Astrology Explored

November 28, 2007

While it is said the eyes are the window of the soul, the moon is the gateway to the soul.

The moon in the natal chart represents our emotions, our gut reactions, where things hit home. It is what we carry with us into this life, an impression and a summation of the past life lessons that we are here to work on now.

Soul work is involved with how we feel about something, not what we think, intellectually, about something. You may have had a time when an emotion will hit you out of the blue, and overtake you with no earthly reason for it to happen. Prehaps there is strong reaction to a place you never visitied, a face in the crowd that seems to jog some fleeting memory, a overly strong reaction to a slight given by another person. This is your soul memory, represented by your moon, at work.

This is an important reason for you to discover and treasure the moon sign you were born with. Like an archeology of the soul, your moon sign gives you valuable clues about who you really are.

Fire sign moons, Aries, Leo and Sagittarius spent many lives traveling. This is why they feel happier in motion than sitting in one place. Because they have recorded as a soul memory the impermanence of life, they find it difficult to settle down now. These moon signs learned through many lives to make friends quickly and have developed charming personalities to do so. Often, when tied down, they are nervous and restless, as if waiting for the other shoe to drop (or the next bandit to attack.)

Earth sign moons, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn spent many lives in living in one place. They have learned the value of hard work and how to accumulate material possession to generate comfort in their earthly lives. They value security and long term relationships. The flip side to the earth sign moons is that sometimes they place monetary concerns ahead of the quality of their personal relationships. Earth sign moons would find a valuable lesson in not placing so much importance on material things.

Air sign moons, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, spent many lives developing their minds. They are adept at forming social connections and gathering information. However, they are not so good at forming emotional connections, and though they might be attentive enough, there is a certain lack of warmth in their emotional connections. They, more than anyone else, would find it valuable to develop emotional empathy for the people in their lives.

Water sign moons, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are the most tuned into their emotions. They are so tuned in, in fact, that they live their lives constantly jostled by the little emotional shocks in life. Their sensitivity is sometimes too much for them to bear, let alone the people who are closest to them. Water signs have interesting defenses for their emotinal vunerability. Cancer is notoriously crabby, Scorpio wears “mystery” as a garment, and Pisces finds themselves unavailable for your emotional crisis. All this it to keep people at arms length so you don’t have a chance to touch their emotional underbelly. For these souls, a learning detachment is their valuable lesson.

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