Moon
Your inner emotional life — what you need to feel safe, how you self-soothe, how you love and are loved.
See Moon in my chart →The Moon is the most personal point in a natal chart after the Sun. It governs your emotional life, your instincts, your need for safety and comfort. While the Sun is the part of you that's growing toward who you'll become, the Moon is what you already know — your default emotional language, your unconscious responses, the way you regulate yourself when no one's watching.
Your Moon sign describes how you feel and what you need to feel safe. It's the lunar weather of your inner life — the way you process emotion, the things that comfort you, the ways you need to be cared for. People with Moon in fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) need movement, warmth, and expression to regulate; Moon in earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) need ritual, security, and embodiment; Moon in air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) need conversation and ideas; Moon in water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) need intimacy and emotional depth.
The Moon's house placement tells you where in life your emotional life is most active. Moon in the 4th feels things most around home and family; Moon in the 10th around career and public image; Moon in the 7th around partnership.
A well-supported Moon (good aspects, ideally to Sun and Venus) suggests emotional security and self-regulation. A challenged Moon (hard aspects to Saturn, Mars, or Pluto) often means a more turbulent inner life — and the work of learning to give yourself the safety others didn't.
The Moon also describes how you give and receive nurture, what your "home" feels like, and the part of you that doesn't change with the year.
Moon retrograde
RetrogradeThe Moon is never retrograde. As one of the two luminaries, it's always considered direct from Earth's perspective. Its phases (new, full, waxing, waning) matter astrologically, but it doesn't have retrograde periods.
Moon in the signs
Twelve placementsThe sign your Moon is in shapes how its energy expresses itself. Click into any sign for the full guide to that placement.
- Moon in Aries Inner life moves fast — feels and acts quickly, doesn't ruminate, needs movement to discharge.
- Moon in Taurus Needs comfort, ritual, and roots to feel safe — moon in its sign of exaltation, very stabilising.
- Moon in Gemini Processes feelings by talking them through; intellectualises emotion, can talk in circles.
- Moon in Cancer The Moon in its home sign — deeply intuitive, family-oriented, intense emotional memory.
- Moon in Leo Needs to be loved out loud — warm, generous emotional life, reads neutrality as rejection.
- Moon in Virgo Self-soothes by sorting things out — emotionally precise, anxiety shows up in the body.
- Moon in Libra Needs harmony and beauty — distressed by conflict, soothes others to soothe self.
- Moon in Scorpio Feels everything intensely and shows little — privacy, depth, transformative emotional life.
- Moon in Sagittarius Needs movement and meaning — restless emotional life, allergic to small frames.
- Moon in Capricorn Feels safest in control — regulates through competence, slow to be vulnerable.
- Moon in Aquarius Processes through ideas and distance — intellectualises, needs space, loves at a remove.
- Moon in Pisces Most absorbent moon sign — feels what others feel, needs solitude and art to recover.
"Your Moon sign describes how you feel and what you need to feel safe."
From the My Chart Check field guide