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I’ve been looking into astrology for a few months and feel like I have some understanding of sun signs, rising signs, and houses. I am still struggling to understand how one’s moon sign shows up in life, personality. Where/how does the moon sign show up?
EDIT: wow, everyone! Thank you for all the knowledge you’ve shared with me! I really appreciate it and feel like I have a much better grasp of the moon’s influence. You all are a treasure!
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How does the moon sign show up?
updated 3 years ago 1 Member · 28 Replies
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The Moon can indicate how a person seeks safety and security, as informed by their upbringing and past experiences. How did their caregivers teach them to soothe themselves, to respond to how they felt and what they needed? This is the information the Moon contains inside our bodies. It’s reactive because it indicates where people experience “being” within cycles or patterns that aren’t fully conscious to themselves. This then broadens out into things like the seeking of physical comfort, processing emotions, and taking care of bodily needs through processing sensations. I like to look at the house of the Moon to think about areas that people look to as more comforting and reassuring than others. For example, Moon in the 7th house might indicate someone who feels most calmed and received by their partner.
In addition to the point about meeting physical needs, the Moon is a symbol of nutrition and food, so it can show up in aspects with planets where a person struggles with eating or nutritive related health problems.
Paradoxically, the Moon also likes things that change and move. Moon in the 4th can be a signature for a tendency to move house. Moon brings changes and fluctuations to the house in which it is found. This is as a rule less pronounced when Moon is in a fixed sign, because these signs prolong situations and constrain the changeability of the Moon, but even in these you do see it.
It’s the fastest planet, and it likes to mingle with all the other planets and get them interacting with each other. It takes the light from the planet that it last aspected and transfers the energy of that planet to the planet that it will next aspect. So, it can be reserved (safety-seeking), but also a bit of a socialite! Though not through overtly commanding attention, and more by connecting different energies together. The Moon is a great planet just for taking in information, not trying to direct it. You listen, or absorb through it. So it can show how people listen or what they are more receptive to. Moon in Aries might indicate someone who feels very sensitively a competitive atmosphere around them, for example.
There is something non-direct about the Moon’s movements so you get where you are trying to go with the Moon by wandering or following your instincts rather than by doing the directly obvious thing. Hence it is more subtle and helps us perceive through somewhat fuzzy or vague subtleties like “I just feel like this person needs a listening ear right now” or “I’ve been craving spicy food all day” or “the time feels right to start work on that project I’ve been planning”.
I hope this helps!
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my understanding is i resort to my moon sign’s tendencies when I am reacting emotionally, or need emotional nourishment. I am a Gemini moon for example so I respond to life by just overthinking in my head and tend to feed on intellectual stuff as my escape.
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Your Moon sign is your inner emotional self. I sometimes think of my moon sign as the person I am when I’m awake in the middle of the night, alone and deep in thought. It’s the person you are at your core when no one is looking. The moon sign indicates our deepest desires and what fulfills us most. It represents our emotional nature. It also represents our mothers.
I have a Sagittarius moon. I often find myself being most affected by songs and films about spontaneous adventures and letting go. Sagittarius Moon wants freedom and adventure more than anything. Themes that speak to your soul are often themes of your moon sign.
You know that scene in Perks of Being a Wallflower where Charlie says ‘In this moment, I swear we are infinite’? That is what it feels like when your moon sign is being fed. Your moon sign shines through when you are feeling the thing that satisfies you most and makes life worth living.
On the flip side, the moon sign often shows up in terms of how we deal with our emotions and our problems. I’ve known plenty of people with a Pisces moon who struggled with substance abuse, who dealt with their problems via escapism. My Sag moon is also escapist, but I often deal with problems by literally running away; I get out of town or take a vacation. I want physical time and space away from the issue.
I think the moon shows up in those two extremes- The Moon sign shows us the thing we want most that sets our souls on fire when we get it, and it’s also how we deal with pain when things are at their worst.
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i resort to my moon (4H) when im in social situations cus i over think every little fucking thing n have a huge fear of ppl not liking me but im working on it 😁☝️ also i have ocd so ig im using my moon sign at every second of the day then lol. i also use my moon when im trying to be creative or decorate things like my room. room decor is a huge passion of mine. if my room is fucked up im fucked up too i cant function right in an uncomfy ugly area. sounds super spoiled but i cant help it
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Generally speaking the Moon is associated with emotions and the “inner light”. Basic themes include family, home/inner home, nurture, comforts, intuition, innate/instinctual desire & habit, nostalgia, etc. (However, these are some simple keywords and the exact way the Moon’s energy/strength/influences plays out in a chart depends on the individual)
It carries a “feminine” energy (yin energy) and is of the water element. It rules the sign of Cancer.
Also, since the Moon is true ruler of the 4th house *(though of course in the chart of an individual the fourth house may be ruled by another body like say Jupiter if the 4th house is in Sagittarius)* a few of the themes relating to the 4th house are similar to that of the Moon. Like the Moon through, the energy plays out differently in different people.
There’s a lot of things to consider here – Here are a few examples:
* What sign is the Moon in, in a person’s chart?
* Is it in its dignity, or is it in it’s fall? In its detriment? Exalted? Etc.
* What degree, and what aspects are being made to it?
* What house is it in, and who is the ruler of that house – is it aspecting the Moon in any way? What house in the chart does the Moon rule (the Moon is the ruler of any house that falls into Cancer)
* Are they a Cancer rising? (If the individual is a Cancer rising, then the Moon is their chart ruler).
The Moon is complex, as all points used in Astrology are.
But I hope this helped a bit! 🙂
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I see it come up as your first natural/emotional reaction before you give yourself time to think and your idiosyncrasies kick in. I also recongise it in myself after a few drinks.
Me being a pisces moon that means my natural reaction is to feel what the other person is feeling and taking away those anxieties and ideosyncrasies after drinking makes me more playful and flirtatious.
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Sag Moon – when I’m burnt out, I need to change routine. I take classes. I drive different ways home. I make different recipes. I need little adventures.
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The moon is how you deal with your emotions and what you need to feel safe and secure. I also think the moon shows up as a way that you deal with the cool/yin energies in your life and sometimes relates to your mother.
For example, I’m a Gemini moon. I have to talk through my feelings. Sometimes I think I talk them out more than I even feel them. I need quality communication to feel secure (especially in relationships as my moon is conjunct my descendant)
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The Moon is so much more personal than the Sun. It describes who you instinctually are, while I find the Sun more aspirational and the Rising as how you move through the world, or your persona.
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Virgo moon and rising. Moon in 12th house (along with Leo sun)
My roomate/friend (Gemini moon) told me how she channels emotional energy by doing chores that are suited for the emotion & it CHANGED my life. Low key I process emotion by cleaning and then sitting in my clean room and drinking water and then settling down and being inspired.
When I had a garden at home, it was one of the most amazing things for my mind and mental health to be in
Walking in the woods alone is literally the most peaceful and wonderful and beautiful thing. Not even to get away or to process bad emotions, but even when I’m doing good, I’m just so happy alone in nature or alone and listening to music. I need that to get back to me.
I am a very intellectual lover and can compartmentalize to a fault. Can read people and myself well but have to be careful not to start bringing overanyalyzing into everything. However, because of my moon & rising, I am very Moon-ruled so the moon phases affect me deeply. On top of that I’m a venus mars Cancer lol. I have lately needed to re-balance and lean more into the cancer way of loving instead of Virgo right now
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Sun rules the mind “I am an Aquarius”. Moon rules emotions “but I feel like a cancer.” Rising sign is “how I present to the world – identity”
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It shows differently depending on the rest of the chart. One common trend is people whose moon sign is the same as their ascendant tend to show their moon sign traits very easily.
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Mind and emotions. It’s the deeper part of you and shows where you will get emotional fulfilment from
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My moon is cap in the 10th house
Not sure but I heard it’s about like being satisfied by work/career based things
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The Astrology Podcast has a recent episode on the moon that is super in-depth!
