Moon asks us to confront require that the nervous system be settled enough to look honestly rather than react. Lavender, skullcap and passionflower work together to create that calm, open internal environment, not numbed, but quiet enough to hear what is actually there. This is the prerequisite for everything else.

 

✦ Expression Chocolate holds the core question of this lunation. Mercury retrograde in Scorpio is fundamentally about the stories we have been telling, and the fears that have shaped them. The Throat Chakra is the seat of authentic expression, and the ritual arc of this New Moon moves from fear and inherited narrative toward genuine voice: naming what has been unnamed, speaking from what is true rather than what felt safe. Tulsi sharpens focus and calms the mind simultaneously, and licorice root soothes and strengthens the voice, supporting the honest articulation that becomes available after the descent.

 

✦ Power Chocolate carries the forward intention. Mars as ruler of this New Moon, sitting conjunct Jupiter in Leo, gives this lunation a fiery, expansive quality beneath its depth. The seeds planted here are meant to be bold ones. The Solar Plexus needs to be online and supported for that level of genuine self-claim. Turmeric, Siberian ginseng and cinnamon bring the body into readiness for stepping past what has contracted it.

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The Days Ahead

The New Moon energy supports new intentions for the two weeks through to the Full Moon in Gemini on 23 November 2026.

 

11 November: Mercury stations direct in Scorpio. The retrograde period draws to a close. Stories and inner conversations that have been in review begin to find resolution. What you have uncovered about the fears and narratives you have been carrying can begin to integrate. Decisions that have been on hold begin to move.

 

13 November: Venus stations direct in Scorpio. The deep review of love, values and self-worth completes. Both retrogrades ending within days of each other is the whole cycle landing: the internal excavation this season has asked for reaches its natural endpoint. What has been examined is now available to live from.

 

Spring in the Southern Hemisphere: we are moving into the warmth of mid-November, the light long and generous. Seeds planted now go into ground that is actively receptive. The honesty of what you plant at this New Moon has a whole growing season ahead of it.

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Closing Reflection

Scorpio does not ask comfortable questions. It asks true ones.

 

The fears that have been running quietly in the background, shaping choices, keeping things contracted: they are not your fault and many of them were not your original creation. But this New Moon is offering something specific. Not a performance of courage. Not a forced pushing past. A genuine, honest confrontation with what has been there, in the dark, making decisions.

 

When you name a fear clearly, it loses the power it had in the shadows. That is what Scorpio knows. That is what this lunation is for.

 

The New Moon plants seeds in the dark. The seeds that go into genuinely honest ground, the ones that have faced what was there and cleared space anyway, those are the ones that grow into something real.

 

Plant that. Tend it.

 

Your Ritual Awaits.

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