The ☾︎ Moon right now

This is the sky itself: what the Moon is doing at this moment, and the same for everyone reading it. What it means for one particular chart is a different question, and the answer is further down.

tldr: This month, the lunar month is Margashirsha, 29.7 days New Moon to New Moon, 7 graha events inside it.

The Moon This Month, In Jyotish, Margashirsha

A Vedic month is the Moon's month: it runs New Moon to New Moon, so it is 29 or 30 days and it begins and ends in the middle of the Roman calendar's months. I use the amānta reckoning, which ends the month at the New Moon and is what most of India follows; the North Indian pūrṇimānta reckoning ends it at the Full Moon instead, which shifts the name for a fortnight.

The name itself comes from the nakshatra Mrigashira, every Vedic month name comes from a nakshatra, which is why they sound alike.

The Two Fortnights

• Shukla Paksha, the bright fortnight , 9 Nov to 24 Nov
  the Moon filling from dark to full — traditionally the half for starting, building and anything you want to grow
• Krishna Paksha, the dark fortnight , 24 Nov to 9 Dec
  the Moon emptying from full back to dark — traditionally the half for finishing, releasing and turning inward

Sankranti

• 16 November , Sankranti — the Sun's entry into Vrishchika (Scorpio). The solar month runs alongside the lunar one and is what fixes the seasons and the harvest festivals.

The Month’s Other Events

Grahas changing rashi, turning vakri or margi, going asta (burnt in the Sun’s rays) or rising udaya again, all by the sidereal zodiac, so these are not the Western dates for the same planets.

• 5 November, Venus enters Kanya
  Venus crosses into the sidereal rashi Kanya (Virgo), entering at the nakshatra Uttara Phalguni, which is ruled by Sun. Sidereal, not tropical — the Vedic zodiac is measured from the fixed stars and currently runs about 24 degrees behind the Western one, so this date is NOT the Western ingress date for the same planet.
• 12 November, Mercury rises again (udaya) in Tula
  Mercury emerges from the Sun's rays and becomes able to give its results again. UDAYA is the heliacal rising, and in traditional practice it is watched for: the first morning a planet is visible again is when it is held to resume.
• 12 November, Mars enters Simha
  Mars crosses into the sidereal rashi Simha (Leo), entering at the nakshatra Magha, which is ruled by Ketu. Sidereal, not tropical — the Vedic zodiac is measured from the fixed stars and currently runs about 24 degrees behind the Western one, so this date is NOT the Western ingress date for the same planet.
• 13 November, Mercury turns margi (direct) in Tula
  Mercury turns MARGI — forward again — in the rashi Tula, the nakshatra Swati. What it had been holding back it now delivers.
• 14 November, Venus turns margi (direct) in Kanya
  Venus turns MARGI — forward again — in the rashi Kanya, the nakshatra Chitra. What it had been holding back it now delivers.
• 16 November, Vrishchika Sankranti — the Sun enters Vrishchika
  Sankranti is the Sun's entry into a sidereal rashi, and it is what a Vedic SOLAR month turns on. The lunar months take their names from whichever Sankranti falls inside them, and the harvest festivals are fixed to these rather than to the Moon. This is the Sun entering Vrishchika (Scorpio).
• 22 November, Venus enters Tula
  Venus crosses into the sidereal rashi Tula (Libra), entering at the nakshatra Chitra, which is ruled by Mars. Sidereal, not tropical — the Vedic zodiac is measured from the fixed stars and currently runs about 24 degrees behind the Western one, so this date is NOT the Western ingress date for the same planet.