Moon – Meaning and Influence in Astrology
Moon Astrology
I represent your innermost emotional needs and rule the most instinctive part of you. I’m changeable and have more needs at certain times than others.
| Ruler | Cancer |
| Exaltation | Taurus |
| Detriment | Capricorn |
| Fall | Scorpio |
Everything feminine, passive and conservative, is influenced by the moon.
It symbolizes protective instincts, moods, and enthusiasm.
She indicates introversion, intuition, and receptivity.
Furthermore: buying and dependency, adaptability, reaction, reflection, subordination, and obedience. Art, poetry, and dreams.
It rules the water and all liquids.
Ebb and flow fall under its dominion, including fertility, menstruation, and conception.
It further symbolizes the mother, the crowd, the people, the soul, the unconscious, and the psyche.
In the horoscope of a man, the moon indicates a mother figure.
The nature of the planet is reflective and reproductive. It imitates the forms created by the sun. The individual with a strong Moon-position could be an excellent (reproductive) artist.
What Does the Moon Represent?
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Moon characteristics
When it comes to the birth chart, the Moon is usually known to represent the subconscious or the psyche. As well as the feelings and emotions that somebody has, the moods they exhibit and their habits. Family life and the home environment. Also represents the mother or the female gender in general.
Memory retention
It’s no secret that the moon has a great deal to do with your long-term memory. It goes hand-in-hand with the cancer sign, which in astrology rules the stomach. The food that we eat gets turned into the energy that moves us. The Moon symbolizes all the fluids in our body and the brain tissue. In other words, it helps us retain memories.
Seeing the future
The sun depicts your actions, and the moon depicts what you experience in life. As a result, the moon represents a person’s fortune, whether it is positive or negative. Therefore, it plays a huge role in predicting the future.
The past
As well as childhood, the celestial body can symbolize our past in our personal history. It can reveal so much more about the past when you look at its relationship to other planets.
Positive
Imagination, memory, sensitivity, literary feeling, intuition, empathy, adaptability.
Negative
Inconstant, dreamy, absent, capricious, and hypersensitivity, tends to flight from reality.
Other Associations
| Zodiac Sign | Cancer |
| House | the fourth |
| Anatomy | the stomach, breasts, uterus, and the lymph |
| Colour | white, cream, silvery grey, and to a lesser extent green |
| Metal | Silver |
| Gemstone | all iridescent stones: moonstone, labradorite, opal. Also: pearl, carnelian, milk quartz, amber |
| Day | Monday |
Occupation: all professions which relate to liquids: liquor, wine, mineral water, milk, laundry, dying of fabrics, sailors.
All professions related to the imagination: poets, writers, painters.
All professions related to caretaking: nurse, preschool or kindergarten teacher, governess, midwife. Additionally, all professions which do not produce anything (Sun) but focus on maintenance, support, and repair.
Basic Astronomy:
The Moon is the natural satellite of the planet Earth. It takes the Moon close to 28 days to revolve around our planet. It doesn’t have its own light and it only shines because it is illuminated by the Sun.
In Mythology:
She is The Moon Goddess (The Mother) the one who nurtures and nourishes
In Astrology – Chart Interpretation:
The Moon represents your unconscious instinctive responses, your habits, emotions, behavioral patterns, and moods.
It tells your desires in life.’What and how’ you deeply feel is the product of your Moon sign at the moment of your birth.
The position of the Moon in your natal chart by sign, house, and aspect will indicate your type of emotional responses, a kind of ‘automatic pilot’ natural reaction to people and situations in our everyday life.
Astro Keywords:
your instinctive reaction to life your ‘instinctive antenna’ of the psyche, home, emotions, security, fertility, and moodiness.
With a well-aspected Moon in your natal chart and personal planets in Cancer you probably can relate to the vibes of this maxim by Sigmund Freud ‘In personal life we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature
Next planet in astrology: Mercury