The Astrological Moon Also by Darby Costello Water and Fire (The Astrological Elements Book 1) Earth and Air (The Astrological Elements Book 2) The Mars Quartet: Four Seminars on the Astrology of the Red Planet (with Liz Greene, Lynn Bell and Melanie Reinhart) The Astrological Moon by Darby Costello Raven Dreams Press Portland, OR Published in 2017 by Raven Dreams Press 1434 NE Prescott St. Portland, OR 97211 www.ravendreamspress.com Copyright © 1996, 2017 by Darby Costello Previously published by CPA Press 1996 Second Printing 2003 Revised Edition by Raven Dreams Press 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including mimeographing, recording, taping, scanning, via Internet download, or by any information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from Raven Dreams Press. Reviewers may quote brief passages. ISBN 978-0-9840474-9-9 LCCN Cover art: David Carillet Printed in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements PART I The Moon as Source Introduction CHAPTER 1 Lunar Myths Goddesses The Moon and the Dead The Moon and the Body The Harmonic Conversion The Disturbance of Natural Rhythms The Moon and Mind Traditional Lunar Rulerships Mother and Child CHAPTER 2 The Moon in the Signs The Moon in the Fire Signs The Moon in Earth Signs The Moon in Air Signs The Moon in the Water Signs Fate and Freedom CHAPTER 3 The Moon in the Houses CHAPTER 4 Lunar Aspects to Other Planets Aspects to the Outer Planets Aspects to the Personal Planets “The Problem With Mother” CHAPTER 5 Transits to the Moon CHAPTER 6 The Progressed Moon The Moon and Soul-making The Progressed Moon in the Signs The Progressed Moon in the Houses The Saturn Cycle and the Lunar Cycle PART II The Moon and Its Cycles Introduction CHAPTER 7 Sun-Moon Relationships The Lunation Cycle New Moon Crescent Type First Quarter Moon Gibbous Moon Full Moon Disseminating Moon Last Quarter Moon Balsamic Moon CHAPTER 8 Progressed Moon to Natal Moon First Square: Building a Nest First Opposition: Falling in Love Returning Square: Mending Walls Lunar Return: Bearing Yourself Second Cycle, First Square: Relining Your Nest Second Cycle Opposition: Falling in Love Again Incoming Square: Mending Walls and Windows Second Lunar Return CHAPTER 9 An Individual Chart Bibliography About the Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For those of you who attended these seminars in London: During the last two years, I have given seminars on the Moon in other places and other countries. Some of the material has been incorporated into the reworking of these seminars. Bridget Belgrave was invaluable, as a Mercury in Capricorn, Aquarian friend, in helping me to work streams of consciousness into sentences and paragraphs, via our shared love of e-mails zipping through the night. Also, my heartfelt thanks to Teddy, to Jules – and to Stephen 2017 Update: I wish to thank Liz Greene, with all my heart, for giving me first the encouragement to write this book, and then the opportunity to have it published by the CPA Press in 1996. And then, to Debra Kraatz, in 2017, for her willingness and enthusiasm in getting the work going for re-publication. And to Tony Howard for his generosity in finally preparing the book for print with Raven Dreams Press in 2017. PART I The Moon as Source Selene, Greek goddess of the Moon, Brygos painter, Vulci 490 BCE Staatliche Museen zu Berlin This seminar was given on 26 July, 1992 at Regents College, London, as part of the Summer Term of the seminar programme of the Centre for Psychological Astrology.