The hardest thing you can do to a Moon, in the traditional reading, is put Saturn next to it: feeling meets the planet whose whole job is limits.

Classical texts are unsparing about this one — melancholy, coldness, a difficult mother, early responsibility. Modern practice reads the same contact as emotional durability built the hard way, and points out that a great many people who do serious work for decades have it. Same aspect, two centuries apart, opposite tone.