Moon in Aquarius

Fixed signs, Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) says, give the mind steadiness of purpose, and Aquarius is one of the four. Yet the Moon is the quickest body in the sky, gone from a sign in a little over two days. A steady sign and a fast body make the contrast that any reading of this placement has to account for.

Lilly 1659 calls Aquarius airy, hot and moist, the principal house of Saturn, and he grants the Moon its last ten degrees as a face. Who rules the sign is unsettled: Adams 1928 gives it to Uranus alone, and Heindel 1919 joins Uranus with Saturn. Anyone reading the Moon through its ruler has to choose which book to follow.

Alan Leo 1899 describes Aquarius as humane, quiet and attached to causes that help many people. Modern writers stress an emotional distance in this Moon, perhaps because air and fixity sound cool together. The word distance is theirs and has no source among the sources read here.