Moon sign calculator
Your Moon sign is the sign the Moon stood in when you were born: what you need to feel settled. Enter your birth details and see it, with your Sun and rising sign beside it.
How your Moon sign is found
The Moon moves through all twelve signs in about a month, so it spends two to three days in each. Your date nearly always settles your Moon sign, which is why it is easier to find than your rising sign.
When the Moon changed sign on your birthday, the time of day decides which sign you were born under. Your chart is cast to the minute and tells you when that is the case.
If you do not know your birth time
You can still find your Moon sign. For most birthdays the date alone is enough, and if the Moon changed sign that day, the chart says so and shows both signs.
What each Moon sign needs
Your Moon is the part of you that wants to be looked after: your moods, your comforts, your private habits. Here is each of the twelve, in a few words, and a page for each that goes further.
Fire
Moon in Aries
You feel fast and say so, flare and forgive within the hour, and come back to yourself by moving. The Moon in Aries needs something to push against and a fight that ends.
Earth
Moon in Taurus
Your feelings rest in the body: food, touch, sleep, a house that feels safe. The Moon is honoured above all in Taurus, and change that comes fast is the one thing you cannot bear.
Air
Moon in Gemini
The Moon finds its joy in Gemini’s house of talk. You feel by putting a thing into words, need news and a new route home, and a bad mood rarely outlasts a good conversation.
Water
Moon in Cancer
You carry your people the way others carry keys, remember every birthday, and feed whoever turns up. In its own sign the Moon feels everything, and it keeps all of it.
Fire
Moon in Leo
Your feelings want daylight: specific praise, something of your own to make, and never to be taken for granted. In Leo the Moon borrows the Sun’s light.
Earth
Moon in Virgo
Mercury’s sign makes the Moon a feeling mind. You settle by putting something right, notice more than you say, and leave your own feelings at the bottom of the list.
Air
Moon in Libra
You are only at peace when the people around you are. The Moon in Libra needs a fair ending, a little beauty, and permission to want something for itself.
Water
Moon in Scorpio
In Scorpio, the sign of its fall, the Moon’s feelings never stay on the surface. You feel in depth and in private, need the whole truth, and let very few people all the way in.
Fire
Moon in Sagittarius
Jupiter hosts the Moon in Sagittarius, and gives it a hope that survives bad news. You feel best with a horizon in view, and a fixed routine wears you down faster than any setback.
Earth
Moon in Capricorn
You learned young to hold everything together, and you are very good at it. The Moon in Capricorn wants respect, a task, and one person who lets it rest for an evening.
Air
Moon in Aquarius
Saturn hosts the Moon in Aquarius, far from the warmth of the lights. You think a feeling through before you have it, care for people widely, and need time alone after even the best evening.
Water
Moon in Pisces
You take in every feeling around you, forgive before anyone apologises, and survive far more than anyone guesses. The Moon in Pisces needs music, water and quiet after a crowded day.
Questions
What does my Moon sign mean?
It is what you need to feel settled and safe: what comforts you, how you move through moods, and what you return to when the day has been long.
How is my Moon sign different from my Sun sign?
The Sun sign is who you are at your core and is the same for everyone born in the same month. The Moon changes sign every two and a half days or so, so two friends with the same Sun often have different Moons.
What if the Moon changed sign on my birthday?
Then your birth time decides. The chart is cast to the minute, says when the sign depends on it, and shows both signs if you do not know the time.
Do I need my birth time to find my Moon sign?
Usually not. The date and place are enough unless the Moon changed sign on your birthday.
Can my Moon sign change?
No. It is fixed by the moment you were born. What changes is how you feel about it, and the sky's later contacts to it.
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