Moon in Signs

As a Moon Child (with my natal Sun in Cancer) I felt compelled (and GOOOOD) to post more about the Moon. As you've probably noticed we've covered Moon Sign and Moon Basics in previous articles. As natal Sun Sign, your Moon Sign can also be placed in one of 12 Zodiac Signs. 

(All detailed Moon Signs Explanations you can find under the Moon label, and the combinations of your Moon signs and Sun Sign you can find under the Sun/Moon Combinations lebel - new combinations is being posted regularly, until all 144 combinations aren't met, so I ask you to recheck if your combination isn't still here)

Let's summarize traits of people born in Moon Sign in:

ARIES

The Moon in Aries signifies a need to pursue new experiences and express new attributes, perhaps to develop a new sense of self. The emotional responses are spontaneous, energetic, and assertive but may become impulsive, forceful, and aggressive. Fresh starts and acts of independence or leadership are emphasized. Energy is available for new ventures, projects, or jobs. Displaying initiative, directness, and self-reliance are favored qualities, but it is easy to come off as naive, rash, selfish, or narcissistic. The Moon in Aries individual may have difficulty feeling sympathy, empathy, or compassion. Personal growth comes through identifying with personal interests, through taking risks, and through striking out on one’s own.

TAURUS

The Moon in Taurus signifies a need to experience emotional stability and material security. Energy is available for constructing a solid foundation for future development. The emotional responses are conservative and practical with an eye for what brings sensual comfort and for what symbolizes lasting value. A sense of permanence is sought through material acquisition, buying, spending, and selling. The mind turns to money and financial concerns, while the body turns to sensual delights and the physical comfort found in food, drink, sex, and sleep. The soul seeks a sense of elevation through music, earthly beauty, and the fine arts. Possessiveness, hording, and gluttony produce a false sense of security. Personal growth comes through identification with and/or acquisition of substance that can be useful in future transactions.

GEMINI

The Moon in Gemini signifies a need for emotional versatility through changing conditions, new experiences, intellectual pursuits, and new associations. The emotional responses are quick, eager, and flexible, but also superficial, thoughtless, and distractible. There is an urge to expand one’s personal sphere by experiencing new and varied environments, meeting new friends and associates, and learning through study and personal communication. The individual’s appetite for humor, puns, and whit is ignited, but so is his or her suggestibility and naiveté. Some may engage in deception or live as con artists. Personal growth comes through exposing oneself to what is novel in what is familiar and close-at-hand.

CANCER

The Moon in Cancer signifies the need for emotional security through a sense of belonging, through nurturing and being nurtured, and through establishing close personal connections. The emotional responses are initially cautious, careful, and wary, and, in time, maternal, nurturing, familiar, and nostalgic, possibly tenacious and clinging. There is a need to feel connected and securely established. Interests in the home, the family, and the past are expressed. Personal growth comes through establishing a particular sphere of personal activity which provides a sense of security and a base for future self-expression.

LEO

The Moon in Leo signifies the need to express oneself creatively. The emotional responses are lighthearted, joyful, and gregarious. Energy is available for fun and pleasure, for love and romance, and for attending to children, playing games, or gambling. Attending or participating in artistic, musical, or theatrical productions is likely. Needs for attention or for appreciation motivate gift-giving and entertaining. Self-expression must overcome self-consciousness. Some may need to shed any feelings of shyness and any fears of criticism that might interfere with creativity. Others may need to avoid coming off as overly dramatic, proud, egotistical, or domineering. Personal growth comes through expressing one’s emotions by giving them some unique and yet tangible form that can be shared with others.

VIRGO

The Moon in Virgo signifies the need for personal adjustment through analysis, discrimination, and self-improvement. The emotional responses are analytical, discerning, economical, practical, and critical. At times, the responses can be perfectionistic, demanding, cold, and judgmental. Thoughts turn to work, service, and health. Attending to details, organizing tasks, perfecting techniques, and establishing routines are emphasized. Hyper-criticism may be directed internally, resulting in self-paralysis and/or externally, resulting in some form of interpersonal conflict. Personal growth comes through evaluating the results of past actions and retaining for the future those actions deemed desirable.

LIBRA

The Moon in Libra signifies the need for human interaction and for participation with others. The emotional responses are friendly, sociable, cooperative, charming, refined, graceful, artistic, and diplomatic. If out-of-balance, the individual’s responses may range from conventional, formal, dependent, and superficial to indecisive, lazy, dishonest, gossipy, and scheming. Interests in relationships, marriage, partnerships, and unions as well as in law, art, beauty, and harmony are expressed. Energy is available for couples-activities, for social interactions and gatherings, and for participation in the fine arts. Socially-approved, emotionally-refined behavior is displayed when participating in society. Personal growth comes through forming and participating in unions of all sorts.

SCORPIO

The Moon in Scorpio signifies the need to merge one’s substance with that of another in order to create a greater whole. The emotional responses are passionate, resourceful, powerful, complex, and wise. If out-of-balance, the individual’s emotional responses range from lustful, moody, possessive, stubborn, and secretive to sarcastic, vindictive, and ruthless. Thoughts turn to money, investments, wills, sex, and power. Energy is available for participating in relationships on a deeper, more intimate level. The individual may be insightful, penetrating, and inventive. Joint financial ventures, scientific pursuits, and the exploration of the paranormal are favored. Personal growth, regeneration, and self-transcendence come by joining together in some substantial way.

SAGITTARIUS

The Moon is Sagittarius signifies the need to identify with ever-widening social systems. The emotional responses are optimistic, enthusiastic, generous, and jovial. The individual is spontaneous, care-free, frank, and honest. The intellect is idealistic, broad-minded, and far-reaching as well as profound and deep. Energy is available for educational, philosophical, and religious pursuits. Movement manifests as searching, exploring, and roaming in all spheres of existence—physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual. Some may chase athletic goals, others may travel or visit distant lands and foreign cultures. Personal growth comes through synthesizing and integrating knowledge in efforts to attain greater understanding and show more universal compassion.

CAPRICORN

The Moon in Capricorn signifies the need to put aside personal feelings in favor of achievement, social status, and public standing. The emotional responses are reserved, disciplined, and detached. The person appears to be serious, ceremonial, purposeful, ambitious, and businesslike, at best. At worst, he or she is narrow-minded, cold, authoritarian, bossy, domineering, controlling, and manipulative. Some may be obsessed with acting according to tradition and convention. Others may be downright deceitful, conniving, and backstabbing. Energy is available for reaching goals, especially those goals that are socially approved, that further future social status and security, or that boost one’s standing in the eyes of others. Personal growth comes from using the power of social status appropriately and compassionately while remaining emotionally reserved.

AQUARIUS

The Moon in Aquarius signifies the need to belong to a social group and to contribute to that group. The emotional responses are creative, original, intelligent, and inventive as well as independent, freedom-loving, and detached. Some individuals may come across as inspired, brilliant, progressive, and idealistic, and some as socially sensitive and concerned for the welfare of others, especially strangers. At worst, some individuals may act odd, strange, or eccentric, some even crazy. There are some who may even prefer to isolate. No matter the form of the response, it is generally one of detachment and emotional coolness, and social connection is an issue. Energy is available for working within social groups that are at least somewhat structured. Some individuals want to bring about reforms in society which would make more resources and opportunities available to the less-well-to-do. Personal growth comes through responding creatively to unmet social needs and working with others in order to insure that these creative solutions are carried out. Additionally, some grow by expressing very unique, original, and unusual ideas.

PISCES

The Moon in Pisces signifies the need to heal all conflicts—those between individuals, those between individuals and society, and those between societies. The emotional responses are caring, compassionate, loving, and understanding. Some individuals may display a noticeable religious, spiritual, or mystical side. Some may be especially intuitive or psychic. Others may easily be victimized because they are overly accepting, trusting, emotional, gullible, impressionable, or willing to sacrifice. Some of these individuals appear to be dreamy, dependent, or overly flexible. Energy is available for work within large operations or organizations whose missions are to tend to those who cannot function productively in society at the time. Church groups, charities, hospitals, mental health establishments, rehab centers, twelve-step groups, halfway houses, and prisons are emphasized. Personal growth comes through identifying with the less fortunate, social rejects, and those who cannot take care of themselves and, then, by taking steps to lessen their burdens and misery. The Moon in Pisces individuals can find satisfaction by identifying with what all of life has in common and seeking to experience what is universal at deep levels of being furthers growth.

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