Cool Moon Facts by Whip

Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Signs · Reading a chart · Beginner

Modality

Also called quality, quadruplicity, mode

Cardinal, fixed or mutable: the three ways of grouping the signs by their place in a season.

Each season has a cardinal sign that opens it, a fixed sign in the middle and a mutable sign at its end. Ptolemy described the same grouping as solstitial and equinoctial, solid, and bicorporeal signs.

  • Kind: Tradition
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Cardinal signs, Fixed signs, Mutable signs, Modality balance

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

All terms · Your birth chart

Settings

Your location

Only used to work out rise and set times. It stays in this browser.

Moon orientation

Southern-hemisphere skies show the moon flipped. This follows your location automatically.

Saved facts

Everything saved here

This site keeps your location, your saved facts and your settings in this browser and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing here can be recovered once it is gone.

Cool Moon Facts · built by Whiptronics LLC

Gear that makes it better

Where these numbers come from