Moon in Aquarius
Your Moon sign describes your emotional and instinctual energies. Another key component in the makeup of the basic ego/personality, your Moon sign reveals those things you do instinctively, how you are likely to react emotionally, how you give and receive nurturing, as well as the genetic or cellular memories carried within the unconscious mind. It describes your emotional, instinctual, genetic and intuitive makeup.
With the Moon in the conceptual and humanitarian sign of Aquarius, you are likely to be a unique and progressive individual, with something in your nature that makes you radically ‘different’ from others. You may be somewhat detached, and inclined toward objectivity, in your emotional nature. This sign is perhaps the least “emotional” of the Zodiac, and consequently, you are likely to be more comfortable with words and ideas, than you are with the more sentimental, or passionate, dimensions of emotional experience. You may prefer to nurture and support from a distance, offering cool, clear and objective analysis of a situation to those around you, than get deeply involved in their emotional intricacies. You may be well-respected amongst your many friends for your social skills and virtuosity, yet the depths of emotional experience may not be your forte, and you may even feel disdain for overly personalized or dramatic displays of emotion. You may prefer to offer your support and sympathy to impersonal, group or humanitarian causes, as you are innately more comfortable with this level of interaction. You may be very concerned with nurturing the “group” or the “collective”, as you have natural talents in group dynamics. This may at times be at the expense of others who are also close to you, for you may devote your energies to community interests or ideals, rather than personal concerns. Essentially, deep emotional and personal contacts are really not your preferred territory, unless other factors in the chart, such as personal planets in Water signs, are present.
With the Moon here, you may find that your need to rebel, or break away from what you see as stagnant conditions can be very strong. This is the position of one with an instinctive need for freedom. You may tend to move around quite a lot, for this position can suggest a person who needs to experience great change and fluctuation in their life. Those with the Moon here can tend to operate as outsiders or lone wolfs, preferring to maintain a detached view from the outskirts of the group. The Moon here often generates an instinctive sense of somehow “being different”, of being on the outside, and this may amplify your tendency to withdraw from emotional experiences. You may be so aware of your unique qualities that you tend to instinctively keep yourself separate from others, unconsciously believing that you may be rejected by them anyway, so best to get in and reject their support and nurturing first. Or you may feel such an instinctive sense of uncomfortableness around getting close that you make yourself “special” because of how “different” you are, and so reject others, feeling disdain for what you see as their “common-ness”, and so staying “exclusively” on the outside of true emotional contact. On the deepest unconscious level, it is your own fear of closeness and/or rejection that keeps these behaviours in place, and may keep you from true intimacy with other people.
On the up-side, you have great abilities with groups of people, and are able to relate to people from all walks of life, responding to each individual on their own terms without getting too bogged down in any one place. Aquarius is a highly refined and civilized sign, and so you are likely to have exceptional social skills and cultural interests. This is also a great position for people working in humanitarian and emergency situations, for it helps you to focus on the needs of the group, and of the moment, rather than being personally affected by what is going on around you. Your vision and imagination is collective rather than personal, and you may be instinctively attuned to the future, able to sense what is on the horizon, coming up within the mood of the status-quo.
