Your Moon Sign is not only your emotional mind, but it is also your emotional truth and earliest perception of your mother’s ability to raise you–for better or for worse.
The Moon is the Mother in your natal chart, that means your perception of your mother is based on the Sign, House & Degree of your Moon. How was she as a mother? Was she exalted like your Moon in Taurus, or Fallen like your Moon in Scorpio. Just because your moon is in one of these signs, does not mean she was EXACTLY like described, it would only be your main perception of her abilities as a mother.
If your Moon is in hard aspect to the Sun, Pluto, Saturn or Neptune it can mean a lot of trauma and abuse from her, which should be considered when looking at these.
SIGNS:
How you view your mother in the worst way, if she was a good mother she would still make you feel this void in your later years. Mothers are surrogates for the earth and are prone to unintentionally do things a little wrong. It takes a village to raise a child–not just one woman–albeit she hopefully tried.
Aries moon: You view your mother as very energetic. She may not always connect with you in a loving, cuddling way. Maybe she connects with you in a more fun way and suggests doing fun things. She was independent or single throughout your childhood, and that left you with more time on your own while she worked or tried to find love away from you. As an adult you can be very avoidant in relationships.
Taurus moon: Your mother was not always nurturing or affectionate, but exalted in the fact that she puts a stable roof over your head, and is always physically around you. She gives you what you want over what you need, which can be toys, or exaltation to her friends, heaping compliments on you to her friends and community, and being an “all around good mom”. Your mother likes nice things so she might eat her feelings or buy herself nice things as well, to make herself feel better so you see bread and wine as comforting over cuddles and kisses. She may have been a gold digger & taught you how to survive through other people caring for you so you could take care of the home.
Gemini moon: Your mother could have been bipolar, depressed & anxious or needy of your constant attention. She would always chase you down, & try to connect as much as possible, but when she didn’t you would feel the need to run after her due to her constant neediness during depressive states. Your parents might have been twin flames or karmics who didn’t know how to connect so you feel constantly split.
Cancer moon: Your mother would know how to cook and clean, and do things for you, like wait on you hand and foot, do your laundry, cuddle you & love you, but nurture you too much so you become clueless as an adult and always need to ask her how to do simple things–which she probably loves. The Moon is in her domicile in Cancer, which means she’s at home, this can make the native lazy in their adult years and expect the world comes to nurture them, instead of the harsh truth. You can almost seem to wear rose-colored glasses about what you are receiving back from the world, which is irritating to others, but protection to you.
Leo moon: You might have viewed your mother as a child. She was either completely full of herself or always the most exciting human in the entire world. She might have had trouble listening to your actual problems, so you see her as always wanting have a good time and party with you, which makes you go inside to deal with trauma and keep the pain away from her because she’s too happy all the time. She doesn’t want you to see her pain, but you do anyway and are perceptive of her childhood wounds.
Virgo moon: You see your mother as hyper critical, judgmental or even abusive if you do not perform for her. On a lighter note, she would be focused on your school, books and learning and not so much on your childhood and creativity. As long as your room is clean and you’re clean on the outside, she won’t hurt you, or critique you publicly. This can get very abusive, which can make you anxious your whole life, and constantly watching your back in public so you don’t fuck up & receive punishment. Fear based mothering is very common here. As an adult you are hypercritical of yourself and others.
Libra moon: Your mother really cared about your appearance and her own, in public and private, you probably saw her work out a lot, stress about beauty product, and could have been histrionic in relationships between her and men or her and your father. She probably wanted you as a debutante or a beautiful ballerina so she could say her children were beautiful reflections of her beauty and narcissism. In adulthood you could be devoted to your looks and go to extreme measures to get the perfect body.
Scorpio moon: You would have had a very stressed out mother who desired other men over caring for you. You might have felt like she cares about anything other than raising you half the time, or all of the time. You would feel like you had to raise your own mother, or your siblings for her while she partied with other people. She would tell you she had to do things to support you, away from you, and leave you all alone to raise yourself. You didn’t always know what she was thinking, and have issues trusting people in adulthood.
Sagittarius moon: Your mother took you away from your family, by traveling or mind expansion or too much awareness of others. You were very distant from your mom in a lot of ways, as if she wasn’t really your mother but your friend and confidant. You definitely saw your mom as very interesting, if not wild, extremely religious and ungrounded. She might feel unfounded in reality to you. As an adult you are distant from others, but possibly histrionic when dealing with love interests, believing you have to uhaul into their lives to keep them with you forever.
Capricorn moon: You view your mother as someone you have to take care of, or somebody that can’t really do it without you. So you might have a lot of weight on your shoulders. On the flipside she might be very authortitative and abusive which is why this moon is considered debilitated. She is non-nurturing and not very supportive of what you want from life, but very ambitious, probably works a lot or is constantly stressed.
Aquarius moon: You view your mother as being very interesting and unique, and different. You mom usually cares about introducing you to adult things and different, unique things. Giving you a life that none of your peers have, something that’s so off the wall, which makes you see yourself different than other people. Your mother might be foreign or different from other mothers, and you could be embarrassed of her. She could be anti-dramatic and prone to hiding out and playing the victim as well. As an adult you struggle with being the main character and could develop narcissistic traits that others try to beat out of you, as you deny your ego and promote selflessness that leads to self destruction as you serve all women (and some feminine men) regardless of their power and worth in your life, sucking you dry.
Pisces moon: You look at your mother like she is very emotional or needy of you. She had no boundaries, and wasn’t a strong spirit, more of a free spirit in your eyes. She might have been an alcoholic or lead you to drink in your adulthood.. You have strong emotional connections with your mother that can either be good or bad. Mostly unconventional, to say the least. You probably resemble your mother a lot, as Pisces is the mirror and you would become the most like her in a lot of ways, unintentionally if unable to clear the projection into your adult years.
MOON IN THE HOUSES:
The place your mother plays out in your life, and where you feel a void in your adult years, that keeps you searching for more.
1st House: You mother made you feel the need to wear your her heart on her sleeve, sharing yourself, instead of finding your stability in secrecy.
2nd House: Your mother made you need stability at the cost of your own life and freedom of choice, chaining yourself to the wrong thing.
3rd House: Your mother made you feel the need to be more communicative, oversharing and talking about things that don’t matter.
4th House: Your mother made you need a family at the cost of your own career.
5th House: Your mother made you need creativity at the cost of your own stability.
6th House: Your mother made you need your own routine, separate from the routine she gave you.
7th House: Your mother made you feel the need to spend all your energy dealing with relationships, instead of yourself.
8th House: Your mother made you need to consistently go on a quest for the holy grail instead of finding your stability at home.
9th House: Your mother made you need to be elsewhere at all times, instead of content in who you are.
10th House: Your mother made you feel a need to focus on your career over be with your family.
11th House: Your mother made you feel the need to perform for everyone other than yourself forever and always.
12th House: Your mother made you need to check out of life over and over again, instead of living in the real world.
ASPECTS:
Conjunctions add a completely different characteristic to your mother’s personality. (A common example of this being Moon conjunct Uranus, creating a mother who is distant & uncaring or the better different & unique in addition to the sign the moon is in. Children being born today would have Uranus in Aries, so their mothers would be more ambitious and rebellious, a few years ago, they would have had Uranus in Pisces making their mothers, super sensitive with a lot of psychosomatic issues.)
Trine: add a harmonious relationship between you and your mother, sometimes this can prove to be a manipulative mother, or that you are able to manipulate your mother.
Sextile: add a slightly less harmonious, but possibly more beneficial relationship with your mother.
Squares: are a hard aspect and therefore a strain between you and your mother. A common example of this is Moon square Sun (mother that doesn’t know what to give you) or Moon square Mars (mother that attacks you a lot).
Oppositions: tend to be a loss or void of something between you and your mother, jumping back and forth between two opposing viewpoints of yourself and others. (A common example of this is Moon opposite Venus, where you might feel void of love from your mother, and eventually for your mother.)
MOON ASPECT EACH PLANET:
This is your perception of your mother, not always what she intended…
Sun: How well does your mother understand how to give you what you need, personally?
Mercury: How well does your mother speak to you?
Venus: How well does your mother instill confidence in you (if at all, or in spite of her)?
Mars: How patient or angry is your mother?
Saturn: How stable and supportive is your mother?
Jupiter: How much does your mother help or hinder you?
Uranus: How present is your mother in your life, or is she too rebellious against motherhood?
Neptune: How manipulative or dreamy is your mother?
Pluto: How controlling, chaotic or depressed is your mother?
