posted September 02, 2010 11:00 PM
How Strong is your Moon? Here’s the Score!
© 7-8-2010 by Donna Cunningham, MSW The popular series of tests for planetary strength here on Skywriter follow a particular pattern, with points scored and orbs specified for various features of the chart related to the planet in question.
In testing the strength of the Sun and Moon, however, you’ll find differences in the scores, including some bonus points, wider orbs allowed, and other considerations.
That’s because the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant are by nature the strongest and most telling features of a chart, and the scores need to reflect that.
Since we’re celebrating the sign Cancer now and since there’s an eclipse of the Sun in Cancer on the 11th, let’s do the test for the Moon now. Leos will have to wait until August for the Sun test, but that’s long enough to get that makeover you’ve been planning for your birthday party.
The Moon rules the sign Cancer. You’re Cancerian if you have Sun, Moon, Ascendant or several planets in that sign. These are true lunar types. Perhaps the strongest lunar influence of all is Moon in Cancer, since it’s in its own sign. The Moon and Cancer are also related to the 4th house of the horoscope. Having any one of those features prominent will strengthen your lunar side.
The Test for the Moon—What’s Your Score?
The tests in this series aren’t a perfect scientific measurement—that’s impossible. They’re just meant as a simple and fun way to find out the strongest influences in your birth chart.
Note that the orbs and scores are higher for this and the Sun test than for the other planets.
_____ Moon conjunct, square, trine, or opposite the Sun, Ascendant, or Midheaven, 15 points each. (Orbs: 10° for conjunctions, 8° for oppositions, 6° for trines and squares.)
_____ Moon conjunct, square, trine, or opposite other planets, 6 points each.
______ Moon in minor aspect (sextile, semisextile, septile, quincunx, quintile, semisquare, and sesquiquadrate) to the Sun, Ascendant, Midheaven or other planets, 4 points each. 3° orb.
______ BONUS: Moon conjunct or opposite the Sun and within 6° of the North or South Node, 10 points, as you were born at an eclipse. (For each degree that separates the Moon and Sun, your birth was about 2 hours from the eclipse. 6° represents 12 hours.)
______ BONUS: The Moon’s North or South Node in Cancer or the 4th house, 5 points.
______ BONUS: Moon in Cancer, 15 points.
______ Sun, Ascendant or Midheaven in Cancer, 10 points each.
______ Other planets in Cancer, 5 points each.
______ BONUS: Sun or Moon in the 4th house, 10 points each.
______ Other 4th house planets, 5 points each.
______ Bonus: Cancer on the IC or Cancer planets in the 4th, 5 points each.
Total all the chart features that apply. A score of 0-20 points would be considered low, while 25-35 indicates a moderate influence. More than 35? Strong. 40-64? Very strong indeed! 65 and beyond? Off the charts.
For the purpose of standard reporting in the comment section: Don’t use the Part of Fortune, the Vertex, Antivertex, Part of Fortune, Sedna, Eris, or the bazillion asteroids other than Chiron. For your own purposes, use anything you doggoned well please. Give yourself points if you’ve ever danced nekkid under a full moon, if your name is Diana, or if you belong to a coven.
High Scores? What are Lunar Types Like?
Issues for the Moon: the home, family, roots, mother figures and being a mother, nurturing, dependency, security, the emotions, ties to the past and our ancestors, memory, food, the female reproductive system and its cycles, beliefs about the role of women, responsiveness, instinct.
The Moon by nature is traditional and conservative—an ancient, feminine energy that yearns for family and roots. It’s security-minded, safety-conscious, and wants to preserve the past, so it can be sentimentally attached to Mom and to possessions and mementoes that remind us of happier times. It’s home cooking with an old family recipe and going back to our old home town for our high school reunion. It’s how we deal with our emotions, our dependency needs, nurturance, and issues around food.
Many of you will snarl about how UNLUNAR you’re despite a high score on this test. I can already hear your protests and feel the burn backlash telepathically over the internet. If your Moon’s sign and aspects are difficult, you may very well hate your Mom, call in a bomb scare to your high school reunion, and generally detest all things lunar.
And yet that doesn’t make those issues any less critical in your life. It just alters the way you deal with them. Whole books have been written—in fact, I’ve written a couple—about how to heal your lunar wounds. What I just wrote was the archetypal version of a lunar type.
(Did I just say archetype? On Skywriter, archetypes are as rare as politicians who give a crap about their constituents and aren’t cheating on their wives. As rare as a freebie that doesn’t wind up costing you more than it’s worth. As rare as an astrology newsletter or article that doesn’t try to wind you up about the nearest eclipse or Mercury retrograde period.)
Here are some reasons you might not be a typical lunar type:
The Moon is reflective, and for Cancer Suns or Moons, lunar traits would be modified by aspects and other chart features.
For example, if you have a Moon-Uranus aspect or were born between 1949-1946, while Uranus was in Cancer, you may be a wild mixture of lunar and Uranian qualities.
Cancer Suns and Ascendants are especially strongly affected by the Moon’s sign, house, and aspects. A Cancer with an Aries Moon wouldn’t have much patience with either kids or cooking.
A Cancer with Capricorn rising will not readily show the world that tender or sentimental side. A Cancer Sun or Moon in the 9th might be a citizen of the world and even live abroad or far from home for years.
Concerns of the 4th House: The 4th house is associated with the Moon and the sign Cancer. I often find that 4th house Suns are similar to Cancers in their attachment to the home, family, and roots. Depending on the sign, they may or may not share the moodiness, sentimentality, and sensitivity Cancerians are noted for, but they’re likely to be homebodies.
Some areas of life that are crucial to people with a strong a 4th house are the home and home life, family of origin, roots, family ties, heredity, family influence, the nurturing parent, and the senior years.
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posted September 02, 2010 11:00 PM
Yes I think this test could be accurate.