It’s been in the sky every night of your life, and every night for billions of years, but how much do you really know about the Moon? We’re all aware that it affects the Earth, but what does it actually do? In a first instance, it allowed life on Earth by playing with the water of the Blue Planet. Fascinating or disturbing, the Moon holds a special place in astrology, our very own astrologer, Susan Taylor, tells us all you need to know about this famous satellite.
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The Moon and the Sun are very important in astrology. They are called the "luminaries." The lunar sign is just as important as the Sun or the Ascendant in a woman’s chart, symbolizing her femininity, the woman she is. In a man’s chart, it represents his inner world, his sensitivity, the type of woman who suits him, his wife or partner (while the "lover" or "desirable woman" is represented by the planet Venus).
For everyone, the Moon represents the mother, the family atmosphere, the childhood environment as it was felt, the crowd, fertility, and appetite.
To find out which astrological house your Moon is in, calculate your lunar sign using our tool.
For example, in this chart, the Moon is in the sign of Leo, in the 11th house.
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🎉 Special Offer: Only $5!Main traits: Sensitivity, emotionality, reactivity. The Moon in the first house strongly influences your personality. You are perceived as sensitive and emotional, with a strong reaction to your surroundings. This position highlights your need to express your emotions and imagination.
Often tender, emotional, and sensitive, you can also be impressionable, moody, or capricious... (this depends on the Moon’s sign and the aspects it forms with other planets). You need to express your rich imagination. This position of the Moon may indicate that the native is deeply influenced by their childhood, family, or a woman. Remember that the 1st house corresponds to the Ascendant sign.
Main traits: Financial intuition, resource fluctuations. With the Moon in the 2nd house, your intuition plays a key role in managing your finances, although this can also lead to some unpredictability. You seek security and comfort, but material dependency may develop.
You can use your intuition to grow your assets, but at the same time, you may lack foresight and be a spender. As a result, there may be constant financial fluctuations throughout your life... However, being concerned with your comfort, you may become dependent on someone (partner, family, etc.) for material reassurance.
Main traits: Strong memory, social sensitivity. The Moon in the 3rd house enhances your memory and ability to absorb information. You are deeply attached to your immediate environment, and sibling relationships may be particularly influential.
You have a good memory and can store a lot of information. You seek closeness with your social environment. You are sensitive to those around you and often emotionally dependent on them, which can sometimes make you vulnerable or hurt. Be cautious of emotional dependencies that may overly influence your decisions. Your moods tend to change frequently. This lunar position may indicate the strong importance of a sister in your life.
Main traits: Need for security, family influence. In the 4th house, the Moon deeply influences your domestic and family life. You have an increased need for security and comfort, often seeking to recreate the atmosphere of your childhood in your own home.
Your current behavior may depend on your background, family, and roots, from which you haven’t fully detached. You need to be surrounded and nurtured. More than others, you feel the need to recreate your own home as an adult, to build a cozy, intimate family nest. However, this lunar position may also indicate a desire to be part of a family in general (political family, communal living, etc.).
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Main traits: Creative sensitivity, attachment to children. The Moon in the 5th house increases your need for creative expression and pleasure. Relationships with children are often marked by a strong sense of protection and affection.
You are likely very attached to children and enjoy nurturing them. Otherwise, you may thrive through your creativity, teaching, or pedagogy. This Moon position makes you a very sentimental, romantic, and sensual person. You seek the pleasures of life, and when frustrated, your mood changes quickly.
Main traits: Sensitivity to routines, attention to detail. The Moon in the 6th house makes you particularly sensitive to working conditions and health. You have an innate need to feel useful and productive, but a tendency to excessive worry can affect your well-being.
You are very sensitive to the small problems of daily life, leaving nothing to chance and always ensuring that everything goes well. As a perfectionist, you also want to be useful. When there’s too much to manage, you become destabilized, and your health may suffer. With this Moon position, you may be prone to somatization. You need to work on your anxious temperament and learn to relax. In your activities, your mood depends greatly on your colleagues and your relationship with them.
Main traits: Sensitivity to others’ needs, dependent relationships. In the 7th house, the Moon emphasizes relationships and partnerships. You are intuitively connected to others’ needs, which can sometimes lead to relationships where you feel responsible for the other person’s well-being.
Your sensitivity is focused on others. In fact, you often enjoy taking care of them. As a result, you may find yourself constantly with partners who need your support. Certainly, you have remarkable adaptability to others and situations.
Your receptiveness allows you to intuitively understand others, which helps you assist them, but also gives you influence over them, depending on the rest of your natal chart...
Main traits: Sensitivity to subtle energies, interest in the occult. The Moon in the 8th house draws you toward mysteries and deep transformations. This position may reveal psychic abilities or a fascination with the unseen.
You are sensitive to mysterious atmospheres, the invisible, and the undefinable. This may cause anxiety or give you true mediumistic powers. Depending on the rest of your chart, this either makes you strong, or you are too much of a "sponge," and this permeability to everything around you can emotionally exhaust you.
Try to refocus on yourself and regularly cleanse your energy. For some, this lunar position may represent a mother with occult powers or a mother who has taken a significant place in the native’s unconscious (even if she is no longer present).
Main traits: Insatiable curiosity, need to understand. With the Moon in the 9th house, you are driven to explore, whether through physical travel or intellectual journeys. Philosophies and beliefs play an important role in your life.
You are very curious and receptive to everything spiritual, religious, and philosophical. You have great aspirations. You seek to broaden your horizons and knowledge. Higher education impresses you, but you need to see things through. This will depend on the rest of your chart... A woman from a foreign country or with foreign origins may have a significant influence on your life.
Main traits: Sensitivity to reputation, professional fluctuations. The Moon in the 10th house influences your career and public image. You have a natural need for recognition and respectability, although this can lead to professional ups and downs.
Some say this lunar position indicates popularity, but "popularity" is relative. Not everyone with the Moon in the 10th house becomes famous (and not all celebrities have the Moon in the 10th house!). However, you may enjoy an excellent clientele (as a businessperson), benefit from the affection and support of a group (networks, etc.). In any case, you tend to attract the attention of a certain audience...
But this is mainly because you seek it and work towards it. With the Moon in the 10th house, you are somewhat dependent on the attention others give you; you need to be appreciated and esteemed in your social environment. It’s not necessarily pure ambition but rather self-esteem. Your professional life may experience fluctuations. This lunar position sometimes indicates a strong influence from the mother on the native...
Main traits: Sensitivity to group dynamics, influential friendships. In the 11th house, the Moon emphasizes the importance of friendships and social networks in your life. You are drawn to groups and have a natural talent for adapting to different social environments.
You have a gift for cultivating friendships and adapting to others, to different social or cultural environments... Rather courteous and conciliatory, you seek not to hurt others. This would bother you, but it’s also because you don’t want to be rejected by the group! If you have sincere friendships, avoid getting lost in a whirlwind of more superficial relationships or being overly influenced by others (this will depend on the rest of your chart).
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Claim Your Welcome Offer Now! 🚀Main traits: Emotional sensitivity, rich inner life. The Moon in the 12th house reveals deep sensitivity and a need for solitude to process your emotions. This position may also indicate hidden artistic or spiritual talents.
You are one of those people who are so sensitive that either you let yourself be completely overwhelmed by emotions, and they become uncontrollable, or you repress them. You may sometimes feel tempted to isolate yourself out of fear that others won’t understand your hypersensitivity. Your rich inner world and overflowing imagination can make you extremely creative. You are quite secretive and mysterious, which adds to your charm.
Depending on the rest of your chart, you may have impressive premonitory abilities, great inner resources, and moral strength, or you may be prone to obsessive anxieties, giving up, and opting for passivity or escape.
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The Moon spends about 2.5 days in each zodiac sign and completes the full zodiac cycle in 28 days. As you know, depending on the sign it’s in, the Moon has a different influence. Let’s take a quick look, and to avoid missing important phases, check out our lunar calendar for the year.
A Moon in Aries brings a lot of energy! Under its influence, you feel like an electric battery, full of energy, but you may struggle to channel this inner fire. To avoid burnout, be careful not to let impatience take over. Take time to breathe and center yourself. How about a yoga session or meditation? Or maybe a quick jog to channel this overflowing energy? 🧘♀️🏃♂️
With the Moon in Taurus, you feel good at home, in your cozy nest, warm and calm. It’s time to enjoy your comfort zone, but don’t forget to get out a bit and get some fresh air. A little walk in nature will do you good. How about a picnic to enjoy the beauty of nature? 🌳🥪
With the Moon in Gemini, your mind is racing at 100 miles an hour, isn’t it? You want to do everything, see everything. But be careful not to spread yourself too thin. Take time to pause and reflect. How about a little notebook to jot down your ideas? Or maybe a brainstorming session to organize your thoughts or a lively debate with friends? 📝💡
With the Moon in Cancer, you might feel a bit nostalgic, a bit melancholic. That’s normal—it happens. You need to accept these emotions as they come. Take time to pamper your heart and soul. A nice warm bath, a cup of tea, and a romantic comedy—that’s a good plan! Or maybe a little reading session to relax? 🛀📖
With the Moon in Leo, you feel on top of the world, ready to roar with pleasure. Enjoy this energy, but don’t forget to stay humble—don’t let it go to your head. Now is the time to practice gratitude. I recommend keeping a gratitude journal to note all the things you’re thankful for 🙏📔.
A Moon in Virgo can stir up some anxieties. You might feel a bit lost or worried. Take the time to center yourself and reassure yourself. This Moon also aids in healing, so let it work its magic without forcing anything.
With the Moon in Libra, you may feel a bit indecisive, a bit lost, unsure of what to do or which direction to take. Don’t fight it—take the time to sit down, reflect, and maybe write down your thoughts and uncertainties. You’ll see things more clearly afterward. Your close circle can also offer great advice, so don’t hesitate to invite them over.
A Moon in Scorpio awakens our passions and desires. You feel alive and more intense at the same time—it’s exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. Take the time to pause, listen to yourself, and pay attention to your inner voice during this Moon, as intuitions are extremely strong.
With the Moon in Sagittarius, you want to move, live fully, and discover new things. These are great energies, so take advantage of them to start that project you’ve been dreaming of—the courage and optimism of Sagittarius will help calm the fears that hold you back. In short, enjoy it!
With the Moon in Capricorn, ambition and determination come to the forefront. It’s time to sit down, carefully think about how to move your projects forward, and then go for it, working hard and smart. With Capricorn, you give yourself the means to achieve your ambitions. This should help you make progress on your various projects.
A Moon in Aquarius calls for independence and rebellion. You no longer want to endure or feel stifled in a job or relationship that doesn’t suit you. This is a good energy for thinking differently, seeing things from a new perspective, and daring to initiate the change you need in your life.
A Moon in Pisces encourages dreaming and creativity. It’s the perfect time to let your creativity flow in various ways and learn to listen to your emotions better. However, be careful not to be overwhelmed by emotions, whether they’re yours or others’. Accept them and let them pass, like waves...
Editorial insight: Create your Natal Chart!The Moon deeply and often unexpectedly shapes the contours of our lives and personalities. Through the twelve houses, it reveals hidden aspects of ourselves, influencing our emotions, reactions, and aspirations. Why not take a moment to create your own natal chart? Which house does the Moon occupy in your sky? Our astrologers can create your chart and give you all the details, don’t hesitate to contact them. The future is mine |
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Editor in Chief and Astrologist for MyAstroMag - I’ve always been completely fascinated by the world of Astrology and horoscopes. Writing for you and forecasting my exclusive predictions are my main passions.
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