Moon
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Modern
Moon, in the modern reading, is the Moon is the emotional and instinctive nature: feelings, needs, moods, memory, and the felt sense of security. It is the receptive, nurturing, habitual self, how you care and what makes you feel at home. Wherever Moon falls by sign and house, and however it aspects the rest of the chart, this principle is colored and located, becoming one of the central themes of the personality.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
In the tradition, the Moon is the queen and the mother, signifying the body, the common people, daily life, nourishment, change, and travel; cold and moist, the lesser light and a nocturnal star, she governs the stomach, the breasts, and silver, and shows the rhythms of ordinary life. Read its sign for how it expresses, its house for where, its aspects for how it gets along, and its dignity and condition for how well it does its work.
Lean in — Develop Moon's principle consciously; it is a core part of who you are.
Watch for — Disown Moon; what it governs will act out anyway, less consciously.
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Sources
- Ptolemy, TetrabiblosGives the nature and significations of Moon in the foundational tradition.
- Valens, AnthologiesRecords the significations of Moon in Hellenistic practice.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (1975)Frames Moon as a core principle in modern psychological astrology.