The Moon
Ruler of the Night, Yin, the great mother Goddess
The Emotional Self/ Reactions/ Habitual Responses / Sub-conscious predisposition/ Feeling about self (self-image), Conditioned responses
Urge: to feel inner support and domestic and emotional security, to need and to care, to nurture
Need: for emotional tranquility and sense of belonging; need to feel right about self.
Function: The development of the ability to feel or to respond emotionally. The development of subjectivity, impressionability and sensitivity.
Dysfunction: Emotional self- indulgence, timidity, laziness, wishy-washiness, overactive imagination, indecision, moodiness.
In a Nocturnal (or night chart): the Mother.
Archetypes: The Mother, Caretakers, Women and Women’s roles
Deities: Luna (Roman), Selēnē (Greek), Sin (Babylonian), Chandra (Indian)
Mundane Astrology: The people, the masses, the population. Women (in general), popular public opinion. Affliction shows discord among the population and poor conditions for living. Moon reflects quality of life, water and food supplies, natural resources, health and public essentials.
Emotional Self/ Reactions/ Habitual Responses. / Sub-conscious predisposition/ feeling about self (self-image); conditioned responses
Urge: to feel inner support and domestic and emotional security.
Need: for emotional tranquility and sense of belonging; need to feel right about self.
Function: The development of the ability to feel or to respond emotionally. The development of subjectivity, impressionability and sensitivity.
Dysfunction: Emotional self- indulgence, timidity, laziness, wishy-washiness, overactive imagination, indecision, moodiness.
In a Nocturnal (or night chart) the Mother.
Archetypes: The Mother, Caretakers, Women and Women’s roles
Deities: Luna (Roman), Selēnē (Greek), Sin (Babylonian), Chandra (Indian)
Mundane Astrology: The people, the masses, the population. Women (in general), popular public opinion. Affliction shows discord among the population and poor conditions for living. Moon reflects quality of life, water and food supplies, natural resources, health and public essentials.
The Moon is nocturnal, yin and receptive. It is traditionally associated with women and women’s roles (specifically wife and mother). In mundane astrology the Moon represents the ‘people’ in a country as opposed to the rulers. The moon represents a key to our happiness for to be happy we must ‘enliven our moon’ …
” The moon represents a key to our happiness for to be happy we must ‘enliven our moon’ …”
“The moon makes no sense. It doesn’t care to. It is only an emotion, a need to love and be loved. And if the moon withers, the heart of life becomes the heart of darkness. We become no more than broken-hearted cogs in a random universe. The moon is that most fleeting and delicate of creatures. It is our joy.”
-Stephen Forrest p.127 The Inner Sky
“The moon makes no sense. It doesn’t care to. It is only an emotion, a need to love and be loved. And if the moon withers, the heart of life becomes the heart of darkness. We become no more than broken-hearted cogs in a random universe. The moon is that most fleeting and delicate of creatures. It is our joy.”
-Stephen Forrest p.127 The Inner Sky
Resources:
Arroyo, Stephen. (1989) Chart Interpretation Handbook. Sebastopol, California: CRCS Publications.
Burk, Kevin (2002) Understanding the Birth Chart. St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications
Hand, Robert. (1981) Horoscope Symbols. Atglen, PA: Whitford Press.
Ptolemy’s Essential Dignities of the planets.
Resources:
Arroyo, Stephen. (1989) Chart Interpretation Handbook. Sebastopol, California: CRCS Publications.
Burk, Kevin (2002) Understanding the Birth Chart. St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications
Hand, Robert. (1981) Horoscope Symbols. Atglen, PA: Whitford Press.
Ptolemy’s Essential Dignities of the planets.
