When is the moon voc?

[Amit89]

Is the moon void of course beginning at 27 degrees onto 3 degrees next sign or 26 degrees as some websites state?

 

[IleneK]

Is the moon void of course beginning at 27 degrees onto 3 degrees next sign or 26 degrees as some websites state?

Void of course is more subtle than that. There are a number of ways that moon void of course is described, but it has to do with the moon making an aspect before it leaves a sign. So there is no particular fixed degree range in which void of course occurs.

 

[Amit89]

Void of course is more subtle than that. There are a number of ways that moon void of course is described, but it has to do with the moon making an aspect before it leaves a sign. So there is no particular fixed degree range in which void of course occurs.

Thank you for your reply and insight.

 

[Osamenor]

The moon goes void of course when it's completed the last Ptolemaic aspect it's going to make to any planet before leaving its current sign. It stays void of course until it enters the next sign.

How many degrees into its sign that happens depends on where the last planet it's going to aspect from that sign is. If that last planet is within a minute of crossing into the next sign, Moon isn't void of course until it's practically into the next sign. If that last planet is very early in its sign, Moon is void of course for most of its transit through the sign.

It's even possible, at least in theory, for Moon to be void of course the entire time it's transiting a certain sign. If all the other planets were in a huge stellium in one sign, and Moon were one or five signs away from that one sign, Moon would make no Ptolemaic aspect at all to any planet.

 

[waybread]

I agree with Ilene and Osamenor. William Lilly, the dean of western horary astrology, said that he didn't think a VOC moon made much difference in horary questions if the the moon were in Pisces, Cancer, Taurus, Sagittarius. (signs ruled by Jupiter, the moon, Venus.)

 

[Osamenor]

William Lilly is the dean of Western Traditional Horary Astrology. There is such a thing as Modern Horary Astrology, and arguably, Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson(1893-1990 ) was the dean of that.

The point here is what Lily said about void of course Moons, not who the dean of horary astrology is.