Moon in Libra in the Sixth House

Libra is the sign of esthetic perceptions, and here the Moon’s romantic, glamorous influence is accentuated. If you have your Moon in Libra you have a keen appreciation for beauty and art, and an artistic eye unmatched by any other Moon sign. You also have a heightened awareness of your environment and of other people. However, what you truly value are those experiences that make life more beautiful and pleasing. You abhor coarseness, vulgarity, or strife. With your Moon in Libra, your immediate reaction to anything unpleasant is to deny it, or, if that is impossible, at least to put it in its best possible light. You try to surround yourself with comfort and lovely objects in a tranquil and luxurious environment.

As an individual with your Moon in Libra, because you enjoy beautiful things, you are happy to spend your (and sometimes other people’s) money on possessions that catch your fancy. You are the kind who will walk into a shop and instantly spot the perfect thing to go with what you have in a closet at home. With your Moon in Libra, the presentation and ritual surrounding a thing is as important to you as the thing itself. A meal served on fine china and crystal with embroidered linens, flowers, and candles on the table is as important as the taste of the food itself.

The Moon in the balanced sign of Libra endows you with an open, independent mind that tries to evaluate the world dispassionately and rationally. A Moon in Libra also confers great personal charm and enhances the ability to get along with people. You are marvelous at understanding the other person’s point of view (though you never lose sight of your own self-interest). For the most part, with a Moon in Libra, you are pleasing and easy to live with and have a genial disposition.

Libra is the astrological sign of partnership, and with your Moon in Libra you function well in a relationship. Very often your destiny is tied up with a strong and influential person with whom you form a connection early in life. To a large extent, what you accomplish depends on other people.

Having your Moon in Libra, essentially you love with your head rather than your heart. There is something a bit calculated about your carefully balanced emotional nature. To become your lover, a person has to possess certain qualities, such as good looks and elegant social manners. It is not that you are unemotional, but love is more an esthetic pleasure than steamy passion. You try to create something beautiful – fanciful if need be – from every intimacy. With your Moon in Libra, you may go through a number of affairs and marriages before you finally settle down with someone with whom you are mentally compatible (more necessary to you than sexual compatibility). When you are in a contented marriage, it is a source of great satisfaction to you because it answers your need for security and reassurance, and you truly enjoy sharing.

The sign position of the Moon describes how we habitually respond to other people and to the circumstances of our lives, as well as how we experience our emotions and seek emotional fulfillment. Its house position corresponds to the area of life in which we operate most unconsciously, according to past patterns and instinctive responses.

Moon in the 6th House:

While the Moon in the 6th House placement suggests that you will have opportunities to refine yourself emotionally, there are also subtle conflicts inherent in this placement. The 6th House, ruled by Mercury, is associated with intellectual, rather than with emotional processes. Therefore, having your Moon in the 6th House, it may be difficult for you to relate to your emotions.

With your Moon in the 6th House, your emotional health is often a concern for you. In fact, if negative emotional tendencies are allowed to develop and persist, you are likely to suffer from emotional nervousness or a scattering type of neurosis. As an individual with your Moon in the 6th House, you may also be vulnerable to emotional obsessive-compulsive disorders, particularly if you are in the habit of fixating emotionally on minute details. If you are emotionally healthy, however, you can develop a capacity for nurturing and caring for others, assisting them toward greater health and well-being. If you are involved in serving others, however, you must be careful to take care of yourself, particularly with regard to stress.

Insecurities

Having your Moon in the 6th House, if you are inwardly insecure, your drive for emotional perfection may overwhelm you. You may be convinced of your own worthlessness and lack of love-ability. With your Moon in the 6th House, you constantly seek emotional comfort and attachment, but you fear rejection and criticism and, therefore, you coldly pull away from emotional commitment. You cannot get in harmony with your emotions, but instead you try to control them and “perfect” them. The result is that you place yourself under severe emotional stress and strain and this leads to neurosis.

As an individual with your Moon in the 6th House, you are likely to be emotionally anxious, overly protective and controlling of others, and generally fearful. You know that you have not been able to attain self-perfection and, so, you fluster your way through life, “sticking your nose” into everything and “acting like a mother hen.” In this way, your hope is that no one sees your own imperfections.

Focus of Emotional Development

With your Moon in the 6th House, you are likely to develop emotionally through a process of gradual refinement and movement toward some ideal of perfection. Your emotional development may have been guided or affected early in life by the guidance or criticism of your parents or caregivers. Depending upon the sensitivity with which you have been guided toward perfection (or with which expectations have been placed on you) your emotional development will have been either positively or negatively influenced.

With your Moon in the 6th House, you may continue your emotional development through self-improvement.  You may also spend your energy trying to undue emotional damage or you may remain emotionally inhibited. Later in life, it is probable that your work environment will afford you opportunities for further emotional development as you deal with issues of subordination, relations with co-workers and stress-management. You may also be confronted by health issues that cause you to further develop emotionally.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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