Sign Leo, twenty eight degrees
Phase Waning crescent
Condition Peregrine
The word to know today
Triplicity
A triplicity is one of the four groups of three signs that share an element. Each group was given rulers, and the assignment changes with sect: one planet governs it in a chart cast by day and another in a chart cast by night. It is the third of the five essential dignities by weight.

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.

Four elements, three signs apiece, and a different owner depending on whether the Sun is up. The Moon spends today in Leo, a fire sign, running from fourteen degrees to twenty eight, and she holds no share of the fire triplicity under any of the old schemes. At 10:22 UTC she passes Jupiter at twenty degrees, who holds a great deal of it.
The groups are the obvious ones. Fire is Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. Earth is Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. Air is Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. Water is Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. Each was handed rulers, and the handing splits by sect, so one planet takes charge in a chart cast by day and another in a chart cast by night. Fire goes to the Sun by day and to Jupiter by night, which is the only one of the four the schemes agree on without argument.
So today’s meeting has a shape to it. The Moon, who owns nothing whatever in Leo, passes the planet that governs fire in every chart cast after dark, inside a fire sign, at twenty two minutes past ten in the morning by UTC. That contact is also the last aspect she makes before leaving. She is void of course from 10:22 and does not enter Virgo until 02:53 UTC tomorrow, sixteen and a half hours later. Twenty percent lit and falling. Four days from dark.
From the shelf
Vettius Valens, Anthology
Second century, and the triplicity lords are among the first things its method reaches for.

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