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Aries
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The week opens on the back of an aspect to Saturn, who spends all seven days retrograde in Aries. His was the Moon’s last contact before she went void on Saturday afternoon, and that void does not close until Sunday night. Aries gives her nothing of her own and she does not visit it here. She reaches the sign on the twenty third of October.
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Taurus
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Her exaltation, which she left on the thirtieth of September. Exaltation is the sign where a planet was held to work above its ordinary rank. She does not return to Taurus until the twenty fifth of October, the longest she stays away from it all month. Venus, who owns the sign, turned retrograde on Saturday the third.
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Gemini
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Two days ago she was here. She left Gemini at 19:55 UTC on Friday and does not come back until the twenty eighth of October. Mercury, who rules the sign, spends the whole week in Scorpio, moving from four degrees to nearly twelve. The sign holds nothing of hers and nothing of his.
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Cancer
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Sunday belongs to the sign, and almost nothing happens in it. The Moon is at sixteen degrees of Cancer, her domicile, the one sign she rules outright, and she is void of course for the whole of her remaining time there. She leaves at 22:55 UTC Sunday night. The last quarter fell here on Saturday, at ten degrees.
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Leo
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Three bodies are in the sign’s business this week. The Moon arrives at 22:55 UTC Sunday and holds until the small hours of Wednesday, while Mars and Jupiter sit in Leo throughout, Mars near three degrees and Jupiter near twenty. She meets Jupiter on Tuesday morning, and that meeting is the last thing she completes before going void at 10:22 UTC.
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Virgo
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The longest void of the month happens here. She enters Virgo at 02:53 UTC Wednesday, makes her final aspect at 18:57 the same day, and does not reach Libra until 08:11 UTC Friday. Thirty seven hours. Virgo belongs to Mercury and gives the Moon nothing, so most of the stay is spent in a sign she does not own, completing nothing in it.
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Libra
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Everything converges here on Saturday. The Sun spends the week in Libra, from eleven degrees to nearly seventeen, the Moon arrives at 08:11 UTC Friday, and at 15:50 UTC Saturday the two stand together at seventeen degrees. That conjunction is the new Moon. Venus owns the sign and watches it from Scorpio, retrograde since the third.
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Scorpio
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Two planets and no Moon. Mercury crosses from four degrees to nearly twelve of Scorpio this week, and Venus turns back on herself at eight, having stationed retrograde on Saturday the third. Scorpio is the Moon’s fall, the sign where she keeps her nature and loses her authority, and she does not enter it until Sunday the eleventh.
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Sagittarius
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Jupiter rules Sagittarius and spends the week in Leo, which is where the Moon finds him on Tuesday morning. That conjunction opens the second void of the week. She does not enter Sagittarius herself until the fourteenth of October, so the sign’s entire part in these seven days is carried by its ruler, from inside somebody else’s house.
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Capricorn
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Five minutes of arc a day is what Saturn is losing, retrograde in Aries, and Saturn owns Capricorn. The sign is the Moon’s detriment, standing opposite the one she rules. She left it on the twenty first of September and does not return until the sixteenth of October, which puts it six days outside this issue on either side.
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Aquarius
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The Moon’s north node has been parked at twenty nine degrees of this sign for weeks, and on Sunday it stops moving backward and creeps forward instead, holding near twenty nine until it reverses again on Thursday. Aquarius is Saturn’s other house. She does not enter the sign until the nineteenth of October.
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Pisces
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Both of the sign’s claimants are somewhere else. Jupiter, who owns Pisces, is in Leo, and Venus, who is exalted here, is retrograde in Scorpio. The Moon crossed out of Pisces on the twenty sixth of September and does not return until the twenty first of October. Nothing in these seven days touches it.
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