Lori Reid - Your Lunar Code: The Power of Moon and Sun Signs to Enhance your Relationships, Work and Life

Your Lunar Code

Lori Reid

First edition published as Sun Signs, Moon Signs in the UK and USA in 2009 by Duncan Baird Publishers

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Contents

Astrology is a deeply fascinating study that works on many levels. It can help explain how and why we do the things we do: our preferences, decisions, how we live, love and respond to external events. As individuals we are complex beings often acting instinctively to people and situations. Why do we react to certain conditions the way we do? Why do our moods change from one day to the next? What guides our choices? These are the fundamental questions that astrology can help us to answer. And when it comes to our instincts and emotions, astrology unequivocally turns our focus onto the movements of the moon.

Your Lunar Code sets you off on that journey to discover the basic you. By studying your Moon sign, its position on the day you were born and its influence as the moon moves through the ebbs and flows of the month, you will be laying the first building block toward understanding your psychology. Then, follow through to the second part of the book where you will learn more about your Sun sign which sheds light on the next level of your psyche your personality.

Most people know what sign of the Zodiac they belong to. Saying that youre a Gemini, a Leo or a Capricorn, for example, is pointing out in which sign the Sun was located at the time you were born. However, very few people know what sign the Moon was in on the day of their birth. And yet our Moon sign is just as important as our Sun sign, if not more so, because it is our Moon sign that reveals our innermost feelings and emotions.

As well as describing your feelings, your Moon sign can tell you about your deepest drives, your needs and desires, your reactions and personal sensitivities. It reflects how you interact with other people, what sorts of relationships youre likely to form and how you come across emotionally. Your Moon sign will highlight your expectations, your dreams and hopes, what makes you feel good, what nurtures you and in what things or people you find the greatest comfort.

The Moon in Taurus, for example, will endow you with very different emotional characteristics to, say, the Moon in Sagittarius. In Taurus, the Moon strengthens and stabilizes the feelings. A person born with this moon seeks permanence and security in his or her life. This is a very different story from that of the happy-go-lucky individual born under a Sagittarian Moon. This person would run a mile rather than be tied down.

So, each sign the Moon travels through will colour your emotions with its own distinctive characteristics and qualities. But because the Moon moves quickly through the Zodiac, staying for just two-and-a-quarter days in each sign, many of us normally use an expert astrologer to find the exact position of the Moon for our time of birth, thinking that this is not something we can do for ourselves.

However, over the following few pages, you will find three charts that will enable you to calculate your Moon sign yourself. In all three, the time is set for GMT, so adjustments will need to be made for other local time zones. The first chart (see ) is the final step and combines what youve learned in charts 1 and 2 to work out your Moon sign.

Moon Chart 1: The Moons location on the first day of each month

Run your finger down the columns on the far left of this chart to find the year in which you were born. Look across from that line until you reach your month of birth. Make a note of the symbol representing the sign in that month, then turn over the page to the next chart.

Moon Chart 2: The number of Moon signs to add on

Look at the chart below and find the day of the month on which you were born (1 if you were born on the first of the month, 2 for the second, and so on). The number to the right of that day tells you how many extra zodiac signs you need to add on from the sign you were given in .

Moon Chart 3: Identifying your Moon sign

Here is the Zodiac wheel containing the twelve signs. Put your finger on the sign you were allocated in . The sign you arrive at is the sign the Moon was in on the day you were born.

THE LUNAR RAM