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Astrology and Your Mother: The Moon in The Horoscope
Astrology in Real Life…
Yesterday, I was talking to a pal. Her mother stopped in at her job. After she left, a young girl she works with asked, “Is that your Mom?” She had a lilt in her voice.
“Yes,” my friend answered. ‘That’s my Mom.”
“She seems sweet,” the girl said, chirping.
“Well she’s not. Be careful. I love her, she’s my mom, but she is definitely not sweet…”
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My friend has her Moon (mother) in Capricorn which no one would describe as “sweet”.
Her Moon is square Venus which is supposed to be sweet… but in this case Venus is in Aries (war) so maybe this is why she comes with a warning!!
What is your mother, not? And where is your Moon, and how is it aspected?
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My Mother, her mother, myself, and my oldest daughter all have moon in Aquarius. You would think we would all get along together, but such was not the case. My moon is fairly well aspected, but Mother’s was opp. Mars, I always experienced her as mean as a snake and mad as a hatter.
My Mom is not very motherly. She’s a lot of fun but she has consistently given me bad advice and wasn’t really good at protecting my sister and me from our stepfather’s abuse. She is sweet, I guess. My Venus squares my Moon in Pisces also (my mother was a pothead for most of my adolescence). I also have a Moon/Pluto opposition.
My mother is not weak. She’s a bit too stubborn and head strong for her own good. Moon in scorpio conjunct pluto. She’s also controlling and has these insane mood swings that drives me crazy. But she is pretty sociable, Moon sextile venus but also saturn. Her and I don’t have a very great relationship at all.
My Mother had her Moon tightly conjunct Pluto in Cancer, Virgo Sun; I have Moon tightly conjunct Pluto in Virgo, Pisces Sun. Her Jupiter in Cancer sat exactly on my ASC. Her Venus in Scorpio is sextile my Virgo stellium and trine my Venus in Pisces. We got along very well, in many ways she was a good friend, and I loved her very much. However, she was extremely manipulative and controlling, which I didn’t fully realize until after she had died.
My stepMom is a Sagittarius Sun, Moon in Pisces one degree off my Sun, Venus in Scorpio trine my Venus in Pisces, Saturn in Aries exactly on my Mercury in Aries. We get along very well, I’m deeply fond of her, I respect her and she’s probably the least manipulative person I know (Mars in Libra).
I have Scorpio moon in the 12th. My mother is a Pisces sun and I have Saturn in Pisces. My mother has Saturn in Gemini which is my sun sign.
We get along surprisingly well given all of that, but to say our relationship is complex and full of undercurrent would be putting it mildly.
My mother is a Gemini, I have Aquarius moon conjunct Venus and Mars and square Saturn. She and I get along extremely well. We have similar interests and the same sense of humor. She’s such an easy-going, selfless, funny person, I can’t imagine anybody could dislike her.
My moon is in Virgo, and the woman with the most influence in my life (my bio mom left when I was 4) has HER moon in Aries. I’ve done a lot of reading this morning — gods bless google! — and wow, now I understand better why our relationship is the way it is!
Thanks for the thread of thought, Elsa. I’m really beginning to understand all this now.
My mother wasn’t motherly. She never taught me the facts of life like tell me to brush my teeth everyday and that sort of thing. No education about life. She has 3 daughters though, and one adopted son, and had lots of other pregnancies that didn’t come to term. I remember she slept alot when i was a kid. We kind of grew up on our own. (My father recently told me he tought because we were girls, we didn’t need a father, just a mother, and somehow he thinks she’s a good mother. maybe compared to his own mother, she is) I have moon in sagitarius conjunct neptune, sextile mars and pluto, square mercury. She’s a sag sun and saturn with moon in pisces (my sun). My other sisters have moon in pisces and cancer.
we all have sun-saturn contacts too. an opposition, a square, and my older sister has saturn in leo and a square sun-saturn.
Everything my Mom is now, she wasn’t when I was a child.
When I was a child, she was mentally ill and suicidal.
She was also very religious and had a litany of rules for behaviour no one could live up to. She was anti-social, and paranoid.
Now that I am an adult, and my Mom is a senior citizen, she is open-minded, not-so-religious , social, and happy as a lark. WTF, eh?
She is an Aries Sun with an Aquarius Moon. She likes to say she’s finally living in her body. I think leaving the church was supremely good for her–she’s a true individual and never had an easy time with groups. And I hate to say it, but after her own mother passed away, it was as if a weight was lifted (HER mother was an Aquarian with her Moon in Cancer and their relationship was in parts toxic/needy). She changed dramatically after her mother’s death.
My Moon is in Capricorn, in the 1st house. Squared Pluto, which is in 9th house/Libra. I used to feel at the mercy of my emotions when I was very young (I was also very confused about religion) and was very much my Mother’s tonic when she was so effed up. I did leave home at 16 though, and I think that saved me from my own spiral into hell. I literally could not separate myself from my Mom emotionally, and she did everything in her power to prevent me from leaving.
I left the country at 20 for 4 years and it changed everything. Basically, we both relinquished control of everything we tried to control.
I love my Mom and can’t imagine life without her. And I am even happier that we’re both not as effed up and unhappy as we were during my childhood. It’s nothing short of a miracle, and I feel extremely lucky we both embrace change where we once fought it tooth and nail.
My mom, grandmother, father and myself all have moon aquarius.
My mom is often mistaken for mean as hell. She isnt. She’s definetely not a maternal woman, but she does her best, when it suits her. She is very artistic so she usually expresses herself in very unique ways.
We dont really get along too well on a regular basis. We dont agree on a darn thing, but we do love each other in our own way.
I have Aquarius moon in the 2nd house, with a lot of aspects,some of them rather irritating I guess (I‚
One thing my mom is not… is…. let’s see. She is not outwardly possessive. She is also far from stupid.
She has probably taught me the most about myself and how to deal with people around me. And everything she taught me has been extremely important in the way I see the world intellectually. She is *constantly* reading, learning and now philosophizing. And even though technically she would be called a “stay-at-home” mom, she actually traveled often while I was a child and adolescent. Back and forth between a California upper-upper-middle class suburb where me and my sibling was sent to go to school, and the small Midwestern town, where my dad needed help running with his clinic (accounting, taxes, maintaining relations w/ people, counseling my dad.) We all used to live together. Often she and I had fights as I was growing up, mostly about getting me to do my homework assignments! And finish the damned things! But we are actually quite close. And I could discuss with her almost anything quite fervently.
She can always call me out when I am wrong. Or when I need to leash in my terrible worries and temper. She always forces me think about analyzing my relationships clearly and to think about the bigger picture. She questions people’s truths. Which sometimes can be helpful. But, sometimes she gets things wrong too! She can be stubborn about that. We’re sometimes equals in that sense.
Sometimes, on the phone I half-jokingly pout about how I’ve been abandoned! (She’s a double Aquarius.) Hahah.
This lady can be tough! (T-square with a Mars in Sagittarius) And she only recently learned how to let go of doggedly arguing ideas at the dinner table and other places with less open-minded people.
Coincidence?
Her Chiron is conjunct my Moon.
My Gemini Chiron is conjunct her Gemini Moon.
Also, this woman’s Sun and Venus are conjunct in my 10th house, square my self-destructive Sun and Pluto hahaa.
My Moon is in Capricorn conjunct Mars in the 9th.
Also sextile Saturn and Mercury.
wow an unreal amount of people, including myself and a friend of mine have thier moon in thier mother’s sun sign. … crazy
re: 13 (Bashful)
Cancer Moon here.
My mom’s a Cancer Sun.
As were my first two female lovers.
My current and previous lovers are Cancer Asc.
My best friend has Cancer Venus, etc.
Other key players in my life all have some kind of Cancer marker that intersects with my chart in complex and potent ways.
My moon is in Libra at the end of the 4th house.
Conjunct Pluto and Saturn. Square Mars. Yeehaw!
I’m familiar with depression, obssessive behavior and bad temper.
My mom has a Virgo moon. Protective and generous.
Maybe too protective.
We have a “come here/leave me alone” relationship. Sometimes I need to push her away, (not taking her numerous calls, not visiting her) because if I don’t I’m sure she’ll eat me alive.
When we fight it’s always because she’s too critical (my lifestyle, my home, my father). And loves to control everything. As a Sag, I hate that.
However, without her positive influence, I wouldn’t be as independant and responsible. I’d be a restless emotional mess.
And without my optimism, she wouldn’t know how to relax.
It’s my mum’s buffday on monday. Happy Buffday Mum! I have a libra moon, 7th house. She has a scorpio moon, don’t know which house. Her mother wasn’t really a mother, didn’t want kids, tried to abort my mum by drinking gin in a bath and throwing herself down some stairs.
So she is very anxious, especially about us kids, could never give me the space I needed so I had to find ways of getting that space-climbing up trees, on the roof etc when I was a toddler.
My mum’s mercury is square mine and my moon. She doesn’t understand me or my emotions but she does try hard!
She isn’t funny, on purpose. Doesn’t have a sense of humour, thinks when I try and play with her that I’m taking the piss out of her. She overreacts emotionally, all the time, everyone has to feel her emotional pain even if they don’t want to.
I do love her, but she is not easy going or light-hearted.
My mother is not warm and fuzzy, my moon is in Virgo 4th house conjunct Pluto opposition Jupiter. She made homemade yogurt before yogurt was cool (late 60’s)and made sure I knew about diet and exercise, but did not hug much. There are other layers to our relationship, and though I don’t trust her much, I’ve come to terms with her.
Interesting how many Moon/Pluto contacts there are in a lot of posters’ charts here.
I’ve got a Sag moon, Mom has a Pisces moon. Emotionally, we are on completely different wavelengths. I’m the cold and icy bitch, she’s the bleeding heart. Boy, is that fun to have going on all the time.
So I’m sitting in the pick up line at school this afternoon and it dawned on me…my kids have moons, wonder what that looks like. My oldest boy, Scorpio moon, middle daughter Taurus moon and my youngest boy Virgo moon. Is this why siblings can grow up with the same mom, but have completely different experiences? I try to be fair and balanced with my kids, but my daughter challenges everything I say or do head on, so I stand my ground with her while my oldest is constantly hiding things (or trying to) and using evasive techniques and I have to ferret out info from him all the time. Kinda makes you go hmmmmmmmm.
I have Moon in Scorpio trine Sun, trine Mars, square ASC and opposite MC. (and lots of other aspects..)
But um..my Mom’s a really, really strong woman. She’s been through a lot.. and she keeps going no matter what. I admire her for that. She’s kind of tough/cold sometimes but I understand - She’s a Sagittarius Sun, Capricorn Moon, Aquarius ASC. I’m a Cancer, Scorpio Moon, Leo Rising.. so we have our clashing moments ;] lol. She gets mad that I’m too sensitive/emotional and I get annoyed by how cold/clumsy/carefree (sagittarius) she is! But anyway..she’s amazing. I love her sososo much. I don’t know what I’d do without her lol :\
Eighth house Aquarian moon, trine my Mars/Venus/Pluto conjunction, square Uranus. Also square Chiron, but I know jack about Chiron.
My mother and I have a fabulous relationship now, but I absolutely hated her growing up. She was an alcoholic for most of my “childhood” and we kids were basically left to rear ourselves. As a matter of fact, my mother and I didn’t talk for a couple of years until she “got sober.”
Unfortunately, we don’t have birth info on Mom - her mother is dead and her birth certificate lost. We haven’t gotten a replacement yet.
SaDiablo, you can find out all kinds of info for your Mom if you know the date/place of her birth. Not degrees and houses (although there is a specific term for this type of chart interpretation…working backwards from life events…what’s this called? I should know but don’t but of course the lovely Elsa does).
So you can know in which signs planets are in and go from there.
If you already know this, please excuse my post.
Bashful– I was noticing that too. And if not in their mother’s sun sign then usually in the same type, air or fire or whatever.
mom’s moon is in leo (conjunct my dad’s sun, my saturn, go figure.) (they have a pair of sun moon conjunctions in synastry.)
my moon’s in aquarius (yes, in opposition) and venus is sitting in aries in a mess of aspects.
and, yeah. mom is not sweet. but she’s got quite a force of personality.
My moon is 10 degrees Leo (5th house) squaring my sun at 9 degrees Taurus and Merc at 16 taurus (both in the 2nd house), all of this in square to eight house saturn 18 degrees retrograde and therefore applying. Sun rules sixth, venus is intercepted in my chart and rules no no house, saturn rules 11 and 12, and merc rules 3 and 4. I think the Saturn aspect on the moon is very difficult. I am the oldest and mom has Cap on her 5th house cusp, and saturn approaching the fifth. She “hates babies” and she still talks about how much she ‘hates babies’ without seemingly realizing that, as her baby once, she probably really shouldn’t go around screaming that all the time. Most of the time I experience her as Control Freak Mom (Her moon is in Aries, she rises in mid Virgo). We fought all my life, but now I have been able to set some boundaries with her. Sometimes we do ok and others I still fear taht she is going to run me off from her forever, so that I will no longer be here when she needs me most.