The Moon In Astrology

The moon in Astrology waxes and wanes, representing all of the many different things we as humans feel, in a constant, never ending cycle of New Moon to Full Moon and back again. The Moon represents our empathy, emotions, introspection, and reflection. The Moon represents your subconscious mind, just as the Sun represents your conscious mind. The Moon’s glyph is the alchemy symbol for silver, but obviously it’s something more familiar, which is a crescent moon. It represents the spirit and the unconsciousness, depicting how humans have lots of depth, as it also depicts the visible and the invisible parts of ourselves. The Moon and its glyph represents the intense, and sometimes volatile, waves of impulse and emotions, or memories and even your …show more content…
Your moon sign is your moods, your feelings, it’s that explainable bond and empathetic connection that you sense from yourself and that you sense out of others. The Moon is a sensitive entity, for she is receptive, mutable, and easily affected by the events happening around her. Your mother, as many astrologers say, shines through the Moon’s shadow, as your earliest memories and emotional experiences began with your mother, from the moment you were born. You depended on your mother for that emotional warmth and the crucial need to be loved and protected. We all, as humans, need something to fall back on and make us feel safe, stable, and protected, which for some, this would lie in materialistic possessions, such as properties or money, while for others, their security lies in lovers, families, friends, or homes.

Fulfilling the Moon’s craving for stability and safety is essential because when these needs get fulfilled, we are relaxed, emotionally stable, and optimistic, and consequently, we are happy, confident, open-minded, and essentially, we become the best versions of ourselves as humans. Openness, receptivity, and loyalty are all qualities of having a healthy moon, or having healthy emotions, as well as being able to fully express our emotions and not letting them build up and fester inside of …show more content…
While these signs are both very emotional, feeling every single thing so deeply and powerfully, they cannot feel them in a calm and collected way. Sure, Capricorn is a family-oriented and sentimental sign, but it’s also very detached, and almost never lets their emotions out. Scorpio’s volatile emotions are no secret to anyone at all, but this water sign is self-aware of these emotional extremes, and fear letting their emotions overthrow their whole being. Capricorn and Scorpio both bottle up their intense emotions, but obviously, this never works, and both signs end up having some sort of mental breakdown and drowning in a pit of existential dread (how