The Moon in your chart shows how your mother nurtured you, what is needed to feel emotionally satisfied, and how you go about fulfilling those needs. In esoteric astrology, it is said that the soul is trapped in the sign the moon is in. Meaning you have tendencies to express the lower qualities of the sign when reacting to a situation. There’s a tendency to use manipulation to attain emotional satisfaction instead of being honest about emotional needs. The Moon also reveal where there are insecurities, therefore retreat into vices; food, people, emotions, status, or things.
Despite the fact that it is where the soul hides, it is also where the greatest strength can be found. By looking to the Moon placement, there’s a hint of how to address internal needs and integrate with “darker” or unseen parts of the self. By nourishing your emotional needs daily, you are able to nourish those around you the same by providing intimacy, acceptance and nonverbal care.
The Daily Struggle
If you have Aries Moon in the eighth house, you are all about death and rebirth. Anything to do with dark/ taboo things, your mind directly goes to it to understand the truth. In relationships, there’s a subconscious need for independence but a lack of ability to maintain a sense of self. With this push and pull ambivalence, it increases frustration and anger due to powerlessness in relationships. Yet, a need to make an impact and to merge with someone or something greater drives you to change.
Due to the need to face the truth head-on, you tend to dabble in occult knowledge, magickal arts, psychology, or any topic that is misunderstood or taboo in your culture. You’ll find that your mind soaks the knowledge easily and strategizes ways to put it into action immediately. It is likely that you would want to have another to merge ideas with to create something new and exciting. Once this is “won” you would want to protect the knowledge from those who could misuse it.
Connection to Mother
With having your Moon in the eighth house, relationship with your mother was a power struggle. At some points, she would win with manipulation and deceit which triggered you to find reasons for her actions. In return, you would do the same to her and the cycle continues. In the end, this created distrust and resentment and a need for transformation to heal the relationship. Though this is the dynamic of you and your mother, it sets the stage of how you nurture yourself through relationships by finding ways to recreate this type of dynamic.
But with the Moon in Aries, there’s a deep outcry to be an individual who expresses their authentic self without fear of manipulation. You have tremendous potential locked away in the mind which could be of use to break away from this energetic hold.
Emotional Needs
Aries is all about individuality and pursuing ideas but while in the eighth house, that is originally ruled by Scorpio, it would have you pursue those ideas with another in mind and accept standing circumstances. The eighth house signifies an area in your life where you will have obstacles to reflect on. This natural tension makes it a challenge to maintain a healthy relationship with the other and the Self simultaneously.
With having such a strong Aries placement in the eighth house, the great mental chase will eventually evolve to possession, control, and eventually release of resources and/or loved one. This cycle will help you learn how to dance with your instinct to see where your power truly lies. Once deeply understood you are able to join a loved one with their ideas and resources in true harmony.
How to integrate change without disruption
With Aries Moon, you are here to learn how to not suppress your need for independence and intimacy. By acknowledging your need for independence and togetherness, you are able to state clear boundaries and feel satisfied when engaging with another. There’s an ambivalence that runs deep within you because of what you have learned from your mother. You might feel if you give your all, you’ll lose yourself and risk the chance to be “destroyed”. However, with a balanced mind and honesty about what triggers you, you are able to keep a healthy, intimate relationship with another.
How to nourish others – On the path with Mercury
With the Moon in the eighth house, you are sensitive to other people’s feelings of frustration, jealousy, and pain. When on the path of serving others Mercury rules you and the sensitives can be seen as a gift. With your intellect, you learn how to navigate dark emotions and help other’s see a way out of their dark situation systematically. You give the passion and hope that is needed to see their way through and breakdown psychological barriers. With this gift, you hold the light for those that are in the dark and inspire them to start over again.
Based on your Mercury placement in the natal chart, you are able to gain more insight into how you are able to do so.