New Moon in Scorpio Under Mercury Retrograde
The November 8 New Moon in Scorpio lands inside the Mercury and Venus retrogrades: set one intention, use the review week, act after the November 13 and 14 direct stations.
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Sunday night, November 8 at 11:02 PM PST, the Moon meets the Sun at 16°53 Scorpio. That is the New Moon in Scorpio, and it lands in the same sign where Mercury has been backspinning since October 24. The next two weeks open with a fresh-start beat inside a review cycle, which makes this New Moon a strange one: it asks you to set intentions while the sky is still asking you to look backward.
What a New Moon in Scorpio actually asks for
New Moons start a lunar cycle, and the Scorpio version goes deep. This is the sign of shared money, debts both financial and emotional, intimacy, and everything you hide even from yourself. A Scorpio New Moon is a good moment to get honest about one thing, not a dozen. Pick one intention for the next two weeks, and make it specific: the conversation you keep postponing, the money thread you need to untangle, the old decision that still needs a second look.
Why this one is a review, not a launch
Both Mercury and Venus are still retrograde on November 8. Mercury stations direct November 13 at 5°02 Scorpio, and Venus follows November 14 at 22°52 Libra. So intentions set under this New Moon should be about preparing, not locking in. That is the honest guardrail for this lunation: set the intention, write it down, date it, and give it a few days. New launches, big announcements, and signed commitments fit better after the direct stations, not under a retrograde New Moon.
A practical way to use the next two weeks
Keep it simple. Write down one intention and the part of your life it touches. Name what done looks like in plain terms. Then use the retrograde week for the unglamorous work: reread anything important before you send it, revisit the conversation instead of starting a new one, and finish something already in motion before you add anything new. When Mercury and Venus station direct on November 13 and 14, that is the moment to act on what you set on November 8.
What to watch as the retrogrades end
November 13 and 14 close the review cycle. Mercury stations direct first, then Venus. Expect messages to clear up, stalled plans to start moving again, and the intentions from the New Moon to get their green light. That is a separate beat from this New Moon, and it gets its own moment. For now, the work is setting the intention well.
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Set it Sunday night. Let it sit. Act on it when the sky turns.