It is associated with your mother, your experience of being mothered, and dependency. Your Moon is a yin, feminine, nurturing energy. Your Moon sign together with other chart factors tells of things you can do-besides reaching for food-to ‘feed’ your sense of feeling comforted and nourished. It shows how you automatically react to people, how sensitive you are, how you express what you feel, and how you need to receive feelings from others in order to feel cared about. The zodiac sign of your Moon depicts your emotional way of being. This is the sense that you belong to people who will empathize with how you feel and protect you. Another is the need for emotional safety. One is the need for your body to be fed, comfortable, and safe. The symbol of the Moon depicts human needs that must be met for optimal growth to occur. Even now, your emotional reactions register in your body, and the state of your body affects how you feel. When you were born, your body and emotions were one and the same thing. This means that your Sun, your life force, must be radiated by the physical ‘you.’ The Moon is the other of ‘the Lights,’ as it reflects the light of the Sun. The Moon in your natal chart represents your needs as a physical being. Your Moon, Sense of Safety, and Emotional Way of Being The fields of activity or areas of life in which you most want to shine and play a meaningful role are shown by the houses in your chart connected with your Sun. It is the main yang in the yin-yang energy polarity in all of us. It is associated with your father and your experience of being fathered. Your Sun is a yang, masculine, and heroic energy. Your Sun Sign symbolizes your sense of purpose in life. They make you feel alive and good and like you are being the kind of person you were meant to become. You can express and experience them both personally and through the work you do. You grow into your Sun Sign as you consciously develop its qualities. The zodiac sign of your Sun describes the heart of your life force. The Sun is called one of ‘the Lights.’ Receiving affirmation for your inner light throughout your life journey is vital to your sense of well-being.
It represents your inborn sense of ‘me,’ of being special, and of possessing creative energy. The Sun in your natal chart represents your life force. Your Sun, Inner Light, and Sense of Purpose Developing the finer qualities of your Rising Sign can help you make your way in the world. This is why your outward personality can exhibit different qualities from those of your Sun sign. You absorbed these qualities as your impression of what the world was like, and how you needed to approach it in order to adapt to it. The meanings of your Rising Sign depict the qualities that were present in the moment at which you arrived in the world, including attitudes and outlooks about life and you. It’s the style you use to approach the world and the people in it. Your Rising Sign describes the style of your outward personality. It is on the circle at the nine o’clock position which points toward the east. This beginning point is called your Ascendant. It begins somewhere and that unique point is the exact degree of the constellation of stars that was rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of your birth. Your Rising Sign and Personality Your natal chart is divided into 12 sectors called houses with the zodiac signs and planets arranged around them. The premise in astrology is that planets, constellations and chart sectors serve as symbols, and that there is a correlation between the meanings of these symbols and the traits and potentials inborn in a person. The 12 signs of the zodiac form the 360-degree circle, which is the chart shape used in modern Western astrology. It also contains symbols for nine more planets, an asteroid, the Moon’s nodes, and an astrological point called the Part of Fortune. It contains a symbol for the Sun, the star at the center of our solar system. The picture on the right is an example of a birth chart, or natal chart. It contains a unique combination of many multi-layered symbols. You could think of it as a blueprint about you. It is calculated for the exact moment and geographic location of your birth. Your birth chart is a map of the heavens relative to the time and place you were born.