Astrolgers are noted for quibbling over gnat hairs.
Regarding the modern planets, I personally do not use them for most rulerships (yet I do; I say this with reservations).
But as far as rulership of the common things about us, I reserve the power of rulership to the seven planets of antiquity.
The rulership of springs was traditionally given to Moon (e.g., Lilly & Ramesey) and the sign Cancer. Al Biruni used Mercury. Land in the environs of a spring was given to Aquarius for reasons I have never understood.
With the addition of the quality hot, I would apply joint rulership of Moon and Mars. In the case of mineral springs used as treatments toward healing, perhaps the soothing Jupiter might get involved, or the transforming sign of Scorpio.
Wells were given to Saturn, and Cancer or Pisces (Lilly used both signs). Saturn rules things of the Earth, of things underground, deep and dark, and rules mines and mining; and what is a well but a "water mine"?
Rulerships (like the houses) are not rigid. It depends on context, on usage or application, and also on the astrologer's understanding of the nature of planets and signs.
Oh, and the modern planets. I use them as rulers of modern things (although I always like to use the old planets anyway.) Photography, for example, came along as Neptune was discovered; it is modern and of the nature of Neptune. But Moon has always, and still does, rule all forms of images and imagery, feelings and emotions, memory....and these things are all contained in photograpy. So there is no reason why the Moon should not rule that art or science. Nuclear power I give to Pluto, because the two came along hand-in-hand down the road of history, and the nuclear reactions (fusion and fission) are of the nature of Pluto. But Mars has always been the ruler of energy, of the power to motivate or move other things, and even of explosions (poor Japan). So Mars can also be said to rule this new form of an old thing. Even the Sun could be considered: the Sun is Primal Energy, and nuclear (because at center, holding and organizing the whole, the original or elemental source.
Rulerships have to do with "anaologous nature." Often the assignment of rulership depends on which perspective you take of a thing. Land, for example, is a Fourth House thing, but only when it is seen as a heritage, a foundation...if land becomes a means of speculation for profit, it moves to the 5th House, or if seen as farm land with emphasis on the crops it can or does produce, it could be a Sixth House thing.
Regarding the modern planets, I personally do not use them for most rulerships (yet I do; I say this with reservations).
But as far as rulership of the common things about us, I reserve the power of rulership to the seven planets of antiquity.
The rulership of springs was traditionally given to Moon (e.g., Lilly & Ramesey) and the sign Cancer. Al Biruni used Mercury. Land in the environs of a spring was given to Aquarius for reasons I have never understood.
With the addition of the quality hot, I would apply joint rulership of Moon and Mars. In the case of mineral springs used as treatments toward healing, perhaps the soothing Jupiter might get involved, or the transforming sign of Scorpio.
Wells were given to Saturn, and Cancer or Pisces (Lilly used both signs). Saturn rules things of the Earth, of things underground, deep and dark, and rules mines and mining; and what is a well but a "water mine"?
Rulerships (like the houses) are not rigid. It depends on context, on usage or application, and also on the astrologer's understanding of the nature of planets and signs.
Oh, and the modern planets. I use them as rulers of modern things (although I always like to use the old planets anyway.) Photography, for example, came along as Neptune was discovered; it is modern and of the nature of Neptune. But Moon has always, and still does, rule all forms of images and imagery, feelings and emotions, memory....and these things are all contained in photograpy. So there is no reason why the Moon should not rule that art or science. Nuclear power I give to Pluto, because the two came along hand-in-hand down the road of history, and the nuclear reactions (fusion and fission) are of the nature of Pluto. But Mars has always been the ruler of energy, of the power to motivate or move other things, and even of explosions (poor Japan). So Mars can also be said to rule this new form of an old thing. Even the Sun could be considered: the Sun is Primal Energy, and nuclear (because at center, holding and organizing the whole, the original or elemental source.
Rulerships have to do with "anaologous nature." Often the assignment of rulership depends on which perspective you take of a thing. Land, for example, is a Fourth House thing, but only when it is seen as a heritage, a foundation...if land becomes a means of speculation for profit, it moves to the 5th House, or if seen as farm land with emphasis on the crops it can or does produce, it could be a Sixth House thing.
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. An interesting tidbit: Saturn would be perceived as FAR colder then Pluto, despite Pluto being much colder.