Semi-quintile Moon — Saturn

(Transit Moon → Natal Saturn)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Decile Moon: People should be fed with food that is natural to them, not with one’s own raw meat. In the spheres governed by the planet, a person acutely feels inhuman treatment toward themselves only at the level of unmet needs, and if the Moon is afflicted, these needs may be severely distorted. On the other hand, the simultaneous activation of the planet’s and the Moon’s principles—such as thoughts about one’s people, mother, or lack of sustenance in connection with the planet’s spheres—evokes an instinctive surge of humanistic feelings, which are most naturally expressed in care, especially for urgent needs. For example, the decile Moon–Venus, if not heavily afflicted, gives extraordinary softness and tenderness in love, a desire to protect, warm, and humanely pity the beloved, but a lack of comfort may be perceived by this person as an inhuman manifestation of fate or the partner. At the same time, it should be kept in mind that the decile, as a minor aspect, always signifies only an indirect connection between planetary principles, and a person with a Moon–Venus decile will not be vitally dependent in love on domestic inconveniences (though they may consider them inhumane), unlike a person with a square between the Moon and Venus. Decile Saturn: The misfortune of people lies not only in the fact that they do not understand their own happiness—but also that they do not understand one another. The interpretation of the aspect depends on the level of Saturn’s, the planet’s, and the horoscope’s overall development. At a low or average level, this aspect gives a form of humanitarianism in the planet’s spheres—a desire to make people happy by severely limiting their freedom, which (in the person’s view) quickly becomes a freedom of evil: external and internal. This person sees (in the planet’s spheres) human and humanistic happiness in order, organization, rigid structure, and routine. If Saturn is afflicted, this may take horrifying forms (totalitarianism, bureaucracy); if harmonious, the person with humanitarian enthusiasm and uplift may, for example, participate in creating an artificial environment that separates humans from uncontrolled and anarchic nature—builders of modern machine civilization. The aspect’s development comes through deep study of human nature first and foremost as a fact of their inner life, and on this path, many profound truths can be grasped, especially if one begins the study with oneself and the structure of their inner world and subconscious in the spheres governed by the planet. Then the rigidity of humanitarian attitudes will be replaced by their depth, and the person will rid themselves of painful experiences and a sense of vulnerability in the spheres related to the planet (for example, an unprocessed Mars–Saturn decile gives a sense of human weakness and inability to resist aggression, but an acute effort of aggression, or rather, an acute sense of its inhumanity).