Personal Moon Sun Cycle

Tracking daily simple moon sun astrology can yield more ease and awareness for your practical everyday routines, giving you an advantage over the rest of the world, that pretty much sleep walks thru life, never seeing the hidden signs and directions that are clearly insight. Astrology can be complex, but you can also break it down like this in many different ways.

The sun moon are the most noticeable in the sky, so it makes sense to focus on their relationship the most. These are lights of consciousness. The sun is the father - the outer light, passion, power, focus, and drive. Moon is the mother - the inner night light; the receiver of destiny's will, nurtured into fruition by mid cycle, every single month, symbolic of the wheels of life, always turning. That's one way to look at it, anyway.

I'll give you some tricks on how to use this knowledge to your advantage for your chart and life at  the end of this brief simplified explanation of the moon sun cycle.

Sun moon conjunction  - seeds of creation
This starts the cycle of life every month. Whatever you're doing in that three day phase is directly shaping your future. These days create the effects of your causes put forth into unstoppable motion, but their final birth, the details and outcome depends on other factors that happen thru that first two weeks of the cycle.

1st Quarter Waxing Square -  the moon is half full in the sky
When the moon reaches 90 degrees in front of the sun, that's the 1st Quarter moon Square sun alignment of the cycle. Those few days are not as easy, emotionally, or in your outer circumstances with challenges, having to deal with little annoying things that you would rather not, not having everything go your way as much; feeling, moody, emotional, sensitive, etc. This is the time that mother nature is putting in the heavy nurturing, doing the hard creation work of life. This isn't the time to have doubts, retreat, or indulge laziness. It's do or die time!

Full moon - culmination point - full illumination
When the moon reaches opposite of the sun, it's full moon time. The moon's reflecting the flowering and birthing of intentions put forth thru the last two weeks of creation. Time to harvest that. It's also the point of consciousness expansion, where you might feel emotional tension, or in your outer circumstances. I would imagine giving birth can be hard, tiring and painful. So, it can be that way in this creation birthing sense as well. This is the time of  max energy for three days out of the month, before release, and change begins.

3rd Quarter Waning Square
When the moon is behind the sun at right angle a week later, that becomes the last quarter moon square sun phase of the cycle. Like the first quarter, there's not much harmony in feelings and daily life circumstances (which is different for everyone, depending on your birth sun). It's just not going to be the best of days, on average. There's challenges, which could be big or small. This time it's okay to retreat, pushing forward, trying to create in this phase is like swimming upriver. You'll need integration, and acceptance to the consequences of your creations at this point, for good or bad; what's done is done. This is meant for continued time of release, waning consciousness and awareness going within, the dark, healing, recuperating for the next cycle of life.

Finally week later there's no more light, sun moon reach conjunction, sparking off the creation of life once again, cause and effect set in motion.

Tracking your personal moon sun cycle

When we track the moon sun cycle above us all, that's the current reflection of life events birthing and releasing. That's nature's moon sun cycle when she is creating or resting. It's playing out on one dimension in your life/chart, but there's a different pattern playing out for you personally, based on where the current moon is in relation to your birth sun

When transit moon enters a certain sign and reaches the same degree as your natal sun, that's the start of your personal moon cycle every month. That's your personal new moon for the creation of things in your own life. This is why generalized astrology isn't always going to fit how things are for you.
If your sun is in Aries, then every month when the moon is in Aries and reaches the degree of your sun, you get new energy, recharge, new cycle, a building momentum to create things, rather then trying to create when the flow of life is against you. You might not even be aware that creation is taking place on your waxing phase. Like i said, the activity and decisions of those three days on new moon have ripple effects, that make a big difference on what shows up two weeks later, and even up to six months later from your personal new moon every month.



It's best to know the moon sun relationship in your own chart too, but it's not required for this basic tracking. However if your personal 1st quarter moon is same time as a moon trine sun phase in the sky above, then your square will not be as difficult in that cycle. So there's more to all this understanding. I don't want to get complex though for this so i'll keep it basic. Use the general moon sun cycle of nature for everyone in general, in your house (areas of life) where the sun is in transit. When we have a new moon in Virgo. Well, find Virgo in your chart and that will be a place that nature is creating in your life. But on that more practical and personal level, it's good to track your personalized version of creation that you directly affect.

For example: Today and tomorrow the moon is in Sagittarius. This means if you are Sagittarius sun sign, it's your personal new moon!

If you are Gemini sun sign, it's your full moon phase! 

If you are Virgo sun, it's your 1st Quarter square phase of the cycle - not as easy, disharmony, circumstances or feelings not flowing, something requires your attention and effort, you got to push thru.

If you are Pisces sun, this is your personal last Quarter moon right now. Again, it's not about pushing thru, acceptance and letting go is best. It's never the best days, things just don't flow as good. Accept that and don't push too hard. Flow with what life sends you on these 2 days of the cycle. Go within.

Aug 21/22 2018
In a couple days the moon enters Capricorn. That's sun in Capricorn's personal new moon. 

If you have sun in Libra, it's your 1st Quarter moon - push thru

If you have Cancer sun, those two days will be your full moon phase!

If you have Aries sun, it's your last quarter square - acceptance, don't push hard.

See how that works.

So just knowing your sun sign, and what sign the moon up in the sky is in at any given moment, you can know what days to expect challenges and what days will be in harmony, helping you make better choices. Astrologers can't do that for everyone, they can only generalize nature's moon cycle which effects us all differently. It's still useful, but so is tracking your personal cycle. If i have to go to store, or the dmv, or whatever else i dislike. I'm going to do it when there's harmony, not when the moon is square my sun, etc. That will make it unenjoyable, have issues with others, catch every stoplight, get a ticket, etc. Anything like that is more probable under tension.  If it's your 1st quarter square, you might have no choice! Personal full moon, things just happen. It's easy to know when those days are, using basic moon sun astrology.

There's many other factors at play as well. You might have three other alignments that add harmony, overriding the moon sun disharmony a bit. But this is all more accurate then using nature's personal moon cycle. Track your personal moon sun cycle for best results!

Right now tho, the moon is waxing in harmony with the sun, in general for everyone. Mother nature is in creation process at the moment. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading!