Moon in astrology

Moon Signs & Moon Sign

Compatibility

What are Moon Signs?

Moon Signs help define our emotional development, or express the unconscious side of our personality. It explains why we do what we do. This is where we retreat for comfort, childhood memories, and peace. This can also be the place where anger, hate, jealousy and fear may be found.

The Moon also influences our senses depending on its placement in the birth chart. Most people will have their Moon in a Sign that is different from their Sun. This is why many people with the same Sun Sign can be so different from each other. They may feel that when they read a description of their Sign, that it is not representative of them. It may feel incomplete, or even completely inaccurate. Moon Signs may be a much more accurate description of what a person is like.

If your Moon Sign is the same as your Sun Sign, you may find that it amplifies the traits of that Sign. This would make you a "double" of your Sign, such as a "double Gemini." The Moon also governs the heart, stomach, brain, bladder, bowels and the left eye. It has influence with the glands and fluids of the body.

The Moon is said to represent your instinctual self, which many people keep hidden. On points where your Sun and Moon Signs are compatible, they will work together to help you get through the hardships and accomplish your goals. Where they are not compatible, you will feel conflicting desires or be at odds with yourself in some way. For example, if your Moon is in Gemini, you may be very changeable emotionally. You may get stressed out easily, and the more people you discuss your issues with, the more confused you may become. Scorpio Moons also deal with a lot of stress, but tend to keep it all under wraps. Jealousy may be a big problem for a person with a Scorpio Moon. Aries Moons are headstrong, aggressive and may be difficult to control. They do best if they can find a physical outlet for their emotions, like sports. Our MoonSign also offers insight in how to reach our inner child.

Find your Moon Sign

If you don't know what Sign your Moon was in, you'll gain a lot more insight into your inner workings once you do. Use our free birth chart calculator to determine your Moon Sign. All you need is your birth date and time of birth. Since the Moon moves through each Sign so quickly (in about 2-1/4 days), the time of birth is important. If you don't know what time you were born, you can calculate your birth date at 12:01am and again at 11:59pm. If they are both the same Moon Sign, you have been successful. If they are different, read the descriptions for both and figure out which best describes you.

Look for this glyph (symbol) on your birth chart and note the Zodiac Sign it's in. Once you've done this come back and read the interpretation below.

Birth Chart Calculator

Interpreting the Moon Signs

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Moon Sign Menu  Please Select Aries Moon Taurus Moon  Gemini Moon Cancer Moon Leo Moon Virgo Moon Libra Moon Scorpio Moon Sagittarius Moon Capricorn Moon Aquarius Moon Pisces Moon

Or choose from the links below.

Aries Moon	Taurus Moon
Gemini Moon	Cancer Moon
Leo Moon	Virgo Moon
Libra Moon	Scorpio Moon
Sagittarius Moon	Capricorn Moon
Aquarius Moon	Pisces Moon

Moon Sign Compatibility

Each Moon Sign behaves differently when coupled with another Moon Sign; some get along wonderfully while others are continuously at loggerheads. Discover how your Sign interacts with all 12 Moon Signs.

Moon Sign Compatibility

Compatibility Menu

Choose 1st Moon Sign  Please Select Aries Moon Taurus Moon Gemini Moon Cancer Moon Leo Moon Virgo Moon Libra Moon Scorpio Moon Sagittarius Moon Capricorn Moon Aquarius Moon Pisces Moon  Choose 2nd Moon Sign   Please Select

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Aries Moon Compatibility	Taurus Moon Compatibility
Gemini Moon Compatibility	Cancer Moon Compatibility
Leo Moon Compatibility	Virgo Moon Compatibility
Libra Moon Compatibility	Scorpio Moon Compatibility
Sagittarius Moon Compatibility	Capricorn Moon Compatibility
Aquarius Moon Compatibility	Pisces Moon Compatibility

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Dark side of zodiac sign

Aries

An innate ability to give authoritative military commands is the essence of your sign, but when others disobey you are puzzled and slightly hurt. You do know what’s best, after all.  And if you yell loudly enough they will, eventually, understand. You cheerfully rearrange the furniture inside people’s heads and march away muttering ‘people to see, places to go’. Ultimately, you have no secret strategies, but this doesn’t matter because you are plugged into the national grid and in the end, everyone else is far too exhausted to murmur ‘no’. 

TAURUS

’Slowly but surely wins the race’ is what you say. It is your life philosophy. And the thing is, nobody will ever persuade you to do things differently. Because you are so stubborn, so fixed, so earthy you are like some kind of stubborn, fixed, earthy thing. Or a rock face. Annoyingly, you sometimes do win the race – accumulating wealth, property, and status as you plod along. You see, yes, you were right. The story of the tortoise and the hare was right. Or the ant (good) and the stupid, improvident grasshopper (ridiculous)…..In the end it’s all about prudence isn’t it..Smug? Indeed. But comfy and cosy. Oh yes.

GEMINI

You possess the fascinating, charismatic allure of the sociopath. Perhaps it’s the breath-taking lies you tell, the spin you put on everything,  or the dizzying speed of your mental processes. People are charmed, disappointed, charmed, infuriated….they can’t pin you down can they? They stumble about in the random thought generator which is your mind, lost and confused. And so are you. And you know, deep inside, that there is more than one of you in there. It’s a Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing. Sometimes there’s a supporting cast as well. Great. You do so need someone to talk to.

CANCER

As the Moon (your ruling planet) waxes and wanes in the night sky you are subject to mood swings of astonishing, ancient complexity. To ease this you hold on tightly to everything in your immediate vicinity – people, memories, receipts, half-eaten packets of crisps. You never, ever let go. Nobody understands you. You move sideways across the beach, zig-zagging towards your goals and hiding in rock pools. Sometimes you make a lot of money. But you never tell anyone. Or if you do you will probably have to kill them eventually. 

LEO

There you are – radiant, playful, and such a little sunbeam. What’s not to like? The claws, mainly. You like to keep these sheathed, but you can’t help yourself sometimes. Someone tells you that you look tired. Or dares to disagree with you. Clearly, they do not know who you are. The fools!  After this point it’s like one of those wild-life documentaries. It gets bloody. But you are quite deliciously lazy and easily distracted by flattery and shopping, so you soon forget that part. Until the next time. You need staff really. Or a minder.  Because sometimes your victims retaliate.

VIRGO

You are blessed to have incarnated in modern times. Without antiseptics and antibiotics and waxing how would you get through the day?  Nobody seems to grasp the dangers of infection and dirt in quite the way you do. You are not afraid to tell them either, because you enjoy giving constructive criticism, as you like to call it. Yours, after all, is the sign of service to others. But how ever helpful you are, it never seems to be enough. Chaos and filth reign and your work is never done. Karma can be very cruel.

LIBRA

Balancing the scales of your psyche is your life’s task. To this end you constantly say things like ‘ on the one hand, on the other hand’ – applying this modus operandi to everything – relationships, outfits, holiday plans, menus. But you are cunning. Machiavellian even. Because underneath you know exactly what you want, and how to get it. Your ruthless charm bathes others in a sweet, warm glow and they fail to notice what you’re up to until it’s way too late. Still, death by chocolate – it could be worse. 

SCORPIO

Dark side? Bah humbug. You are a smouldering gothic creature and proud of it. If you are in denial about this you are in big trouble. Being awake for a thousand years gives you the edge over everybody else. Nobody nurses a grudge like you do, because you know revenge is a dish best served icy cold. Your poisonous sting is fatal, but lack of self-acceptance means you will use it on yourself one day and then the sky will darken, the mirror will crack, and your bones will turn to dust in a heartbeat.. To avoid this you probably require a lot of sex, money, and a shrink. 

SAGITTARIUS

Symbolised by the mythic centaur, you are half-human, half-horse. You are fine in a large paddock, but react badly to life in a stable. You kick, you rear, and you tell everybody they are fat, useless, and you hate them. When you tell the truth it is unvarnished and largely unpalatable.  It is, of course, the truth. But sometimes honesty is not the best policy. As a hybrid being, you are prone to extreme reactions – sunk in existential angst one moment, galloping off across the plains the next. You are redeemed by philosophy and jokes. 

CAPRICORN

 Another symbolic hybrid, you are half goat, half fish. Eh? No wonder you are so focussed on nailing everything down.  And you never give up. You run corporations, you direct your own movies, you live your dream. So why are you so lugubrious? The answer is simple. Half of you climbs the mountain. The other half messes around, making surreal jokes and partying hard in expensive locations. You are not good at conflict resolution -you are not a Libran. It’s depressing. Luckily you tend to live for a long time and might get it right eventually.

AQUARIUS

Lovely, impartial, humanitarian you. There you are with your amazing ideas, your cutting edge philosophy, your wise objectivity….you are the future. But wait. It’s not all eco-friendly in there is it?  Somewhere in your head is a laboratory, a space station or the world wide web. Your interest in others can be a tad chilly when it comes down to one-on-one. You encourage them, they respond, you feel claustrophohic. Intimacy? Just say no. Floundering about in the swamps of the human heart slows you down. And seriously, you do have worlds to conquer. 

PISCES

It is said you contain within yourself the personality traits of all the other signs of the zodiac. You are the shape-shifter, the walker between the worlds, the one who swims to the ocean’s depths in search of poetry, wine, and the secrets of the universe. This is why you are so confused and prone to shooting yourself in the foot. At your best, after many incarnations, you learn to confuse others by casting spells and morphing into whatever they want you to be. You are a hall of mirrors with no exit sign. Embracing quantum theory may help. Or it may not. 

My life

Numerlogy

1. Write out your full name. If you want, you can write out several versions of it (first, middle, and last; first and last; first, middle initial, and last; etc.) and calculate each one separately; if a certain spelling of your name produces a numerological value that you would like to invest energy into, consider writing your signature that way for a while.
   
   

   
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   Match each letter in your full name to the corresponding numerical value. One way to do this is to number each letter as you move through the alphabet (A=1, B=2, C=3…) until you hit 9 and then start back over with 1 (H=8, I=9, J=1…). You can also use the chart below to see the breakdown of letters associated with each number:
   
   

   

   • A, J, S – 1
   • B, K, T – 2
   • C, L, U – 3
   • D, M, V – 4
   • E, N, W – 5
   • F, O, X – 6
   • G, P, Y – 7
   • H, Q, Z – 8
   • I, R – 9
   • Add together each number to get your total name number. Since the initial result will be more than one digit, add together the individual digits of this number until you get a single digit. (Ex. 112: 1+1+2 = 4.)
     
     

     

     • The only exceptions are the values 11 and 22, which are considered Master Numbers.
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     Look at the keywords associated with each numerological number. Find your number in the chart below and see what associations it has.
     
     

     

     • 1 – Initiating action, pioneering, leading, independent, attaining, individual.
     • 2 – Cooperation, adaptability, consideration of others, partnering, mediating.
     • 3 – Expression, verbalization, socialization, the arts, the joy of living.
     • 4 – A foundation, order, service, struggle against limits, steady growth.
     • 5 – Expansiveness, visionary, adventure, the constructive use of freedom.
     • 6 – Responsibility, protection, nurturing, community, balance, sympathy.
     • 7 – Analysis, understanding, knowledge, awareness, studious, meditating.
     • 8 – Practical endeavors, status oriented, power-seeking, high-material goals.
     • 9 – Humanitarian, giving nature, selflessness, obligations, creative expression.
     • 11 – Higher spiritual plane, intuitive, illumination, idealist, a dreamer.
     • 22 – The Master Builder, large endeavors, powerful force, leadership.

Soul animal

You may want to honor your sun sign’s animals by bringing small pictures or figurines of them into your life, and thinking about their special and helpful qualities.

Aries, March 21-April 19: Ram, tiger, leopard, stallion, vulture, magpie, robin.

Taurus, April 20-May 21: Bull, cow, dove, sparrow, swan.

Gemini, May 22-June 20: Dog, squirrel, serpent, parrot, linnet, eagle, finch.

Cancer, June 21-July 22: Crab, otter, seal, stag, heifer, unicorn, seagull, owl, white peacock.

Leo, July 23- Aug 22: Lion, wolf, griffin, peacock, rooster, eagle.

Virgo, Aug 23-Sept 22: Rooster, squirrel, magpie, parrot.

Libra, Sept 23-Oct 22: Hart, hare, dove, swan, sparrow.

Scorpio, Oct 23-Nov 21: Scorpion, wolf, panther, dog, wild boar, eagle, vulture, dragon, griffin, phoenix.

Sagittarius, Nov 22-Dec 21: Mare, lion, unicorn, eagle, peacock, bird of paradise.

Capricorn, Dec 22-Jan 19: Dog, elephant, goat, bear, owl, falcon.

Aquarius, Jan 20-Feb 18: Dog, otter, cuckoo, albatross, phoenix.

Pisces, Feb 19-March 20: Sheep, ox, seal, swan, stork, sandpiper.