Aspecting Moon
When Pluto aspects the Moon in your natal chart, you’re learning to balance the part of you that seeks deep emotional security with the part that craves transformation and growth. There is a push/pull between needing to do things that bring emotional depth and transformative experiences into your life and feeling safe and secure.
Often in childhood or youth, you might have undergone experiences that cut you off from emotional security. Big events and upheavals might have forced you to grow up quickly or be responsible for your emotional well-being, even if that wasn’t entirely possible. If you expressed your feelings, there might have been suppression or invalidation. This can make you unsure of your feelings as an adult and detach you from what makes you feel secure.
With this aspect, you’ll need to rediscover what truly makes you feel emotionally secure. You’re meant to go through significant emotional transformations in your life, facing up to emotional responses that don’t serve you. If you don’t know how to meet the needs of your Moon and feel secure while making these changes, you’ll struggle to be successful and might oscillate between emotional stagnancy and massive self-created upheaval.
Shadows:
The shadow comes from suppressing the part of you that needs deep emotional experiences. This could mean turning down opportunities for emotional growth and submitting to emotional stagnancy out of a lack of security. If you don’t know what makes you feel emotionally safe, you won’t take the necessary risks to meet your evolutionary goals as a soul.
Alternatively, you might take emotional risks without considering your own safety, putting yourself in situations where you’re emotionally overwhelmed and dissociating. While you might be doing things that your soul is called to, you’re not able to be present for them in the way you need to grow.
Power:
You’re someone who doesn’t hide from emotional life. You know what you need on a deep emotional level. You’re not chasing superficial security or external validation. You’re emotionally free. You are in tune with your feelings and use them as a guide for deep emotional transformation. When something feels stagnant, you’re ready to embrace the changes needed to feel emotionally alive. You can face emotional upheavals with a grounded sense of self, not getting lost in external narratives but staying true to your inner emotional truth.
Conjunction:
You have a powerful balancing act to create in your emotional life. Anxiety can be present, as well as oscillations between intense emotions and dissociation. You’re meant to find freedom by honoring your emotional needs. Your journey begins when you figure out what makes you feel emotionally secure. Everyone has their own things that help them feel grounded. When you find that emotional rooting, you can dive into the transformative changes that bring emotional satisfaction. Don’t let others dictate how you should feel. Embrace your need for emotional depth and transformation.
Sextile/Trine:
This is a harmonious placement, allowing you to avoid emotional stagnancy. You can find emotional security and make changes that others might find daunting. The emotional freedom and growth you achieve is inspiring. You have a gift for changing emotional and instinctive patterns, making you a guide for others through emotional transitions.
Opposition:
The challenge with the opposition is balancing your need for emotional security with your need for emotional transformation. You might begin with emotional stagnancy and dissociation, mistaking the predictable for what is safe. Your journey is to find how to make yourself feel emotionally secure so that you can embrace the emotional transformations that are most valuable to your life and far from your comfort zone.
Square:
You are more likely to face emotional tensions with this placement. You might feel the need to retreat into emotional dissociation or embrace unpredictable emotional changes because they feel safer than stagnancy. Changes in your emotional life can throw you off balance, and your journey is to find emotional security to face and create transformative changes without falling into either shadow. Anytime we have a square aspect we are learning how to manage this energy and master it.