Moon in Pisces

Moisture joins moisture in this placement. Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) credits the Moon chiefly with generating moisture and says Venus becomes most moist in Pisces, and Lilly 1659 calls the sign cold, moist and watery.

Lilly's tables give the Moon no house, exaltation or face in Pisces, and the sign belongs to Jupiter in his account and to Neptune in Adams 1928. Adams connects the Moon's influence with Pisces anyway and points to the Tarot card of the Moon assigned to the sign. Her Tarot link is a later occult association, far from anything in Ptolemy.

Ptolemy's bicorporeal list mentions an unsteady mind, and Lilly called Pisces a sign of no action in a phrase that has not aged well. Modern astrology reverses the tone and often praises this Moon for sympathy and imagination, words of its own making.