Galy
We always look for ways to feel comfortable and secure, no matter what we do. We all have an innate instinct to head to something specific like activities, environment, or a situation in which we feel that we are in the right place. Today's article is about how we achieve the sense that we are in the right place, what situations we like getting involved in, which is our preferred means for achieving mental and emotional harmony.
The Moon in our individual horoscope is related to the ways in which we react instinctively and emotionally to each situation that we face. I often hear the term emotional intelligence lately. Step by step, the scientific world is coming to the conclusion that we react to the world around us primarily through our emotional feelings. More than 40 years ago, Mario Puzo created a great character in his novel "The Godfather". The following cult phrase belongs to him: "Everything is personal, even the smallest thing. All the shit (I leave it in its original form, without censorship, as in the book) that is served to each person every day throughout life, is a private matter. They call it business. Well. But it is pretty darn personal."
To paraphrase, we perceive everything we are served in life with our emotional and instinctive mind, i.e. extremely personally. No matter what anyone says. I suppose you have been in a situation where everyone had different impressions and feelings, and, on this basis, they characterise what happened differently. This is the result of our personal "antenna", the Moon - it lets only certain fragments pass and ignores the rest.
The Moon in our individual horoscope is undoubtedly a crucial element. The Sun is the giver of life and energy, but we live our lives emotionally - via the Moon. It is our instinctive and emotional mind (not to be confused with the rational intellect), which we follow. It is our receptive "antenna". In Sanskrit, the Moon has several names, one of which is Soma - it means "nectar of happiness". Only Soma, the nectar of our personal happiness, has the ability to give us inner satisfaction, to calm our mind and psyche. And that does not necessarily happen under one and the same circumstances. Some people become very pleased when confronted and involved in a conflict, while others - when dancing or when poring over a wiring diagram in the basement.
Therefore, the position of the Moon in the individual horoscope is extremely important when it comes to the ways in which we feel in the right place, when we are comfortable and stable. The Moon shows where our mind is focused and how we achieve our emotional balance. Astrological analyses are generally diverse - according to the sign position of the Moon, the house position in the horoscope, or aspects of other planets and other details. I will give more details on the sign and house positions. Note that the Moon is not isolated and always interacts with the other planets, which may alter the meaning to some extent. Combine the information about the sign and house positions - for example, the Moon is in Virgo and the third house.
Remember that the sign position is more of a psychological component and the house position reflects actual circumstances and life events. Sometimes, combinations of sign and house positions are quite difficult. For example, in a combination when the Moon is in Aries and falls in the fourth house, there will be a lot of difficulties. Such people tend to be small tyrants who like to always be first, and subject their family and relatives to constant changes and conflicts. And, at the same time, they seek to build a home and family, enjoy peace and tranquillity, and maintain a family type of relationship (intimate and emotional) with colleagues and friends.
Moon in Aries or the 1st house
You feel in the right place when you can tailor the outside world and people according to your own desires. Your personal significance should be unconditional and, therefore, you strive for activities and circumstances in which you always prove that you are "top of the class". Everyone around you should deal with you - this is the most important thing. Your mind is constantly searching for something to conquer, for ways to gain distinction and receive "gold medals". You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that offer you critical and extreme events. Even if these are painful - it is more important that you are not bored. You like starting new things - the starting point is your favourite place. You like a dynamic lifestyle, in which everything happens immediately, but in your way and at your own pace.
Moon in Taurus or the 2nd house
You feel in the right place when there are plenty of material resources around you - money, food, clothing, furniture and all kinds of belongings. Even if time stopped, nothing would change. You seek to be surrounded by security and reliability. Your mind is focused on how to accumulate wealth in every sense - money, clothes, property, family and people who support you. Big houses, luxury furniture, bank accounts, land, various physical pleasures that caress the senses - these are the things that you think about. You feel in the right place when dealing with them. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that are directed towards the material side of life or would hardly ever change over time. Traditions are your favourite principle, and you look for them in everything around you.
Moon in Gemini or the 3rd house
You feel in the right place when you have a phone to your ear, a laptop on your knees, a book in hand and a companion in the opposite chair. And even better - all of the above together. And if you're in Times Square - it would be perfect. Your mind constantly strives for communication and absorption of all sorts of information, no matter how irrelevant it might be - the important thing is that you have something to share, since being informed is a guarantee for constant communication with others and participation in various social events which allow you to be heard. You strive for activities, people and circumstances that will bring action, education, travel and information for your hunger for learning something new and doing several things at once all the time.
Moon in Cancer or the 4th house
You feel in the right place when you are at home, surrounded by your favourite things and people, or dedicated to your favourite activities in complete safety. You like it when you always have your favourite food around or someone to spoil you and protect you - these are the moments that create your mental and emotional harmony. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances which provide the opportunity for the creation of a comfortable and relaxing family environment and intimate emotional relationships in which everybody takes care of each other. Your mind constantly strives to seize the opportunity to create various communities in which people feel at home and in a safe environment. You like creating and maintaining life around you - flowers, plants, animals and humans.
Moon in Leo or the 5th house
You feel in the right place when your life runs like on stage - with an audience, when you re-create an image, with flashlights and a lot of applause. Your mind constantly seeks ways to create, play and ensure pleasure and delight for others. All of your personal experiences, every thought and idea of yours should receive attention and recognition from them, so that it become some kind of art. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that will provide entertainment, games, audience, honorary places, an opportunity to participate in various kinds of art in which to put your personal creativity. Cheering, fans and those who admire you are the strongest indication that you are in the right place.
Moon in Virgo or the 6th house
You feel in the right place when you have the opportunity to put everything around you in order, to remove defects and malfunctions. Your mind constantly looks for a "disease" - from the washing machine that is out of order, through the messy room, unordered documents and your colleague's cold, up to the "defects" in the model of management. You feel absolutely euphoric when you find such things that deserve criticism and need to be corrected. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that will make it possible for you to find flaws and defects, to deal with as many details as possible that can be assembled, to "heal" sick places around you and bring everything into a nearly perfect condition.
Moon in Libra or the 7th house
You feel in the right place when you can create a balance, have diplomatic talks, skilfully avoiding any "sharp corners", and reach agreement. People and interpersonal relationships are the most active focus in your life. Your mind constantly looks for unbeautiful things that make the environment ugly, disputes and quarrels, a need for reconciliation and, therefore, you attract such situations like a magnet. This is the only way in which your innate sense of beauty, your diplomacy and ability to balance between the extremes, has an opportunity to come into operation. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that enable you to act as an observer and unbiased participant, who gives opinions and makes assessments, achieves peace without war and purifies the space.
Moon in Scorpio or the 8th house
You feel in the right place when everything around you is highly electrified with vehement passions, ready to come to the boil. You like complex relationships with people, intrigues, and revealing secrets. Your mind constantly looks for all kinds of emergencies, hazardous and dangerous situations, in which you feel on the edge. You look for reasons to create pressure around you, to provoke and overcome difficulties. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that give you reasons to suffer, face death-like situatuions, destroy all the useless things and get involved in dangerous and risky activities. You like to explore the dark and ugly side of life, but also to get some secret knowledge or reveal peoples' secrets.
Moon in Sagittarius or the 9th house
You feel in the right place when you travel. Penio Penev once said that a man is a man when on the road and he had probably had you in mind. Your place is on the road between two destinations, when examining all corners of the earth, foreign cultures and religions, languages, philosophical views of people, when nothing restricts you. Your mind constantly strives for distant horizons, ideals of life and ways in which to inspire and teach others. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that allow you to reside in various latitudes, enjoy large spaces and inspire people with your idealistic views with nothing that restricts you. You like it when you are able to easily pack your luggage within 30 minutes and leave everything.
Moon in Capricorn or the 10th house
You feel in the right place when you have the opportunity to climb constantly - the social ladder, career or social status, to achieve goals and overcome high bars. Your mind constantly strives for what is high above, to be effective and productive and get past obstacles. Achieving a good status and position in life are the most active focus in your life, all means are allowed on the road to success - there are no taboos, nor scruples. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that allow you to prove that you can climb every peak you face and reach the highest possible point; to prove that there are no unachievable goals.
Moon in Aquarius or the 11th house
You feel in the right place when you're surrounded by a lot of people or you are part of larger communities in which people live according to a communist principle - without "mine" and "yours", where everyone is free to be themselves without any rules, boundaries or territories. Your mind constantly strives for extraordinary and unconventional things in life, everything new and strange, as well as contacts with all kinds of people, unusual phenomena and experiments. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that allow you to be independent and free to live in your own way and turn even the most crazy ideas into reality. You like it when you get unconditional support, when you pursue your dreams and desires without inhibitions and especially when you provide an inexhaustible source of material means by which you can comfortably be as strange and bizarre as you want.
Moon in Pisces or the 12th house
You feel in the right place when you have the opportunity to live in a world created by dreams and fantasies - perfect and beautiful; when you live outside the stream of society, behind the scenes and only you and the people you invited may know what is happening there. Your mind constantly strives for virtual worlds, rather than real ones, in which to reside. It seeks ways in which to devote to a cause or a person, to be placed in a position of humbleness and sacrifice. You instinctively strive for activities, people and circumstances that give you the opportunity to show your selflessness, even to experience losses, but also to isolate and hide in your own world in which nobody knows what is happening - except you yourself and the one who is invited.