Find your moon in earth signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn

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Find your moon sign here. If the calculator shows your natal moon is in Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn, yours is an earthy moon that realistically takes stock of how things are and that sees value in following sensible, routine processes to make things work out comfortably. These moon signs want things to be done right and have a highly developed sense of what is shameful. More than the signs of other elements, they want relationships they can take pride in. They also suffer more over any embarrassing incidents. 

People with the moon in Taurus are sensual and in touch with their desires. They know what they want and pursue their goals with disarming directness. The moon, which rules the water sign Cancer, is in its next highest condition of power when it is in Taurus, where it is said to be exalted. From the Babylonian era comes the idea that a planet is exalted in one sign, in detriment in another and in its fall in a third. Exalted here, the moon lends Taurus an uncanny ability to know what others want. People with the moon in Taurus are well equipped to weigh their desires against those of others and make their own choices about whom to please at various key points in life. They can be quite romantic, pleasing to others and adept at forming lasting partnerships and they generally end up quite pleased with themselves. Those they aren’t interested in pleasing, they pointedly ignore. Prince Charles has a Taurus moon. 

People with the moon in Virgo want to be understanding but they lack the keen ability of the Taurus to innately sense what others want. They are more occupied with trying to make sense in a logical way of all the conflicting value systems in the people around them. They know what they think would be good for people and they aren’t shy about letting others know what they should have done. People with moon in Virgo will choose to adapt when it will serve their purpose and they think would be good for them. Otherwise, they expect others to adapt to them and even adopt their views of what is good for everyone. They are not fans of change in their personal lives, yet their emotions are highly fluctuating and changeable in a way that is uncontrollable even for themselves. That changeable chameleon aspect makes them nervous. They yearn for serenity. Madonna has a Virgo moon. 

People with the moon in Capricorn have been a time or two to the dark side of the moon. The moon is in detriment here in the winter sign that is opposite the moon’s home in Cancer. There is bleak realism in this moon placement and capacity for despair combined with rugged perseverance. George Washington had a Capricorn moon and so did Napoleon. Respect is important to people with moon in Capricorn, and that goes for giving and receiving it and weighing whether it has been earned. These people can take offense where it isn’t intended if something rankles an inner sense of dignity, and they can just as easily avoid being offended by those who wish to offend them because they consider themselves above petty machinations. They tend to romanticize history and want to preserve what’s tried and true. A Capricorn moon will keep climbing the mountain because it’s there even though he or she suspects there’s nothing up there but ice and sky.