Q. The recent New Moon in Gemini occurred exactly on the current position of my progressed moon, which is in my 7th House of relationships. I’m having some significant shift in the way I feel about them in general and am wondering what this means in the long run.

A. The Progressed Moon is part of the symbolic system called progressions and describes a 28 year cycle reflecting our emotional evolution over time. Even though this cycle is less known, it is as significant as that of Saturn, which also has a similar duration. The Progressed Moon spends 2 and ½ years in each sign and approximately the same in each House, depending on the latter’s size…click ‘Read More’ to continue…

In the 7th it represents a time of greater emotional focus on relationships, their current status in your life, as well as influences from the past that have impacted on the dynamics you take into significant relationships. On an external level, it can coincide with new relationships that invoke a deeper level of feeling and emotional intensity. Wherever the progressed Moon is moving, it draws a lot of our emotional focus for those couple of years, whether we’re in a significant relationship or not. And not just sexual relationships either, as it can also play out in any other type of similar intensity, such as with a therapist or a guru.

One of the main psychological aspects of this period is in the sorting of infantile emotional patterns from our true emotional needs and desires in our partnering.  Within the Moon symbolism sits mother, child and goddess, so it’s a period of exploring the early childhood, sub-conscious influences on our relating, with a particular focus on the impact of our mothers, their beliefs and the patterning that they modelled. This can be a time of sorting, so that we can get closer to the true needs of the feminine in our relationships and, to our heart of hearts.

The current status of the internal mother/child relationship also calls for attention, for as we well know, what is unmet in terms of core emotional needs as a child becomes the classic “needy child” that forms the basis of many co-dependent relationships. This then is a time to both mother the child within oneself and to get clearer about the difference between this level of need and that of a more deeply aware adult. Without this awareness, we can spend this time seeking substitute maternal figures but any relationship based on this will be ultimately unfulfilling because no external relationship can really fill that gap. It’s up to us.