posted April 28, 2008 03:56 PM         

"When the Moon and Eros join forces, emotions rise as feelings pour forth into a vessel of passion, creativity, unconscious longings and past desires. Eros and the Moon tend to feel, alike and where their ground is common their power to evoke passion and mutual merging is great.

Anytime the Moon is activated in a Synastry chart, one or both individuals will come into contact with their emotional nature. The result of this connection will depend entirely on the development and condition of their inner worlds respectively.

Those with emotional challenges and damaged feelings, as may be reflected in hard outer planet aspects to the natal Moon, may find someone coming along and stimulating those crippled sensitivities uncomfortable at best. Conversely, those with more or less processed feelings and in current touch with their inner world will probably find an encounter with Eros nurturing, comforting and exquisitely stimulating. Again, a lot will depend on the individual's relationship to their personal feeling world at the time of contact.

When Eros is stimulated and the Moon comfortably nurtured, the union can have profound effects. Touched in this way, we feel known, understood and fostered. The sense of security is intense leaving the individual ready, willing and able to take the risks Eros requires. The result may not be happy ever after although we will most likely be thoroughly transformed.

Even when Eros touches a damaged Moon, and the very nature of the moon suggests the best placed one has experienced some degree of wounding, the contact can have a healing and soothing effect. Depending on the nature of the relationship and the overall comparison of the charts, Eros may bring to the Moon a sense of zest and validity that was previously lacking. The Moon, on the other hand, may bring to Eros a feeling of security, protection and immunity form the harsher elements of life. Together the two may then enter the depths of intimacy leaving them both with a sense of immediate rapport and lasting transformation.

The contacts with a particularly difficult Moon can be disruptive, as when there is a great deal of emotional repression or unresolved feelings. Eros here will awaken feelings that sit neither well or softly. The results can be a flood of anger, hurt, rage and sorrow. Those with this Moon may instinctively avoid deep contacts with those who have planets and bodies in aspect to it. It is like having a broken toe and wanting to avoid an oncoming herd of horses. The pain is too great, and they will not want it aggravated."