New Moon in Scorpio – The Answer to Life, Universe and Everything

On November 20th, 2025, we have a New Moon at 28° Scorpio.

Aspecting all social and outer planets, this New Moon becomes some sort of ‘philosopher’s stone’ of understanding life and ourselves. This is perhaps the most important New Moon of the year.

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the science-fiction comedy by Douglas Adams, a supercomputer is built to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

After 7.5 million years of computation, the grand revelation, the answer to life, universe, and everything is… 42. Everyone is disappointed, of course, because 42 feels absurd and meaningless.

Taken at face value, 42 is an obvious joke. The triviality of the number pokes fun at our obsession with ‘one’ final, definitive answer to life’s questions.

But 42 is absurd only if we mistake the number for the message.

New Moon In Scorpio – The Answer to life, Universe and Everything

If we treat 42 as a metaphor – a placeholder for the underlying source code of reality, the pattern out of which everything emerges – then the idea that there is a prime mover, a “thing behind the thing”, no longer feels far-fetched.

Under a Scorpio New Moon that speaks to every slow-moving planet, we are called to crack the code and get to the essence of who we are, why we’re here, and what truly matters.

When we have rare alignments – transits when the big existential planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all speak at once – especially through personal planets gateway like this Scorpio New Moon, the search for “42” becomes impossible to ignore.

This is one of those times when we feel we have to know. When we feel pulled to connect the dots, to understand the architecture behind our experiences, to make sense of how everything fits together.

But how do we find this source code? The ‘answer’ to why we’re here, the thread that cuts through the noise and brings clarity and meaning to our journey?

New Moon In Scorpio – Go In

The go-to approach – especially in our overstimulated world – is to go outward.

To learn more, read more, gather more information, chase more experiences, expand, explore, do. To treat life as a research project, hoping that if we accumulate enough data points, meaning will reveal itself.

The other way – less understood, less encouraged – is by doing the exact opposite.

To turn off what the teachers say, what the “experts” insist, what the media repeats, what the noise of the world tries to impose. To sit with ourselves long enough for the real answer to surface from within.

The New Moon in Scorpio on November 20th, tightly conjunct an invisible, cazimi Mercury, points to this second path. This is a New Moon of listening in – to the quiet place where your own personal truth is waiting to be heard.

Yes, we have the web of aspects to the social and outer planets: the New Moon is opposite Uranus, sextile Pluto, trine Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune – all pointing to the larger context, the ‘life, universe and everything’ themes at play…

… but right underneath that larger scale is something very personal: a very tight, almost exact conjunction with Mercury retrograde – the divine messenger in the heart of the Sun and Moon.

New Moon In Scorpio And Mercury Cazimi

When Mercury retrograde is conjunct the Sun, we have the beginning of a new Mercury cycle – the Mercury equivalent of a New Moon. At this New Moon in Scorpio, these 2 new cycles overlap. We have a New Moon AND a “New Mercury”.

In this rare ‘double cycle’ activation, our inner wiring is lit up at once – spirit (Sun), soul (Moon), and perception (Mercury) all together in alignment.

The New Moon in Scorpio conjunct Mercury will pull us toward the truth like gravity.

All the layers through which we make meaning come together to access that deep Scorpionic source code of inner knowing.

This inward pull is what ultimately leads us to the holy grail of our inner journey – the truth beneath the truth.

The message the Mercury-cazimi-New Moon brings it’s extremely important.

But there’s a catch.

This message, because it is found deep inside ourselves, may not be easy to recognize. This is NOT the outward, formulaic, “2 + 2 = 4” type of guidance. Not the ‘usual’ instruction.

New Moon In Scorpio – What Is Essential Is Invisible To The Eyes

It’s a different type of insight. It will not look like, feel like, or follow the rules of anything you already know. Because what lives inside us doesn’t operate under the same laws as the daylight mind.

At the New Moon in Scorpio, the light is switched off.

There is something about darkness – the absence of light, of stimulation, of external cues – that removes distraction and sharpens our ability to “see” the things we cannot see when the light is on.

What we perceive in the dark is NOT what the world insists we should be seeing. This inner truth is not mainstream-approved. Many times, the night-type knowing is the exact opposite of what daytime ‘approves of’. And this can be scary.

Career, marriage, kids, mortgage, holidays, social media likes, the book deal (or whatever the personal definition of success is) – what happens when the daytime ‘formula’ doesn’t quite match what surfaces when the lights go off?

In darkness, when everything that’s clamouring for our attention stops crowding our space, we ‘see’ what truly matters.

Because, as the Little Prince reminds us, “what’s essential is invisible to the eyes”.

It’s trusting that inner whisper – the knowing that makes no logical sense yet feels right, the recognition you can’t explain yet instantly understand, the truth that rises from the part of you that never lies because it’s encoded in the DNA of who you are.

It’s in trusting that inner instinct that your deeper, personal truth reveals itself.

Do not hunt for it. Do not look for ‘hints’ in transits or the natal chart. It will not come that way. It will arrive as a deeper knowing – something you may not be able to articulate, but will resonate with the essence of your being.