Hmm that’s fascinating. The philosophy of the book I’m using is that the Moon and ASC are malleable and take on the shape of aspects hurling its rays at it.
Why doesn’t Greenbaum involve aspects?
Testimony from our dude shows he identifies with sanguine since he tries to be optimistic. Predominator, Mars, for his aggression and assertiveness.
Saturn is a very good argument for melancholy IMO, especially to the Moon.
Her reasoning seems to be that the aspects are more "accidental" while the markers she's settled on and found to have efficacy are more essential. Based on what I've read from snippets around the web, (having not read her book) she might have found temperament methods factoring aspects to be unreliable.
An important point she brought up is her demarcating between temperament v personality. One could be friendly and a seeming people person on the outside, while on the inside the traits of a contemplative and more reticent character are the predominant influence. (Personality being different from the more intrinsic character)
I want to say that a comparison would be how modern astrology views the ascendant vs. the sun sign.
