I need not describe the Moon’s color or changing shapes—they are known to all. She completes her passage through the twelve signs in about twenty-eight days. The Moon is feminine and nocturnal, cold and moist in nature.
The Moon gives a stature somewhat above middle size, a round, pale or whitish face, and gray eyes—often with one slightly larger than the other. There is much hair on the head and beard, of a brightish brown. The body is plump, full, and phlegmatic, with short, fleshy hands.
When the Moon is well dignified, the native is witty and ingenious, inclined to many useful and pleasant studies, a lover of novelties. Though somewhat unsteady and prone to shift dwelling, he is timid and easily startled, yet a lover of peace—soft, tender, and well-disposed.
If ill dignified, the native becomes a vagabond or idle, lazy companion—a drunken, sottish fellow who lives carelessly and beggarly; a person without spirit, hating labor, mutable, unsettled, and inconstant.
The Moon is patroness of queens, duchesses, countesses, and ladies, and—together with Venus—all women. She also signifies pilgrims, travellers, sailors and mariners, fishermen, vintners, tapsters, brewers, letter-carriers, coachmen, huntsmen, midwives, nurses, maltsters, hackney-men (cab drivers), water-men, and charwomen.
Herbs and Plants of the Moon
Adder’s-tongue; cabbages; coleworts; columbines; watercress; duckweed; water-flag; fleur-de-lis (iris); fluellin; ivy; lettuce; water-lilies; loosestrife; moonwort; mouse-ear; orpine; poppies; purslane; privet; rattle-grass; white roses; white saxifrage; burnet-saxifrage; winter gillyflowers; and the willow tree.
These are noted for the astrological physician, who, judging the cause of illness from the nativity, may know what remedies accord with the Moon’s virtue.
Moon in the houses of Other Planets
In the Houses of Saturn
If the Moon is in Capricorn or Aquarius, well disposed in a nocturnal nativity and decreasing in light (waning), it foretells sore eyes and grief in the loins and kidneys. In a diurnal birth these afflictions are lighter. In any nativity—day or night—it shows the native ill-beloved by men: they will seek to blast his credit and reputation and despitefully use him, even when he has deserved well of them.
In the Houses of Jupiter
With the Moon in Sagittarius or Pisces, in any nativity, the native has great influence among his kindred and is reckoned their governor, his fame spreading abroad. Nevertheless, he is given to luxury and keeps company with lewd women.
In the Houses of Mars
When the Moon is in Aries or Scorpio, in any nativity, it marks an impudent person, thievish, abandoning good works and studying mischief; he consorts willingly with wicked companions and loves their company.
In the House of the Sun
The Moon in Leo, in any nativity, signifies the native will abide with kings and great men—the more so if she is placed in the first or last bounds (terms/decans) of Leo.
In the Houses of Venus
If the Moon is in Taurus or Libra, whatever the sect, the native is inflamed with love of women. Even if she is weak or impeded there, he will sport and dally with them, and much profit may redound to him thereby.
In the Houses of Mercury
With the Moon in Gemini or Virgo, the native is bountiful, lives a good, harmless life, and is wise and ingenious—yet given to luxury with maids and young women.
In Her Own House
If the Moon is fortunate in Cancer, it shows the native will dwell with kings and great men and obtain much good and profit from them. Alboaly adds: if her conjunction or application be evil, diverse sicknesses will befall the native; if fortunate, the body will be healthful and temperate.
From The Doctrine of Nativities, JOHN GADBURY