The Moon in astrology
The Moon is how you feel safe. It changes sign every two and a half days, so your Moon sign often depends on the hour you were born.
What the Moon means
The Moon stands for feelings, habits, memory and the body's needs. It is what you reach for when you are tired, and what you needed as a child before you had words for it. Where the Sun is a goal, the Moon is a need. A life that feeds the Sun and starves the Moon looks good from outside and feels thin from inside.
She signifieth one of composed Manners, a soft, tender creature, a Lover of all honest and ingenuous Sciences, a Searcher of, and Delighter in Novelties.
The Moon in your chart
The Moon moves about 13 degrees a day. A birth date alone gives two possible Moon signs on about one day in three, and the birth time decides. The phase you were born under adds a second layer. A new moon birth tends to start things and a full moon birth tends to see things through others.
The Moon's cycle
The Moon goes around the zodiac in about 27 days and meets the Sun again every 29.5 days. Each meeting is a new moon. Two weeks later, the full moon sits straight across the sky from the Sun.
The next new moon is in Scorpio on , and the full moon after it in Gemini on .
Times are in UTC.
The Moon in each sign
- Moon in Aries: Quick feelings, quick to pass.
- Moon in Taurus: Calm, steady and comforted by the body.
- Moon in Gemini: Feelings that need words.
- Moon in Cancer: Deep feelings and a strong need for home.
- Moon in Leo: Feelings that want to be seen.
- Moon in Virgo: Feelings sorted through care and routine.
- Moon in Libra: Feelings settled by harmony.
- Moon in Scorpio: Deep, private and intense feelings.
- Moon in Sagittarius: Feelings that need room.
- Moon in Capricorn: Feelings kept under control.
- Moon in Aquarius: Feelings looked at from a step back.
- Moon in Pisces: Feelings without edges.
In the app
- Moon. The Moon governs your inner weather — moods, instincts, what you reach for when no one is watching. Where it sits in your chart describes how you self-soothe and what makes you feel held.
Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.
Where is the Moon in your chart?
The Moon’s sign is only half of it. Its house and the planets it touches come from your birth time and place. Solstice works them out and talks with you about what they mean.
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