The next new moon is Monday, 9 November 2026 at 07:04 UTC, in Scorpio.
The November new moon in Scorpio →A new moon is the moment the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun and takes the Sun's own degree of the zodiac. Nothing is visible that night: the lit half faces away, and the Moon keeps the Sun's hours, rising at dawn and setting at dusk.
It is the bottom of the cycle and the start of the next one. The fortnight that follows builds towards the full moon, which is why the phase is used for first things — a first draft, a first payment, a first conversation — and not for conclusions.
Saturday, 10 October 2026 · Libra · 15:51 UTC
Monday, 9 November 2026 · Scorpio · 07:04 UTC
Wednesday, 9 December 2026 · Sagittarius · 00:54 UTC
Thursday, 7 January 2027 · Capricorn · 20:26 UTC
Saturday, 6 February 2027 · Aquarius · 15:58 UTC
Monday, 8 March 2027 · Pisces · 09:31 UTC
Tuesday, 6 April 2027 · Aries · 23:53 UTC
Thursday, 6 May 2027 · Taurus · 11:00 UTC
Friday, 4 June 2027 · Gemini · 19:42 UTC
Sunday, 4 July 2027 · Cancer · 03:04 UTC
Monday, 2 August 2027 · Leo · 10:07 UTC
Thursday, 30 September 2027 · Libra · 02:38 UTC
Monday, 9 November 2026, at 07:04 UTC, with the Moon and the Sun meeting at the same degree of Scorpio. New moons are listed by the instant of that conjunction, which is what lets a calendar give one to the minute; the card for that date says what the cycle is for.
Scorpio, and it always matches the Sun. Because the two bodies line up, a new moon takes whichever sign the Sun is passing through, and it moves on by one each month. That is the difference from a full moon, which sits in the facing sign instead.
No, and that is what defines it. The lit half faces away from Earth and the Moon rises and sets with the Sun, so it is lost in daylight. The thin crescent people photograph and call a new moon is already a day or two old. The exception is a solar eclipse, when the dark disc crosses the Sun.
Once every 29.53 days, so twelve or thirteen a year. When one calendar month catches two, the second is often called a black moon — the mirror of the blue moon, and just as much an accident of the Gregorian calendar as an event in the sky.
Take 07:04 UTC as Universal Time and shift it by your own offset; the conjunction is a single instant, not a local event. In practice it rarely matters, because the traditional window for setting an intention runs from the conjunction to roughly a day after it, which covers every zone on Earth.
Begin one thing. The convention is to write down one to three intentions and take a first step within two days, because the step is the part that matters rather than the list. Endings and clearing out belong to the full moon, two weeks later.