AmeliaS wrote:WJ, an old thread with Ms Deb Houlding's comments for your reference: http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic ... c&start=15

My first instinct is that Moon's aspects seldom prohibit. Miss Deb said we don't have to dismiss a case like yours (a faster planet applying to both significators) as helpful just because it doesn't fit the traditional definition of "translation" or "collection". What counts is that two planets make a connection, which otherwise wouldn't exist, through a third planet. Also, Deb doesn't believe that an interposing planet automatically prohibits - it depends on what interest that third planet represents - if opposite interest then yes it would intervene. In my experience, an interception by a good aspect with a well-placed benefic doesn't necessarily prohibit. It depends on the rest of the chart.

Now, in your chart, Moon is making a trine to Venus. A good Moon-Venus aspect in a romance chart is a very positive thing (see Lilly). There is no reception, and no essential dignity, but Moon is strongly placed in the MC. Venus is cadent and peregrine but this is a trine from OK houses and if memory serves Bonatti thinks that a fortune always wants to help whether there is a reception or not - in any case this doesn't matter in this romance chart. A Moon-Venus connection that isn't ugly is positive anyway.

Remember that Moon doesn't just represent the Querent; it's also the Quesited and the relationship.

What is not so positive is that Mars L7 is in the 7th house. (You see this happens so much in romance charts when a Querent is fussing over things, often rightfully, horary must be true ) Now Tanit and I have talked about this some time ago and we both don't think it means no interest. I think though the Quesited is not going to be actively seeking a relationship with the querent, not in some time. But it doesn't mean no relationship per se.

Venus L1 is also conjunct the South Node. Also there is an angular Mercury combust near the IC and I wonder what it means.


Amelia