Sign Cancer, two degrees
Phase Waning gibbous
Condition Her domicile
The word to know today
Domicile
A planet’s domicile is the sign it owns. Standing there it acts on its own authority rather than under some other planet’s, which is the heaviest dignity in the system. The Moon has exactly one, Cancer, and the Sun has one, Leo. The other five hold two apiece.

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There are five ways a planet can hold dignity in a sign, and the old tables rank them. The Moon reaches the top of that list at 19:55 UTC tonight, when she enters Cancer. Cancer is her domicile, her own house, the only sign in the whole circle she rules outright. She has not stood in it since the seventh of September.
The five run in order of weight. Domicile first, which is ownership, a planet answerable to nobody in that sign. Exaltation second, which is honor without ownership, and which she held in Taurus on Monday. Then triplicity, a share in one of the four elements. Then bound, one of the five unequal slices of a sign that the two lights never receive. Last and lightest, face, a ten degree segment worth almost nothing on its own. Lilly’s tables in Christian Astrology score them five, four, three, two and one.
What the tradition cared about was the difference between borrowed authority and your own. A planet anywhere else in the zodiac is working inside a sign belonging to somebody else, and an astrologer had to establish who that somebody was before he could read it at all. A planet in its domicile ends that question. There is nobody above it to consult. She is void of course until she arrives, so the whole of today is spent finishing nothing in Gemini, and then at 19:55 UTC she is home until Sunday night.
From the shelf
Guido Bonatti
Thirteenth century Italy, where the five essential dignities are already a settled and ranked set, centuries before anyone put numbers beside them.

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