Find your moon in water signs: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces

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Find your moon sign here. If the calculator shows your natal moon is in Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces, yours is a watery moon that is sentimental, emotional and dramatic. These moon signs have strong privacy needs and very subjective perspectives based on their own history, although when they are in company they can often tune into the feelings of others with remarkable skill and they are known for a capacity to nurture others. Despite their sensitivity, they have an inner strength and none of them are pushovers.

People with the moon in Cancer tend to feel protective of themselves and others and may spend more time on health and safety issues than people with the moon in any other sign. The moon is at home in Cancer, the sign she rules, and the traditionally maternal concerns associated with Mama Moon are naturally emphasized in this moon placement. This is the most subjective moon placement of the zodiac, as Cancer more than any other signs sees things from the inside outwards, from the needs of the self, the family and the inner circle out towards others whom the Cancer moon assumes can fend for themselves. (Or who really ought to go ask their own mamas for help!) A certain amount of self-absorption is necessary for these people’s creativity, and they do love to create. Ironically, despite their need for privacy, they also love to perform, impress others and bask in acclaim. Like the moon itself, they move through many phases in any given month. Robert Pattinson has this moon, and so does Drew Barrymore.

People with the moon in Scorpio can be extremists in puzzlingly secretive ways. They tend to present a smooth and polished appearance with an easygoing and sometimes self-effacing charm, but they take themselves quite seriously and they take any perceived slights personally. Others may not suspect a thing until they’ve touched a trip wire and triggered Scorpio sarcasm or wrath. It’s all or nothing with a Scorpio moon – all passion and intensity or utter disregard cloaked ever so slightly in superficial courtesy. Scorpio is also an active, problem-solving moon, so the overall picture is of a person with confidence and charisma, something like a swashbuckling pirate who could be seen as a hero or a villain and maybe a heartbreaker. The moon in Scorpio is said to be “in its fall,” which sometimes reflects as a sense of lost innocence. Orlando Bloom and Scarlett Johansson have their natal moons in Scorpio.

People with the moon in Pisces are dreamers and dream-weavers. They are able both to sense people’s moods and spread moods of their own making, to understand where people are and then inspire or provoke them with their own imaginative visions. Martin Luther King Jr. had a Pisces moon and so did Edgar Allen Poe. Although subject to burnout, in the best of situations, people with the moon in Pisces are gentle and kind and able to come back refreshed simply by staying aware of their need for occasional periods of private time to rest and brood and get away from the world when things seem overwhelming. The key is often found in self-nurturing of the most basic sort through good food and extra sleep. But people with this position of the moon also need to guard against becoming dependent on intoxicants, which can increase a tendency toward depression and escapism and really overwhelm their natural rejuvenating abilities.