Moon – Lilith Square – Emotional Intensity

The native needs to be prepared for the fact that it will be difficult to cope with the raging ocean of emotions. They overwhelm the person completely and draw them into real shipwrecks if they do not learn how to manage them. The Moon is the sensual zone of comfort, while Lilith represents animal instincts whose roots go into the unknown darkness of the subconscious. Psychic tension accumulates and is passed down through the female line of the family. Whether this manifests as periodic emotional outbursts or as depression with suicidal tendencies depends on what happened in the maternal line and how deeply the situation had deteriorated by the time of the native’s birth. It is possible to cope with this through the ability to manage one’s psyche.

Dangers of the Moon – Lilith Square

One can often encounter frightening interpretations claiming that a tense aspect of the Moon with its black apogee is a direct road to madness. However, if there were no people with severe mental illness in the family line, there is nothing to fear. Even if there were, everything can be worked through now if the person turns to a psychologist in time and also takes into account:

• whether there are additional hard aspects to the Moon and how strong its position is; this needs to be harmonized separately;
• in which sign and House Lilith is located, in order to consciously reach its highest level of manifestation;
• the House of the Moon, in order to understand through which events the inner tension will pour out; for example, the Fifth House gives conflicts and scandals with children and partners during romantic courtship.

If the Moon has additional squares and oppositions, especially with Neptune and Mercury, it will be difficult for the native to cope with waves of fear that roll in. They restrict the person’s own expression of emotions, creativity, motherhood and fatherhood, and force them to cling to old beliefs that also came from the parents, especially from the mother, whom the Moon symbolically represents.

Even if the Moon is in a strong position, nervousness, irritability, and aggression accompany the native throughout life and spoil relationships with others. A native of any gender takes on the working through of the karma of the women in the family line, and in this case, women from both the father’s and mother’s lines are taken into account.

In addition, the Moon – Lilith square gives:

• heightened emotional sensitivity to negative events, when even a small scratch on the hand can spoil the mood for the entire day, and a quarrel with a friend can trigger psychosomatic symptoms of illness;
• psychological instability and an inability to hide emotions from others; the person may quickly blush, or their lips or hands may begin to tremble;
• strong vulnerability to other people’s words and actions;
• the ability to feel another person’s pain as their own.

Children with the Lilith – Moon square should preferably not live with their mother after reaching adulthood; they need to begin an independent life.

If fire predominates in the horoscope, this aspect gives manic aspirations and fixation on the theme of Lilith’s House, up to the point of obsession. For example, its placement in the Fifth House may make a woman literally lose her mind from the inability to give birth to a child, while in the Tenth House it may create an obsessive desire to become the most brilliant figure in a career and surpass the mother.

Natives with dominant water and air elements suffer more from waves of depression and emotional fluctuations; periods of melancholy and apathy exhaust them.

The Moon – Lilith Square and Relationships

The Black Moon distorts the principles of the planet with which it is connected by aspect, both in the person’s self-expression and in their perception of the themes of these Houses.

Women with the Moon – Lilith square passionately want to become mothers, but deep within this desire lies the need to prove to their own mothers that they can handle these responsibilities better, or else various fears and complexes block childbirth.

On the surface, there is a passionate desire to give birth to a child, but either health does not allow it, or pregnancy does not occur without any physiological reason.

A man with the Moon – Lilith square also suffers from various resentments toward the mother. These may be completely disproportionate: the mother may have forced him to play sports or forbidden him from spending time in bad company, while he perceived this as a violation of his personal boundaries, considered her cruel, hated her, and later these resentments, along with childhood wounds created under Lilith’s influence, poison his relationships with women. The wife of such a man may be ideal, but he will still invent something to pick on and find stains even on the wings of an angel.

How to Work Through the Moon – Lilith Square

Extreme sensitivity to one’s own and other people’s emotions requires their transformation through creativity. It will also help to move away from the habitual victim position toward a stronger side, where the person can direct feelings and manage them consciously.

Therefore, natives with the Moon – Lilith square are advised to choose the profession of psychologist, psychotherapist, or doctor of any specialization. In that case, they will listen to people’s problems that resemble their own experiences, give advice, solve them, and accordingly gain tangible control over what is happening, as if standing above the situation. This will help them acquire inner support and understand that life can contain events much worse than their inner torment.

It is good for women to work as gynecologists or midwives; this partly neutralizes the problem with childbirth if it is indicated in the horoscope, because the Moon – Lilith square alone can give only delays in this matter or conflicts with growing children.

Acting is also very beneficial, especially in order to play something negative, portray a conflict between parents and children on stage, and release accumulated stress while distancing themselves from their own identity by being in another image. This helps greatly in freeing oneself from inner tension. Negative roles are better for compensation.

A good neutralizer of negative emotions with the Moon – Lilith square will be black pearl.  ✓