Understanding Your Life's Purpose: The Moon in Your Astrology Chart
Sep 04, 2025
☽ You've got the Moon in your astrology chart and I wanna teach you how to understand the role the Moon plays in your life's purpose.
Let's get to know the Moon:
🌝 The Moon rules Cancer ♋️.
☽ The Moon represents your emotions, intuition and subconscious motivations.
⏳ It spends about 2.5 days in each sign and takes about 28 - 30 days to get around your entire chart by transit.
☽ The Moon in your birth chart
🌙 Your natal Moon shows how your intuition works, how you express emotions, your relationship with your mother, your subconscious motivations and how deeply you feel things.
Your Moon can be your greatest ally and your biggest liability.
If you're connected with your emotions, processing them in a healthy way, doing shadow work to bring awareness to your unconscious habits, patterns + behaviors and fully accessing you intuition in all your endeavors, your Moon supports you on your purpose journey.
If you're disconnected from your emotions, ignoring them and not allowing them to move through you, lying to yourself about your bad habits, sabotaging patterns + unhelpful behaviors and ignoring your intuition in favor of your logical mind, your Moon is holding you back from living a life led by purpose.
Your soul speaks to you through your emotions and intuition. When you shut those out, you cut yourself off from your soul's guidance.
That's how you lose sight of your purpose and how to accomplish it.
🥸 Which sign + house your Moon is hanging out in, reveals how to process your emotions in a healthy way, overcome your unconscious self-sabotage and access your soul's intuitive guidance, so you can do what you came to this earth at this time to do.
Pssst...whatever you came here to do, the world needs it now more than ever!
🤓 Remember, any aspects (lines between planets) to your Moon flavor it, giving you even more information about your emotions, intuition and subconscious motivation.
Pro tip: If you know which planet is aspecting your Moon and which sign it rules, read the description for that sign below to get more insight into your emotional and intuitive self.
Ex. I've got the Moon trining (120 degrees from) Jupiter. Since Jupiter rules Sagittarius + Pisces, it flavors my Scorpio Moon with a hint of Sag + Pisces Moon.
👀 Look at your chart to learn which sign your Moon ☽ is in and then find it below:
♈️ Aries: With your Moon in Aries, you're emotionally intense, fiery and passionate.
You feel your emotions coursing through your body and therefore it's helpful for you to physically move your emotions through you. Run, jump, shake, dance, play sports, or anything else until you feel the intense emotion has moved on.
You feel your intuition in your body and if something stokes your passion and excitement, it's a YES for you and if you feel nothing at all, its a NO.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to anger, aggression and competition. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♉️ Taurus: With your Moon in Taurus, your emotions tend to be more grounded and less intense.
The Moon loves to be in Taurus. It's exalted here.
Taurus moons are said to be the most intuitive of all the moons because you're able to not only receive intuitive guidance, but you're also able to easily discern the information you're receiving and ground it in the practical world.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to stubbornness, pleasure-seeking and living in your comfort zone. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♊️ Gemini: With your Moon in Gemini, your emotions come in through thought and your thoughts have a strong impact on your emotions.
This means you're also getting intuitive guidance through your mind and may have difficulty discerning what is a thought and what is your intuition.
Intuition is calm, grounded and matter-of-fact. Thoughts tend to be chaotic, anxious and fear-mongering.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to drama, boredom and trying to make your feelings mean something they don't. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♋️ Cancer: With your Moon in Cancer, you feel your emotions deeply and get great emotional gratification advocating for and nurturing others.
The Moon likes to be in Cancer. It's at home in this placement.
Your intuition and your emotions are intricately connected to each other. Pay close attention to what you're feeling and get curious about what your emotions want you to know. With practice your soul's guidance, through your emotions, will become more clear to you.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to overindulging your emotions, acting passively rather than directly and playing the martyr for those you love. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♌️ Leo: With your Moon in Leo, you've got big emotions and you feel them deeply.
You feel your intuition in your body and if something feels playful and fun, it's a YES for you and if you feel nothing at all, its a NO.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to over-reacting, using emotions to get attention and being too prideful. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♍️ Virgo: With your Moon in Virgo, you tend to overanalyze your emotions trying to understand them through your logical mind.
When you're connecting with your intuition to receive guidance, you need your surroundings to be organized, clean and free of clutter. This helps you feel safe, secure and grounded instead of anxious and overwhelmed.
Your guidance will often come through your rational mind. The difference between thought and intuition is how it feels. Thought will feel fear-driven, anxious and have some kind of agenda. Intuition will be calm, grounded and matter-of-fact.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to perfectionism, overthinking your emotions and being overly modest and humble. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♎️ Libra: With your Moon in Libra, you need emotional balance and harmony, especially in relationships.
When making decisions, be sure you're in a balanced emotional state. Otherwise you might find yourself changing your mind, when your emotions change.
Talk out your ideas with other people to access your intuition. It's through saying your thoughts out loud, you'll hear what's right for you.
Be intentional who you do this with and ask them not to give you guidance, only to listen and repeat what they hear you saying.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to people-pleasing, avoiding conflict and obsessive need for fairness. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♏️ Scorpio: With your Moon in Scorpio, your emotions are intense and at times extreme.
The Moon hates being in Scorpio. It's at its fall. The Moon is gentle + nurturing and Scorpio is intense + extreme.
Your intuition is intense too. You're a human BS detector. You see through people to the truth of who they are underneath the mask they wear.
Trust your intuitive feelings, especially when they don't match someone's appearance, words or behaviors.
Use your intuition to connect with YOUR truth and allow it to guide you on your purpose path.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to manipulation + control, taking things to extremes and paranoia. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♐️ Sagittarius: With your Moon in Sagittarius, you're emotionally optimistic, adventurous and wise.
Emotional integrity is very important to you.
You feel your intuition in your body. If something feels adventurous and expansive to you, it's a YES. If it feels boring and constrictive to you, it's a NO.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to being cynical, self-righteous and blunt. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♑️ Capricorn: With your Moon in Capricorn, you're emotionally reserved and detached.
The Moon doesn't like being in Capricorn. It's in its detriment.
The Moon is Divine Feminine creativity + flow. Capricorn is Divine Masculine structure and discipline. They don't get each other, but oh how they need each other.
Your intuition operates very practically and can be difficult to differentiate from your thoughts. Use your intuition to set up supportive structures to move you one step at a time onto your purpose path.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to being perfectionistic, too structured and overly serious. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♒️ Aquarius: With your Moon in Aquarius, you're emotionally cool, but very friendly.
Your intuition comes in like a flash of inspiration and is almost always giving you some insights into how to make the world a better place for all humans in it.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to being too rigid in your beliefs, rebellious just for the fun of it and eccentric as a means to keep people at a distance. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
♓️ Pisces: With your Moon in Pisces, you're emotionally empathic and very compassionate.
Your intuition is vast. You feel so deeply connected to other people, dimensions and realms. You feel it ALL, which can sometimes make it hard to discern what's for you and is yours and what's for someone else and is theirs.
It's important for you to spend time in your own energy, without anyone else around to clear your energy of everything you're picking up from everyone throughout your day.
Epsom salt baths, bare feet on the ground and physical movement (shaking, dancing, exercise) will help too.
Once you're clear of other people's energetic influence on you, then connect with your intuition to seek guidance on your purpose.
Be mindful of your unconscious patterns related to martyring yourself, escaping into something (drugs, alcohol, food, social media scrolling, TV bingeing, etc.) to numb yourself from feeling so deeply and projecting your triggers onto others. These will hold you back from doing your purpose work.
Whichever house the Moon falls in your chart let's you know which areas of life you need to create a strong sense of safety and security in, so you feel emotionally balanced and intuitively open.
Look in your chart to see which house the Moon ☽ is in and find it below:
🏠 The Moon through the houses:
1st house: personality, self-image, physical body and perspective
2nd house: relationship with money, values, self-worth, material possessions
3rd house: mindset, self-talk, self-expression, writing, education, local community/neighborhood, communication, automobiles
4th house: home, family of origin, ancestral lineage
5th house: passions, hobbies, inner child work, children, romance, casual sex, dating, fun and play
6th house: work routines, service to others, daily habits, health, work environment
7th house: partnership, marriage, close relationships, 1 on 1 work, contracts/deals/agreements
8th house: death, rebirth, transformation, other people’s money, debt, taxes, manifestation, occult practices, sex, anything considered taboo
9th house: long distance travel, adventure, higher moral beliefs and life philosophy, wisdom, big picture goals, publishing, teaching
10th house: career, public reputation, legacy, authority figures, impact on others
11th house: friendship, community, connections, groups
12th house: subconscious, dreams, spirituality, mysticism, rest and retreat, karma, connection with unseen beings/realms
🌕 That's the Moon.
✨ Use your Moon placement to access the guidance of your soul and align with your life's purpose one faith-filled step at a time!
If you're loving what you're learning and want to learn all the things your astrology chart has to reveal about your life's purpose, I invite you to schedule a Purpose Astrology Reading with me.