⚸ U+26B8 — the astrological glyph for a mathematical point in the Moon's orbit, not a planet, moon, or asteroid. Click any symbol to copy it instantly.
Black Moon Lilith (⚸, U+26B8, officially BLACK MOON LILITH) doesn't mark a physical body at all — it marks the far end of the Moon's elliptical orbit around Earth, the point where the Moon sits farthest away, known in orbital mechanics as the lunar apogee. Because the Moon's orbit itself slowly rotates, that point drifts through the zodiac over roughly nine years, and astrologers track it as a chart placement the same way they'd track a planet. The name borrows from Lilith, the figure from Mesopotamian and later Jewish folklore associated with independence and the repressed or shadow self — a theme astrologers carried over into what the placement is said to represent. It's a separate thing from asteroid 1181 Lilith, a real minor planet with its own (non-Unicode) astrological glyph; Unicode added ⚸ in version 7.0 (2014) as part of a broader batch of astrological symbols.
The orbital-point symbols astrology charts plot the same way they plot planets.
The Moon glyphs Lilith's symbol is most often set alongside in charts and captions.
The standard planetary glyphs a natal chart plots alongside Lilith and the nodes.
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Another symbol whose real history runs quieter and later than the meaning attached to it today.
A five-pointed star with its own long, contested symbolic history, reported without picking a side.