i am very scorpionic. i feel more of a scorpio than a cancer, that's for sure.
an unaspected moon... yes, you technically do have one as it makes no aspects to other planets (the orbs in the chart you posted are just too wide. it technically does not trine your sun and your AC) and it being scorpio i think is not an easy one. it longs for that deep connection, yet is a loner. it may have a harder time to express itself properly. it is hard to say, which way it will go... it might be a blessing in disguise if it's not able to express itself the scorpio way.. ha, but it might also be an extra curse, if emotions are running so deep without a proper outlet. just a scorpio moon is hard enough, i wouldn't worry too much about it being 'unaspected' to be honest.
furthermore, personally i don't just look at the aspects... i think the signs in general are important, too. your moon might not trine your sun, but they are both operating in a 'watery' way, so there would be a basic understanding. same with your AC-moon, AC-sun.
my chart is in my profile. i'm all water (sun, moon, ascendant, mercury) and air (mars, venus, uranus) with only pluto in earth and neptune in fire. my chart is not particularly a difficult one, with the exception of venus square pluto and maybe sun square uranus.
''About the Orbs...
To study the question of orb of aspect, it would be best to observe the effects of transits over natal positions and determine for yourself what you consider to be effective orb -- rather than learning by rote from a book. We should keep in mind that the ancient astrologers did not use orb of aspect at all, but considered a planet in 1 degree of Virgo to be in trine with a planet in 30 degrees of Capricorn. When someone says "traditional orbs", just which tradition are they referring to? Marc Edmund Jones, one of America's greatest astrologers, allowed orbs of 10 degrees for all planets; the narrower orbs in use by many astrologers today did not come into fashion until around the middle of the 20th century.
1. Ancient astrologers used sign-to-sign aspects. They did not even have "orbs". Their astrology worked.
2. Marc Edmund Jones used orbs of 10 degrees for all the planets, except Sun (17 degrees) and Moon (12). He didn't distinguish between conjunctions (powerful aspects) and sextiles (weak aspects). In cases where there was translation of light he would even extend those orbs.
3. The tight and variably-sized orbs popular today didn't come into use at all until around the middle of the 20th century. They are a new development coming out of the dumb New Age fuzzy-minded "astrologers".
4. I have noticed that people with aspects that are considered ''too wide by orb'' have had a strong personality matching that aspect. This shows that as long as the aspect are in the sign, it works. So why deny proof like that because of a written down sentence in a book?
5. Aspects like my Venus Square Neptune that is considered ''Too wide'' are extremely prominent in my personality so what does that tell you?
Use your own judgment. Test things.
You haven't even thought about the difference between an applying and a separating aspect.
Astrology is a system of thought. This means that it is an aid to thought, not a substitute for it.
Feel free to make mistakes. The world will keep on spinning.
In horary astrology aspects do not have orbs. They are considered effective as long as they perfect before one of the planets changes sign, even if they are 22 degrees apart (provided there is no interference from a third planet, or retrogradation does not interrupt the perfection).
No one taught me this. It seemed logical to me, so I use it as my starting point and then adjust according to the horoscope.
Some guy I read a chart for had a Moon-Saturn opposition with 13+ degree orb. Saturn was angular in the 4th, and Moon was applying from the 9th. The guy was a scoffing skeptic of astrology ("I don't believe in that ****") he said, which got my goat. Based solely on that wide-orbed aspect, I made a "prediction" that caused him to nearly fall out of his chair.....and become a believer. The test of orb is....Is it effective? Can you see its effects in the personality and life?''
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