A Moon in Gemini in strong aspect with Uranus will not only reveal your own emotional independence but will also tell the astrologer that your mother was a pretty unusual and independent person herself—and like you, a “bit of a character!” Communication—or its lack—would have been/is very important in your relationship to her. Nurturing for you both will come through explaining your feelings and sharing them openly, but you may find yourself feeling very restricted by someone else’s continuous need for emotional intimacy. Indeed getting emotionally close to your own mother’s form of nurturing may have been quite challenging. You would therefore be seeking a partner who is also emotionally independent and definitely not the “needy type,” which would be an automatic turn-off.
This would not be the case for a person with the natal Moon in Cancer who tells the world that both you and your mother have deep emotional needs (and moods!) and your feelings need to be both understood and respected. Should Saturn be in conflict with this very sensitive lunar position, then you may have had problems accepting such emotional nurturing from your mother as she did from her own mother. You will want to be seen as a woman who can always be there for others but may harbor the fear that you are really not capable (or worthy!) of such emotional demands. If you are a man with Moon in Cancer in a difficult aspect with Saturn, you may wonder why you are emotionally controlling and emotionally needy at the same time and why you are repeating emotional patterns with women in your life that resemble your relationship with mamma.
A Moon/Venus conjunction in the Tenth House say in Taurus, speaks about successful women who are physically attractive or at the very least have a definitive magnetism about them that helps them to achieve their ambitions. A man with this placement will seek out such women; a woman with this placement will seek to become—or is—that woman. This benefic contact also describes a romantic woman who loves art and all things of beauty—find this in your chart and you have also found a clue to your mother as well as to your own female nature, as well as to the women you find most attractive, no matter your gender at birth or sexual orientation.
Mars opposing this Moon/Venus conjunction in the natal chart, will often indicate a man (or attraction to a man) who has a difficult time differentiating between his emotional needs and his sexual desires. Thus he will find that he often meets women to whom he is sexually attracted but who may not fulfill him emotionally, or that the intensity of his sexual desire inhibits or blinds him to embracing his real feelings and emotions (as well as hers!). He may thus be accepted sexually but rejected emotionally or vice-versa.
Should this same position (Moon/Venus opp Mars) be in a woman’s chart, she may easily succumb to her own attractiveness. She may also experience that she meets men who are attracted to her magnetism and outward appearance (and this planetary position will definitely attract a lot of “candidates”), but may also experience that she is never appreciated for who she “really is” on more profound, subjective emotional levels. As you can clearly see, the possible combinations are very numerous, but the above paragraphs will give you some additional ideas as to how to approach the delineation of the Moon in the natal map.
