For good or ill and somewhere in between mother is the first relationship in life which stamps an emotional pattern and expectations on the adult life to come.
Mommie Dearest is the latest book from Martin Sebastian Moritz, author of The Mysterious 8th House. Insightful, thought-provoking, filled with compassionate wisdom and illuminated by psychological awareness, it pin-points the Moon’s glide through signs, houses and in aspect, but is far from an astro-cookbook.
The author opens up about his own complicated childhood ferrying between his parents and a great grandmother and ‘aunt’, relating it to his 6th house Aquarius Moon. Victor Olliver in the foreword talks of his sensitive Pisces Moon and close relationship with his mother.
It broadened my understanding as I flicked through friends and family charts as well as my own as he relates how the mother’s temperament and often unfulfilled hopes determine the emotional leanings of the adult child ahead.
Almost half the book is given over to case studies of abusive mothers like Joan Crawford; the Duke of Windsor, product of a cold mother and a sadistic nanny; and Jennette McCurdy with a monstrous stage mother. Adoring mothers – with examples of Cher, Ronan Farrow, Proust and Anderson Cooper. Margaret Thatcher comes under ambivalent mothers. Madonna and Jane Fonda under absent mothers.
The breadth of understanding of the lunar experience in the book is remarkable and makes it a library must-have. I can see me referring to it for years to come.
The post Moon Mother – the emotional imprint first appeared on Astroinform with Marjorie Orr – Star4cast.
