Cast & Chart

Planet

Moon

luminary

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

In an older source

The Moon principally generates moisture

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

About this entry

No body in the chart moves faster. Lilly 1659 has the Moon complete the zodiac in 27 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes and move a little over 13 degrees a day, so it spends about two and a quarter days in a sign. If it changed signs on the day of birth, the calculator needs the time of birth to know which side of the line it was on.

Ptolemy, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, ties her to moisture and warmth borrowed from the Sun, and he counts her among the benefics, an old word for bodies thought to nourish. Cancer is her only house. Lilly places her exaltation at 3 degrees of Taurus, her fall at 3 degrees of Scorpio and her detriment in Capricorn, each of which is a location in his scheme.

Lilly's well-placed Moon loves novelty and tends to change residence, and Sepharial 1920 makes her a general marker for the mother and for changes in health and fortune. Modern popular astrology turns her mainly into the emotional life and the private self, a narrower brief than either writer gives her.

Where this text comes from

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