|
Hypsoma and tapeinoma are the Greek pair, a height and a lowering, and they were a matched set long before English turned the second one into fall. The Moon crosses into Scorpio at 06:43 UTC today, which is her tapeinoma. Twelve percent of her face is lit.
|
|
The two are defined against each other and against nothing else. A planet’s fall is the sign opposite its exaltation, so because the Moon is exalted in Taurus she falls in Scorpio, and no further argument was ever offered or needed. The older tables carry the symmetry down to the single degree. Her exaltation degree is the third of Taurus. Her fall degree is the third of Scorpio, and she holds it this morning between 10:29 and 12:23 UTC, under two hours of it. Thirteen days ago she was standing in the other one.
|
|
What the condition takes away is authority rather than fortune. She keeps everything she signifies and loses the position from which to act on it. The Moon governs by softening, and Scorpio is not a sign that softens, so a body whose whole method is yielding has been set down where yielding does not work. That is the entire content of the word.
|
|
She arrives out of silence. From 14:26 UTC yesterday she completed no aspect in Libra, so the last sixteen hours of that sign ran void and the ingress is what ends it. Firmicus Maternus, writing in fourth century Rome, gives the weak conditions as much room on the page as the strong ones, a habit the later tradition kept. She holds Scorpio until Wednesday afternoon.
|
|
