THE MOON

 

Since the beginning of time early “Man” has gazed towards the sky and pondered the mysteries of the Moon and the stars in the night sky. The Aztecs and the ancient Chinese in 3000BC charted the moon cycles.  These cycles were used as a guide  for planting and harvesting. 

 

The moon’s orbit takes 1 month (or 27.3 days precisely).  It spends 2 ½ days in each astrological sign.  When the moon is in Aries we feel assertive and can act impulsively, moon in Taurus spoil yourself by surrounding yourself with beauty and luxury, moon in Gemini allows communication to flow, catch up with friends, moon in Cancer, enjoy your home, nurture yourself and connect with loved ones, moon in Leo allow your inner child to play.  It’s a time to get organised when the moon resides in Virgo, we experience co-operation and harmony in relationships when the moon is in Libra, when the moon is in Scorpio the emotions are strong and resist stinging someone, moon in Sagittarius explore new interests and make travel arrangements, moon in Capricorn a time to get down to work.  When the moon visits Aquarius new and amazing ideas come to us easily and when the moon is in Pisces we experience sensitivity, compassion and prophetic dreams.  

 

Eight phases make up the Moon’s monthly cycle; new moon, crescent moon, first quarter, gibbous, full moon, disseminating moon, last quarter, balsamic moon.  It waxes (or increases) from the New Moon to the Full Moon and then wanes (or reduces) through to the Balsamic or Dark Moon phase prior to it’s rebirth at the new Moon.

 

By gazing at the Moon, notice how it’s cycles affect your moods and energy levels.  The New Moon is the perfect time to focus on manifesting your hopes, desires and new projects.  The Full Moon is a time for healing and releasing what is now completed.   Wearing a Moonstone enhances your connection with the Moon’s divine magic.  I am wearing a moonstone as I write.

 

It is documented that during a full moon responsible people can behave irrationally, arguments flair up and crime increases.  The word “Lunar” Latin for  “moon” becomes “lunatic”, describes a person who behaves in a reckless or irresponsible manner.

 

The Moon is a quarter of the size of the Earth.  It’s planetary size is 2,160 miles in diameter.

 

 

The Moon rules water, oceans (tides), liquid, silver, visible beauty (your features), your Mother and Mothering.

 

Associated in Greek mythology with the 3 faces of the Goddess; the Maiden (and daughter), the Mother and the Crone (or Wise woman, Grandmother).   The Moon represents the feminine energy which implodes and the Sun represents the male energy which explodes out into the world. 

 

The Moon in a person’s chart symbolises and describes your specific emotional needs, how you meet these needs, emotional responses, what nourishes you, your early experience of Mother, your need for family, your inner child, your spiritual ancestry.

 

Monday is the day of the Moon, and can be honoured by listening to our needs and nurturing your inner child. 

 

The sign your moon is in colours both the way you experience and express your emotions and needs.

 

People with their Moon in a water sign (pisces, cancer and scorpio) have a need for connection through relationships with others.  People with air Moon’s (aquarius, gemini and libra) need to communicate and to be understood to feel secure.  They can often be out of touch with their emotions.  Material security is important to Earth signs moons (taurus, virgo and capricorn) and physical comfort, as is a need to be useful in order to feel nourished.  Fire sign Moon’s (aries, leo and sagittarius) tend to express emotions in a dramatic and explosive way and  a strong need for recognition and validation.  They thrive on the ’stage’ as actors and entertainers.

 

Moon in Aries

A leader not a follower, direct, ambitious, a quick thinker and talker.  By nature, can be impulsive needs to think twice before acting. Remaining calm can be a challenge.  Often attracted to a political career, the military and they excel in sport.  The moon in Aries person can be self-centred and experience power struggles in relationships.  Past lives spent as warriors or soldiers, with distant memories of battlegrounds.  This makes the need for survival strong in this lifetime.

 

Moon in Taurus

Persistent, resourceful, generous, artistic.

This is a good placement for the moon in the chart.  It’s favourable for the home environment and relationships to be stable and secure for these people.  They enjoy material comforts and good food, but need to be careful of comfort eating.  They tend to have a sweet tooth. Family is important and pets are treated as family members.  A garden gives great pleasure or living on the land.  A love of music and often a beautiful voice or talented musically.  Moon in Taurus folk experienced positions of great wealth and material security in past lives, therefore they came into this incarnation desiring material security above all else.  This lifetime your self worth may depend on how much material security you have acquired, you are challenged to believe in yourself and develop the talents and gifts which God bestowed upon you.

 

Moon in Gemini

Clever, charming, witty, chatterboxes.

A constant need to learn and a strong desire for knowledge.  Moon in Gemini has to learn to be honest with people, rather than to tell them what they wish to hear.  Very versatile, they can find themselves acquiring 2 careers, 2 relationships, 2 cars, 2 of most things. They make talented writers, journalists and teachers.  But can find close emotional relationships difficult as they can be out of touch with their emotions.  In past lives they were travellers, wandering minstrels or teachers, which explains their restless nature.  Therefore, Gemini Moon people may find it difficult to settle down to one person.

 

Moon in Cancer

Sensitive, nurturing, sentimental, sympathetic, friendly, moody.

The Moon is Cancer’s ruling planet, the Moon is happy here.  They have a retentive memory but must learn to forgive and forget, past hurts.  Mother is a strong influence for better or worse.  They insist that they like a quiet, peaceful life, but attract the ’spotlight’ instead.  These people are naturally psychic, have vivid imaginations and prophetic dreams.  Home and family are important, natural homemakers

and highly creative individuals. They can appear dreamy like the moon itself.

Past lives spent in situations of dependency on family members due to a physical injury or handicap, therefore an inability to by physically independent.  In this lifetime the challenge is to meet your own emotional needs and to be responsible for yourself and to be of service to others.

 

 

 

Moon in Leo

These people are born leaders, generous, loyal, proud and ambitious.  They are romantic, playful and in love with love.  They enjoy keeping the romance alive and need to be admired by their partner.  Leo Moon people enjoy being social and attending the theatre, dinners and fancy- dress parties.  Their homes are grand and originally decorated, and they entertain with flair.  At work they  express creative and original ideas.  When confident they possess a buoyant and sunny personality.  There could have been a Mother or Mother-figure who was or wanted to be onstage.  They make natural actors, actresses and entertainers.  These people came into this incarnation with a need for recognition.  Leo Moon’s were actors/actresses, musicians, kings, queens and ’stars’, in past lifetimes.  When they feel left out or not treated in a special way, they feel insecure and can behave like a spoilt child.  They are accustomed to applause.  In this lifetime, when they  love and believe in themselves , they allow themselves to shine, and in turn inspire others to do the same.

 

Moon in Virgo

Trustworthy, hard-working, practical, reserved, neat.

A preference for routines, excellent managers, organisers, teachers, editors, layout designers, writers. When in love they demonstrate their feelings through actions rather than words eg. they may clean the home, rather than verbally express their feelings. These people are reserved when in love and only express their emotions when they are somewhat certain as to how they will be received, rather than feel foolish.  They enjoy health foods and plain foods.  Exercise and vitamin supplements are on the agenda.  Past lives spent as doctors, nurses, healers or as a nun, has given an over-developed need for perfection and a wonderful need to serve others.  This lifetime allows you to relax and trust that everything in the universe is unfolding in perfect order, surrender and let go.

 

Moon in Libra

Loyal, artistic talents, tolerant, friendly and affectionate. 

Moon in Libra people seek peace at all costs, because of their need to be liked by everyone.  A love of beautiful surroundings and socialising is a pleasure as well as new situations, conversations and people.  The choice of the right partner is imperative, the wrong choice, leaves them miserable and making too many sacrifices for the harmony they seek. In order to value themselves they think they need validation from others, selecting their friends carefully, is a necessity.  In this lifetime your lesson is to learn to express yourself and to “be” yourself within a relationship.  To do this, you must become aware of what your emotional needs are and learn to meet them yourself, otherwise your relationship will suffer.  Past lives were spent in positions of support as diplomats, mediators, concubines and female supporting roles i.e. As a wife or Mother.

 

Moon in Scorpio

Magnetic, energetic, independent, aggressive.

Moon in Scorpio’s emotions run deep and they can experience emotional extremes.  Though they tend to hide their feelings,  they have long memories, and have difficulty forgiving and forgetting.  They have probably experienced power struggles with their mothers and this can continue to be played out in the present with women friends.  Interested in past lives, death, secrets (they make good detectives), spirituality, psychology and the occult.  Highly intuitive, they uncannily tune into another’s strengths and weaknesses.  A need to rise above jealousy, spitefulness and thoughts of revenge.  After all, the best revenge is “to live well”.  Battles of power and extremes of emotional intensity have been experienced in past lives.   They are accustomed to betrayal and crisis situations from past lives.  Focus on what you wish to create by using your strength and power gained in past lives, and building the life which will bring you peace.

 

Moon in Sagittarius

Independent, optimistic, enthusiastic, sociable, entrepreneurial.

Freedom is important to Sagittarius Moon people.  They enjoy the thrill of pursuit in relationships.  Travel is usually a strong part of their life which takes them to foreign places where they enjoy learning about different cultures.  Interested in spiritual beliefs and can marry someone foreign, if they be overcome commitment phobias.  A strong need to be engaged in meaningful activities and a desire to understand life.  They love to socialise and rarely miss a social occasion and “burn the candle at both ends”.  In past lives they have experienced very independent lifetimes, by ignoring  the demands of society.  They have been a law unto themselves.   In this lifetime, they are meant to listen to other people’s points of view first, before they will be understood.

 

Moon in Capricorn

Ambitious, reliable and responsible. 

Moon in Capricorn’s take pride in their work and want recognition for their accomplishments.  Early in life, they can appear charming and confident yet inwardly they can have strong feelings of inadequacy and can worry what others think.  They need to guard against being emotionally controlling in relationships as this can lead to unhappiness and emotional isolation.  Mother may have been emotionally unavailable or a disciplinarian, which would result in early feelings of rejection.  They can fear not being able to fulfil their partners needs emotionally.  Though, they have a well developed sense of duty and responsibility.  Often their early years can be emotionally unrewarding, Capricorn moon people tend to lighten up and let go of structure and find happiness later in life.  Past lives spent in positions of authority and control have led to the belief that in order to feel  emotionally secure you have to be in total control. This is due to lifetimes spent as figureheads and political leaders.  By simply expressing your feelings in the moment, you integrate your male and female parts and bring about balance  “control (male) and emotion (feminine)“.

 

Moon in Aquarius

Humane, progressive, independent, detached, broad-minded.

These folk need plenty of freedom and can easily have a long distance relationship with contact by phone or email.  They can be attracted to unusual partners.  They need to interact with a wide range of people and express their individuality.  A parent may have had Aquarian qualities and encouraged humanitarian and intellectual traits in them.  Moon in Aquarius need to value and express their own uniqueness.  They say what they think, and often like to shock and surprise people out of their complacency, with their unusual ideas. In Past lives they lived in situations which included monasteries, orphanages and harems etc., communal living.  So they have learnt to create harmony in communal situations.  They need to learn, a relationship will grow if they give it their attention.

 

Moon in Pisces

Mystical, sympathetic, vulnerable, shy, gentle, psychic. 

Moon in Pisces wants to heal everyone and the world.  They are very romantic and seek oneness through relationships.  They need space in order to drift and dream and indulge their imagination.  They enjoy and appreciate music, dance, art and may be drawn to the healing areas such as nursing. These people like to work for those less fortunate.  If the Moon is afflicted they can resort to overindulgence of alcohol or drugs. They can be emotional, and have bouts of crying and self pity.  A visit to the sea, nature brings them into balance, as does music.  A great love of animals.  In past lives, they developed a naïve and idealistic approach to life due to lives spent in monasteries and convents.  Other people set their routine and prepared their meals. This lifetime, Moon in Pisces are meant to set their own routine, be on time and take care of their own material needs.