Nurturing your Inner & Outer Moon Child

Although Aries is technically the first sign of the Zodiac, Cancer rules home and birth, so therefore can be conceived as the true beginning. Cancer and the Moon are about comfort, safety and the instinctual way we deal with life. It reveals what we naturally do to survive and how we handle the world of emotion.  The Moon also represents Mother and our Moon sign can tell us a lot about our own mothers as much as it can about how we will mother our children. So whether you are a mother yourself or not, nurturing your inner child is paramount in cultivating confidence and emotional stability in your own life. And if you are a parent then, in my opinion, understanding your child from this perspective is priceless for teaching them self-love. 

Dr. Shefali speaks directly to this concept, of growing yourself up first, in her book, The Conscious Parent. We must become conscious ourselves before we can even hope to give our children a chance at any kind of conscious living in their own lives. After 3 1/2 years of motherhood I'm now convinced that parenting is one of the hardest, yet most rewarding, and transforming jobs in the world. And I have already done a lot of personal work of my own. But this work never ends! Every new day brings a new trigger, or an old one I just can not seem to lick. I love my son more than life itself, but some days I grit my teeth and lose all vision of any conscious parenting. Nevertheless, I believe it's all an on-going process and I am a conscientious student of life. So I can't help myself when it comes to learning and teaching how to 'do better'. And to me Astrology provides valuable tools to support both my personal growth process as well as my ability to parent more effectively.

The journey inward is very deep, personal and can be quite complex with all the influences from family, upbringing, heritage and tradition. But looking at the Moon in each sign of the Zodiac, here are some quick key insights and tips for helping you tap into and nurture both your inner child and outer child.

Aries Moon-

You- You are emotionally aggressive, impulsive and change your feelings quickly. You need a physical outlet and independence to deal with your feelings. Nurturing yourself first in this way is what makes you feel safe and confident.

Child- Your child's emotions will run hot and cold as they learn about their own changing feelings and how to create their own independence. They need to be free to lead to feel confident in the world.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept the pace of their emotional life and find active outlets for working through them, everyone can quickly move past any hurt feelings, while taking the appropriate space to heal with confidence.

Taurus Moon-

You- You are emotionally loving, stable and affectionate, yet you attach your feelings to your relationships, material comforts and possessions as tangible proof of your value. Tokens of love and appreciation are what make you feel loved, safe and confident.

Child- Your child's emotions will be discovered through their senses and they will feel safest when provided for, held tightly in your arms and shown affection. And they will need to have their own special things to feel safe. 

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept their need for affection and possessions while also understanding that true worth and connection is created from within, everyone can detach enough to fully enjoy the luxuries of life with confidence.    

Gemini Moon-

You- You are emotionally curious and restless, needing to keep things chatty, light and exciting to avoid having to actually deal with feelings. Handling sensitive issues through intelligent conversation over crying and drama is what makes you feel safe and confidence.

Child- Your child's emotional approach is curious and scattered as they learn about their feelings through conversation and play. Being able to mentally explore them in a fun way, will help to build confidence about their own sensitivity.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept their intellectual approach to emotions and find fun outlets to express their affections, then everyone can feel more focused and in touch, without being mushy, and communicate their feelings with love and confidence.

Cancer Moon-

You- Your are emotionally self-protective, sympathetic and very intuitive, especially about the needs of others. You need to feel needed and loved so deeply that nurturing and caring for others they way you wish to be is what makes you feel safe and confident.

Child- Your child's emotional approach will be sensitive, loving and sweet, and they will take on the feelings of the environment and others around them as a way to learn about emotions. And they will hide their own feelings until they feel safe enough to share them.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept their extra sensitivity as the powerful intuitive gift that it is, everyone can nurture and give equal love and care to self and others with confidence.   

Leo Moon-

You- You are emotionally warm, generous and self-confident while both showing and needing to be shown love and affection. Giving what you already feel to be great and true about yourself is what makes you feel loved and even more confident.

Child- Your child's emotions will be dramatic and they will love to find creative ways to show you why you should love them as they learn about their natural self-confidence.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept that they don't have to try so hard to be loved, then everyone can enjoy the need to play and show off with authentic confidence.  

Virgo Moon-

You- You are emotionally shy, critical and insecure so sharing your time, skills and services is what makes you feel smart, worthy of love and confident.

Child- Your child's emotions will be shy and temperamental as they discover how they can rationally understand feelings and build confidence. Routine and being helpful to others is  how they show love and feel safe.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept that it's okay, even beneficial, to have feelings and that they are as valid as what they can do for others, then everyone can find tangible ways to provide and experience love and confidence.

Libra Moon-

You- You are emotionally charming, pleasing and ebb and flow with the shifting events of life. You are easy going out of a need for approval to feel loved and confident.

Child- Your child's emotions are steady and balanced as they politely learn what they need to do to feel like they belong. Keeping peace and harmony is what makes them feel loved and safe.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept the inner desire to always make nice, while still honoring what they like for themselves, by saying no on occasion, then everyone can equally share themselves and good times with confidence.

Scorpio Moon-

You- You are emotionally intense, intolerant and resourceful in order to protect yourself from being hurt, and will feel the need to dominate others or situations to feel safe and confident.

Child- Your child's emotions will be extremely dramatic as they struggle to understand their deep sensitivity. They must have some level of control over things and people to feel safe.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept the deep undercurrent of emotions that run through them in a rational, forgiving way, then everyone can live emotionally in control of themselves and feel less of a need to dominate to feel confident.

Sagittarius Moon-

You- You are emotionally warm, idealistic, generous and driven by a desire to teach others what you feel so strongly to be helpful for you. Seeking and then sharing your deep personal truth is what makes you feel safe and confident.

Child- Your child's emotions are resilient and upbeat as they learn about feelings through physical adventures and trial and error. They feel like they need to always be cheerful and on the go to feel safe.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept that having sad feelings sometimes is just part of the emotional journey and life doesn't have to be one happy moment after the next, then everyone can avoid burning the candle at both ends and share themselves fully, lovingly and with fearless confidence.

Capricorn Moon-

You-You are emotionally reserved, considerate and practical, feeling no need to get worked up over sensitive situations. You feel best when leading at work and being in charge. You feel you need to take a practical, dignified approach to build your power, recognition and confidence.

Child- Your child's emotions are quiet, shy and stable as they cautiously learn about their already serious grownup feelings. They need to slowly warm up to things before opening up to feel safe.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept that they are more emotional than what's revealed to the world, and show admiration for the rare affection they do give, then everyone will feel safer to open up, lighten up and share their vulnerability with confidence.

Aquarius Moon-

You- You are emotionally cool, idealistic and unpredictable and take a mental approach to emotions. You seek unique was to experience feelings because the intellectual understanding of things is what makes you feel confident.

Child- Your child's emotions are light, fun and detached as they learn through friends and groups about feelings. Having freedom and independence to help others is how they feel safe.

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept that sharing their own feelings is as worthwhile a cause as helping others, then everyone can receive the love of one-to-one connections while still marching to their own beat with confidence.

Pisces Moon-

You- You are emotionally sympathetic, gentle and very sensitive to your own and the entire the human experience. Creatively visualizing a beautiful world, romanticizing life and escaping reality is what makes you feel safe and confident.

Child- Your child's emotions are sweetly naive, forgiving and optimistic as they learn how affected they are by their surroundings and others. They will live in their creative imagination, while staying very close to those that provide the most love and security, until they feel confident enough to engage the real world.   

Tip- If you can learn and teach your child to accept their deep sensitivity as the powerful intuitive guide that it is for them, while finding outlets to release what isn't theirs to deal with, then everyone can create healthy emotional boundaries and safely dream with confidence.

I truly believe communication is key to any solid relationship. So I hope by understanding this placement for yourself and your children, you can feel safer to share yourself more authentically and confidently as well as teach your children to do the same. This can naturally enrich all of our connections and most importantly the one with our Self. If you would like a full look into your or your child's Moon sign and beyond, please contact me at info@dualityandbeyond.com.