Scorpio New Moon
- Lori Barnes
- Nov 18
- 8 min read
Mercury Retrograde
Scorpio New Moon Dates and Time
Thursday, November 20
1:47 AM, Eastern Time
28 Degrees Scorpio
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Scorpio New Moon: Introduction
Running a business requires constant decision-making, depth work, and review, all themes central to Scorpio. The New Moon each month marks a fresh start, a time to set intentions and begin new cycles. The Scorpio New Moon turns attention toward reviewing current projects and collaborations and reorganizing the pieces of a longer story.
Each blog in this series connects lunar cycles with practical business insights. You’ll find astrology written for entrepreneurs, creative professionals, and career builders who use lunar timing to stay organized, strategic, and inspired. Every post explores the symbolism of the Moon, key planetary influences, and a simple ritual designed for busy schedules.
What’s Inside:
Scorpio New Moon Theme: Rework. Rethink. Return stronger.
Scorpio New Moon: Element, Modality and Mars
Scorpio New Moon Theme: Rework. Rethink. Return stronger.
This New Moon centers on a deep review of your current projects and collaborations, tying up loose ends, and reorganizing the pieces of a longer story. Conversations circle back, missing or incorrect details surface, and work you set aside calls you to take another look. This New Moon invites a focused, curious approach. Take a closer look at what is on your plate, check the facts, and update plans to strengthen what you’ve already started so you can move forward next month when Mercury is direct.
Astrology: The New Moon at 28 degrees Scorpio is conjunct the Sun and Mercury retrograde at the same degree, with Venus included in the Scorpio stellium.
New information may arrive quickly or from an unexpected angle. Treat it like a flash of insight that helps you choose whether to correct course, validate your direction, or pivot.
Astrology: Uranus in Taurus is in tight opposition to the Scorpio stellium, correlating with sudden insights, disruptions, and even a bit of chaos. In practical terms, this opposition with Mercury retrograde can manifest as tech hiccups, syncing issues, platform outages, surprise software updates, or payment and invoicing glitches. When systems act up, pause, take a deep breath, and work on the problem slowly.
Emotions sit closer to the surface this New Moon. Memories may be closer to the surface, conversations go deeper, and connections feel more intuitive. The atmosphere is fluid and receptive. It is a supportive window to spend time with loved ones, deepen connection with others, say what you truly feel, and check in with your heart about what you are called to do and what brings genuine contentment.
Astrology: A water trine ties this together, linking many planets in Water signs and reinforcing the Scorpio stellium’s emotional undertone. A trine is an easy flow of energy between planets in the same element. In Water, it moves through memory and felt experience, helping you intuit situations.
With Mercury retrograde exactly conjunct the New Moon, treat this as a review window: return to unfinished conversations, revise and update past and current projects, and make a task list of revisions to roll out after Mercury is direct next month.
Which conversations or projects need a review before you move forward in December?
Check out the November Business Outlook for the list of planetary transits this month.
Mercury Retrograde Dates in November
Pre-Shadow Phase Begins: October 21, Scorpio 20 degrees
Retrograde: November 9, Sagittarius 6 degrees
Direct: November 29, Scorpio 20 degrees
Post-Shadow Phase Ends: December 17, Sagittarius 6 degrees
Degrees: 6 degrees Sagittarius to 20 degrees Scorpio
Understanding Scorpio through its opposite, Taurus
Scorpio is oriented toward depth, inner truth, and deep connection. It gravitates to what lies beneath the surface and the psychological layers that influence choices and relationships. Scorpio is known for having unwavering focus, determination, and a desire to understand the root of any situation.
Taurus, on the opposite side of the zodiac, focuses on what is tangible, stable, and grounded. It relies on consistency, physical comfort, and the reliability of the material world. Where Scorpio explores the unseen, Taurus anchors itself in daily routine and what lies on the surface.
Scorpio seeks transformation through emotional involvement and the courage to face the depths of human nature. Taurus seeks security through preservation, continuity, and connection to the physical world. One evolves through exploration of emotional depth, the other through grounded steadiness of mundane daily routines.
Scorpio New Moon: Element, Modality and Mars
Scorpio is a Water sign, which gives this New Moon an inward, emotionally perceptive quality. Water signs absorb information through feelings and intuition, creating an environment that is suited for reflection and depth work. Scorpio perceives motives, patterns, and dynamics that may not be immediately visible, giving this New Moon a strong emphasis on depth work, emotional honesty, and personal growth.
As a Fixed sign, Scorpio is known for being loyal, focused, and having the ability to stay with a process long enough to reach the root of an issue. This quality gives the New Moon a determined tone, suited for work that requires patience and focused attention.
Scorpio is ruled by Mars. With Mars traveling through Sagittarius, the fire element pushes this inward-focused sign to explore, search, and gather information from multiple angles, encouraging a broader search for insight.
The Bottom Line: This New Moon centers on depth, insight, and regeneration. It’s a powerful time to focus on what needs attention, refinement, or deeper understanding. This New Moon supports honest evaluation and steady progress on work that benefits from looking backward to move forward.
Scorpio Shadow
Scorpio’s depth can be a strength when it supports healing, honest insight, and long-term commitment. In its shadow, that same intensity can turn inward and become heavy, guarded, or hard to reach. The desire to understand what is really going on can slip into suspicion, over-analysis, or pressure on yourself and others to reveal more than feels comfortable.
With this New Moon tightly conjunct Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, the shadow can manifest through mental loops, replaying old conversations or revisiting past situations with a harsh or unforgiving lens. There can be a desire to dig for information or try to control outcomes by knowing every detail. Power dynamics, privacy, and trust may feel especially sensitive.
At its worst, this combination can fuel resentment, rigidity, or a tendency to hold on to stories that no longer serve you. At its best, it can help you recognize where intensity has been simmering under the surface and where you are ready to release outdated assumptions, unspoken expectations, or patterns of self-protection that keep growth at a distance.
Uranus in Taurus opposite the Scorpio stellium can amplify these patterns by introducing sudden insights, disruptions, or revelations that you did not plan for. Changes in circumstances or unexpected information may expose where control has been held too tightly or where unspoken expectations have been building under the surface. This can feel unsettling, yet it can also clarify which attachments, stories, or strategies are no longer sustainable.
Scorpio New Moon Symbol: The Scorpion, Eagle, and Phoenix
Scorpio has three symbols, each reflecting a different expression. The Scorpion, Eagle, and Phoenix illustrate the psychological range of Scorpio, from instinctive protection to elevated insight to complete renewal.
The Scorpion
The Scorpion represents Scorpio’s instinct for protection, privacy, and stealth. It stays close to the ground, alert to changes, and quick to respond when provoked. The Scorpion reflects Scorpio’s ability to pick up on subtle changes, handle emotional intensity, and protect themselves when they’re feeling exposed.
The Eagle
The Eagle symbolizes Scorpio’s capacity to rise above emotional complexity and see the broader landscape. Where the Scorpion works at close range, the Eagle gains perspective. This symbol speaks to Scorpio’s ability to observe patterns and recognize truth from a higher vantage point without losing the depth that defines the sign.
The Phoenix
The Phoenix represents Scorpio’s regenerative power. Through purification, transformation, and renewal, the Phoenix embodies Scorpio’s ability to evolve after significant change. It symbolizes the cycle of shedding what has run its course, purifying through fire, and emerging with a new level of strength and purpose.
The Bottom Line: These three symbols illustrate Scorpio’s full range: instinctive protection, elevated perception, and profound renewal. This New Moon brings all three forward, supporting work that requires insight, resilience, and a willingness to evolve through change.
Scorpio New Moon Water Ritual: Release and Refresh
Small business owners wear lots of hats and deal with the pressures of keeping work, income, and daily life running. Over time, systems get outdated, collaborations shift, and the progress we have made benefits from a full review. This helps catch needed course corrections early and addresses problems before they grow into big ones. Mercury retrograde is the ideal time to do just that.
This simple water ritual helps you release what no longer serves your goals and vision of success and creates space for fresh energy in December when Mercury is moving forward again in the zodiac. It was designed for the Scorpio new moon and Mercury retrograde cycle, which both occur in the same degree of the zodiac.
You can do this releasing ritual anytime you feel like there is cluttered mental space, emotional baggage, or when moving on to a new phase of a project or relationship. For this Scorpio New Moon, I recommend doing it after the moon enters the new phase, or within a day or two after.
What you’ll need:
A glass of clean water
A soothing drink of your choice: Tea, coffee, sparkling water, wine, or what feels calming
Paper and pen (optional)
How to do the ritual:
Set your space
Pour your drink and place the other glass of clean water in front of you. Take a few breaths to ground your body and clear your mind.
What do you want to release?
As you enjoy your drink, reflect on what you feel ready to release.
What would you benefit from letting go?
What situations, feelings, or projects seem to pull at your energy, slow down progress, or keep you tied to the past?
Think of three or more ideas, emotions, or people you are ready to release. It may be parts of a project, qualities of a person, or emotional baggage weighing you down. Optionally: Write them down and burn the paper after the ritual.
Release through water
Hold the other glass of water and imagine you are releasing all of those things into the water. When ready, pour the water down the drain, imagining these burdens and outworn ideas flowing away like fallen leaves carried away by a river. Run the faucet for a few moments to carry everything fully downstream.
Renew with flowing water
Immerse yourself in moving water to invite abundance into your life and business. Focus on what you want, like new solutions, ideas, and interactions with others. Take a shower, visit a moving river or ocean if possible, or simply rinse your hands and splash your face with running water from the faucet. The key is to use moving water. Visualize the water as a flow of abundance into your life, body, and business.
This powerful combination of Scorpio’s New Moon and Mercury retrograde energy supports deep inner work. By consciously releasing and refreshing now, you prepare yourself for the new cycles ahead and Mercury moving direct in December.
Words of Wisdom
‘What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning.’ -T. S. Eliot
Wrap-Up: Scorpio New Moon
The Scorpio New Moon centers on depth work and review. The Sun, Moon, and Mercury retrograde together at 28 degrees Scorpio bring past projects, issues, and conversations back into view so you can reassess, correct course, and solve small problems before they become big ones.
The Water trine sets an emotional undertone that helps you connect with your intuition and access emotions and empathy more easily. Across from the Scorpio New Moon, Uranus in Taurus can surface unexpected information or sudden shifts that you have to pivot and respond to.
With Mars ruling this New Moon from Sagittarius, you may feel driven to tackle problems from many angles. Your physical energy may be pulled in several directions, so pace yourself, honor your limits, and don’t spread yourself too thin. Use this window to tie up loose ends and prepare the next steps you can move forward with in December when Mercury is direct.
