Cast & Chart

Placement

Moon in Gemini

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

Bicorporeal signs render the mind variable, versatile, not easy to be understood, volatile, and unsteady

Claudius Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, or Quadripartite (1822)

About this entry

Double-bodied is the old description of Gemini, and Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) says such signs make the mind variable and hard to pin down. His chapter reads the Moon for the feeling side of the mind and Mercury for the reasoning side. A Moon in Gemini therefore applies his bicorporeal list to feeling.

Raphael's Guide of 1877 reports an agreeable, talkative and very ingenious person, somewhat crafty, especially when one other planet alone aspects the Moon. The symbol for that planet is damaged in the scan, so which planet he meant cannot be confirmed here.

The sign is Mercury's house in Lilly 1659, and he lists no dignity for the Moon in it. He does credit the Moon in general with delight in novelty and a habit of changing trades and dwellings, which overlaps neatly with the sign. Modern astrologers often speak of a quick and restless emotional life with this Moon.

Where this text comes from

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