You were never really built for lukewarm feelings. With the Moon in aspect to Mars, your inner world is wired to respond quickly, honestly, and physically. Emotions are in your blood. In the sudden heat behind your eyes, the sharpness...
Question: When you hear, “My mother and I don’t get along,” what’s the first astrological explanation that comes to mind? The obvious astrological starting point is usually the Moon under pressure, but the mistake is assuming one difficult Moon aspect...
When you have a dark Moon, your emotional life is an underground river, black and ancient, moving beneath everything you do. Sometimes it carries you. Sometimes it drags you. Sometimes you are just standing in the kitchen making tea and...
When you have Moon square Venus in aspect, there is often a little civil war inside you between what comforts you and what you believe makes you lovable. One part of you wants safety, softness, familiar emotional warmth, the old...
When you have the Moon conjunct Uranus, your emotional life arrives like lightning in a bathtub. Feelings come suddenly, vividly, sometimes violently, and then just as suddenly you may detach, float upward, and observe your own storm with a cool Continue reading Moon Conjunct Uranus Natal Aspect
When you have Moon conjunct Venus, something in you instinctively understands softness. You know how to make a room feel safer. Your emotional nature reaches toward beauty. Harmony is your emotional oxygen. There is a deeply nurturing quality here, it...
When you have the Moon opposite Mercury, one part of you feels everything in tides, atmospheres, tiny emotional patterns no one else has noticed yet. Another part of you wants to name it, explain it, organize it neatly into sentences,...
When you have Moon square Mercury, one side of you speaks in feelings, memories, instincts, old wounds, gut reactions, and the private realm of your inner life. The other speaks in words, reasons, explanations, analysis, arguments, and observations. The problem...
When you have Moon trine Uranus in the natal chart, it suggests your emotional nature has a rather unusual kind of lightness about it. Not “unusual” in the sense of broken or chaotic, but unusual in the most delightful way: Continue reading Moon Trine Uranus Natal Aspect
Mother themes in astrology so often become an outsourcing operation. In a particularly mythic mood, the Moon in astrology and mother can become this giant symbolic storage tank where we deposit everything messy, engulfing, needy, manipulative, sorrowful, hungry, unreasonable, tidal,...
Moon opposite Jupiter in a natal chart means that there’s emotional generosity here. A largeness of heart. A tendency to give not only from the cup, but from the well beneath it. You might be the friend who says, “Come Continue reading Moon Opposite Jupiter Natal Aspect
You asked: “What do Moon/Neptune types yearn for, what seduces their soul and soothes their spirit, both in life and in love?” Now that’s an invocation of the archetypal dreamers among us. The Moon in astrology represents our emotional body,...