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Moon in Astrology
"The Moon is watery and airy (kapha and vata) in
constitution, she is intuitive and has a round
body; she has a luminous countenance, sweet
speech, is changeable and moody." Parashari
3.24.
As the Sun represents the cosmic masculine force, the Moon
indicates the cosmic feminine force. The Sun is
the God and the Moon is the Goddess; the Sun is
the Deva and the Moon is the Devi. The Sun is
the spirit and the Moon is its creative force,
which becomes matter; the Sun is Shiva and the
Moon is Shakti. Together, they represent the
great primal duality as masculine and feminine,
active and passive, mind and body, day and
night, independence and relationship, will and
love.
As the Sun is the Divine Father and creator, the Moon is the
Divine Mother and creatrix. As the Sun rules
time, the Moon governs space; as the Sun rules
fire, the Moon rules water. As the Sun is the
Self, the Moon is the mind. According to the
Vedas from the Moon the mind (Sanskrit manas)
was born. Yet the Sanskrit term for mind has a
different meaning than the usual western one.
Mind includes emotion and means feeling;
consciousness in general that reflects upon
things. It means thought, care, consideration,
as well as musing, dreaming, imagining.
As the Self is the point of central clarity and perception,
the mind is the field of conception and
manifestation. The Sun represents the Self,
which is our independent, directly perceiving
consciousness. The Moon shows the mind, which is
our dependent, reflective, usually conditioned
consciousness. As the Sun represents who we are
in ourselves, the Moon shows how we relate to
others, our social consciousness. As the Sun
represents character or individuality, the Moon
indicates our personality.
The Sun shows the causal body which indicates the will of the
soul to be achieved in incarnation. The Moon
shows the astral body, the field of impressions
or past karma operative behind the present
incarnation. Hence the Moon is an important
karmic indicator. The Sun represents the present
and future, the Moon, the past. The Sun shows
who we are and are meant to be. The Moon shows
who we have been and what of the past we bring
with us. Hence the Moon can show positive
resources from the past which give us greater
consciousness in life, or it can show negative
influences from the past that bind us to
regressive patterns of behavior. Afflictions to
the Moon show personality disorders,
difficulties in relating to other people and
emotional disturbances.
A badly place Moon gives wrong imaginings, hallucinations,
psychological turbulence. It creates lunacy, as
our language reflects. A badly afflicted Moon
shows bad heredity, poor family background, bad
education and other traumas to the emotional
nature that may be very difficult to overcome
and may indicate severe imbalance or disruption
of the astral body.
The Moon shows our capacity to receive, to be affected, but
it also indicates our capacity to be hurt. It is
the most easily hurt of the planets and
indicates our general vulnerability. A strong
Moon, on the other hand, shows sensitivity,
receptivity, caring for others and a nurturing
attitude in life. It gives emotional maturity,
responsibility and the capacity to have a
beneficial effect upon society.
The Moon, like the Sun, is a Sattvic or spiritual planet. It
gives faith, love, openness, surrender,
devotion, peace and happiness. It imparts the
grace of the Goddess, the Divine Mother. It
makes us pliable, sensitive and contemplative.
It causes us to do good for the sake of others
and to be obedient to higher principles. People
with such a religious or spiritual Moon often
have a strong connection with a traditional
religion and may had many monastic past lives.
They have a sweet, tolerant and humane dispositions, which
can even become saintly. They are often the
easiest people to be around and the least
critical. They will tend to see the good in all.
The main weakness of the lunar type religious or
spiritual mind is that it may cause people to be
too orthodox. They may rely unquestioningly on
an authority that does not represent the truth.
They like organization, ritual and tradition and
represent the best of it, but when that
tradition has become negative, they are often
unable to question it, much less break away from
it.0
They may be too concerned about being good than about
finding the truth. As a very sensitive and
mutable planet the Moon can be easily influenced
and overcome by other planetary energies. Saturn
can darken it, depress it or give it detachment.
Rahu can cloud it or cause us to lose power over
our minds which it rules. The Moon represents
our impressionability, our capacity to become
whatever we influence we give ourselves over to.
The Moon is not only responsiveness but also
inertia.
Through our lunar sensitivity we can become
accustomed to a life of pain, sorrow or
ignorance, as well as to one of joy and truth.
The Moon is our capacity to endure in any
environment, which can become a negative factor,
whereby we accept subordination, subservience or
degradation. The mind is purely a dependent
consciousness. It has no real nature of its own.
As such it can function in one of two ways: it
can reflect the inner nature of things or the
outer appearance. It can mold itself after the
inner light of truth, the spiritual Sun, or
external influences and authorities, the outer
or social lights (which the planets can project
upon it)
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