Weekly Zodiac & Horoscope Forecast November 2 - 8, 2026: A Mercury Inferior Conjunction in Scorpio

A weekly horoscope is a seven-day reading computed from exact planetary positions, sign by sign and house by house. This forecast covers November 2 through November 8, 2026 for the twelve zodiac signs and the twelve Chinese animals. Three things shape the week. Mercury makes its inferior conjunction with the Sun on Wednesday, Venus sextiles Jupiter four hours before that, and no lunation falls anywhere in the seven days.

Weekly Overview: The Week the Moon Empties

The Sun catches Mercury on Wednesday

Mercury reaches inferior conjunction with the Sun on November 4 at 14:24 UTC, both bodies at 12 degrees 10 minutes of Scorpio. Inferior conjunction is the one moment in a retrograde when an inner planet passes between Earth and the Sun. Mercury sits about 0.67 astronomical units away, nearer than it gets at any other point in its cycle, and its backward speed peaks at 1.3 degrees a day, the fastest it will move until March.

The sequence matters more than the single date. Mercury turned retrograde on October 24 at 20 degrees 59 minutes of Scorpio and turns direct on November 13 at 5 degrees 2 minutes of the same sign. Wednesday's conjunction falls eleven days into a twenty day retrograde, a little past the middle, and it lands between the two stations rather than at either end.

What that gives a reader is a shape. The first ten days of a Mercury retrograde hand back material. Old emails resurface, numbers get re-checked, a document you thought was settled arrives with a question attached. On Wednesday the material goes into the center of the light, and Mercury vanishes into the Sun's glare for a week, working where nobody can watch it.

Carl Jung described the first stage of psychological transformation with an alchemical word. In Mysterium Coniunctionis he writes that confronting the shadow "produces at first a dead balance, a standstill that hampers moral decisions," and names the stage nigredo, tenebrositas, chaos, melancholia. The blackening. A week with no lunation and a planet erased by the Sun is a fair drawing of that stage, and I do not think the parallel is decoration.

So here is what I tell clients about an inferior conjunction. A judgement that has not finished forming cannot be hurried by more information. If you have been collecting evidence about a person or a number since October 24, Wednesday is the day the file closes on its own. The answer arrives in the quiet afterwards, usually while you are doing something else.

Venus sextiles Jupiter four hours earlier

On Wednesday at 10:31 UTC, Venus at 24 degrees 43 minutes of Libra makes a sextile to Jupiter at the same degree of Leo. Venus is retrograde. Jupiter is direct. The aspect is exact four hours before the Sun and Mercury meet.

Venus retrograde in Libra is reviewing what things cost, what you are paid, and who set the price in the first place. Jupiter in Leo is generous, expansive and a little theatrical. A sextile is a small door. It rewards a move made on purpose and does nothing for a move made by accident.

One client spent two sessions deciding whether to lend her brother a deposit. She transferred it on a Wednesday with this aspect and the argument ended at the same moment as the payment. Money spent on another person instead of on yourself settles a value question faster than any conversation about it.

A week with no lunation

The Last Quarter fell on November 1 at 20:28 UTC at 9 degrees 26 minutes of Leo. The next New Moon arrives on November 9 at 07:02 UTC at 16 degrees 53 minutes of Scorpio. Between those two moments there is no exact lunar event at all. The Moon spends the entire week emptying, and by Sunday night it is a thin crescent setting an hour behind the Sun.

Most weekly forecasts treat a dark moon week as a dead one. I read it as the useful one. A waning crescent has no agenda to sell you. It subtracts light steadily and asks for the same discipline.

The Dog month ends at Winter Begins

Winter Begins, or Li Dong, falls on November 7 at 09:52 UTC, when the Sun reaches 225 degrees of the ecliptic, or 15 degrees of Scorpio. It is the nineteenth of the twenty-four Chinese solar terms. That hour closes the Xu month, the Dog month, which opened at Cold Dew on October 8, and opens the Hai month, the Pig month.

The Pig branch begins the water season of the Chinese year. The year itself is still Bing Wu, the Yang Fire Horse of 2026, until Spring Begins in February 2027. The Fire Horse year forecast covers that longer arc. This week contains two different months, and each animal below is read against both.

The retrogrades in the background

Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all retrograde this week. Saturn sits at 9 degrees of Aries and turns direct on December 11 at 7 degrees 56 minutes. Neptune is retrograde at 2 degrees of Aries until December 13. Uranus is retrograde at 4 degrees of Gemini. Mars and Jupiter stay direct in Leo, Mars moving from 19 to 22 degrees and Jupiter from 24 to 25.

Moon phases this week

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12 Zodiac Signs

Houses below count each sign as its own first house, so Scorpio sits in the 8th for Aries and the 1st for Scorpio.

Aries (March 21 - April 19)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your 8th house, so Wednesday's conjunction lands inside shared money, a loan or a tax document. One number gets a second reading. Venus retrograde in your 7th sextiles Jupiter in your 5th the same morning, linking a partner's offer to something you would enjoy. Your growth edge: read the statement before you argue with it.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your 7th house, which puts a partner's message through revision on Wednesday. Your ruler Venus is retrograde in your 6th and sextiles Jupiter in your 4th, tying a daily routine to a decision about the home. Saturn retrograde in your 12th keeps an old obligation quiet. Your growth edge: answer the second version of the message, not the first.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20)

Mercury, your ruler, reaches its nearest point to Earth on Wednesday in your 6th house, so a work schedule or a health habit goes through its deepest revision of the year. Venus retrograde in your 5th sextiles Jupiter in your 3rd. Mars and Jupiter in your 3rd push a writing or teaching project from plan into draft. Your growth edge: change one routine rather than five.

Cancer (June 22 - July 22)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your 5th house of children and making things, and a creative project you assumed was finished returns for another pass. Venus retrograde in your 4th sextiles Jupiter in your 2nd, so a family decision and an income decision belong in one conversation. Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your 10th ask whether the job is still the plan. Your growth edge: show the draft before it is ready.

Leo (July 23 - August 22)

Mars and Jupiter are in your sign all week, with Jupiter crossing 25 degrees on Saturday. The Sun and Mercury meet in your 4th house, so home and family take the review. Venus retrograde in your 3rd sextiles Jupiter in your 1st on Wednesday, the one exact aspect that touches you directly. Your growth edge: say the generous thing out loud instead of implying it.

Virgo (August 23 - September 22)

Your ruler Mercury makes its inferior conjunction on Wednesday in your 3rd house, the house Mercury rules by nature, which makes this the sharpest Mercury day of your year. Venus retrograde in your 2nd sextiles Jupiter in your 12th. Expect a short journey, a sibling or a piece of paperwork to revise itself. Your growth edge: keep the message short and send it once.

Libra (September 23 - October 22)

Venus, your ruler, is retrograde in your own sign and makes its sextile to Jupiter in your 11th on Wednesday, so a friend's offer carries information about money. The Sun and Mercury meet in your 2nd house, which puts income under review. Saturn retrograde in your 7th keeps one partnership slow for another five weeks. Your growth edge: name your price in one sentence instead of a paragraph.

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your own sign at 12 degrees on Wednesday, the only conjunction this year in your 1st house. Whatever you have been revising about yourself reaches its midpoint. Venus retrograde in your 12th reviews something you never said out loud. Pluto direct in your 4th makes a family pattern visible. Your growth edge: write the private version and keep it private for a week.

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your 12th house, the quietest placement of your year, with your birthday season three weeks off. Venus retrograde in your 11th sextiles Jupiter in your 9th. Saturn retrograde in your 5th asks what you actually enjoy, and enjoyment is not the same as competence. Your growth edge: cancel one obligation and protect the empty hour it leaves.

Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your 11th house, so a group or a promised favor gets its second draft. Venus retrograde in your 10th sextiles Jupiter in your 8th, which connects your public work to somebody else's money. Saturn, your ruler, is retrograde at 9 degrees of Aries in your 4th. Your growth edge: ask the group for one specific thing.

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your 10th house, which puts your public work under review midweek. Pluto is direct in your 1st at 3 degrees. Venus retrograde in your 9th sextiles Jupiter in your 7th, so a belief and a partnership turn out to be connected. Your growth edge: rewrite the sentence that describes what you do.

Pisces (February 19 - March 20)

The Sun and Mercury meet in your 9th house, so a course, a certificate or a conviction gets revised on Wednesday. Venus retrograde in your 8th sextiles Jupiter in your 6th, linking a shared account to a work routine. Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your 2nd keep income slow, which is a timing fact and not a verdict on your work. Your growth edge: finish the course before you enroll in the next one.

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12 Chinese Zodiac Signs

The Chinese zodiac weekly forecast below reads each animal against two months, the Dog month until Winter Begins on November 7 and the Pig month after it.

Rat

Yang Water moves by finding the lowest path. Both months leave your branch unbothered, and Mercury retrograde in the water sign of the season favors one more reading of the same document.

Ox

Your branch sits inside the three punishments with the Dog until Saturday, and the pressure lifts at Winter Begins. Earth wins by maintenance over gesture. Do the work and skip the announcement.

Tiger

Your fire trine with the Horse and the Dog closes at Winter Begins, and your six combination with the Pig month opens in the same hour. One door shuts and another opens within a minute. Name the goal before Saturday.

Rabbit

The Dog month is your six combination until Saturday, then the Pig month begins the wood trine with the Goat. Two cooperative arrangements inside seven days. Ask for the favor on Tuesday while the first one holds.

Dragon

Your branch clashes the Dog month, and the clash gives way at Winter Begins on Saturday. Yang Earth holds position without moving. Save the difficult conversation for next week.

Snake

The Pig month clashes your branch from Saturday. A clash changes the schedule and says nothing about your character. Keep the appointment you already made and renegotiate the new one.

Horse

Your branch belongs to the Dog month's fire trine until Winter Begins, then the month turns neutral toward you. Yang Fire travels by being seen. Use the first five days for anything that needs an audience.

Goat

Your branch sits inside the three punishments with the Dog and the Ox until Saturday, then the Pig month opens the wood trine. The week turns twice. Balance the accounts before Friday.

Monkey

The Dog month gives way at Winter Begins to a Pig month that harms your branch. A harm is friction with one person, small and short. Do the difficult piece of work yourself and delegate the rest.

Rooster

Your branch harms the Dog month, so friction with one colleague carries information. That relation ends Saturday. Yin Metal sharpens by being used. Complete the piece of work you have been saving.

Dog

Your own month closes at Winter Begins on Saturday. This is its last full week. Yang Earth stands firm, and firm here means consolidating what you already own. Check the paperwork before the Pig month opens.

Pig

Your month begins at Winter Begins on Saturday at 09:52 UTC, and you inherit a week the waning moon has already emptied. Yin Water wins by continuing. Start the small daily practice and keep the receipts.

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Lucky Stars of the Week

Western Zodiac: Virgo. Mercury, the ruler of your sign, makes its inferior conjunction with the Sun on Wednesday at 12 degrees 10 minutes of Scorpio, in your 3rd house, the one Mercury governs by nature. That happens at most once a year, and it lands where messages, siblings and short journeys live. Send the thing you have rewritten twice, on Thursday morning, after the conjunction has passed.

Chinese Zodiac: Tiger. Your fire trine with the Horse and the Dog closes at Winter Begins on Saturday, and your six combination with the Pig month opens in the same hour. One door shuts and another opens within a minute. Name the goal out loud before Saturday and let the second arrangement carry it.

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Shadow Work Journaling Prompt

What am I still revising because I am afraid of the version that would be final? Who would I have to become in order to send it?

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This article is offered for spiritual guidance and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for medical, legal, or financial advice.