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| Dignified | Cancer | You must learn to mother and nurture the ebb and flow of physical, mental and emotional tides. |
| Detriment | Capricorn | You need to break up your selfish personality. You have a hard time selling yourself to the public. Others feel your subconscious fears, hidden pride and ego. |
| Exalted | Taurus | Your personality operates by drawing to itself through love. |
| Fall | Scorpio | The aggressive, combative qualities of Mars and Pluto dim the feminine quality of the Moon, although there is a feminine aspect based on the pull of the sexes. |
| House Naturally Ruled: 4th | ||
| Keywords | Emotions, fluctuation, instinct, matter, personality, response | |
| Associations | Health | Body fluids, brain mechanism, breasts, digestive system, eye (left of male, right of female), glandular secretions, memory, stomach, sympathetic nervous system |
| General | Ancestors, birth, domestic life, emotional disturbance, family, feelings, female influence (in a male's chart), femininity, habit patterns, home, instinctive reactions, mother, motherhood, nurturing urge, nutrition, personality, (the) public, receptivity, subconscious self | |
| Positive Traits | Creative, flexible, good memory, imaginative, kind, magnetic, maternal, patient, peaceful, protective, psychic, receptive, sensitive, shrewd business sense, sympathetic, tenacious | |
| Negative Traits | Clannish, day dreamer, emotionally unstable, gullible, materialistic, moody, narrow-minded, reluctant to forgive, smothering love, too changeable, too passive, unreliable, weak reasoning power, worrier | |
- The Moon's placement is where your emotions have full sway and where conditions will fluctuate. It shows the type of immediate emotional response to life's situations and to external influences. The house the Moon is in is where your reactions are unconscious and instinctual.
- The Moon's placement shows how you appear to others and how you take others into account. If the Moon is afflicted, you must build empathy and consideration for others.
- The house the Moon is in is where your feelings manifest in day to day activities. It indicates eating habits and the type of food preferred. It shows your capacity for experience and the capacity to function, especially in daily routines.
- The Moon's placement shows how you react to the public. In an angular house, you know how to please the public, catering to them and their needs.
- The Moon's placement and aspects show karmic patterns and what we've brought with us from past lives: subconscious patterns that are now instinctive habits, for example.
- The Moon's placement shows the kinds of attitudes instilled in you during your childhood by your family. The Moon's effects are particularly strong in childhood while the personality is developing and forming. The lunar forces rule the form side of life.
- The house the Moon is in shows how the home is run and what type of activities take place there.
- The Moon's placement shows the relationship you have with your mother and with women in general.
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| Aspect | Effects |
| General | Aspects to the moon affect emotions and deal with the unconscious mind, habits of the past and automatic/instinctive reactions. They deal with how you remember emotional experiences and your ability to retain information. Any aspect to the Moon is colored by the planet making the aspect due to the receptive nature of the Moon. (The Moon is illuminated by reflecting the light of the Sun.) |
| Conjunctions | Conjunctions emphasize intense emotions and dominant emotional influences in affairs ruled by the planets involved and the signs and the houses they occupy. Parental influence and domestic situations will also affect these affairs, although your first reaction is usually unconscious and instinctive. Women may also greatly influence these matters. |
| Trines | Trines indicate habits and unconscious reactions that further your social progress and aid your relationships with women. It gives flow and ease to your emotional capacity, especially in matters ruled by the planets, signs and houses involved. You usually have a happy childhood and successful family life. You're usually able to use your imagination and unconscious responses to your advantage, and constructively/ positively use others' moods for your and their benefit. Benefits come through the affairs ruled by the planets involved and the house and sign occupied by the Moon. |
| Squares | Squares create emotional tension, often arising out of early childhood or your social "unacceptability." It usually indicates subconscious resentment of women and often conflict with your mother. Squares can create obstacles to your happiness. |
| Sextiles | Sextiles create opportunity for positive emotional expression and domestic growth, especially in matters ruled by the planets, signs and houses involved. Women, especially your mother, can help you greatly. |
| Inconjuncts | Inconjuncts indicate an emotional adjustment that you must make in the areas ruled by the planets, signs and houses involved. |
| Oppositions | Oppositions indicate emotional problems in relationships. You become aware of your emotional make-up by projecting your problems onto others and then blaming them for your unrecognized faults. You must learn to be emotionally objective and detached in dealing with affairs ruled by the planets, signs and houses involve. |
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