Caduceus Astrology

MOON KEYWORDS

Response      Past           Safety/security            Comfort          Instinct          Moods        Feelings            Yin/-

Food/feeding        Fluctuation       Nurture           Emotional security         Water    Mother            4th House
                                       
Emotion          Instinctive response         Caretaking          The unconscious       Our basic needs       Cancer

Belonging       Protectiveness         The body           Reflective           Family            Home            Cardinal

‘Ability to respond to conditions’        Motherhood               Intuition             Monday

3 Norns, Wyrd Sisters (Norse) – spinner, cutter, weaver

Artemis (Greek goddess of hunt & wild places)                       Diana (Roman)

Sin (Babylonian Moon God)            Hera                Demeter         Ceres

Natural childbirth            Flux, change                       Ebb & flow                 Wax & wane

Reflective                   Moody            Memory         Ancestors            Gut reactions

Women/female          Soul                Habits, rituals            Nostalgia            Instincts

Love of history            Physical/emotional needs Early environment

Folklore            Daily rhythms            Homeland            Ancestral memory

Stomach, breasts, uterus, lymphatic system, lymph fluid, autonomic nervous system, milk, fluids in general (except blood), menstrual cycle, digestive system

General public, population as a whole, public opinion, sea, water, breweries, queens, noble ladies, travellers, pilgrims, seafarers, fisherfolk, midwives, nurses, (Lilly), ships, harbours, ports, fields, highways, deserted places, fountains, baths, rivers, ponds, coastlines, damp places, springs, tides, catering trade

Blankets, nests, cooking utensils, cradle…                                 Colours – silver, indigo

Sea/water creatures, shellfish, crabs, lobsters, frogs, geese, ducks

Soft, juicy, thick-leaved plants  Plants & flowers growing in/near water

Brassica family – cabbage, sprouts, cauliflower, mushrooms, poppy

Soft juicy fruits and vegetables – pumpkins, cucumbers, marrows, tomatoes

Willow tree                                                                 Silver, pearls, crystals, moonstone

Positive traits - Safe, loving, protected, protective, nurturing, fed, at home, good memory, imaginative, tenacious, receptive,        

Negative traits - Unsafe, unloved, remembering slights, closed off, abandoned, ‘crabby’, holding to self, moody, touchy, possessive, oversensitive, going into shell, needy, clingy, hoarder, over-accumulative

20th April 2008, 11.27am GMD, Full Moon, at 00º43’ Scorpio (Sun in Taurus)

5th May 2008,  1.19pm GMD, New Moon, at 15º22’ Taurus

20th May 2008,  3.12am GMD, Full Moon, at 29º27’ Scorpio (Sun in Taurus)

3rd June 2008, 8.24pm GMD, New Moon, at 13º34’ Gemini

18th June 2008, 6.31pm GMD, Full Moon, at 27º50’ Sagittarius (Sun in Gemini)

3rd July 2008, 3.20am GMD, New Moon, at 11º32’ Cancer

18th July 2008, 9.00am GMD, Full Moon, at 26º04’ Capricorn (Sun in Cancer)

1st August 2008, 11.13am GMD, New Moon, at 9º32 Leo ***SOLAR ECLIPSE***

16th August 2008, 10.18pm GMD, Full Moon, at24º21’ Aquarius (Sun in Leo) ***LUNAR ECLIPSE***

15th September 2008, 10.14am GMD, Full Moon, at 22º54’ Pisces (Sun in Virgo) 

29th September 2008, 9.13am GMD, New Moon, at 06º33’ Libra

14th October 2008, 9.03pm GMD, Full Moon, at 21º51’ Aries (Sun in Libra)  

28th October 2008, 11.14pm GMT, New Moon, at 05º54’ Scorpio

13th November 2008, 6.19am GMT, Full Moon, at 21º15’ Taurus (Sun in Scorpio)

27th November 2008, 4.55pm GMT, New Moon, at 05º49 Sagittarius

12th December 2008, 4.38pm GMT, Full Moon, at 21º02’ Gemini (Sun in Sagittarius)

27th December 2008, 12.23pm GMT, New Moon, at 06º08’ Capricorn

Full and New Moons are important for you personally when they are 'transiting' a planet or point (the Ascendant or Midheaven, for example) in your chart. The effect is much stronger and more long-lasting if the lunation is a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse. It's also interesting to watch them travel through the houses in your birth charts as they will have an affect on that area of your life. Generally, New Moons relate to new beginnings, planting the seed, and are a good time for starting a new project, whereas Full Moon is culmination or peak of activity, when something comes to fruition. Activities are best carried out (where you have flexibility of course!) during the 'waxing' moon phase, from new to full, (especially when you begin a project in the first few days after new moon) whereas the 'waning' moon (from full to new again) is good for reflection, rest and completion.

If I've sent you a chart and you want to know which houses are affected in your chart by 2008 new and full moons, just ask 

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• The Luminaries - Liz Greene
• The Moon in Your Life - Donna Cunningham
• Your Comfort Zone and the Moon in Your Chart - Donna Cunningham, The Mountain Astrologer, Issue 131, Feb/Mar 2007