Aspects
Descendant Conjunction Moon
You look for emotional home in your closest partnerships. With the Moon on your The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship., the seventh-house axis of committed relationship, your need for security, comfort, and belonging is poured into one-to-one bonds, and you feel most settled when you have someone to nurture and be nurtured by. You read a partner's moods instinctively and tend to make relationship the container for your deepest feelings. The gift is a genuine talent for emotional intimacy and care. The shadow is neediness or a tendency to mother a partner, to merge emotionally, or to depend on the bond for a security you have not built in yourself. The lifelong work is to bring a self-sufficient emotional center into closeness, so partnership nourishes you without becoming your only source of safety.
Lean in — Bring a self-sufficient emotional center into your closeness.
Watch for — Depend on a partner for security you have not built in yourself.
- moon
- descendant
- conjunction
- partnership
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Moon's conjunction to the Descendant as a defining statement about how the emotional nature meets emotional partnership and the committed other.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Gives the modern natal reading of the Moon's conjunction to the Descendant as a core feature of the birth chart's inner life.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Sasportas's study of the houses grounds the Descendant as the seventh-house axis of partnership and the committed other.