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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Planets and points · Beginner

Moon

Also called ☽, Luna

Earth's satellite; in a chart, astrologers read its sign and house as the emotional, instinctive side of a person.

The Moon crosses a sign in about two and a half days, so its sign often needs the birth time; on some days it changes sign during the day. Astrologers associate it with feeling, habit, comfort and the body's rhythms, and traditionally with the mother. It is never retrograde.

The astronomy
It moves about 12° to 15° a day.
How astrologers read it
Astrologers associate the Moon with emotional needs and what feels like home.
  • Kind: Astronomy, Interpretation
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Luminaries, Moon sign, Big Three, Lunar nodes, Void-of-course Moon

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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