Moon in astrology

Moon is your emotional body: the part of you that settles into when it is given room. What it is ultimately after is safety, rhythm and belonging.

It is at home in Cancer, so the affairs of Cancer tend to be where it has the clearest hand.

The sign tells you the manner: the same feeling looks bold in Aries and careful in Cancer without changing what it wants. The house tells you the arena: the part of life where you will actually meet it, whether that is money, partnership or reputation.

Aspects then tell you who it has to negotiate with. A Moon squared by Saturn and a Moon trined by Jupiter behave very differently even in the same sign.

Moving overhead, Moon stirs the feeling in whatever it touches, for 27 days for one full circuit. Slower bodies make chapters, faster ones make days — which is why a Moon transit is a mood and a Saturn transit is a re-write.

Astro Nox reads your own transits against your birth chart rather than against a Sun sign, so a Moon pass is dated to your degrees.

The Golden Dawn ties Moon to the cards below — the trump that carries the planet, and the decans it rules among the pips.