The Karmic Moon -- Cycles of Incarnation
Whenever you gaze up at the night sky, you are looking into the past. The light you see took anywhere from seconds to millions of years to reach the earth.
Your birth chart also reflects the patterns of your past. In this way, it reveals your karmic destiny for this life.
The moon has always drawn the fascinated interest of humankind, both in the sky and in the birth chart. This is because the moon leads us back to the very roots of our being. It shows us our past, the deeply buried subconscious patterns that direct our lives. Understanding these patterns and consciously dealing with them is one of the keys to spiritual freedom and growth in this life.
To study the karmic moon in your birth chart, you will need to look at several factors. First of all, of course, consider the moon in its sign and house. For a discussion of how to delineate this combination, please refer to my previous articles where I discuss the karmic meaning of signs and houses.
Next, you will want to look at the moon in relationship to the sun. As always in astrology, we look to the sun to see the central theme of our lives. The moon reflects the sun and in our birth charts, the moon reflects how we will deal with the emotional issues we face in this incarnation as we seek to fulfill the central goal of the sun. In this sense, karma can be seen as the subconscious patterns of the past that either help or hinder us in achieving the goals of the present life.
While Saturn and the other karmic planets indicate the course or destiny of our incarnations, the moon tells us where we are right now in that journey. The moon shows the emotional imprints we have brought into this life from prior lives. In this imprint we can see the emotional themes that need to be played out, or the emotional patterns that the entity has chosen to break in this life.
To consider the relationship between the moon and the sun, you will first want to note what aspect they make to each other? Easy? Challenging? No aspect at all?
Easy aspects indicate "karmic rewards" that you bring with you from past lives. These are healthy patterns that will help you to achieve your goals in this life. Since the patterns of the moon are subconscious, you need to be aware that these patterns exist so you can tap into them. This is one of the benefits of astrology.
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