Void Moon, Prohibitions, and Tradeoffs
Void-Moon and prohibition rules are school-dependent screening criteria; no candidate chart is perfect, so tradeoffs need a visible priority order.
Overview
Publish the chosen void-Moon and prohibition definitions, then show how each one changes the same practical candidate set.
At a glance
- Scope
- Explicit void and prohibition tradeoff
- Method family
- Planet set, aspects, and sign boundary declared
- Evidence basis
- Competing school definitions retained
- Observed example
- Two definitions across four candidates
- Exclusion condition
- Automatic veto rhetoric fails review
- Product boundary
- No pressure toward an impractical time
Definition and Scope
This guide compares traditional void-of-course and prohibition rules as explicit electional tradeoffs. The audit records the Moon’s degree and speed, next exact contacts, time to sign change, planets included, relevant aspect sequence, and the school’s consequence for the specific objective. Skyscript and the NCGR curriculum document differing restrictions and the “art of the possible”; they do not prove failure. A worked review keeps the same feasible window and shows how each definition changes the candidate set rather than blending definitions.
Evidence and Repeatable Method
Define void-of-course precisely, list hard vetoes separately from soft penalties, rank the objective’s rulers, and document what worsens when each candidate improves.
Worked Example and Near Miss
Candidate A avoids a void Moon but falls outside business hours; candidate B is operationally viable with one lunar caution, so feasibility is not hidden behind purity.
Apply two published void definitions to the same four feasible times. One definition may remove two candidates while the other removes none because it includes an out-of-sign contact. The table shows both results, the operational cost of avoiding each interval, and the selected school. It does not merge the definitions or call a practically impossible time superior.
One unfavorable indicator automatically cancels a necessary action, or the definition of void is changed between candidates to favor a preferred time.
Schools and Method Variants
Void definitions differ by aspect set, sign boundary, orb, and traditional lineage; the same fixed definition must be applied to every candidate.
Limits, Product Boundary, and Safe Use
“Void Moon” is not a universal automatic veto, and a prohibition should not be added only after a candidate is disliked. Publish the exact void definition—planetary set, aspect set, orb, sign-boundary rule, and treatment of out-of-sign contacts—then apply it to every candidate. Show what practical constraint would be sacrificed to avoid the condition and whether the event can safely move. If no feasible time clears the selected rule, document the compromise or do not elect; never invent precision or pressure others to accept an impractical date.
Sources and editorial basis
- Skyscript: Electional Astrology by John FrawleyParagraphs beginning “The majority of elected events ... have no such clear-cut outcome” and “The task usually boils down to avoiding the most unfortunate possibilities”, plus the “Good Queen Bess” case: constraints, imperfect choices, and tradeoffsA public traditional-practice essay explaining objectives, practical constraints, natal context, significators, condition, aspects, and unavoidable tradeoffs in choosing a starting time.
- NCGR Online Education Level III CurriculumLevel III Curriculum, “Electional”, PDF p. 3: definition and purpose, event scope, beginnings, significators, aspect/sign dynamics, natal connections, and assignmentsA public advanced practitioner syllabus that enumerates the working vocabulary of horary, electional, and mundane astrology. It documents what a training program teaches; it is not scientific validation of its judgments.