When you have the Moon conjunct Neptune, your emotional life can have thinner walls and a much larger sky. The Moon already describes what makes you feel safe, comforted, protected, and emotionally held, but Neptune dissolves boundaries, magnifies sensitivity, and Continue reading Moon Conjunct Neptune Natal Aspect: Building a Life You Can Actually Live In
When your Moon is touched by Neptune, you feel atmospheres before anyone has said a word. You are unusually porous. You open to life through feeling. Even when the rest of you is composed, practical, defended, or determined to appear...
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...
Astrology is often most illuminating when it wanders into the territory of psychology, because this is where symbols start becoming uncomfortably, beautifully human. What it reveals is the contradictions we all carry, the desires disowned, the wounds defended, and the...
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,...
When the Moon is square Neptune, your emotional life is permeable. The Moon is your instinctive self: how you nurture, attach, react, retreat, protect, hunger, remember. Neptune is the great dissolver: imagination, longing, spirituality, compassion, glamour, fog, the collective mood, Continue reading Moon Square Neptune Natal Aspect: The Ghost of Her Mood
Here we have the lunar dreamer of Moon-Neptune, where emotions flow overwhelmingly and boundaries are soft, even broken. In this often perplexing psychological terrain, we often sense something deeper is going on beneath the angelic surface. The Moon, keeper of...
Question: In an astrology chart, what would make someone a “pity magnet”? Someone who, whether or not they actually have many issues or problems, always receives pity and attention from others—an “oh, poor you.” What a deliciously curious question you’ve...
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,...
In the Jungian and astrological realm of the mind, there is a phenomenon where the psyche, in its silent yearning for wholeness, sometimes rebels against a one-sided imprint. This is, when our experience of the paternal is skewed, exaggerated, or...
Here we have the slippery archetypal pairing – Moon-Neptune, the emotional aspect of tides. The Moon, the tender and maternal keeper of moods and memories, seeks comfort, rhythm, and predictability. She wants her cozy life just so, her blanket on...
With the Moon and Neptune in aspect, conjunction, opposition, or square, you carry a heart both beautiful and sensitive, deeply attuned to the subtle vibrations of the world. You feel everything. The joy, the sorrow, the unspoken dreams of strangers Continue reading Moon-Neptune: The Invalid, Reclusive, Nagging Partner