How Well Do You Know Neptune?

I commonly see people get very confused about how placements function and I’m gonna say it again

Sign = traits

House = area of life

Aspects = connections between two things

One does not change the other, having an 8th house something doesn’t magically equate it to being like a Scorpio placement! They all function differently, and whilst overlaps in manifestation exist, they are different and those details should be noted! If you feel drawn to a sign, house or aspect, there will be another reason in your chart! Attempting to force these things into the same box only sheds off the details and proper meanings of each thing!

by Kylie Woon

“Spirituality has a lot to do with being connected to nature, and being connected to nature has a lot to do with simplicity. So call me ‘simplistic’ if you wish, but I will still make this simple statement: If humanity were spiritual they would love nature, and they would do everything humanly possible not do destroy any of it.”

— Sereno Sky, the “Lonely Traveller” novels (via hippieseurope)

Fire moons (Aries, Leo, Sag): they are heavily driven and spirited. Ambitious, creative and enthusiastic are all qualities that bind the fire moons. They are quite blunt but despite their hash nature, they are vulnerable and simply want to feel “important” to others or society.

Fire moon + Fire Venus: These people are quite direct when it comes to flirting and they are very “loud” that can be very attractive to others. Fire and fire makes this person a joy and a party. Although it’s hard for them to solidify a romance because they work in short cycles. They may let their inner ambitions and their need for competition to get in the way. They will compare themselves to their partners constantly or they will let that faulty ego get in the way and assume their partners don’t appreciate them. These ppl need reassurance and they also need some grounding. Believe it or not, these people lack interpersonal skills and need to understand the purposes of relationships. They can be too demanding and lack the ability to negotiate boundaries of the relationship and accommodate with them.

Fire moon + Air Venus: These people don’t know what they want. Too much free-flowing and high energy can make it hard for them to find partners that keep them interested but they can be promiscuous. They can come off too intimidating bc of how independent and fierce they are. Most importantly, they don’t prefer relationships that require much work, they may be more concern with their projects and building up an image rather than investing in personal relationships; however, they can be romantic. Others may assume this combination is very “fake” or surface level but again, these people don’t know what they want. Air venus typically don’t know how relationships work in general and paired with a fire moon that is always working toward people’s validation, they need a partner that can work with them but not take charge. These people hate being confined.

Fire moon + Water Venus: These people need it all. They can give too much devotion to their partners which usually results into unbalanced power dynamics. These people can easily get pushed aside and manipulated. However, they can also manipulate their partners; either way it’s important these people establish healthy relationships and not be too dependent on their partners. They also got a presence to them, a quirky but also direct personality that makes them very attractive to others especially of how loyal and protective they are. Romance is very essential and they will typically do all the corny romantic gestures you can think of. However, they are very fragile and relationships must be nurturing for them and the other person. Know your boundaries and learn to not invest in people who wouldn’t give you the time of day.

Fire moon + Earth Venus: These people like to be in charge when it comes to relationships. They can be very ambitious and driven but they are not as direct and it takes time for them to really see who is a perfect fit for them. They, too can be very demanding and again, they can practically run the relationship because being in control is almost a necessity. Romance is shown through gifts and being secured with one another. They can be bossy but it’s because they usually are independent and they know exactly what they want. The other person just needs to fit with their standards. I will say it’s hard to work with these people bc they are like molten rock; they always gotta be in the right.

The Moon 🌙

Rising quietly amidst black curtains of clouds, the Moon is the ultimate celestial representation of feminine energies on Earth and is also the yin counterpart of the Sun’s yang and radiating energy. While the Sun symbolizes our ability to identify ourselves with some kind of individual purpose and consciousness, the Moon offers us the ability to identify ourselves subjectively and unconsciously with our surroundings.

The Moon’s feminine or yin characteristics start with the basic fact that she acts as a mysterious, silvery mirror for the Sun’s confident rays. When the Moon glows in our skies, she can only do so by reflecting sunlight. This is a powerful symbol of the Moon’s receptive capabilities, which are transposed into all humans on Earth in some way or another.

For example, as children, we were very much unable to react to external stimuli at first. Emotionally, children soak in their surroundings, absorbing emotional information of what’s projected onto them and reflecting other people’s sunny lights, like the Moon does. The Moon’s placement by sign and house, then, describes one’s emotional structure, which manifests in adult life as inexplicable and repetitive emotional reactions and habits. Inexplicable, because the origins of all emotional links and identifications are long lost in the watery memory of a time when there was no emotional consciousness. Such is the reasoning behind the Moon’s correlation to the emotional realm, memories and the past. And this is also why conditions of the 4th house, analogous to Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon, symbolize one’s upbringing and emotional environment at infancy.

Conditions of the Moon and of the 4th house also correlate to one’s ability to adapt. Through the Moon’s ever-changing nature, moving rapidly around Earth and reflecting various amounts of light on her way, we discover the ability to receive and accept change, an important yin attitude that allows us a more flexible path on our way to our Sun’s final purpose. This can be easily analyzed through the modality of the sign you’re looking at, in the sense that fixed signs are much more resistant to big changes than the mutable signs, for example, which are on the other side of the spectrum.

Ruling over the sign of Cancer, the Moon also describes where one finds emotional security, mimicking the child’s need to feel protected, loved and cared for. I’ll talk more deeply on emotional security on an upcoming post on Cancer Moons.

This planet’s correlation to intuition and sensitivity can also be better understood considering the Moon’s association with childhood. Babies cannot perceive themselves as individuals with an unique force of will and an unique body. Under the weak and warm moonlight, it becomes impossible to recognize the boundaries that separate their minds from the minds of those around them, and so they become one with the world they live in; their needs become those of whoever’s around and vice-versa, until, through their relatives or guardians, they finally perceive their needs are different from anyone else’s, producing an internal Sun… Watery Moons mimic this primal mechanism through which we, as adults, may discover intuition: knowledge and information from unconscious sources hidden behind the hard structures of the material and tangible Capricorn world.

I’m hoping this helps in understanding where all those meanings come from~

aries sparkling, startling intuitive or  ravaged fighter

taurus floodlight of illumination or  tormented desire 

gemini infuser of opposing worlds or  chaotically confused 

cancer  wielder of the creative source or  frightened, defensive battler 

leo creatively divine exhibitionist or  held hostage by ego

virgo  pristine heavenly mathematician or  hyper critical solitary

libra  temple of unity and acceptance or  hollow, empty dependant 

scorpio  deep soul doctor, healer of spiritual wounds or  overly tempted by death

sagittarius cultivated and divinely intimate philosopher or  skeptical sedative 

capricorn  resilient soldier of god, co-creator with the divine or  sorrowful victim 

aquarius  raiser of conscious spiritual seas or  mentally defeated solitary

pisces  healer from the source itself or  confined, confused escapist 

Source:

Michael Johnson

Each zodiac sign rules a different part of the human anatomy. In seeing the macrocosm of the heavens influence over one whole organic unit, the ancients devised the philosophy that the body is a sacred space reflecting the eternity of the cosmos manifested in the present.

The natal chart shouldn’t be something that conjures up feelings of restriction or being boxed into categories, but something to look at and think, what can I make from this? What talents and quirks and virtues have I got innately in me? And what can I put out into the world?

It is the foundation, the roots, and from it, we bloom.

Element: Water { Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces } Aesthetic 🌊