November 2026
Two retrogrades end on the same day. Mars meets Jupiter in Leo. Uranus and Pluto lock into their trine. November opens in review and closes in motion.
Mars Conjunct Jupiter
25° Leo - The loudest day of the month
Mars and Jupiter meet at 25° Leo in the small hours. Drive and expansion in the same degree, in the sign that wants to be seen doing it. This is the conjunction of the big swing: the pitch, the proposal, the project launched before it is quite ready, the argument you win by sheer volume. The appetite is real and so is the overreach. Leo adds pride to the mix, which means the risk is not failure so much as refusing to scale back once you have said something out loud. The Sun squares this degree on the 18th and 19th, so whatever starts here meets its first resistance within three days. That is useful information, not a warning. The version that survives is the one that can be defended.
All Events
The Big Picture
November 2026 is a month in two tempos. The first thirteen days run under a double retrograde, Mercury in Scorpio and Venus in Libra, with the Sun catching Mercury on the 4th and a Scorpio New Moon on the 9th. That stretch is for finishing sentences, not starting paragraphs. Then both planets turn direct within hours of each other on the 13th, and three days later Mars meets Jupiter at 25° Leo. The gear change is abrupt. What was being reviewed becomes what is being announced.
The second half tests the announcement and then widens the frame. The Sun squares Jupiter and Mars on the 18th and 19th, moves into Sagittarius on the 22nd, and sets up a Gemini Full Moon on the 24th that puts the right words to a month of feelings. Mars slips into Virgo on the 25th and the pace turns practical. The event with the longest reach is the quietest: Uranus trine Pluto, exact on the 29th at 3° Gemini and Aquarius. Everything else this month plays out over days. That one plays out over years, and November is where it clicks into place.
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Mercury Cazimi - November 4
The Sun catches Mercury at 12° Scorpio while Mercury is still moving backward. Astrologers call this the heart of the retrograde: the point where the review stops feeling like fog and starts producing a sentence you can actually say. Whatever you have been turning over for the past few weeks gets named today, usually by you, occasionally by someone who says the quiet part out loud. Venus, also retrograde, sextiles Jupiter the same morning from Libra to Leo. So the thing that surfaces tends to be about a relationship, and specifically about whether the generosity in it runs both directions.
New Moon in Scorpio - November 9
A New Moon at 16° Scorpio with Mercury and Venus both still retrograde is not a clean slate. It is a seed planted in soil that is still being turned over. Scorpio lunations work underground. The intention you set here will not show above the surface for weeks, and the form it takes may look nothing like what you pictured. What this New Moon favors is the honest version of the wish: not the one you would say at dinner, the one you would admit at 2 a.m. Two hours past midnight on the East Coast is, as it happens, exactly when this one lands.
Mercury and Venus Station Direct - November 13
Mercury turns direct at 5° Scorpio in the early afternoon, and Venus follows at 22° Libra that evening. Two retrogrades closing within hours of each other is rare enough to notice. A station is the slowest a planet ever appears to move, so the days on either side can feel stuck: emails unanswered, decisions circling, a relationship conversation that keeps restarting from the top. Then it releases. Mercury spends the rest of November climbing back through Scorpio and reaches 21° by the 30th. Venus moves forward through late Libra and does not change signs until December 4. Nothing reverses what the retrogrades revised. The revisions simply start to count.
Mars Conjunct Jupiter - November 16
Mars and Jupiter meet at 25° Leo in the small hours. Drive and expansion in the same degree, in the sign that wants to be seen doing it. This is the conjunction of the big swing: the pitch, the proposal, the project launched before it is quite ready, the argument you win by sheer volume. The appetite is real and so is the overreach. Leo adds pride to the mix, which means the risk is not failure so much as refusing to scale back once you have said something out loud. The Sun squares this degree on the 18th and 19th, so whatever starts here meets its first resistance within three days. That is useful information, not a warning. The version that survives is the one that can be defended.
Sun Squares Jupiter, then Mars - November 18
The Scorpio Sun squares Jupiter at 26° on the 18th and Mars at 27° on the 19th, hitting the exact territory of Monday's conjunction. Squares are friction, and this one is friction between depth and display. Scorpio asks what is actually true underneath the big Leo gesture. Expect the promise made on the 16th to get tested: a budget that does not stretch, a timeline that was optimistic, a person who wants specifics. Two days of pushback is not a verdict on the idea. It is the idea finding out what it costs.
Sun Enters Sagittarius - November 22
The Sun leaves Scorpio before dawn and the season changes register: from what is hidden to what is out there, from control to range. Sagittarius season is the part of the year that asks a bigger question than you were planning to ask. Within two days of arriving, the Sun trines Neptune in Aries, and the first stretch of the season carries that softness with it. Vision before strategy. The specifics can wait a week.
Full Moon in Gemini - November 24
The Full Moon at 2° Gemini sits opposite a Sagittarius Sun that trined Neptune the night before. Gemini Full Moons illuminate information: the message that was sitting in a thread, the fact that reframes the story, the thing two people were each assuming the other knew. The Sagittarius side wants meaning, the Gemini side wants the actual words. Something gets said plainly in the days around this Moon, and it is usually something that has needed saying since the two retrogrades began.
Sun Opposite Uranus - November 25
The Sun opposes Uranus from 3° Sagittarius to 3° Gemini in the late afternoon, a few hours after sextiling Pluto. Sun-Uranus oppositions are the jolt: the schedule that changes, the news that lands sideways, the sudden urge to do the opposite of the plan. The Pluto sextile gives the disruption a direction. What breaks today tends to break toward something you were already quietly ready to leave.
Mars Enters Virgo - November 25
Mars leaves Leo the same evening and enters Virgo. The energy that spent the month performing now wants to be useful. Virgo Mars is the planet of the checklist, the repaired thing, the routine kept for its own sake. After the Mars-Jupiter conjunction promised the world, this is the transit that opens the spreadsheet and works out how. Health and daily habits come into focus. So does criticism, including the kind you aim at yourself. Mars stays in Virgo through the end of the year.
Uranus Trine Pluto - November 29
Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius reach an exact trine at 3° of each sign. Aspects between the outer planets do not describe a day. They describe an era, and the exact date is simply where the pressure peaks. Both planets are in air signs, which puts the story in information, technology, networks, and who gets to speak. A trine is harmony rather than friction: the changes that have been forcing their way in now find a channel. Uranus is retrograde and Pluto is moving forward, so the two planets hold near this degree for weeks on either side. In your own chart, the houses that hold early Gemini and early Aquarius are where the rewiring is happening.
Sun Trine Saturn - November 30
The Sun trines retrograde Saturn from 8° Sagittarius to 8° Aries in the first hour of the day. After a month of reversals and a double station, this is the steadying note. Sun-Saturn trines are the feeling of a structure that holds: the plan that survived the squares on the 18th and 19th, the conversation that stayed finished after Mercury turned direct. Not glamorous. Durable. November ends on it.
Planet Positions - November 2026
Sun: Scorpio → Sagittarius (Nov 22)
Moon: New in Scorpio (9th) · Full in Gemini (24th)
Mercury: Scorpio (retrograde until Nov 13, stations direct at 5°)
Venus: Libra (retrograde until Nov 13, stations direct at 22°)
Mars: Leo → Virgo (Nov 25)
Jupiter: Leo (24°-27°)
Saturn: Aries (9°-8° Rx)
Uranus: Gemini (4°-3° Rx)
Neptune: Aries (2°-1° Rx)
Pluto: Aquarius (3°)