Cast & Chart

Placement

Moon in Scorpio

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

In an older source

while Scorpio, the opposite sign, is her fall

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

About this entry

Fall, in the older vocabulary, is the sign opposite a planet's exaltation. The Moon's exaltation is Taurus, so Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) places her fall in Scorpio, and Lilly 1659 names its third degree as the exact spot. The word marks a location on a diagram and carries no verdict on the person whose Moon is there.

Scorpio is a house of Mars and one of the water signs, and Lilly gives the water signs to Mars at all hours. In his tables the temperatures of Moon and Scorpio match, cold and moist, while the ownership of the sign points elsewhere.

Ptolemy's list for fixed signs includes being mindful of injuries, which this page reads as a long memory when the Moon holds the feeling mind. Modern astrology usually calls this Moon intense and private, and it draws partly on a link to Pluto that no writer read for this site makes.

Where this text comes from

Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.

Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.