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The Moon in the Signs
| Moon in Aries | Moon in Taurus | Moon in Gemini |
| Moon in Cancer | Moon in Leo | Moon in Virgo |
| Moon in Libra | Moon in Scorpio | Moon in Sagittarius |
| Moon in Capricorn | Moon in Aquarius | Moon in Pisces |
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Moon in Taurus (Exalted): You're affectionate, timid, sentimental and often blindly faithful. You may lack originality, but you have an accurate memory. You may be narrow-minded, conservative and conventional, finding it almost impossible to break with traditional family ideals and teachings. You must guard against pride, laziness, stubbornness and jealousy. You're determined, want to excel in all you do and stick to your ideas at all costs. You need outside stimulation to set new courses for your life, but once you do (and after completing old projects), you move slowly and steadily ahead. You're fond of music, art, dance and things that make life pleasurable. You want material comforts and possessions, seldom settling for anything less than the best. You have a pleasant speaking and singing voice, and highly developed senses of taste and touch. You have a well-developed intuition and use sound judgment and common sense in financial and domestic affairs. Your reactions to sense impressions are slow but steady, and you react instinctively to emotional stimuli. Once you reach a decision, it's difficult to change your mind and you resent interference-- this is the most stable place for the Moon. You seldom lose your temper but explode when you do. You have a close, but not always happy, tie to your mother. You have loyal and lasting relationships and loves. Men attract a loyal partner who encourages his ambitions. You naturally attract wealth and good things.
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Moon in Gemini: You need emotional variety and novelty rather than deep and enduring feelings to the point that you're usually unable to maintain long-term feelings or undivided loyalties. Your mind is changeable, even chaotic at times, but your perceptions are quick, accurate and easily verbalized. You're not very intuitive since your senses and impressions function more on thought and intellect than feelings, allowing you to observe and reason dispassionately. You're shrewd, versatile and adaptable, knowing how to play up to others. You need to be doing several things at once, often holding two jobs (at least one in communications), sometimes spreading yourself too thin and creating nervous tension. You like mental and/or physical action and movement. You're restless and always searching for something new: new residences and trips help satisfy this need. You're more interested in now than the past. You can be reserved, even cold, in personal relationships, often rationalizing your emotions. Women may be superficial and lack domesticity. Men are attractive to an intellectual partner who can fit any social role, but attract high strung, jittery mates. You have a well-developed sense of smell and sure hands but tend to talk unendingly. If the rest of your chart is favorable, you can rationally analyze your emotions, but if the moon is heavily afflicted, emotions distort reason. Heavy afflictions indicate excessive vacillation, confusion and superficiality. You need to cultivate perseverance and steadiness. Your ties to relatives are too strong. You may be your own worst enemy and need to be honest in all you do. You see your mother as emotionally detached, social, versatile and supportive of your early education and attempts at communication.
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Moon in Cancer (Dignified): You're maternal, sympathetic, artistic, creative, dramatic, patriotic (due to love of home), sometimes patronizing and have a meditative mind. You naively trust your feelings, which are deep and intense. You're apprehensive about things outside your control. You hide your true feelings under a hard shell. You have very accurate sense perceptions, but don't often act on them and, when you do, your reactions are slow and uncertain. Since you're very intuitive and often psychic, you're overly sensitive to others emotions and outside conditions, often letting them affect your mood. You're especially close to your home and family, with deep, strong bonds to your mother that may become a complex. You often make changes in your life and travel, but you need a home base to come home to. You're easily imposed upon, then resent it, even though you like taking care of others and understand their feelings. You're thrifty and careful with your money and possessions and hate to see anything wasted or abused. You're more romantic than passionate and are usually good at poetry, music and acting. You hold all you experience in your emotional memory. Men can be too emotionally sensitive and attract a motherly mate. Women are too easily hurt and tend to dominate at home. If afflicted, you tend to smother and/or dominate your kids.
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Moon in Leo: You're proud, self-confident, usually sunny, loyal and noble, but can be self-centered, stubborn and easily offended. Your personality is accented and you need to be the center of attention. You have good organizing and leadership abilities that may become bossiness. You must learn to govern your strong emotions. You have a strong drive and ambition for security and money is more important than it seems. You want your own way and do your best to get it. You have a subconscious desire to be someone in authority, but must learn to recognize and accept personal limitations. You have a keen enthusiastic interest in life and you're fond of children, sports and all entertainment, especially sophisticated types. You love luxury and may be self-indulgent. You want your children and your home to be a showcase of beauty and good taste. You have accurate sense perceptions and can make quick, accurate assessments of people and their motivations, but may lack objectivity in your emotional perspective. You stay uninvolved unless you're personally concerned, but once you decide to act, you resent interference and criticism. If afflicted, you can be conceited, self-gratifying, overbearing and ostentatious, which would drive others away if you weren't so sincere in your efforts to improve yourself. Your education may be colored by your feelings. You're susceptible to flattery. You tend to dominate the domestic front. You're sexually magnetic and charming to the opposite sex. Men attract a positive and dramatic mate. You see your mother as a strong and dominating personality who tried to instill good morals in you.
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Moon in Virgo: You appear quiet and shy, but can be picky and argumentative. You're proper, conservative and, at times, temperamental, but have broad-minded religious views. You're generous with your time and service and want to help others, but find it hard to understand their feelings. You respond to encouragement and appreciation but still want things done your way. You have a steady and practical mental attitude and analyze and criticize all sense perceptions. You do well in any type of diagnostic work. You're shrewd with a good business sense and meticulous attention to detail. You seek knowledge to use it and apply it and make an excellent teacher. You have many acquaintances, short trips and life changes. You're interested in science, occult matters, diet, health and hygiene. You need to share your experiences and insights with others, but you're not curious about their personal life, just about work and practical matters. You act superior intellectually due to a deep inferiority complex. You tend to worry and have a nervous disposition which may cause digestive problems. You must try to counteract your fussiness and lack of self-confidence. You may be a perfectionist and, if the Moon is afflicted, you tend to nag over inconsequentials and bicker a lot. You can be clairvoyant and/or very intuitive if you choose to develop these abilities. Women are emotionally insecure which manifests as lack of warmth and inhibited attitudes. Men don't want emotional demands and their mate is nonclinging.
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Moon in Libra: You're gentle, courteous, charming, ambitious and diplomatic. Your sweetness hides an iron fist. Your home is important to you and is usually a place of beauty and scene of social activity. You see life as a chance at self-discovery through trial and error. You use your senses more on a mental level, evaluating data but not analyzing or criticizing. You tend to live for the moment, but must consciously develop self-reliance since you're too easily influenced by others. You have an unconscious desire for peace at any price, to the point of not standing up for your principles since you want to be liked by all (especially if Mars is weak): you need to purify your motives for action. If the moon is afflicted by Mars, you fight blindly for your beliefs but unintelligently. You're very sensitive to your partner's reactions and attitudes and your health may suffer in any inharmonious relationship. You're at your best working in partnerships and seek shared experiences at every opportunity. If the moon is afflicted, you depend too much on others for emotional security. Your judgment is more important than acting on your ideas. You're fond of music, poetry and arts, but like to appreciate it more than participate in it. You think your mother placed great emphasis on your manners and behavior and developing an appreciation of beauty. In a males chart, he seeks a refined, sociable, attractive and intelligent mate, but usually his mate will want to be in charge. Women are sociable and like to be surrounded by beauty.
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Moon in Scorpio (Fall): Your intense emotions are based on willful desire and you must learn how to handle them. You can be stubborn, impatient, abrupt, moody, vengeful, impulsive, brooding, jealous, easily hurt and tend to hold grudges, but you also have leadership ability, self-confidence and resourcefulness. You won't tolerate interference or opposition to your goals, usually getting what you want, but not always the happiness along with it. You're too judgmental and subtly dominating and you may not have a happy marriage due to pride and possessiveness. You can be too dominating and possessive of your children (especially a male child) or may have been dominated by a parent, usually your mother. You'll sacrifice a great deal out of kindness and your latent willpower is often used for the betterment of mankind. You're passionate about life and sex and use your sense as instruments of pleasure rather than knowledge. You have tremendous observational abilities, shrewd insight and a deep, hidden personality. If the Moon is afflicted, you can exhibit sexual excess, inhibition, perversity or alcoholism. Learn to forgive and forget. Women may be promiscuous and self-indulgent. Men seek a sensual partner they can possess, but, if the Moon is afflicted, the mate can be possessive and jealous.
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Moon in Sagittarius: You have clear, accurate sense impressions and acute judgment-- your mind rejects any irrelevant facts to avoid confusion. You have a lofty, idealistic emotional nature and high goals, but often lack a realistic sense of life, being socially naive, reacting to others as if they were a part of you. You need activity and physical exercise and want to do everything with everybody. You enjoy watching and participating in sports. You often lack continuity die to your restless nature and need to roam and feel free, although you often seem to have a one track mind since you concentrate only on the task at hand. You have a keen prophetic and inspirational sense with strong occult and psychic tendencies. You have a talent for poetry, music, religion and philosophy and are a natural teacher and/or preacher. You must learn to think before speaking though. Your religious philosophy usually follows the traditional lines instilled in you by your parents. You tend to move to a foreign country or far from your place of birth. You're optimistic, cheerful and often a gambler. You like helping others and have many acquaintances but few close friends. You often lack objectivity in views on social issues. You maintain a sense of urgency and a quickness of action. Learn to counteract carelessness and recklessness with tact and thoughtfulness. If the Moon is afflicted, you can be narrow-minded, arrogant, egotistical and have a holier-than-thou attitude. If afflicted to Jupiter, you tend to be too extravagant. Women may be too independent and/or footloose. Men may marry late (the spouse will be direct, talkative and freedom loving) or remain a bachelor and philanderer. They may bald prematurely. You remember your mother as living her own life and leaving you to your own devices, although she supplied you with what she felt you needed.
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Moon in Capricorn (Detriment): You're conservative, reserved, prudent, cautious and practical, but all these can be carried to the extreme. You tend to be unemotional, unsympathetic and usually unhappy. You have common sense and strong ambitions. If the Moon is well aspected, leadership ability combined with persistent effort can earn you a high position. You want to be recognized as an important and powerful person and, if the Moon is afflicted, you disregard others' feelings to gain that recognition. Your feelings are strong and crystallized and you're critical of others despite an oversensitivity to real or imagined slights. Your mother, who was traditional, conservative, practical and efficient, was a very strong influence who encouraged you to succeed in all endeavors. You identify with material rather than spiritual values. You may have fanatical or obsessive ideas or causes. You work hard, especially to gain financial security and status, and are cautious in money matters. You react quickly to your sense impressions, often with anger and antagonism. You make enemies easily, often giving you a bad reputation. You can be morbid, brooding, melancholy and you're shy and insecure as to your own worth. If afflicted, you may lack creative energy but not ambition. You must learn to give with no strings attached and not expect a return. Men want a mate who will help further their social ambitions, run a comfortable home and handle the finances and usually get a mate who is serious and quiet. Women tend to get the blues and think that no one likes them.
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Moon in Aquarius: You're a charming friend and companion and a good conversationalist whose friendly, outgoing nature masks a hidden selfishness. You're friendly to all in an impersonal way and don't understand others' emotional needs, although you're able to sympathize with the needs of humanity. You may have occasional flashes of intuitive knowledge. You tend to overload yourself emotionally and seek freedom of emotional expression as a way to release the tension, often joining some cause or group. If you become frustrated, you either begin wandering restlessly or seek spiritual enlightenment. You see experience as a proving ground for yourself and react to that experience on both practical and ideal levels. Your demand for personal freedom leads to a fear of emotional involvement or unusual family relationships. Your home is a gathering place for friends and group activities-- you're a born mixer and joiner. You're likely to be ingenious, inventive, original and scientific-- often you're considered ahead of your time. You must consciously control a tendency to be too aloof, impersonal and erratic. You're drawn to politics, education and unusual subjects. Your abundant emotional energy can cause problems with your nervous system and you may be emotionally perverse, stubborn or have an irrational need for freedom at any price. You're unconventional, idealistic and broad-minded with strong ethical and moral standards. Your sense impressions bring quick reactions and, since mind and emotions react together, you have both mental clarity and involvement. You may overemphasize friendliness, kindness and humanitarianism. You may have arthritis due to fixed emotions and rigid will. Women may be eccentric and experimental. Men seek a liberated mate (especially in sex) and their mate is stable and fixed and must be coaxed to change her mind. You see your mother as a friend, companion and humanitarian who raised you to stand on your own and is unorthodox in her role as a mother.
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Moon in Pisces: You're quiet, shy, gentle, easy-going, unworldly, sympathetic to the underdog and a dreamer. If the Moon is well aspected, you have true vision. If afflicted, you'll suffer from illusions or disillusionment. Your vivid imagination also gives you musical, poetic and/ or artistic talent. You want to believe the best about everybody and don't like to objectively face cold, hard facts so you often fail to see or overlook someone's shortcomings. You're emotionally naive and may lack a sense of humor or common sense. You're responsive to the depths of human experience and give your affection and understanding to all. Your relationships may suffer due to supersensitivity and you tend to wallow in self-pity, but you need to feel sheltered and loved. You like beauty, harmony and comfort and suffer on all levels when faced with adversity. Your senses are often fooled by over-romanticism and blind optimism. You're often unreliable and easily discouraged and depressed because you change your mind too often. You're not overly strong physically and, if afflicted, you can be neurotic, psychotic or irrationally dominated by your subconscious. Obstacles may slow your success and you can be self-indulgent. You're very psychic, making you feel psychologically vulnerable which causes you to emotionally withdraw. You need to strengthen your will to resist the negative energy of others. Men want a devoted, sympathetic, sentimental and affectionate mate who plays an important role in his private life but may be in the shadows in his career. Women may have health problems due to emotional excess, may marry late and have a silent magnetism that attracts men. You see your mother as sympathetic but very involved with her own life and you either over-idealize or underestimate her.
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