bottom of the sky

When the Moon transits your 4th house–hang on Snoopy, hang tough. That was yesterday, for me—the Moon was moving through my 4^th house. I’ve got some perfect examples of this transit for you. First let me list the typical areas of life that get triggered as a Moon moves through house 4. Home is the key here and by the way the Moon actually rules this house and that makes this particular transit a strong one—like a double dose of Moon energy. Decorating the home—any kind of project involving home at all actually would be typical. Moving furniture, cleaning, and since the 4^th house relates to “family”, those ties may be active. Moon rules Cancer and relates to family, nurturing, feelings, emotion, moods, home, soul, the past, ancestors, parents, childhood, self-image, housing, subconscious and midnight (nadir). This area of the chart is also called the IC…. it’s from Latin —Imum Coeli (Latin for “bottom of the sky”.

Since the 4^th house is the “midnight” or lowest point of the chart deep soul or subconscious issues apply here as well. The ambiance of the home would be highlighted as well…. the mood or atmosphere of the home or where one lives. [Where one resides and one’s home are not always the same place]

Like house 12, this area of one’s life is another where the soul desire is to withdraw more deeply into a place of safety and security—into one’s self. Issues with “parents” or “childhood” may be triggered. The 4^th house relates to the foundation of one’s being.

Issues or concerns about housing situations would typically come up at this time of the month more than any other time. It’s also a time when one recalls one’s ancestors and reaching back to connect with them in some way. Questions of the mind and heart such as, “Who is my family?” and “Where is my home; where do I belong?” would motivate one’s feeling nature. A double Moon time is an intense “feeling” time.

PERSONAL NOTE: It was unexpected and at the time I’d forgotten about the Moon and the houses. I’d been considering moving a portable desk that I wasn’t using and that was taking up too much room in my closet for days—weeks actually. Finally I got the big awkward thing down the stairs and loaded into the car along with my gear for the YMCA for the workout the followed. Later in the day I did some reorganizing in that closet and ran the sweeper over the carpet and cleaned the bathroom. I mention those details because they relate to typical 4^th house activities being simulated by a Moon transit as mentioned above.

I drove to the storage unit, raised the door, saw my “stuff” and broke out in unexpected tears followed by overwhelming feelings and thoughts. “What am I doing with my life? Where am I going to live and when? Where do I fit in? Where do I even ‘want’ to live, even if I had all the money in the world?” All of that was followed by “I can’t believe I’m at this place again with all my stuff in storage.”

I cried even more thinking of how optimistic I was feeling at the time things were loaded in and noted how some of the boxes and belongings has shifted and slid from their neat stacks since the day they were so carefully and confidently placed! Every emotion that I’d been holding together came undone and I bawled like a baby for goodness sake!

Yep, there it is Moon moving through the 4^th house—a perfect example! And right on time. The rest of the day it felt like someone had punched me in the stomach. Believe it or not I think I cried while doing laps but the tears, if any, would have blended with the water certainly nobody could see my face anyway. By the time I was through the 48 laps that I swam, I did feel better. Exercise always helps@!

I got to bring in a moment of homespun ambiance experienced later that night. After I got my grandson back from band practice which I stayed to watch since that always cheers me there was door slamming at around 11 PM just as I was trying to let the day go—I live temporarily with my sister and niece. Somebody was trying to make a point to the other and a good slam of a door is how those two do it around here which I’m sure the neighbors in this building also appreciate! Yep, Moon moved through my 4^th house alright!

Happy that the Moon has now advanced to my 5^th house now. Will be back to blog my way through the 5th house Lunar transit in a day or so.