The Moon is the part of the psyche reaching out without thinking. It is the emotional hand extended. It is how we recognize another person’s sadness. It is also obvious in the way we instinctively soften around someone who is...
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...
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 sextile Mars is an angle of opportunity and flow, these planets don’t clash. Instead, they stir passions with purpose and emotions with energy. It gives emotional courage. It’s rarely the bravado of someone who shouts their feelings from rooftops, Continue reading Moon Sextile Mars Natal Aspect
To have the Moon conjunct Mars in your chart is to have something urgent, alive, sometimes chaotic, but never dull. It’s not always easy, of course. This placement can make the world feel like it’s always pressing on a bruise Continue reading Moon Conjunct Mars Natal Aspect
With Moon trine Mars in your chart, intuition and instinct flow with purpose and passion, without veering into melodrama or dramatic fisticuffs. This aspect allows you feel things with vim and vigor, but there’s grace in the execution. You take Continue reading Moon Trine Mars Natal Aspect
The Moon opposite Mars aspect in your natal chart is an internal tug-of-war. This alignment can create a bit of tension between your softer, squishy emotional side and the fiery, action-driven part of you that wants to charge ahead and Continue reading Moon Opposite Mars Natal Aspect
The Moon is all about your inner world—the emotional tides that ebb and flow within you. It represents your softness, your sensitivity, the part of you that longs to be cradled and understood. Mars, on the other hand, is the...
Moon trine Mars in your birth chart means you are self-assured, charming, sexually attractive, and a little bit of a firecracker in your personal life. Every morning, you wake up with a “ready to face the day” Moon that stirs Continue reading Moon Trine Mars Natal: Strength and Vulnerability
I have four people in my life with the Moon in aspect to Mars: three with the square and one with the trine, and I find this configuration endlessly fascinating. The rest of us, looking in at Moon-Mars in a...
With the Moon-Mars in aspect on the birth chart, the unfairness of events in life could be so overwhelming that those with this energy will often physically or verbally lash out, break things, or express their feelings by being honest...