Correspondences of the Moon

• Symbol: ☽
• Names: Luna, Selene, Cynthia, Noctiluca
• Adjective: lunar, lunary
• Alchemy: silver
• Weekday: Monday
• Rulership: Cancer
• Detriment: Capricorn
• Exaltation: Taurus - 3°
• Fall: Scorpio - 3°
• House of joy: third house
• Triplicities:
  • earth (night) (Lilly, Frawley)
  • earth (night), water (common) (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • earth (second, day), water (third, day), earth (first, night), water (third, night) (Dorotheus)
• Terms: None.
• Decans: Taurus II, Cancer III, Libra I, Sagittarius II, Aquarius III.
• Quality:
  • cold / moist (Avelar & Ribeiro, Lilly, Frawley)
  • hot / moist (1st quarter), hot / dry (2nd quarter), cold / dry (3rd quarter), cold / moist (4th quarter) (Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Temperament:
  • phlegmatic (Avelar & Ribeiro, Skinner, Lilly, Ferne)
  • sanguine (1st quarter), choleric (2nd quarter), melancholic (3rd quarter), phlegmatic (4th quarter) (Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Element: water (Ferne)
• Gender: feminine (Lilly, Avelar & Ribeiro, Frawley)
• Sect: nocturnal (Lilly, Frawley, Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Chinese: 月
• Key concepts: life, matter, conception, birth, growth, decay, change, movement, the soul, femininity, the average person, babies, water (Lilly, Frawley, Al-Biruni, Avelar & Ribeiro, Valens, Obert)
• Dignified significations:
  • kindness, liberty, novelty, adaptability, capacity to learn (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • composure, softness, tenderness, unsteadfastness, delight in novelty, propensity for change, living in the present, prodigality, peace-loving, carefreeness (Lilly)
• Debilitated significations:
  • laziness, inactivity, drunkenness, lunacy, inertia, passivity (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • idleness, lazyness, carelessness, complacency, apathy, squalor, listlessness, timidity (Lilly)
  • lying, anxiety, forgetfulness (Al-Biruni)
• Greek pantheon:
  • Selene, Artemis, Hekate, Hypnos (Skinner)
  • Phoebe, Persephone, Leto (Lilly)
• Roman pantheon:
  • Luna, Diana, Juno (Skinner)
  • Lucina, Latona, Proserpina (Lilly)
• Ages of man:
  • early infancy (0 - 4) (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • the first 7 years (Ferne)
• Phases of gestation: seventh month, consolidation and hardening (Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Musical mode:
  • Aeolian (Flute)
  • Hypodorian (Agrippa)
• Muse: Polyhymnia (Agrippa)
• Body:
  • bladder, genitals, liver (women) (Lilly)
  • breasts, womb, belly, intestines (Frawley)
  • left eye, stomach, breasts, breath, spleen, dura mater, marrow (Valens)
  • brain (Paracelsus)
• Major arcana: The High Priestess (Golden Dawn)
• Minor arcana: 9 of Wands (Sagittarius), 4 of Cups (Cancer), 2 of Swords (Libra), 7 of Swords (Aquarius), 6 of Coins (Taurus) (Golden Dawn)
• Colours:
  • white, pale yellowish white, pale green, silver (Lilly)
  • light blue (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • green (Valens)
• Tincture (heraldry): argent (Ferne)
• Flavours:
  • fresh or without flavour, such as is in herbs before they be ripe, or such as do moisten the brain, &c. (Lilly)
  • salty (Valens, Al-Biruni, Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • bland, slightly bitter (Al-Biruni, Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Odours: fresh, wet, mild (Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Places:
  • fields, fountains, baths, havens of the sea, highways, port towns, fishponds, standing pools, boggy places, common shores, little brooks, springs, rivers, deserted places (Lilly)
  • streams, springs, ports, docks, lakes, aquariums swimming pools, roads (Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Appearance:
  • fair stature; white (pale) complexion; round face; grey eyes; a little louring; abundant hair; one eye larger than the other; short and fleshy hands; plump, fleshy or corpulent body (Lilly).
  • full figure; round face; light skin; abundant hair; short and fleshy hands (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • long beard; eyebrows joined; good hair with locks (Al-Biruni)
• People:
  • queens, countesses, ladies, women, generally, the common people, barmen, travellers, pilgrims, sailors, fishermen, fishmongers, brewers, vintners, letter-carriers, coachmen, huntsmen, oisterwives, messengers, mariners, millers, alewives, malsters, drunkards, fisherwomen, tripewomen, charwomen, midwives, nurses, hackneymen, watermen, waterbearers (Lilly)
  • seafarers, sailors, fishing personnel, producers and sellers of alcoholic beverages, messengers, bartenders, delivery workers, carriage drivers, taxi drivers, hunters, millers, housekeepers midwives, nurses, (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • tramps, pilgrims, beggars, sailors, midwives, barmen, nurses, cleaners (Frawley)
  • sorcerers, pregnant women, maternal aunts, elder sisters, mothers (Abu Mashar)
• Weather:
  • with Saturn cold air, with Jupiter serene, with Mars winds red clouds, with the Sun according to the season, with Venus and Mercury showers and winds (Lilly)
• Animals:
  • creatures that live in water, otters, frogs, snails, weasels, rabbits, all sea fowl, cuckoos, geese, night owl, ducks, all shell-fish, eels, tortoises, crabs, lobsters, cockles, oysters (Lilly)
  • oysters, fish, creatures that come out at night, slugs, owls, bushbabies (Frawley)
  • bats, eels, dogs, hogs, goats, baboons, cats, mice, hinds (female deer), chameleons (Ramesey)
• Herbs, plants and trees:
  • Herbs with soft and thick juicy leaves, of a waterish or a little sweetish taste, that love to grow in watery places, and grow quickly into a juicy magnitude; kale; cabbage; melon; gourd; pumpkin; onion; mandrake; poppy; lettuce; rape; the linden tree; endive; mushrooms; all trees or herbs that have round, shady, great spreading leaves, and are little fruitful (Lilly)
  • cabbage, cucumber, melon (Frawley)
  • lilly, white rose (Ferne)
  • lunaria, hyssop, rosemary, agnus-castus, cantaloupe, endive, poppy, flax (linseed), palmtree (Ramesey)
• Minerals:
  • soft stones, selenite, crystals (Lilly)
  • moonstone, rock crystal (Avelar & Ribeiro)
  • pearls, alabaster (Frawley)
  • margarite (?) (Ferne)
  • stones that are white and green, marcasite (Ramesey)
• Objects:
  • candles, lost objects, intoxicants, liquids, formless things, new things (Frawley)
  • glass (Valens)
  • mirrors (Avelar & Ribeiro)
• Conditions:
  • apoplexies, paralysis, abdominal pain, disease in the left side, stones, menstruation, dropsies (enema), fluxes of belly, cold stomach, all cold rheumatic diseases, the gout in the wrists and feet, sciatica, colic, worms in children and men, rheums or hurts in the eyes viz., in the left of men, and right of women, coughs, surfeits (nausea through overindulgence), convulsions, epilepsy, abcesses, small pox, measles, scrofula (king’s evil) (Lilly)
  • arthritis, leucophlegmatia (anasarca), constipation, incontinence, hypochromic anemia (green sickness) in young women (Saunders)
• Sin: Sloth (Skinner)
• Virtue:
  • diligence (Skinner)
  • hope, innocence (Ferne)
• Angel: Gabriel (Lilly)

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