If your Moon is in the 11th house, the Moon was partway up the eastern sky when you were born. It had risen about two to four hours before. It was still climbing toward its high point. The Moon rises about 50 minutes later each day, so the clock time of an 11th house Moon depends on the phase of the Moon on your birthday. Near a new Moon, it means a birth in the middle of the morning. Near a full Moon, it means a birth in the evening, a few hours after dark.
That link has a side effect no other guide counts. US babies are not born evenly around the clock. The busiest hours of the day run from 8 a.m. to noon, and that is exactly where a new Moon sits in the 11th house. So a baby born near a new Moon gets this Moon at far higher odds than a baby born near a last quarter Moon. We measured the gap with every US birth hour on record for 2024: 1.7 to one. This guide gives the clock times, the odds for each phase, and what the old and new books say. The method is at the end, so you can check it.
Where the Moon was: partway up the eastern sky
Your birth chart is a map of the sky at the minute you were born. Astrologers cut that map into twelve slices called houses. Each house covers one part of life. The 11th house covers friends, groups, allies, hopes and the help that comes to you through other people. Our guide to 11th house astrology and its old name tells the full story of that room.
Now picture how the sky turns. A point of the zodiac rises in the east. It then climbs through three houses to the top of the sky. First comes the 12th house, just after it rises. Then comes the 11th, the middle of the climb. Last comes the 10th, just before the top. The top point is called the Midheaven, and it opens the 10th house.
So an 11th house Moon is a Moon you could have seen from the window, low to high in the east or southeast. It had cleared the rooftops but had not yet reached its peak. The Moon one room lower, in the 12th house, had only just come up. The Moon one room higher sits near the top, and our guide to the Moon in the tenth house covers that case.
There is one catch. You can see the Moon only if the Sun is not too close to it. Near a new Moon, the Moon rides next to the Sun and is lost in its glare. It is up there all the same. The chart counts it where it is, not where you can see it.
Two ways to draw the 11th house
There are two common ways to cut the sky. They agree on the picture, but not on the edges.
Whole sign houses are the oldest way on record. The sign rising at your birth is your 1st house, and each next sign is the next house. Count the rising sign as one, and the eleventh sign along is your 11th house. With Aries rising, the 11th house is Aquarius. With Leo rising, it is Gemini. The Greek writers worked this way, and Chris Brennan sets it out in his book Hellenistic Astrology.
Placidus houses cut the sky by time. Most US apps use them. Take any point of the zodiac as it rises. It then spends a set time climbing to the top of the sky. Placidus splits that time into three equal parts. The middle third is the 11th house. For the Moon in New York, that middle third lasts about one and a half to two and a half hours.
So with Placidus, an 11th house Moon had done between a third and two thirds of its climb. In nine cases out of ten, its point on the zodiac had risen two to four hours before your birth. With whole signs, the rule is about signs, not hours. We give both systems where it matters.
The phase sets the clock
The phase of the Moon is the angle between the Moon and the Sun. At new Moon, the Moon sits next to the Sun, so it rises with the Sun at dawn. At full Moon, it sits across the sky from the Sun, so it rises as the Sun sets. The quarters fall in between. At first quarter the Moon rises near noon. At last quarter it rises near midnight.
So each phase has its own birth hour for an 11th house Moon. We took every moment from 1940 to 2030 when the Moon sat in the Placidus 11th house, in 303 places across the United States. Then we noted the phase and the local clock time, with summer time where it applied.
| Phase at birth | When the Moon rises | Most 11th house Moon births, local clock. |
|---|---|---|
| New Moon | With the Sun, at dawn | 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. |
| Waxing crescent | Mid morning | 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. |
| First quarter | Around noon | 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Waxing gibbous | Mid afternoon | 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
| Full Moon | With sunset | 8 p.m. to midnight. |
| Waning gibbous | Mid evening | 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. |
| Last quarter | Around midnight | 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. |
| Waning crescent | In the small hours | 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. |
The last column holds the shortest span of whole hours that covers 80 percent of cases. The spans are wide because they mix summer and winter, the whole country, and daylight saving time. At each phase, the window moves on by about three hours from the one before.
The rule is easy to use. A new Moon baby with an 11th house Moon was born in the morning, after breakfast. A first quarter baby was born in the afternoon. A full Moon baby was born in the evening. A last quarter baby was born in the small hours of the night.
There is a neat side effect at new Moon. The Sun and the Moon sit side by side, so they share the same house or sit one house apart. A new Moon baby with the Moon in the 11th house has the Sun close by, and our guide to the Sun in the 11th house gives its clock. At full Moon it flips. The Sun sits across the chart, near the 5th house. The 5th and the 11th are the two lucky houses of the old books, and a full Moon in the 11th ties them together.
11th house Moon times in New York, October 2026 to January 2027
Here are the Placidus windows closest to each main phase for the next four months. The times are New York clock time. EDT is summer time and EST is winter time. The rise column gives the time the Moon comes up in New York. Other US cities shift by a few minutes to an hour, so cast your own chart for a firm answer.
| Window date | Phase | Moonrise | Moon in the 11th house, Placidus. |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 3, 2026 | Last quarter | 10:40 p.m. the night before | 1:36 a.m. to 4:10 a.m. EDT. |
| October 10 | New Moon | 7:00 a.m. EDT | 8:52 a.m. to 10:48 a.m. EDT. |
| October 18 | First quarter | 2:31 p.m. EDT | 3:55 p.m. to 5:31 p.m. EDT. |
| October 25 | Full Moon | 5:26 p.m. EDT | 8:05 p.m. to 10:21 p.m. EDT. |
| November 2 | Last quarter | 11:13 p.m. the night before | 1:43 a.m. to 4:07 a.m. EST. |
| November 9 | New Moon | 7:07 a.m. EST | 8:36 a.m. to 10:17 a.m. EST. |
| November 17 | First quarter | 12:52 p.m. EST | 2:42 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST. |
| November 24 | Full Moon | 4:15 p.m. EST | 7:13 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. EST. |
| December 1 | Last quarter | 11:28 p.m. the night before | 1:41 a.m. to 3:54 a.m. EST. |
| December 8 | New Moon | 7:03 a.m. EST | 8:20 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. EST. |
| December 16 | First quarter | 11:37 a.m. EST | 1:46 p.m. to 3:43 p.m. EST. |
| December 23 | Full Moon | 3:58 p.m. EST | 6:53 p.m. to 9:28 p.m. EST. |
| December 30 | Last quarter | 11:33 p.m. the night before | 1:32 a.m. to 3:34 a.m. EST. |
| January 7, 2027 | New Moon | 7:27 a.m. EST | 8:46 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. EST. |
| January 15 | First quarter | 10:48 a.m. EST | 1:25 p.m. to 3:38 p.m. EST. |
| January 21 | Full Moon | 4:02 p.m. EST | 6:45 p.m. to 9:17 p.m. EST. |
| January 29 | Last quarter | 12:40 a.m. EST | 2:16 a.m. to 4:03 a.m. EST. |
Look down the new Moon rows. Each window opens between 8:20 and 8:55 a.m. and closes between 9:55 and 10:50 a.m. On October 10, 2026, the new Moon rises at 7:00 a.m. in New York. The 11th house window runs from 8:52 to 10:48 a.m. That is the heart of the hospital morning.
Now look at the last quarter rows. Every window falls between 1:30 and 4:15 a.m. Those are the quietest hours on the hospital clock.
The window does not open at a fixed time after moonrise. The gap runs from about one and a quarter to three hours in this table. Two things move it. The Moon can sit up to five degrees above or below the Sun’s path, which shifts its real rising time. And the climb takes longer when the Moon rides high in the north of the sky, and less time when it rides low in the south.
How common is it? One in twelve, until you look at the phase
Over many years, the Moon passes through the 11th house for about one twelfth of every day. So if babies came at the same rate every minute, one chart in twelve would have this Moon. That is 8.33 percent.
We checked this for American births. We took every 10 minutes from 1940 to 2030 and cast a chart for 303 places across the United States, weighted by the number of people who live there. With an even clock, the Moon sat in the 11th house in 8.33 percent of charts with Placidus, and 8.33 percent with whole signs.
But babies do not come at an even pace. The CDC, the US public health agency, puts every birth record into one public file each year. The CDC natality file 2024 holds 3,638,436 births, each with its clock time. The busiest hour is 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., with 6.3 percent of all births. Planned C-sections peak right then, and they make up 23 percent of all US births. A second wave comes around noon, and births started with drugs, called induced labor, fill the afternoon. The quietest stretch runs from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m., at about 3 percent an hour.
We weighted every chart by the real 2024 birth hour, month and day of the week. The total barely moved. It came to 8.35 percent with Placidus and 8.33 percent with whole signs. Each phase takes every hour in turn, so over a full month the busy and quiet hours cancel out.
The phase is another story. Split the count by phase, and the hospital clock shows up at once.
| Phase at birth | 11th house Moon, Placidus | 11th house Moon, whole sign. |
|---|---|---|
| New Moon | 10.6 percent of births | 10.6 percent of births. |
| Waxing crescent | 10.5 percent of births | 10.2 percent of births. |
| First quarter | 9.5 percent of births | 9.2 percent of births. |
| Waxing gibbous | 8.4 percent of births | 8.0 percent of births. |
| Full Moon | 7.4 percent of births | 7.1 percent of births. |
| Waning gibbous | 6.6 percent of births | 6.4 percent of births. |
| Last quarter | 6.2 percent of births | 6.2 percent of births. |
| Waning crescent | 7.6 percent of births | 9.1 percent of births. |
With an even clock, every row would read 8.3 percent. We checked, and it does, within 0.1 points. With real birth hours, the rows spread far apart.
A baby born near a new Moon has 10.6 percent odds of an 11th house Moon with Placidus. That Moon rises with the Sun, so its window runs from about 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Those are the busiest hours on the hospital clock. A baby born near a last quarter Moon has 6.2 percent odds. That Moon climbs the sky between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., when few births are planned. The gap is 1.7 to one.
The waxing crescent sits right behind the leader, at 10.5 percent. Its window covers late morning and the lunch hour, the second wave of the hospital day. Put the new Moon and the waxing crescent together. They cover 24.8 percent of US births, but 31.3 percent of all 11th house Moons.
One row splits the two house systems. Near a waning crescent, whole signs give 9.1 percent, but Placidus gives only 7.6 percent. The two systems draw the edges of the house in different places. For this phase, the edge sits close to the 8 a.m. rush, so a small shift moves many births.
Compare the Moon in the 6th house. There, the waning half of the month leads, because a full or waning Moon sets in the busy morning. Our guide to the Moon in the 1st house found the young Moon in front, as here. The same busy hours favor a different phase in each house. For the 11th, the winner is the new Moon.
Born in the 8 a.m. hour: which Moon was in the 11th?
The 8 a.m. hour is the busiest of the day, so it deserves its own look. We took every chart in our count born between 8:00 and 8:59 a.m. on the local clock.
In that hour, the Moon sat in the Placidus 11th house in 8.35 percent of births. That is one in twelve, the same as any other hour. What changes is which Moon it is. Only two phases can put the Moon in the 11th house at 8 a.m. The first is the new Moon, the dark Moon that rose with the Sun about two hours earlier. The second is the waning crescent, the thin Moon of the last days before a new Moon. It rose before dawn.
Of all 8 a.m. births with an 11th house Moon, 61 percent came near a new Moon and 39 percent near a waning crescent. Every other phase gave zero. Among babies born in the 8 a.m. hour near a new Moon, 41 percent have the Moon in the 11th house. By 9 a.m. that climbs to 63 percent.
So if you were born around 8 or 9 a.m. in the last few days of the lunar month, check your 11th house first. The Sun is close by as well, in the same house or the next one. A full Moon baby born at 8 a.m. has no chance of this placement. That Moon was setting in the west.
What the Greeks called this place
The Greek astrologers gave each house a name. The 11th was Agathos Daimon, which means Good Spirit. Vettius Valens, a working astrologer of the second century, gave it friends, gifts, hopes and help from others in his Anthologies. He counted it among the best places in the chart. The 5th house, straight across, was Good Fortune.
Why so kind a name? Claudius Ptolemy, in his Tetrabiblos, gives a reason based on angles. The 11th house looks at the rising sign across a friendly angle of sixty degrees. The Greeks called that a sextile and read it as a line of goodwill. The 11th house also rises toward the Midheaven, the strongest point of the chart. The Greeks called such houses succedent, and they read a planet there as gaining strength.
The Greeks also gave each planet a joy, a house where it was said to rejoice. The list comes from Paulus Alexandrinus and from Firmicus Maternus in his Mathesis. Mercury rejoiced in the 1st house, the Moon in the 3rd, Venus in the 5th and Mars in the 6th. The Sun rejoiced in the 9th, Jupiter in the 11th and Saturn in the 12th. So the 11th house belongs to Jupiter, the great bringer of good things. Our guide to Jupiter in the 11th house covers the planet at home there.
Look at the pattern in that list. The Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, the planets of the day, rejoice above the horizon. The Moon, Venus and Mars, the planets of the night, rejoice below it. So the Moon in the 11th house is a night planet in a day house, the house of Jupiter’s joy. She is a guest there, not the host. The old writers still read it well, because the room itself is kind.
William Lilly, in Christian Astrology in 1647, gives the 11th house friends, hope, trust and praise. He adds the counselors and allies of the king, the help that flows down from those in power. The Moon, for Lilly and for Valens, stands for the body, the mother, the common people and all that changes. Put the two together, and the old reading of this Moon is plain: help that comes through many hands, and a life shaped by the people around you. That is the old reading, set down as history.
How this Moon shows up in a life
Here the counting stops and the reading starts. Modern astrologers read the Moon as the need for comfort and emotional safety. Stephen Arroyo puts it that way, and Liz Greene built the psychological school that made it the norm from the 1970s. Modern books read the 11th house as your chosen ties, the people you pick rather than the people you were born to. Robert Hand, Demetra George and Chris Brennan helped bring the Greek texts back into English, and they keep the older sense of luck and gifts in view as well. Put these together, and you get the themes below. They are a starting point, not a verdict.
Friends are family. People with this Moon build a home out of friends. The group chat, the team and the club do the job that kin does for others. When the group is steady, the mood is steady.
Moods move with the crowd. This Moon picks up the feeling of a room fast. A tense meeting or a happy party lands in the body before the mind has named it. A quiet hour alone helps to sort out which feelings are yours.
Hopes need company. Plans feel real only once someone else shares them. This Moon does best with a cause, a crew or a long project that many people push forward together.
Care goes out in a wide circle. Rather than one deep bond, this Moon spreads its care across many people. Friends of friends get fed. The danger is a crowd of warm ties and no one who knows you well.
Help comes back. The old name, Good Spirit, still shows. People with this Moon find that favors return, a job lead here, a spare room there. The network pays back what the Moon puts in.
The sign matters too. The natural sign of the 11th house is Aquarius, and our guide to the Moon in Aquarius reads that sign’s version of the same group-minded mood.
How to check your own chart
You need three facts: your birth date, your birth time, and your birth town. For this Moon, the time is the key. The Placidus window lasts about two hours. A birth time that is off by an hour can move the Moon into the 10th house or the 12th.
Birth certificates in the United States list the time on the local clock. That includes daylight saving time in summer. The sky follows the Sun, not the clock, so Sun time and clock time can differ by an hour or more. A good chart program converts from one to the other for you. Enter the time as it is written on the certificate.
Then use the phase as a quick test. Look up the phase of the Moon on your birthday. If it was a new Moon and you were born at 9 a.m., your Moon very likely sat in the 11th house. If it was a new Moon and you were born at 9 p.m., it did not. At that hour, the new Moon had set long before.
To find the phase of the Moon on your birthday without an app, use the yearly table in our guide to moon phase compatibility.
Last, check the house system. Most apps offer both Placidus and whole signs. If both put your Moon in the 11th house, the reading is firm. If only one does, read both houses and see which one sounds more like you.
Questions people ask about the Moon in the 11th house
What does it mean to have the Moon in the 11th house?
It means the Moon was partway up the eastern sky when you were born, about two to four hours after it rose. In astrology, it ties your feelings to friends, groups and shared hopes. A steady circle makes this Moon feel safe.
What time was I born if my Moon is in the 11th house?
It depends on the phase of the Moon. Near a new Moon, it means the middle of the morning. Near a first quarter, it means the afternoon. Near a full Moon, it means the evening. Near a last quarter, it means the small hours of the night.
How rare is the Moon in the 11th house?
It is not rare. With an even clock, it is one chart in twelve. With real US birth hours from 2024, the total stays at 8.35 percent. The odds do change with the phase, from 6.2 percent near a last quarter Moon to 10.6 percent near a new Moon.
Is the 11th house the joy of the Moon?
No. In the Greek list of joys, the 11th house is the joy of Jupiter. The Moon rejoices in the 3rd house, below the horizon. The 11th house is a day house above the horizon, but the old books still counted it as one of the best places in the chart.
Is the Moon in the 11th house good or bad?
The old books rated the 11th house as good. It was the house of Good Spirit. That rating is part of the history of astrology, not a promise. Astrology is not a science, and a house placement does not decide how your friendships will go.
How we measured it
We used pyswisseph, a Python version of the Swiss Ephemeris, with its built-in Moshier tables, for the Moon and the Sun. We stepped through time every 10 minutes from 1 January 1940 to 31 December 2030, in Universal Time. For each step we cast charts for 303 population centers that cover the United States, weighted by the 2020 Census.
We wrote our own house formulas. A Moon is in the Placidus 11th house when its point on the zodiac has done between a third and two thirds of its climb from the eastern horizon to the top of the sky, measured in time. It is in the whole sign 11th house when its sign is the eleventh sign from the rising sign. We tested our Placidus rule on 20,000 random charts against the house function of the Swiss Ephemeris. It agreed on all 20,000. We split the count into eight phases of 45 degrees each.
For real birth hours we used the CDC natality file 2024, from the National Center for Health Statistics. We kept the month, the day of the week and the minute of birth apart. We turned each chart’s time into local clock time, with the daylight saving rules for each year and place.
We checked the result by a second route. We drew 400,000 births at random, with a fixed seed, from the same 2024 birth hours, dates and places. For each one we cast Placidus houses with the house function of the Swiss Ephemeris itself, not our own. The two routes agreed within 0.25 points for every phase, with both house systems. As a test of the whole set-up, the same count put the Sun in the Placidus 11th house in 10.50 percent of births with real hours. Our guide to the Sun in the 11th house found 10.51 percent. The moonrise times come from the Swiss Ephemeris, and we checked them against astronomy-engine, a separate library. The two agreed within one minute. The New York windows come from a scan of the Swiss Ephemeris houses at one minute steps.
Your own Moon, read in full
A phase and a clock time tell you where your Moon sat. They say nothing about its sign, its links to other planets, or the ruler of your 11th house. Those are what turn a sky picture into a reading.
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