Inner Dynamics
MOON/MERCURY
You are a person who likes to communicate on an intimate level with those you are close to, though you have difficulty opening up to those you do not know well. Other people are comfortable entrusting their thoughts and feelings to you however. Your word and tone of voice are always tinged by your emotions, and this ensures you a good audience. Your emotions tend to swing a lot, and when you are feeling negative it can be very difficult for you to express yourself clearly. Under extreme emotional conditions you will be rather irrational. You have probably been profoundly emotionally affected by sibling relationships, and even now may have a powerful emotional bond to a brother or a sister. Your school years will also have had a great emotional impact on you, for better or worse. You are extremely sensitive to being
criticized or misunderstood on a mental level. In many ways you are able to build a mental bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind, clarifying emotions through mental awareness.
MOON/VENUS
You have an affectionate nature - you have both the capacity to give succor and love, and a deep need to receive it. Obviously therefore, relationships are extremely important to you, and you tend to form lasting bonds at an early age. Actually the greatest bond will be to your own family, particularly the mother - for better or for worse. Men with this aspect tend to marry early and unconsciously compare their loved one with the mother. There is a tendency to slink back to the family home for a good meal from time to time, and the wife can have great difficulty asserting her own authority over the mother's. In more extreme cases the man evokes maternal
behavior in his partner, and finds her wanting sexually as a mistress. It is difficult to feel sexually attracted to a mother figure, so unfaithfulness can ensue, as the man seeks to
fulfill his sexual needs elsewhere.
Women with this aspect have to learn to integrate the two feminine functions - maternal and erotic - into their lives in some way. If she has difficulty with this she will find the sexual element in the relationship deteriorating, and will end up spending all her time on the house or with the children. A maid might be the answer!
For both sexes there is a tendency to be over-attached and clinging, and too fixated on material security. Unconscious and unresolved childhood needs for love and security spill over into later relationships. It pays to develop a more detached attitude and a greater indifference to the need for constant approval.
MOON/MARS
You were brought up in an atmosphere of tension which has made you constantly on guard. Perhaps your mother was an unusually aggressive woman, or perhaps there were many struggles in your family life. Whatever the reason you tend to get easily upset now - especially in your domestic life. Women with this aspect are often attracted to emotional men who express their feelings passionately and intensely. However this may be because of unconscious provocation from the woman, who - never having experienced peace and calm in her early life - recreates the atmosphere of tension through criticism or angry moods.
MOON/JUPITER
Foreign environments may have played an important role in your upbringing, and generally speaking you will enjoy the cultural stimulation of travel and new horizons. You have very strong empathy, and your emotional life exerts a powerful influence on your environment. You feel things very strongly, especially as regards what is right and what is wrong. You react powerfully to perceived injustice, and instinctively flare up or get upset when you think something is unfair. Above all, you dislike restrictions on your personal freedom, and you can manifest a strong independence if you feel encroached upon. You may often overreact to quite normal expectations on the part of the partner, as regards commitment and responsibility. Generally however, your optimistic and light-hearted nature brings a lot of joy and happiness to personal relationships, just as long as you are allowed to feel free, travel and pursue your intellectual interests.
MOON/SATURN
You are extremely sensitive emotionally, but present a very solid facade to the outer world, giving the impression that you are quite cool, even invulnerable. Behind your formal manners is a person who was never fully allowed to enjoy a carefree childhood. At an early age you took responsibility in the family, repressing your own spontaneity and lowering your expectations because of emotional hurt. In later relationships you have difficulty letting down your protective barriers, even though you have a deep desire for intimacy. If you do get hurt emotionally you rarely let on, and you close the shutters on your feelings so that your loved one has no chance to make amends. After the age of 30 you learn more successful strategies for intimacy. First of all it is essential for you to be emotionally self-sufficient - if you sell yourself for security, you will end up in a prison. From a position of inner strength you can then allow yourself to be more trusting and vulnerable - you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by opening up emotionally without making any demands.
MOON/URANUS
You do not have conventional desires as far as domestic harmony is concerned. In your childhood there were many unsettling influences and a general atmosphere of unpredictability , excitement or stress. You need to feel that something is happening around you. This means that you can get very restless in relationships, and if you feel bored - and you often do - then you start getting provocative. You are best suited to relationships which keep you occupied with new daily challenges - and you have a strong need to express your emotional energy in group scenarios. Your partner will not be able to satisfy your need for stimulation on his or her own. You thrive in unusual domestic relationships - for example communal living, flat-sharing or residence abroad. For partnership to function satisfactorily it is essential that you stop distancing yourself emotionally - this gives the impression that you do not care for your loved one.
MOON/NEPTUNE
The greatest challenge for you is to attain emotional satisfaction, and this is best done by understanding the nature of your childhood. It is essentially for you to avoid the tempting pleasure of indulging your emotions and sentimentality. You so easily fall into negative emotional states, and this can make life miserable for the people around you. Your emotional impressionability creates serious problems in partnership matters - you simply have difficulty distinguishing the boundaries between yourself and your loved one. You take on the moods of others or absorb negative vibrations from the environment. The older you get the more you
realize that this is just a bad habit, based on early conditioning. Avoid jumping into emotional swamps! Having said this, you have a wonderful talent for tuning in to other people emotionally and understanding them in depth. You are a very sympathetic person.
MOON/PLUTO
You are a person who feels everything very deeply, although people who only know you superficially might not be aware of this. Your need to protect yourself emotionally comes from a number of disturbing childhood experiences which mean that you tend to play it cool in times of crisis. Problems arise in intimate relationships because you never let on how you really feel - if you had the courage to show your vulnerability, people would treat you better. You cling to emotional bonds with great intensity, yet in times of crisis you can suddenly amputate your feelings and become ice-cold. It is unwise to deal with crises by giving ultimata. It is essential to overcome these destructive
defense mechanisms, if you want to enjoy warm relationships.
MOON/NODE
Negotiating the twists and turns of your emotional relationships is a full-time occupation for you. As a woman you will be moved by the primitive archetypal urges of the female energy in Nature; as a man you will be attracted to earth divas because you need to feel the full force of emotional power flowing through you. You will lose your footing more than once because of the universal power of emotional attraction or dependence, and plunge into the emotional maelstrom. Sudden changes can take you far from home, and growth in life finally comes when you learn to orientate yourself in the world of your feelings and your unconscious mind.
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