New Moon November 2026: Scorpio on November 9, in the Middle of Mercury Retrograde — and All 12 New Moons of 2026
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The next new moon is on November 9, 2026, at about 06:30 UTC, with the Sun and Moon together in Scorpio. It falls in the middle of the Mercury retrograde that begins around October 24 and ends around November 13: the only new moon of 2026's last retrograde.
We calculated every new moon of 2026 with the same Sun and Moon engine behind our birth charts.
All 12 new moons of 2026
| Date | Time (UTC) | Sign and degree |
|---|---|---|
| January 18 | 20:28 | Capricorn 28.8° |
| February 17 | 12:17 | Aquarius 28.8° |
| March 19 | 01:08 | Pisces 28.4° |
| April 17 | 11:23 | Aries 27.5° |
| May 16 | 19:44 | Taurus 26.0° |
| June 15 | 03:04 | Gemini 24.1° |
| July 14 | 10:13 | Cancer 22.0° |
| August 12 | 18:05 | Leo 20.1° |
| September 11 | 03:32 | Virgo 18.4° |
| October 10 | 15:28 | Libra 17.3° |
| November 9 | 06:32 | Scorpio 16.9° |
| December 9 | 00:41 | Sagittarius 16.9° |
2026 has twelve new moons and thirteen full moons. The extra full moon is May's second, the Blue Moon of May 31.
Every new moon is in the Sun's sign. The degree is what moves
At a new moon the Moon sits in front of the Sun, so it is always in the sign the Sun is in that month. What changes from month to month is how far into the sign it happens.
In January, February and March 2026 the new moon came in the last two degrees of its sign (28°). By November and December it is at 17°, in the middle. A lunar month is about 29.5 days, while the Sun takes 29.4 to 31.5 days to cross a sign, so each new moon falls a little earlier in its sign than the last. The drift is fastest in summer, when the Sun crosses signs slowest.
A new moon inside Mercury retrograde
| 2026 (UTC, approximate) | |
|---|---|
| Mercury turns retrograde | October 24 |
| New moon in Scorpio | November 9 |
| Mercury turns direct | November 13 |
Astrology reads a new moon as a starting point and Mercury retrograde as a time for reviewing rather than starting. Readers who follow both will find them overlapping this November. That is an interpretation, and these timings cannot prove or disprove it. They can tell you when each happens.
In your time zone
At 06:32 UTC on November 9 it is 15:32 in Seoul and Tokyo, 06:32 in London, and 01:32 in New York, all on the 9th. On the US West Coast it is still the evening of November 8 (22:32 in Los Angeles). A new moon is not visible, since the lit side faces away from us.
How we calculated: the moment the Moon's apparent longitude equals the Sun's, searched through 2026 with the public-domain (Meeus) Sun and Moon formulas in our chart engine. Our January new moon is about 36 minutes later than the published almanac time (19:52 UTC); treat times as accurate to within about 40 minutes. Mercury's stations are from the same engine and may differ from almanacs by up to a day.
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