Sign Scorpio, seventeen degrees
Phase Waxing crescent
Condition Her fall
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Application
A planet applies while it is approaching an exact aspect and separates once it has gone past. The tradition read the first as a matter still unsettled and the second as one already concluded. The Moon, being the fastest body in the system, is almost always the one applying.

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An aspect in this material is not a position. It is a process with a beginning, a middle and an end. The Moon runs from four degrees of Scorpio to seventeen today, and inside that stretch she closes on Venus, passes her, closes on Mercury, and passes him as well. The approaching half has one name and the departing half has another.
While the faster body is still closing on the exact aspect it is said to apply. Once it has gone past, it separates. The distinction carried real weight, because an applying aspect was read as a thing not yet settled and a separating one as a thing already done. She is the fastest body in the system, so she is nearly always the one applying, and that is the whole reason she matters so much in horary, the branch that answers a question from a chart cast for the moment it was asked.
It also explains void of course from the other end. A void Moon is simply a Moon with no application left in the sign she stands in. Tomorrow at 08:46 UTC she makes her last one in Scorpio and goes void until 01:00 UTC Wednesday. Venus, the first of the two she reaches today, is retrograde and in her own detriment. Scorpio is the Moon’s fall and Venus’s detriment both. The application is made from one badly placed body to another.
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Guido Bonatti
Thirteenth century Italy, where what the Moon is applying to next is among the first questions a chart has to answer.

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