In the astrological chart, the Moon speaks to what exists before explanation. It is the self who reacts before the adult in your head has had time to think it through properly. It lives beneath the social persona, belonging to...
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...
The Moon in astrology is hungry, tender, watchful, needy, impressionable, and very much hoping someone kind would notice. It is the place we want to be held without having to earn it. Here we want warmth, food, touch, softness, safety,...
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....