Moon in Sagittarius

Sagittarius sits far from the Moon's own territory in temperature, hot and dry where Lilly 1659 calls her cold and moist. He nevertheless allots her the middle ten degrees of the sign as a face. So small a claim shows how the tables mix arguments from heat with bare lists of degrees.

Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) treats the sign as bicorporeal, a class whose effect on the mind he calls changeable and full of expedients. Lilly's general portrait of the Moon, delighting in new things and shifting her dwelling, lines up with that. Adams 1928 notes a dreamy, far-away look in the faces she assigns to the sign.

With the Moon in this sign for only two days or so, people born in the same week can easily have different Moon signs. Modern writers tend to describe the placement as a need for room and for meaning, and that reading is theirs.