Gonino School
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SCHOOL OF ASTRAPSYCHOLOGY · THE PLANETS
The Moon
FEELING · MEMORY · BELONGING
The inward tide — how one is nourished and what one needs to feel at home.
I.
The Aesthetic
a silver crescent, tidewater, soft reflected light
Every image the School makes of The Moon begins here — the motif set on a parchment ground, painted in the School's house style: Van Gogh's impasto crossed with Monet's open air, drawn toward the Greco-Futurist line.
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PORTRAIT OF THE MOON — FORTHCOMING FROM THE SCHOOL OF AESTHETICS
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The Attributes
ARCHETYPE
The Mother
The nourishing, holding, containing source.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION
instinct, emotion, and what you need to feel secure
The part of the personality The Moon governs — its job in every chart.
THE LUMINARY KEEPS ITS NAME
☽ The Moon
The Moon keeps its own name — no designation needed.
III.
The Astronomy
Earth's single natural satellite — the only body of the ten that orbits us, which is why it outruns everything else in the sky.
ORBITAL PERIOD
27.3 days sidereal · 29.5 days new moon to new moon
TIME PER SIGN
~2.5 days per sign
RETROGRADE
Never retrogrades — it only ever advances, though its nodes regress, completing their backward circuit of the zodiac in 18.6 years.
Sweeps ~13° a day, tidally locked so one face is always turned toward Earth; its phases are pure geometry — the changing angle between Moon, Earth, and Sun.
Raises the ocean tides, steadies Earth's axial tilt, and spirals outward ~3.8 cm a year as it slowly trades momentum with Earth's spin.
IV.
The Meaning
The inward tide — how one is nourished and what one needs to feel at home.
In the natal chart, The Moon governs instinct, emotion, and what you need to feel secure. Where it stands — its sign, its house, the aspects it casts — shapes how that part of you shows up in practice: as feeling, memory, belonging.
THE SHADOW
moodiness and dependency; being run by feelings instead of informed by them.
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Dominion
RULES
Cancer
EXALTED IN
Taurus
NATURAL HOUSES
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The 4th House — the Subterranean
The root — home, ancestry, and the private foundation of the soul.
VI.
The Study
The Study — forthcoming
A thorough scholarly treatment of The Moon is being prepared by the School — its history, its cycles, and its full psychology.