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Taurus, nineteen degrees |
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The word to know today
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The bounds
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Each sign is cut into five unequal sections, and each section is assigned to one of the five planets that are not the Sun or the Moon. The older English word for them is terms. A planet standing in its own bound picked up a small dignity, which is something neither of the two lights can ever do.
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Please read this before you go to sleep tonight
I usually do not send messages like this...
But your chart kept pulling at my intuition so aggressively that I had to stop my readings completely.
No matter whose reading I started next, yours kept appearing instead.
It's incredibly rare for one person's energy to interrupt multiple readings in a row.
When I finally gave in and looked closer, I understood why.
An angel just stepped in and completely paid the debt.
I don't think you should go to sleep tonight without seeing what they opened for you.
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Ptolemy and most of the astrologers who came after him did not agree about the boundaries inside a sign. The Moon is at nineteen degrees of Taurus tonight, still in her exaltation, and under either scheme she stands inside a subdivision that belongs to some other planet. Those subdivisions are the bounds. She goes void of course at 23:36 UTC and keeps the sign until tomorrow afternoon.
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Every sign is divided into five unequal pieces, and each piece is handed to one of the five planets that are not the Sun or the Moon. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. The exclusion is the striking part of the arrangement. The two lights rule signs, they hold exaltations, they govern triplicities, and they own no bound anywhere in the circle. Wherever the Moon stands, she is standing in somebody else’s section.
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The argument is about where the lines fall. One set of divisions, the Egyptian terms, was already old when the Greeks wrote it down, and no principle behind the numbers has ever been recovered. Ptolemy, in second century Alexandria, rejected that table and set out a different one, on the grounds that the Egyptian figures had no reasoning behind them. The profession largely ignored him. Lilly, in London in 1647, prints the Egyptian terms, fourteen hundred years after Ptolemy argued against them. On the question of who owns nineteen degrees of Taurus, the tradition never did reach agreement.
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From the shelf
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William Lilly, Christian Astrology
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London, 1647, and its tables of dignity keep the older division of the bounds rather than the one Ptolemy proposed to replace it with.
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