Moon – Selena Conjunction – Taking Up the Cross

The influence of the so-called White Moon, or Selena, has been studied less than the influence of the Black Moon, or Lilith, for the same reason that evil is more noticeable than good in life. However, despite the image of Selena as the guardian angel of the horoscope, it is not so straightforward, and its manifestation in destiny does not always correspond to a person’s ideas of good. It is an impartial cosmic guardian standing watch over the interests of the native’s soul. In addition, everyone has free will. Selena warns, but does not prevent a person from going their own way.

The Moon is connected with deep emotions and the place of maximum comfort. It is the archetype of relationships with the mother, wife, and women of the family line. In conjunction with Selena, the importance of these themes increases. Some will choose service to the family, while the chosen few become mothers of the world, priests, doctors, and those who try to heal the earth. However, there are hidden pitfalls here as well.

Features of the Moon – Selena Conjunction

This aspect may go unnoticed by an ordinary person. The karmic theme must not be forgotten either, as it is especially pronounced here. Men and women far removed from astrology and esotericism will most likely take for granted the love and care of the mother, as well as a good marriage partner who appears in their life almost from school age, while others search for love for years. As a rule, they have a good family and warm relationships with children.

All of this is explained by the bright karma of the family line. Selena, a mathematical point similar to Lilith, personifies the good deeds of the native’s ancestors in a specific House of the horoscope. In the Second House, the person reaps the fruits of the wise and selfless behavior of family-line representatives in the sphere of work and money; in the Fourth House, in matters of real estate and family; in the Fifth House, in matters of love and the birth of children.

Considering that the Moon is the archetype of family and of feeling the surrounding world, deep intuition, dreams, and wise advice from female relatives will help the native in all these themes.

Very often, the conjunction of Selena with the Moon is interpreted as a seal of holiness in a person, but this is far from the case. Rather, there is a karmic explanation here: such an aspect appears in the chart of a native whose ancestors endured hardship and trials with dignity, did not break when faced with evil, and left life before their time with love for the family and hope for a better life.

If the conjunction is placed in angular Houses, the person has a subtle connection with the ancestors; they can ask for advice and receive an answer. However, this requires the free intention of the chart holder themselves.

The special influence of the Selena – Moon conjunction is expressed in the following points:

• a bright, pure aura around the native, when others physically sense that this is a good person, even if in fact this is not entirely true;
• the image of a kind relative whom others want to trust;
• luck in relationships with people: friendship, love, marriage, as well as in matters of health and medicine;
• interest in esotericism, the energies of nature, and alternative healing methods;
• a desire for knowledge and comprehensive development in the area of the conjunction; the person wants to learn and pass their experience on to others.

However, if the native is at a low level of development because of upbringing or personal choice, and treats the mother or women in general roughly, then Selena simply blocks the lunar blessings and plunges the person into isolation.

Dangers of the Moon – Selena Conjunction

If the chart holder has a consumerist attitude toward life, ignoring the bright path of their ancestors, then they will have to carry a personal cross of suffering similar to the one taken on by representatives of the family line. Here the matter concerns female karma more than anything else. These are problems with husbands and children. It is no accident that Selena is depicted as the Moon placed upon a cross. Selfless service is perceived by highly developed souls as a blessing, while lower souls reject it as something foreign. Then life awakens in them compassion for another person’s pain, love for one’s neighbor, and empathy of a higher order through personal experience of similar problems.

It is very important for the parents of a child with the Moon – Selena conjunction to cultivate compassion and the desire to care for those who are weaker, because with a blocked Moon and very strong Lilith, especially with difficult aspects, a feeling of superiority over others arises. This is dangerous because of a distorted understanding of purity and holiness. There are examples in the charts of serial killers who sincerely believed that they were cleansing the world of biological waste and vicious people.

Even Mother Teresa, whose name became a synonym for mercy, turns out to have been not so much a kindhearted nature as someone who sacredly believed that people in her shelters were healed by prayers alone, without medicine, encouraging them to refuse it. Therefore, it is very important for a person with the Moon – Selena conjunction to develop first and foremost through the Moon.

How to Work Through the Selena – Moon Conjunction

It must not be forgotten that in aspects with the personal luminaries, Selena can blind the person with a striving for holiness, and the person may easily fall into spiritual delusion, believing that they are leading everyone to paradise and that, for this purpose, earthly moral norms may be violated.

This is why, for the correct раскрытие of this conjunction, it is necessary to cultivate lunar qualities within oneself: care, kindness, love in its Christian meaning, and most importantly empathy: “love thy neighbor as thyself.” Only then will Selena connect and work for good, rather than in the key of a cleansing mission. The person’s task is not to lose kindness through a series of trials and to continue developing in the theme of the House where the aspect is located. Any degradation here is akin to a crime.

Holders of the Moon – Selena conjunction were born to glorify their homeland through personal unique talents, as exemplified by Ivan Poddubny, Isadora Duncan, Charlie Chaplin, and M. Kalashnikov.  ✓