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Moon square Neptune

Moon square Neptune makes you extremely sensitive and sympathetic but can also cause confusion and deception. It can make you overly emotional with a tendency to fantasize. Relationships with women and the public can significantly influence your emotional well-being and intimate relationships. How your mother nurtured you is more important than with most other people. You are sensitive to subtle energies, non-verbal cues, and even other people’s thoughts via telepathy or psychic abilities. If your mother instilled negativity, it would significantly shape your life. Such negative impressions may have involved your mother acting like a victim or being abused by your father. There may also have been escapism through drugs, alcohol or gambling. As an adult, as when you were young, your reaction to any unpleasantness or over-stimulation would be to withdraw into your imaginary world that is safe and emotionally stable. Healthier mother-child relationships would, of course, lead to a healthier emotional life. However, you should expect to meet many challenging experiences and relationships with women that test your emotional fortitude. Expressing your emotions is critical to dealing with this aspect. You must be able to show your sensitive emotions in relationships and groups so they do not manifest as internal imaginations, false realities, suspicions, paranoia, depression, addiction or illness.

Moon square Neptune

The main challenge you face with Moon square Neptune is discerning between reality and unreality, fact and fiction, and the consequences of confusion when these distinctions are not correctly perceived. Your emotions and imagination often intertwine, clouding your perceptions with personal bias and fantasies. Insisting that you are right, even against others' recall, can generate conflict within relationships. Your discomfort with feelings and emotions makes it difficult for you to find stability and centering. There may have been emotionally based difficulties in your parental relationships, especially with your mother, where emotional needs were not satisfied or where you imagine failings. To navigate these challenges, work with your intrinsic assets and acknowledge them as gifts. Use your imagination in positive ways and build new, positive images of yourself. Understanding your own nature is crucial for tolerance towards others. Release pent-up emotional tension with the help of trained counsellors or psychotherapists. Under the energy of Moon square Neptune, be open and honest in relationships about your feelings of confusion. Organize your life consciously and seek support and guidance from perceptive individuals. Believe in your own potential and allow it to access your life. Transform the negative aspects of this aspect into positive assets. Ground yourself with down-to-earth schools of therapy rather than seeking escapism through religious or mystical cults. Reflect on how you can better discern between reality and fantasy. How can you release emotional tension in a healthy and constructive way? How can you incorporate your imagination in positive ways to enhance your experiences?

For natives of Moon square Neptune, sharing your emotions and discussing your perceptions, visions, or dreams will give you vital feedback and help put everything into perspective. Show your sympathies to others, and you will be appreciated. This is vital because you understand suffering and can ease it in others. Share also your sufferings, and people will listen. Such openness will avoid any need to be the victim or the saviour. You’re a dreamer and a storyteller who can shape-shift into any form. These talents can be used in poetry, acting, writing, singing, etc. Any shyness can be overcome by getting familiar with your image. Neptune rules mirrors, screens, cameras and the stage. Practice showing off in front of the mirror or webcam. Of course, privacy is important but do not keep your talents secret forever. Too passionate, very strong taste for luxury and lack of self-control, passivity, submission, indifference, confusion, chaotic disorder, impressionability, irrationality, inclination to the deceitful, illusory, chimeras, fanciful and romantic, with potential risk of lack of all common sense.

Being born with Moon square Neptune, you are someone who needs to retreat from the world into your own imaginative space at times in order to find nourishment. You can have big feelings and are sensitive to all the emotions circulating in your vicinity. As a result, you need to get away from other people sometimes so you can dissolve the influence of other people’s emotions, soaking within your own feelings for rejuvenation. You will experience your unconscious bursting through to your conscious awareness at times, whether through your dreams or within flashes of vision. Due to your propensity for entering fantasy and falling into illusion, it will be necessary for you to go through disillusioning moments that feel very difficult while they are happening. However, the disillusionment you experience will be important times of becoming able to reorient toward your personal truth and clarity regarding your actual reality.  This aspect introduces confusion into the relationship. The Moon partner feels the escapist attitude in the Neptune partner, but cannot really define it. The Moon is never sure of their partner's devotion or intentions. Thus, there is often a sense of deception when they deal with important issues. Because of misunderstandings, lack of clearly defined objectives and confusion with identification, it is difficult for them to maintain their relationship.

Moon square Neptune are sensitive to subtle energies, non-verbal cues, and even other people’s thoughts via telepathy or psychic abilities

Moon square Neptune often unveils a compelling narrative of early life experiences and emotional complexities. This configuration suggests a family environment where clear emotional boundaries between primary caregivers and the child were lacking. With Moon square Neptune, the individual's formative years are marked by a deficiency in appropriate emotional boundaries. As a result, the child grapples with confusion regarding what emotions belong to them and what belongs to others. This uncertainty extends to their ability to identify their feelings and needs, mirroring the challenges faced by the adults in their life. The individual often possesses a heightened sensitivity, granting them the capacity to empathize deeply with others and intuitively understand their emotions and thoughts. However, this innate skill becomes a double-edged sword, as the person struggles to differentiate between their emotions and those of others. Consequently, they frequently project their emotions onto those around them, adopt the moods of others, and find themselves entangled in a web of emotional confusion. For example, they might perceive anger in others when, in reality, they are unable to acknowledge their own anger, leading to emotional detachment and disconnection from their inner feelings.

Because of their dreamy natures and big hopes, it is too easy for natives born with Moon square Neptune to become disenchanted. In turn, it is easy for them to be inspired once again. The result is an emotional roller-coaster ride. These people hunger for emotional inspiration and nourishment, but they can be like a bottomless pit in this regard. Or, their hopes can be too lofty and unrealistic, so the undefined prize they are searching for is forever elusive. At times, they feel very much at mercy of their emotions, yet they have a hard time truly understanding or defining their emotional worlds. There is much yearning of the soul with this position, yet the emptiness they tend to feel so overwhelmingly at times is hard to define. In all likelihood, they are searching for unconditional love–both to give it and to receive it. Yet, their own faith and trust in others is subject to huge swings. They want more than anything to trust their loved ones, yet when they do, part of them is suspicious of their own trusting hearts, and they worry that they trust too much. Often, these issues stem from a childhood in which the nurturing was inconsistent. These people can waste a lot of time on emotional whims, when they follow illusive or unrealistic goals and people. In relationships, quite ironically, these emotional souls can be hard to reach. They have a hard time committing to any one path, and they can very easily sidestep difficult issues. The avoidance of “not so nice” topics is perhaps most prominent in men with this position, although both sexes very often say something on the lines of, “let’s not talk about that”.

Individuals with the Moon square Neptune aspect tend to grapple with the difficulty of identifying and owning their emotions. They often resort to various coping mechanisms such as projection, deflection, numbing, repression, escape, and distraction to avoid confronting their feelings. This avoidance not only shields them from painful emotions but also hinders their ability to experience more positive emotions like love. Some may constantly seek love while struggling to grasp its true essence, residing in a somewhat dissociated state. This complex emotional landscape paves the way for codependency, a relationship pattern where one individual becomes enmeshed with another, relinquishing their sense of self for the sake of the relationship. Such codependent dynamics typically involve a partner with addictive tendencies, an area where Neptune's influence is particularly pronounced. Codependency is a recurring theme in charts marked by Neptune-Moon aspects, given Neptune's tendency to encourage forgiveness, excuse, and the overlooking of a partner's behaviours and responsibilities.

Facing reality and hard cold facts can be hard for natives of Moon square Neptune. They tend to glamorize their past or dream about an ideal future, and enjoying the present is a rarity. Procrastination on an emotional level is a huge tendency. These are compassionate souls who may nevertheless be reluctant to get involved, perhaps because they sense that they could easily become lost in any given cause. They are psychic sponges who absorb the emotions of others. They are extremely sensitive to the emotional “climate” of any given place, setting, or situation. In some cases, people with Moon square Neptune project Neptune onto their environment, and thus attract Neptunian people and circumstances into their lives. Some, for example, attract partners who are elusive, addicted, irresponsible, or unwilling to commit. Unusual emotional entanglements and fancies are common with this position. In some cases, “scandals” occur in the life. Creative outlets for their powerful imaginations can be extremely helpful, as they can provide a forum for the emotional drama that they crave.

 

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