The Moon in astrology is the essential child inside you. The needy, frightened, instinctive, irrational, hungry, and occasionally prepared to ruin everyone’s evening because she feels unsafe. This part of you wants comfort. It wants to be held, fed, remembered, Continue reading Moon: When Comfort Becomes a Craving
In Liz Greene’s The Dark of the Soul, which mostly discusses psychopaths, there is a section about the low boredom threshold being part of the psychopath’s psychology. This refers to someone needing constant stimulation. It can reflect a need to...
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...
The Sun and Moon are the great lights of the personality. In astrology, they are called the luminaries, which already sounds important enough. They are not planets in the technical sense, but symbolically they hold enormous power because they describe...
The Moon in astrology speaks to the part of you who listens first. It is the inward-turning, receptive, imaginative side of your nature, it absorbs atmosphere before it forms an opinion. The Moon simply feels. It notices. It remembers. It...
The Moon has always carried a strange hold over the human imagination, and it doesn’t need to shout to be obeyed. It simply appears, changes, disappears, returns, and in doing so reminds us of something both comforting and unnerving: life...
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,...
The Moon is the atmosphere you breathed in while you were becoming “you.” It rules the mother on the birth chart. Siblings can sit at the same kitchen table, eat the same dinner, hear the same voice calling them in...
The Moon in astrology rules our hidden tides, our past ghosts, our lullabies from the cradle. She is the keeper of the nightlight, the drawer of curtains in the theatre of your soul. She represents memory, mood, mother, and mystery....
The Moon is endlessly waxing and waning like a mystical mood ring strapped to the wrist of the universe itself. When someone’s personality is strongly influenced by the Moon in astrology – especially if it’s a dominant player in the Continue reading The Moon & Cancer: A Woman’s Intuition
The Moon in your chart rules your inner tides, the shifting moods and the deep well of your memories. It’s the emotional memory of your soul, it remembers every bump, bruise, cuddle, and trauma, then stores it in your psyche....
As we turn our gaze upward to the mysterious Moon, the night’s light, ever shifting, ever cycling, we are in awe of its quiet power and constant presence. The Moon in astrology is the body within. She governs the tides,...