The Power of the Moon
and a new offering to help you vibe with her <3
We are all aware of the singular power of the Moon. Just look up when she’s out and you’ll see it. Even look up when she’s supposed to be out and she’s not, and you’ll see it. Either way, you are thinking of her.
It’s like we were born with an innate awe for the Moon. Her sight is commonplace, but who has not be stunned by her sudden appearance on a clear night? Astronomically, her singularity is apparent. While the other planets all orbit the same star, the Moon orbits Earth alone. The Moon is aligned with only us, our personal glowing rock.
Sensually, her uniqueness is apparent as well. While it takes a trained eye to visually separate the twinkling stars from the wandering, steady planets, the Moon is unmistakably herself in our eyes, one of one. Her ability to capture the attention of poets, of lovers, of lonely wanderers, of mystics, only further proves her importance. As Mary Ruefle puts it, “I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon”. Our desire to reflect on our current feelings and put it into words is entwined with the Moon, our closest piece of space, our farthest home.
When I first began studying astrological transits, or how the stars unfold in a given period of time, I ignored the Moon.
You see, the Moon is fast. It only takes her two and a half days to move through a sign, compared to the Sun’s month and Saturn’s two and a half years. That means her impact on the other planets doesn’t last long— never more than a day.
Practically, there often seems like there isn’t room to notice her subtle, short-term movements. When someone books a reading with me and wants to know about their future, they probably aren’t referring to a specific twelve hours on a Tuesday a month from now. They speak in epochs, months, whole years, and it’s my job to point to the most potent and intense celestial movements impacting them on that scale.
While tracking the transiting Moon is not helpful for understanding larger shifts in someone’s life, one would still be remiss to ignore her on this more intimate level. That matters.
The power of the Moon persists, even when not named or noticed. In virtually all magical and electional texts, astrologers and occultists praise Luna’s power as a prism, ruler of the sublunar sphere, connector of heaven and earth. The Moon rules the beginning of all things, growth, births, transitions, physical fortunes and manifestations. She is the shaper of our direct, embodied experience. It is through the influence of the Moon, the ancients tell us, that we can feel the impact of other celestial bodies at all. Without the power of the Moon to translate the influences of the other planets, astrology would scarcely feel as mundane, as intimate, as it does.
The Moon (in)Action
The Moon’s speedy transits throughout the day set the most personal, immediate tone of our lives. She determines whether we feel in the flow of things, surrounded by luck, or out of step and bumping up against corners. She helps us clue into when we feel more focused and when we are more in our feelings. She helps us determine if we’ll feel the impacts of other planets and transits more immediately or more in the abstract.
Here’s a tip: if you want to determine which upcoming transits will be deeply felt and manifest directly into our lives, see if the Moon aspects it. She is often the one who can bring these influences down to earth.
See this example, a chart from May 23rd, 2024.
Do y’all remember when Venus and Jupiter conjoined in Taurus on this date? I don’t blame you if you don’t: the transit did not aspect the Moon when it perfected. If you look at the chart above when the two benefics were exactly conjoined in Taurus, the Moon had just entered Sagittarius. According to the Hellenistic aspects scheme, planets in Taurus cannot see planets in Sagittarius. It will take the Moon 30º, roughly two and a half days, to aspect Venus and Jupiter. By that time Venus isn’t even in Taurus anymore, which greatly diminishes the aspect. The conjunction had passed without the Moon translating it.
Despite the undeniable blessings of a benefic conjunction, a transit typically associated with all good things, without the Moon translating their light, the conjunction is like a bountiful dinner that doesn’t get eaten, or gets eaten over there by someone else. I like to say that a transit that happens without aspecting the moon is like a bomb that never goes off or fireworks happening on another block: regardless of what happens, you feel like you’re missing the action.
From another angle, though, the Moon did just oppose Venus and Jupiter in Taurus, right before they perfected. That will still tinge the day with their energy, but know the impact of the benefics may feel somehow in the past tense, or creating something that could have been good that didn’t work out. We embody the movements of the stars in mysterious ways.
This is the strange magic of the Moon: on the one hand she is extremely mundane and material; our bodies, moods, habits, physical surroundings. On the other, she is pure shadow and light, flickering magic, deeply of another realm that somehow exists within this one.
If you want to know how a certain day will go, determine the best time to do something, or move in sync with the rhythms of the sky, you look at the Moon. She is the cornerstone of electional astrology, or using the movement of the stars to choose the best date and time to begin something. In horary, the branch of astrology most akin to fortune telling, the Moon tells us how things will connect and shake out. Anytime someone asks me why a day felt off or especially easy, I could look at the position of the Moon and she would show me. It’s a cool gift, to be able to divine the type of vibe I was working on a given day. But there is still always mystery to be found within any 24 hours— thank the Moon.
That means my What’s the Vibe? 2025 Guidebook, with its monthly, weekly, and daily astrological breakdowns, is also a love letter to the Moon. I began writing my “What’s the Vibe?” posts months ago to help others tune in with astrology on more practical level and to show that each day has so much richness, texture, complexity. We can thank the Moon, who forms the basis for my daily predictions, for that.
Now, you can get my daily predictions for 2025 all at once. For each day, I also include activities for each day that the vibes would support, ranging from rest and chores, to a hot date and dream work. This way, we can meet the day on its own terms and channel our energy into avenues that work with it rather than against it.
In alignment with larger cycles, like the ones I discuss in my consults, I have also included write-ups on the major transits of each month, and break them down further in weekly-write-ups. We get into major shifts like Saturn and Neptune in Aries, Jupiter in Cancer, Uranus in Gemini, and so much more. All the juicy info on what 2025 will be like on a big and intimate scale is found in this guide.
Out 12.20. Stay tuned for more info <3
Until next time,
Love
Chloe
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