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.

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tldr: The Moon crosses 3 signs, with the New Moon on the 9th.

This Week, 8–14 November

The Moon crosses about three signs in a week and spends roughly a quarter of its cycle, so this is a schedule rather than a state. Clock times are in UTC, sign in and they appear in yours.

✦ Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn

It begins the week in Scorpio and ends it in Capricorn, passing through 2 sign changes on the way. Each change is preceded by a void of course: under the traditional rule the Moon is void from its last aspect until it leaves the sign, so the void ENDS at the moment it enters the next one.

The feel of it: the week opens in Scorpio (Sunday to Tuesday), determined and brave, gives way to Sagittarius (Tuesday to Thursday), optimistic and honest, and closes in Capricorn (Thursday to Saturday), disciplined and responsible. Between those moods the Moon spends 23 hours void of course, about 14% of the week, little, against the quarter of the time the Moon is usually void. They fall on Monday night through Tuesday morning, Thursday morning through Thursday evening and Saturday evening through Sunday morning. Those are the stretches with nothing left to touch in the sign it is leaving, which tradition reads as poor for starting anything new and perfectly good for finishing what is already under way.

New Moon in Scorpio , Monday 9 November, 7:02am, a beginning — the dark before anything shows. This is the one moment in the week that is exact rather than approximate.

Why “Beaver Moon”: named for beavers finishing their lodges before the freeze, and for the season when beaver traps were set. It is a seasonal name rather than an astrological one, it marks what the year was doing on the ground, not what the sky means. These names are usually credited to “Native American tradition”, which is both too broad and slightly wrong. The twelve in common circulation are mostly Algonquian names from the north-eastern woodlands, mixed with Colonial American and older European ones, and fixed in this form by the Old Farmer’s Almanac from the 1930s. Different nations kept different calendars and different names — this is one tradition among many, not the Native American calendar.

  • How far: 397,770 km. Ordinary distance, neither a supermoon (under 361,885 km) nor a micromoon (beyond 405,000 km).

Taken together: the Sun and Moon together in Scorpio. A New Moon is the two of them in the same degree, the dark before anything shows, and it seeds whatever Scorpio governs — what is shared and what transforms, including the parts kept private. Mars rules it and carries the cycle it opens.

  • Where: 16.89° Scorpio. A Full Moon is the Sun and Moon exactly opposite, so the Sun stands at 16.89° Scorpio, the eclipse is on the Scorpio–Scorpio axis, and both ends of it are the point. Naming only the Moon’s sign tells half of it.
  • Which node: the South Node, 80.69° away. An eclipse can only happen within about 12° of a node, which is why they come in seasons rather than every month: the Moon crosses the Sun's path twice a year.
  • Sunday 8 November
    Conjunction to Mercury at 1:02pm , they fuse and amplify each other, feeling meeting thinking and learning.
  • Monday 9 November
    New Moon in Scorpio at 7:02am, a beginning — the dark before anything shows.
    Square to Mars at 6:44pm , they clash, pushing growth through friction, feeling meeting desire and courage.
    Goes void of course at 11:25pm, after its square to Jupiter, for 9 hours, until it enters Sagittarius.
  • Tuesday 10 November
    Enters Sagittarius at 8:36am, leaving Scorpio, the mood turns optimistic and honest for the next couple of days, after Scorpio.
  • Wednesday 11 November
    Trine to Saturn at 1:48am , they flow together with natural ease, feeling meeting structure and discipline.
  • Thursday 12 November
    Sextile to Venus at 6:11am , they cooperate, an open, easy opportunity, feeling meeting affection and aesthetics.
    Trine to Mars at 8:35am , they flow together with natural ease, feeling meeting desire and courage.
    Goes void of course at 11:29am, after its trine to Jupiter, for 9 hours, until it enters Capricorn.
    Enters Capricorn at 8:27pm, leaving Sagittarius, the mood turns disciplined and responsible for the next couple of days, after Sagittarius.
  • Friday 13 November today
    Sextile to Mercury at 6:41am , they cooperate, an open, easy opportunity, feeling meeting thinking and learning.
    Square to Saturn at 1:52pm , they clash, pushing growth through friction, feeling meeting structure and discipline.
  • Saturday 14 November
    Sextile to Sun at 5:54pm , they cooperate, an open, easy opportunity, feeling meeting core identity and will.
    Goes void of course at 6:56pm, after its square to Venus, for 14 hours, until it enters Aquarius.

The week carries the Moon from Scorpio to Capricorn, 3 moods in seven days, and its one exact moment is the new Moon on Monday. Very little of it is void, so the week is unusually continuous — few of those pauses between moods.

What This Means For You

This is the week's sky, the same for everyone. Laid over your own chart it becomes which of your houses each of those signs sits in, and which of your placements the Moon meets on the way past.