Aspects
Makemake Opposition Moon
The Makemake principle and your emotional needs sit across from each other, so the pull of the wild tends to surface against your need for human comfort, or through partners who embody nature or its loss. You may feel torn between the nourishment of solitude in nature and the warmth of people, swinging between the two. The resolution is balance, not choice: let your need for human closeness and your need for the wild inform each other, so you can be restored by nature and held by people, neither retreating from intimacy into the wild nor losing your bond with nature in domestic life.
Lean in — Let nature restore you and people hold you, keeping both.
Watch for — Retreat into the wild from intimacy, or lose nature in domestic life.
- wild-vs-comfort
- solitude-vs-closeness
- balancing
Sources
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Gives the archetypal field of Makemake, the wild and the natural order, as it meets the Moon.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Makemake-Moon aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Makemake-Moon contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.