Lunar Mansion Report, April 14, 2025 to April 20, 2025

 This is an entry in a continuing series of posts looking at the Moon's position and condition in the week ahead with an eye to the Mansions of the Moon. This is an exercise to help track the speed of the Moon, organize my thoughts on the Mansions, and think about the practical applications. 

All times are for me locally, United States Pacific Time. I will be making note of the Moon's phase, speed, and Mansion position in my assessment. Currently, I'm not considering aspects with other planets.

Lunar Mansion Report, April 14, 2025 to April 20, 2025.

Monday, April 14th, 2025. The Moon is in Alichlil when April 14th begins but she only spends the first 17 minutes in that Mansion before stepping into the next Mansion, Alcalb, The Heart of the Scorpion at 12:17am. The Moon remains in Alcalb through the rest of April 14th. The phase is Waning Gibbous, which is best for works of diminishment and erosion. 

The Moon travels across Alcalb between 12:17am on April 14th until 2:18am on April 15th. This is a period of 26 hours and 1 minute, which is slow, but it is 6 minutes less than the previous Mansion so she is accelerating. A slow Moon may make magical effects take longer to manifest but may also make them longer lasting. 

The wrathful powers of Alcalb include creating disagreements among partners (Gayat al Hakim), to conspire against kings, vengeance against enemies, to separate friends, to expel serpents and harmful creatures from a house (Latin Picatrix), and to inflict quarrels and discord (Celestial Magic).

The image for Alcalb in the Latin Picatrix is an adder with its tail above its head. A venomous snake is dangerous enough but with its tail above its head it takes on the defensive qualities of a scorpion and so cannot be attacked from in front or in the rear.  

April 14th ends with the Moon in Alcalb.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025. April 15th begins with the Moon in Alcalb, the Heart of the Scorpion, and moves into the next Mansion, Axaula, the Sting of the Scorpion, at 2:18am. The Moon finishes April 15th in Axaula. The phase is Waning Gibbous, a wrathful phase that empowers works of weakening and decay. 

The Moon will transit across Axaula from 2:18am on April 15th until 4:13am on April 16th, 25 hours and 55 minutes. This is 6 minutes less than the previous Mansion which means the Moon is slow but speeding up. A slow Moon may delay the effects of magic but may also delay the end of those effects. 

The wrathful powers of Axaula are isolating cities, defeating enemies, making a person lose all his money, separation and alienation, breaking and destroying ships, creating discord between partners (Gayat al Hakim), to besiege cities and take them, to destroy the wealth of whoever you please, to expel men from a place, to separate and destroy the wealth of allies, to break and destroy ships (Latin Picatrix), and to annul contracts (Shams al Marif). 

The image in the Latin Picatrix for Axaula is a woman with her hands covering her face. The special power of Axaula is as a purgative, especially to bring on menstrual bleeding. Repulsion, expulsion, and forceful pushing are all under the influence of Axaula. The gesture of a woman covering her face is one of despair.

The Moon ends April 15th in Axaula.

Wedensday, April 16th, 2025. The Moon is in Axaula, the Sting of the Scorpion, when April 16th begins. She continues through that Mansion until 4:13am and then enters Alnaym, the Beam or the Ostriches. The Moon is in Alnaym for the remainder of April 16th. The phase is Waning Gibbous which calls for works of division and subtraction. 

From 4:13am on April 16th until 5:52am on April 17th the Moon will be in Alnaym. All together this is 25 hours and 39 minutes. This continues the Moon's slow period but she continues to speed up, spending 16 minutes less in Alnaym than in Axaula. A slow Moon may make the overall effects of magical works take longer to materialize and to dissipate. 

The wrathful powers of Alnaym include worsening the situation of partners (Gayat al Hakim), to bring evil and destruction to the riches of allies (Latin Picatrix), to bring about imprisonment and containment, and destroy ill-gotten gains (Celestial Magic).

The image of Alnaym in the Latin Picatrix is a centaur shooting a bow. The power ascribed to it is for finding and taking whatever you hunt. It is also for taming wild beasts. 

The Moon ends April 16th in Alnaym.

Thursday, April 17th, 2025. At midnight, when the day changes to April 17th, the Moon is in Alnaym, the Beam or the Ostriches. She will transit across that Mansion until 5:52am and will then enter Albelda, the Wasteland. The Moon ends April 17th in Albelda. The phase is Waning Gibbous which is best for works of loss and reduction. 

The Moon continues her slow period, spending 25 hours and 20 minutes in Albelda between 5:52am on April 17th and 7:12am on April 18th, and continues to speed up, spending 19 minutes less in this Mansion than in the previous one. A slow Moon may delay the effects of magic but may also bolster the duration of those effects. 

The wrathful powers of Albelda are for a wife to divorce and never remarry (Gayat al Hakim), to separate wives from their proper husbands, destruction of a place (Latin Picatrix), for the destruction of a person (Agrippa), and creating enmity, hostility, divisiveness, and everything calamitous (Shams al Marif).

The image for Albelda in the Latin Picatrix is a man with a face like Janus, with one face on the front and another face on the back of the head. Janus was the Roman god of the threshold, the place in between, and marked passages. In my experience Albelda is a Mansion of waiting, holding, and immobility.

The Moon is in Albelda when April 17th ends.

Friday, April 18th, 2025. The Moon is in Albelda, the Wasteland, when April 18th begins. She stays in that Mansion until 7:12am and will then make ingress into the next Mansion, Sadahaca, the Lucky Star of the Slaughterers. The Moon will still be in Sadahaca when April 18th ends at midnight. The phase is Waning Gibbous, which makes her wrathful and supports works of decline and contraction.

The Moon will be in Sadahaca from 7:12am on April 18th until 8:03am on April 19th. This is 24 hours and 51 minutes so she is slow but accelerating. A slow Moon may make magic take longer to come about but may also help to prolong those effects. 

The wrathful powers of Sadahaca include separation between kings and wazirs (Ibn Hatim), separation of spouses and lovers, for a woman to be raped and discord between partners (Gayat al Hakim), to bind tongues against slander (Latin Picatrix), evil (Liber Luneae), and to agitate rulers into wrath and to hide secrets (Shams al Marif). 

The image for this Mansion in the Latin Picatrix is "the figure of a man with winged feet wearing a helmet", a very Mercurial image. Considered together with the title of this Mansion, The Lucky Star of the Slaughterers, this Mansion has connotations of spiritual communication. The slaughterers are those who make the animal sacrifice to the gods. During this Mansion making entreaties to heaven and making offerings to seek favors and boons are greatly enhanced as are devotional acts of giving.

The Moon is in Sadahaca at the end of April 18th. 

Saturday, April 19th, 2025. The beginning of April 19th has the Moon in Sadahaca, the Lucky Star of the Slaughterers and she remains in that Mansion until 8:03am and then she steps into the next Mansion, Zaadebola, the Lucky Star of the Devourers, and will finish the day in that Mansion. The phase is Waning Gibbous which supports works of limitation and fading. 

The Moon will enter Zaadebola at 8:03am on April 19th. Then, 24 hours and 18 minutes later, at 4:20am on April 20th, she will leave that Mansion. This is slow but speeding up, spending 33 minutes less in that Mansion than in the previous Mansion. A slow Moon is best for works of reduction and shrinking. 

A wrathful Zaadebola has the strength to impose ruin and disease on whomever you wish (Ibn Hatim), damaging assets, causing estrangement between spouses (Gayat al Hakim), divide husbands from their wives, destruction and devastation (Latin Picatrix), and to inflict destruction and wasting (Celestial Magic).

The image for Zaadebola in the Latin Picatrix is a cat with a dog’s head. The head and the body are at odds, each wanting to do violence to the other. Ultimately, neither is left the winner. Pitting a group against its leaders for the purpose of destroying the entire group would be a wrathful work that is strengthened in this Mansion. 

The Moon is in Zaadebola at the end of April 19th.

Sunday, April 20th, 2025. The Moon is in Zaadebola, the Lucky Star of the Devourers, when April 20th begins. At 8:21am she moves into the next Mansion, Caadezod, the Lucky Star of the Lucky, and finishes April 20th in that Mansion. The phase of the Moon at the beginning of April 20th is Waning Gibbous, which supports works of delay and diminishment, but at 6:34pm the Moon makes a square aspect With the Sun and becomes Waning Crescent which supports works of cutting off, ending, and concealment.

The Moon will transit across Caadezod from 8:21am on April 20th until 8:04am on April 21st. This is a period of 23 hours and 53 minutes, still technically slow but she is speeding up, spending 25 minutes less in this Mansion than in the previous one. A slow Moon may delay the effects of magic but may also make those effects last longer. 

 The wrathful powers of Caadezod are driving away reptiles (Ibn Hatim), destroy the money of allies, prevent officials from completing their duties (Latin Picatrix), and hindereth the execution of government (Agrippa). 

The image in the Latin Picatrix is a woman breastfeeding a child. In most sources this Mansion is very beneficial. I associate this Mansion image with Amalthea, the nymph who hid and nursed baby Zeus until he was grown and strong enough to confront Saturn. This would suggest to me that keeping plans, projects, or conspiracies hidden from their intended target is accentuated when the Moon is in this Mansion.

The Moon ends April 20th in Caadezod.