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The Moon in the Houses

The Moon in the houses can reveal where and how we go about seeking emotional satisfaction. We can discover important clues to the reason for perpetual emotional unrest through the study of the house position of the Moon, and these take the form of constant changes or ups and downs in the areas of life ruled by the house. It is in these areas that we should aim to make deep attachments rather than chase superficial and temporary emotional thrills if we are seeking out a genuine feeling of belonging and emotional fulfillment.

Moon in the 1st House

The Moon in the houses can reveal where and how we go about seeking emotional satisfaction. If it’s an issue, we can discover vital clues to the reason for perpetual emotional unrest through the study of the house position of the Moon, and these can manifest as constant changes or ups and downs in the areas of life ruled by the house. It is in these areas that we should aim to make deep attachments rather than chase superficial and temporary emotional thrills if we are seeking out a genuine feeling of belonging and emotional fulfillment.

With the Moon in your first house, your feelings are right out there for everyone to see, and you can come across as emotional and impatient, or nurturing and caring (or both). Your first reaction to most stimuli is emotional, especially if the Moon is in close proximity (within ten degrees) to the Ascendant degree. Your decisions are usually emotionally-driven and can be changeable as a result.

You need emotional stimulation, movement, and freedom to express yourself in order to feel happy and fulfilled. Your moods are very changeable, and this can be quite obvious to others since you tend to have an expressive face! You are extraordinarily adaptable and you often pick up all kinds of signals from the environment around you that others don’t typically notice. You tend to greet others with warmth. Because of your emotional sensitivity, you might often take things very personally, and react rather quickly. Developing an awareness that others’ emotions are just as important, even if they are not as overt and immediate as yours, will be important. As well, learning to pay a little less attention to changes of mood can be beneficial for you. You are extraordinarily observant, quick to act and respond, and emotionally courageous.

Moon in the 2nd House

With the Moon in the second house of your natal chart, when it comes to money, you can be generous and frivolous in your spending habits one day, and frugal the next. You can be quite afraid of being in debt, and you need to feel that the bills are handled in order to feel secure and safe. This can also be true for your savings, as you fear the state of being without. Still, there are times when you can spend impulsively, on a whim, and this is likely when you are feeling emotionally frustrated. You might also hold onto people quite tightly.

Vanity can be an issue for some with this position. You are often looking for admiration, and you can be rather dependent on others for positive feedback until you learn to develop deeper feelings of self-worth. You’re not as immediately or overtly emotionally responsive as most people, tending to take your time before revealing how you feel. You tend to hold back and wait before expressing yourself, and when you do, it is with deliberation.

Moon in the 3rd House

With the Moon in the third house of your natal chart, you are very responsive, communicative, and curious. You may very well have a talent for imitating others or for picking up languages. You might either intellectualize your emotions rather than genuinely feel them and deal with them, or you communicate with excessive emotion. Some of you may do both at different times, and as you mature and develop, you learn to find a balance.

Your opinions and ideas change often, and it may be that you sometimes adopt others’ points of view and express their ideas as if they were your own. This is not necessarily because you are a copy-cat, but because you are such a quick study and you are so very sensitive to others’ opinions. You share ideas for enjoyment. You can be nervous and restless, requiring frequent changes of scenery, even if this movement or travel typically takes place locally.

Keep in mind that your feelings and early-life experiences have a strong influence on your ideas and perspectives. This can mean that, when you’re in a rush, you are following hunches more often than facts, and being aware of this tendency can help you check yourself. This way, you can avoid making too many subjective decisions or choices when objectivity would benefit you more.

You can have fond memories of your early life and many people with this position maintain strong ties to their childhood friends or neighborhood throughout life.

Curiously, even though you love ideas and learning, studying is not necessarily your forte. In fact, you prefer to pick up information more organically. People with the Moon in the third house are usually very effective at communicating, whether through the written or spoken word, and often both. You are also curious to a fault. You love to know what’s going on around you! Sometimes, this trait borders into busybody territory.

Moon in the 4th House

With the Moon in your fourth house, you long for a sense of true belonging, but you may be quite restless in your search. You might change residence frequently or simply feel the need to make many changes in your home. Moving often may be a healthy thing if it keeps you emotionally stimulated. However, if you find that you do so on whims and later regret the changes, you might want to treat it as a symptom of emotional unrest. This is because, with this house position, you could be in an endless search for the perfect mood and setting, when in fact a feeling of belonging should be worked on from the inside out, not the outside in!

While some people with this position remain somewhat immature on an emotional level, never wanting to truly grow up and take care of yourself, for most, this is about taking attachments to the past, traditions, or family/home strongly to heart.

With the Moon in the fourth house, you very often feel the need to anchor, ground, or center yourself before feeling fit in other areas of life. You have a powerful sense of home or family, and the drive for security and safety can be behind much of what you do.

This is an excellent position for a home business. You can have a strong interest in lineage, history, or collecting. You are likely quite creative and warm. You have strong emotional “feelers,” and you need to feel out a situation before trusting it.

Moon in the 5th House

With the Moon in your fifth house, you love to share emotional experiences with loved ones and have a flair for the dramatic. Love affairs are magnetic and intense, and you don’t take them lightly by any means, although you may go through considerable change through your romances. You are attached to children, whether they’re your own or not. Your creative hobbies are subject to relatively frequent changes, and you have innate artistic talent.

You have a vivid imagination and are given to daydreaming often. There is a sense that you are always in touch, or trying to get in touch, with your inner child.

If the Moon is challenged (forms difficult aspects for the most part), you may have problems with impulsive shopping or gambling, or with numerous love affairs that never fully satisfy you. In any of these cases, you are more attached to the game than the player, and this is something to work on if you are looking to find true fulfillment. You might take risks just for the fun of it, but in the process, you are irresponsible to others and yourself. This is something that you tend to grow out of with life experience.

This position of the Moon is warm, friendly, personally popular, humorous, generous, and entertaining. People notice you, and you might often enjoy entertaining others, or imagining you are on show. This is one of the most emotionally colorful house positions for the Moon. Your heart needs to be engaged first in a romantic relationship. You are attracted to heartfelt pursuits and entertainment — you most appreciate an emotional story or emotionally-charged piece of art. Your hobbies are rich. In fact, without a satisfying hobby, you could feel very restless and dissatisfied.

Moon in the 6th House

With your Moon in the sixth house of your natal chart, more than usual, you have an emotional need to be useful, to work productively, to be organized and on top of things, and to lead a healthy life. If these matters are chaotic in your life, it’s a sure sign of emotional unrest.

You need a lot of variety on the job–to be stimulated and engaged to feel satisfied. Some people with this position go through frequent job changes, forever in search of the “perfect fit” job. Acceptance that any job requires some level of routine may be hard for you. You are brilliant and intuitive when it comes to details and flaws, seeming to immediately home in on problem areas and imbalances.

You may need to watch for anxiety, nervous energy, fretting, and a tendency to worry too much for your own good.

You are very sensitive and especially aware of minor health annoyances or body aches and pains. Some people with this position have hypochondriac symptoms because of this sensitivity, while others are simply more acutely aware of health issues. In some cases, people with the Moon in the sixth house use health problems to escape responsibilities. At your best, however, you’re a person who always helps out and shows your affection for others in practical ways to help them solve problems and improve their lives. You are exceptionally adaptable and observant.

Moon in the 7th House

With the Moon in the seventh house of your natal chart, more than usual, you have an emotional need to connect with a partner. You are drawn to partnerships and prefer to have a companion for emotional support. You are not a person who would happily take in a movie by yourself, or dine alone, for example. A partner awakens feelings in you that you may never know you had, and you seem to need a partner to learn about your own needs and feelings. More than others, you tend to seek emotional fulfillment through relationships. You seem to come alive in one-to-one settings.

Whether you connect with one person for a long time or you have multiple relationships, you put a whole lot of emotional energy into your connections. Taking time between relationships is something that may be hard for you to do, but entirely necessary, as you may be afraid of being alone. Knowing that you can be on your own and fulfilled is powerful, and in fact, draws out the best in you.

You are very adaptable to others’ needs and quite likable as a result! Be careful that you don’t become overly dependent on someone, or assume that a partner is going to treat you the same way as you do them all of the time. Watch for giving more to a partnership too often.

You are an extraordinarily supportive person to the people you care about, you tend to draw emotional or needy people into your life, or you draw out strong emotional responses from others with the Moon in your seventh house of partnerships and “other.” You are also a seeker of peace and harmony in your close friendships and partnerships. You will bend over backward to make things right! You’re very talented at making others feel comfortable, quickly sensing their needs. You make a good counselor.

Moon in the 8th House

With the Moon in the eighth house of your natal chart, more than usual, you are drawn to the world of more profound emotions and attachments. While you have a strong need for emotional security, you are also a person who is drawn to pushing your limits, and many lifestyle changes can be the result of this need to challenge–or reinvent–yourself emotionally. You are eternally fascinated with how people work as well as with taboos, secrets, and all that is forbidden or hidden.

Sexual unrest, or an apparent need to transform or challenge yourself sexually, may be a symptom of emotional insecurity with this position. Connecting with another person intimately is an emotional need, but your changeable emotions might often get in the way of this goal. Jealousy and possessiveness might also be qualities you struggle with.

At your best, however, you are a person who is intimate, profound, sincere, and intensely loyal. You’re not afraid to tackle the tough side of life, although you can fear the exposure of your own vulnerabilities! Something about your upbringing may have inclined you to react quickly and powerfully under pressure or in times of crisis. You don’t shy away from emotional intensity. You are fascinated by mysteries and emotionally complex, involved, and layered circumstances and situations. Your understanding of life and human psychology is instinctive and natural, requiring little or no training. In your lifetime, you may be entrusted with others’ resources, money, or business, more than most. You expertly manage others’ talents and resources. You’re inclined to form strong attachments, and your emotions, too, run deep.

Moon in the 9th House

This is a position that can indicate a deep longing for stimulation above and beyond the everyday, mundane routine. With the Moon in your ninth house, you may be a philosophical sort, interested in and curious about the world, other people, and perhaps different cultures. You can be extraordinarily restless and discontented if you don’t have a definite goal in mind.

You might find yourself longing to be somewhere else when you are unhappy, imagining that if you were to move or travel, you would be much more satisfied. However, this attitude may keep you from enjoying and improving upon the situation you are now in, only serving to make you feel more unhappy in the present and with your current circumstances. Trying to avoid the attitude that “the grass is greener on the other side” will be important in your life, while attending to your needs to get away from time to time will help scratch the seemingly incurable itch for something more! Many people with this position feel they thrive best away from the early neighborhood or in places where they can break free of the bonds of childhood conditioning.

The desire to start fresh, change the scenery, and enjoy a break from routine is often very strong! On an emotional level, you are somewhat of a vagabond or wanderer, and you can make yourself at home in almost any setting. You are always seeking to grow, learn, improve, and gain perspective, and this may be the reason behind the frequent desire to be on the move or to break free of habits or routines. You have a distinctly spiritual side to your nature that is vastly important to you and your sense of security, and you may embrace the idea of a guide, mentor, or guardian angel. Your understanding of the world and human nature is intuitive and natural.

Moon in the 10th House

This position of the Moon indicates an emotional need for recognition, popularity, acknowledgment, and achievement. With the Moon in your tenth house, you can be quite charismatic. You are at your emotional best when you lead a structured and responsible life, but it can take time to get there! You may change your goals and ambitions, general direction, and/or your profession frequently in an attempt to find the perfect fit. You may worry about living up to your image, or the expectations of your family. Decisions may be emotionally biased, or you might act on emotional whims often. Learning to set your own heartfelt goals is the challenge here, as it is unlikely you will find real happiness if you follow or adopt the expectations of others, to which you can be especially sensitive.

Your early experiences somehow encouraged you to seek success and never to shy away from taking on responsibility. You may even find your family or home in your work, career, or public/professional role.

You rather quickly and comfortably take on the role of manager or leader, or you readily accept responsibility. Much of your personality is expressed through what you do – you put a lot of heart into your roles, careers, and goals. Or, you may adopt a nurturing position in your career, making you an excellent leader, teacher, manager, counselor, or guide. You are charismatic, and it’s easy for others to identify with you. Your influence can be considerable, and you may be a role model without even realizing it. Others often turn to you for advice.

Moon in the 11th House

This position of the Moon indicates an emotional need for a feeling of belonging with, and support from, friends and associations with groups. You look to acquaintances for support, and you offer the same in return. A changeable or unstable social life might be a reflection of inner emotional unrest. Certainly, waxing and waning feelings for others can be at the root of some problems in your relationships.

With the Moon in the eleventh house of your birth chart, you’re a person with many dreams, wishes, and hopes for your future, and most of these are altruistic and good-hearted desires. You might change your aspirations frequently with your changing moods, and you could have a hard time settling on goals to work towards as a result. This shouldn’t serve as a big problem in life, but if it does, you might focus on looking within for answers rather than seeking emotional satisfaction through others. You’re likely to need, more than most people, a sense of a mission or meaningfulness in your work and leisure time. It’s important that you don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you can’t do something on your own or that others are more talented than you.

Your independence is extremely important to you, but you also find your “home” amongst friends or groups. You are an amazing friend. Your interests, passions, and friends are likely to be varied, creative, unconventional, and unusual. You seek out others with shared passions or visions. You, yourself, are a visionary of sorts!

Moon in the 12th House

This position of the Moon indicates an emotional attachment and sensitivity to all that is ethereal, groundless, and eternal. As sensitive as you are, you often have delayed reactions to your own emotional experiences. You need frequent moments of solitude to recharge yourself emotionally, and this need, while strong, can also lead to feelings of isolation and of being misunderstood.

While you are a perceptive person, you are often either flooded with emotions that are hard to define, or entirely out of touch with what you are feeling. Either extreme keeps you from genuinely discovering your emotional needs. Delayed reactions are very common when the Moon is in the twelfth house of the natal chart, usually because you try to put off dealing with intense things.

Negative expressions of this position are avoidance of responsibility or using hypersensitivity as an excuse to oneself (and perhaps to others) for not participating. You are enormously sympathetic to others’ suffering, but not always emotionally available to help due to a desire to escape or defer dealing with problems.

You can be so empathetic that you absorb the emotions of others, and this can be exhausting at times! This may be one of the main reasons for your frequent need to disconnect from the world around you. Retreats are essential for your emotional wellness.

You can make an excellent counselor and behind-the-scenes helping professions also suit you well, although you often do these things naturally and casually. You are a fantastic listener, and you have great stores of compassion. You intuitively understand others and tune into the normally hidden layers of people and situations. You realize that everyone has a backstory!

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