Moon House Placement

Per my All My Houses blog post, I generically describe the House System in astrology going into what each House represents. There are many different house systems and this post is based on specifically using the Placidus House system. It is believed that houses with any planet within it is of significance so the specific planet will have a particular influence on whatever the House it is in represents. As part of my blog series of using astrology to understand myself better, I will go over each astrological body’s house placement based on my natal/birth chart.

According to my Cafe Astrology birth/natal report, where you can also go to run your own report, the Moon is in my 3rd House. The 3rd House is related to the Gemini sign, called the House of Sharing and is the area of social and intellectual learning. It guides how you perceive, think, analyze, believe and how that translates in communication with others.

With the Moon being in my 3rd House, the report describes this placement as the following:
Highly imaginative, but may have difficulty concentrating. She fantasizes frequently. Important studies, may move around a lot and travel frequently.

You are very responsive, communicative, and curious. You can have a talent for imitating others and/or for picking up languages. You might either intellectualize your emotions rather than truly feel them and deal with them, or you communicate with excessive emotion. Some of you may do both at different times, and as you mature and develop, you learn to find a balance. Your opinions and ideas change often, and you might find that sometimes you adopt others’ points of view and express their ideas as if they were your own. This is not necessarily because you are a copy-cat, but because you sometimes fail to own your own thoughts, and you are so very sensitive to others’ opinions. You might be quite nervous and restless, requiring frequent changes of scenery, even if the movement or travel takes place locally.

When I was a kid, I remember spending all my free time playing with stuffed animals and coming up with all sorts of scenarios and conversations to the point each toy had their own distinct personality, history and story. My siblings and I each had a dog, as well as a bear and they were their own families that we spent hours using our imagination to play with. I think the imaginative and fantasizing side of me is still very active as an adult, but that I don’t let it out in the same way I did when I was young.

With regard to having difficulty concentrating, I would say that I can be on both of the far sides of that spectrum. I have, what I consider an unusual ability to stay focused and concentrate on work, glued to my computer from morning to night with only brief breaks for the bathroom, even eating at my desk while continuing to work. However if my head space is not into something, I will take procrastination to a whole new level and busy myself with several other tasks before I run out of time and have to force myself to concentrate on the task I’ve been avoiding.

Since I moved out on my own after college, I enjoyed moving from apartment to apartment and did it more frequently than most of my friends. I would choose to move within a year, or two at the most because I like the process of packing, unpacking and settling into a new space. Back then I didn’t have as much stuff as I do now since I was only dealing with a room or a small apartment in most cases. It is a lot harder to do now with more stuff so I don’t look forward to it as much. But I’m finally getting to the point where I feel like settling down because I really want to grow my family with a few pets, so finding a forever dream home is one of my biggest goals. Anyone who knows me well, knew that I spent several years doing a ton of travel as well, because I wanted to. So yes I have moved and traveled frequently.

It is a pet peeve of mine when people don’t respond back in certain situations and would say when it comes to work emails, I make a concerted effort to be responsive and communicative with everyone who reaches out to me. Because I don’t like talking on the phone, that is where I am the complete opposite and not very responsive at all. I have said on more than one occasion, that if something is really important, they will call me again or try to reach me through other means such as email or instant message.

I wouldn’t say that I am talented when it comes to imitating others, I don’t think I do any accents very well and shrink back from the thought of trying to impersonate famous personalities. Though every once in a while I do find myself imitating those closest to me in jest and fun, but I wouldn’t say I do a great job at it. I only speak one language and wish I could speak more than one, multiple if I possible, but never learned any. I’d be inclined to think it is languages vs. imitations that may be my talent. In high school I took Spanish and did a fairly good job of picking up, not struggling as much as others. But since I rarely had an opportunity to use it, I lost most of it.

As for not feeling or dealing with my emotions or communicating with excessive emotion and doing both randomly, I would say that is accurate and dependent on my mood at the time. I do think that I am more balanced now than when I was younger. But since I am only being much more open with dealing with and communicating out my emotions within the past year or so, I still have a ways to go with learning how to release it in a tempered manner because I have exploded a couple times, which I know was more extreme than I would have preferred it to be.

The two sentences about ideas and opinions are valid since I can and have flip flopped on my points of view about various topics. I try to be open to what other people say and can end up changing my mind to agree with them. I do think that I fail to own my thoughts when it comes to something that I am not invested in since it is easier for me to simply adopt someone else’s opinion instead of digging deeper for my own. I also would agree that I am sensitive to other’s opinions and don’t want to feel like I’m judged negatively for having opposing views, so once again, if it is a topic I don’t care much about, it’s simply easier to accept their perspective if there is no impact to me or how I feel about it. However, if the topic is something that means a lot to me and I am emotionally invested in it, then that is a different story and I will not only have but hold firm to my point of view on it, even stubbornly so, where it may not quite make the most sense to if there are valid arguments for otherwise.

Lastly, I am a very nervous person. I always think negatively and this includes worrying about all the things that can go wrong, so that makes me nervous more often than not. When I was travelling 200 days of the year, I found the feeling of restlessness would hit when I was in one place for more than 2-3 weeks, at which point I would have a desire to go somewhere else so that I could change my scenery. But I didn’t always necessarily have to go far, like the chart says. Taking a weekend trip or even a quicker day trip to a neighboring town could satisfy that desire for me.

As indicated in my What Does Mars Really Have to do with Men? post, I will also go over another person’s chart, referred to as Kali, who is born on the same month and day as I was, but different year and location to offer a comparison of how two people with the same birth day, can be vastly different despite both being Scorpios. According to Kali’s natal/birth chart from Café Astrology her Moon is located in the 7th House.

The 7th House is related to the Libra sign and called the House of Balance. It is the area of one-to-one relationships such as marriage and partnership, and of social and intellectual action as well as how you balance self in relation to others.

This is the description Kali’s report provides:
Partnership can be very important for her, for better or for worse. She works well in business relationships, especially partnerships.

You are drawn to partnerships and prefer to have a companion for emotional support. You are not a person who would happily take in a movie by yourself, or dine alone, for example. A partner awakens feelings in you that you may never know you had, and you seem to need a partner to learn about your own needs and feelings. Emotional fulfillment is sought through relationships, but you may have many relationships one after another, each time believing that this is “the one”. Taking time between relationships is something that is hard for you to do, but quite necessary, as you tend to jump into relationships out of fear of being alone. You are very adaptable to others’ needs, and usually quite likeable as a result. Be careful that you don’t become overly dependent on a partner, or assume that a partner is going to treat you the same way as you do them.