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Every planet in the Hellenistic system belonged to one of two teams. The Sun led the day and the Moon led the night, and at 16:49 UTC today she leaves Cancer, the only sign she rules, and crosses into Leo, which belongs to him. Fourteen percent of her face is lit.
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Sect is the term for that division, and it runs deeper in the old material than almost anything else. Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn to the day. Moon, Venus, and Mars to the night. Mercury took whichever side it was on that morning, depending on whether it rose ahead of the Sun or behind it. The split was not decorative. A planet in a chart of its own sect was held to do its work more cleanly, and the same planet out of sect to be harsher and less reliable. Dorotheus of Sidon, writing in the first century, uses the distinction as a working assumption rather than a thesis.
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Which makes today’s crossing the night’s leader walking into the day’s house. She holds nothing in Leo. Not domicile, not exaltation, not detriment, not fall, which is the peregrine condition, and it is the condition she will hold for nearly all of what remains of this cycle.
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A gap comes first. From 13:39 UTC she completes no further aspect in Cancer, so the last three hours in her own sign run void, and the ingress ends the silence. Four days of light remain. The new Moon falls on the eleventh at 03:27 UTC, and Leo will be behind her by then as well.
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