[Music] [Music] in one of the previous videos dealing with Taurus ascendant someone asked a question about the moon a sign in the video the thing with the ascendance were aiming to get an idea of what a person's life path is going to be like based on the general blueprint of that ascendant each ascendant has a particular signature again based on how the planets are situated the houses they rule from the particular sign that we call the ascendant so the question dealt with the the moon sign and can we look at the moon sign or even the Sun sign in the same way as we look at the ascendant and for we get into that we have to have a sense of an idea of what the difference between the moon sign and the ascendant is oftentimes people treat them the same and that makes sense if you don't have a specific birth time now we are meant to be used specifically for different things but you can get away with using the moon sign because the moon sign itself represents a person's character and their emotional nature and the reason you can get away with using the moon sign in place of the ascendant if you don't have a specific birth time is because when it comes to things like understanding how a person functions in the world how they're going to act even making some predictions for them you know that if you understand how a person thinks and how a person feels and how they respond to the world you can pretty much predict their behavior you know I've often said you don't really need astrology to predict a person's future if you talk with them long enough if you get a sense of who they are how they respond to the world what's important to them and they give you an idea of what their plans are for the future you have a pretty good ability to understand whether they're going to be successful in something or not so you can make a prediction off of that without even using astrology in the sense of looking out a person's chart so the difference between the moon sign and the ascendant is this the ascendant is the person's specific life path what are the things that are going to show up on their path this is all defined by the ascendant and this is defined by how the planets are related to that ascendant what are the things a person is going to get involved with this all relates to the ascendant so the ascendant specifically is the life path the houses from the ascendant then show those areas of life and how those areas of life are going to function how they're going to show up on a more concrete level so that's why when you have the proper understanding of raschi's or zodiac signs you have a better capacity to understand how the specific physical things such as their ability to develop resources second house their relationship to their siblings and peers third house their karmic impact on the world and how they are chemically impacted by the world the fourth and tenth house specifically from the ascendant so what is the moon sign new house the moon sign and play into this well if the moon sign is our emotional nature how we react to things our character in a way well then it's the moon sign that tells us is this person a generally happy person are they more comfortable with difficult circumstances have they had a lot of suffering emotional suffering and so therefore they live life from that vantage point that perspective of this difficult emotional suffering often times people try to judge an individual's chart by saying oh they have a whole bunch of cruel it's malefic planets on angles from the ascendant so therefore they're a bad person when actually more likely what's happened when you've got cruel planets on angles from the ascendant you tend to have a person who either has a lot harder work to do in this life they're going to be involved in more difficult circumstances and again that can be anything from you can even be a surgeon in that regard we're I'm doing with life and death on a daily basis that's a cruel thing to have in your life all the time or maybe you have an extremely hard job maybe you're a stonemason you're carrying heavy rocks around all the time these are very basic examples but you get the idea or maybe you're a social worker and you're always you spend your days none of people in very difficult situations you know that can be cruel planets on angles from the ascendant but that doesn't indicate whether necessarily you are a good person by good we just simply mean generally someone that you might other people might like to hang around spend time with because the definition is the judgments of good and bad well that's relevant relative and you're all you're going to think thing you're going to think different things about people based on your own perspectives so the moons I'm you know if we have a lot of benefit planets such as Jupiter or a good mercury say in a tribe from the moon well this can show an individual who has a more pleasant disposition jubilant jovial emotional nature emotionally in their character is more playful more joyful in this regard whereas if you get someone who has a lot of cruel planets impacting the moon and transform the moon and I I typically when I consider these things I look at angles more from the ascendant I look at trying's from the moon you can do it all along and you can look at planets and angles from the moon as well but essentially the moon is showing how does the person respond to the world so you can have someone a lot of cruel planets on angles from the ascendant and they're engaged in a lot of difficult situations in life but they may have a lot of pleasant planets in angles or trance from their Moon which means that when you get them away from their work or their daily grind they're actually a person you want to spend time with they make you feel good they feel good about themselves they just have a harder path that's the ascendant the path the path a person is on similarly you can have someone who has a lot of bone if ik or gentle planets relative to the ascendant and that can show a person as maybe an easier path in life maybe they're surrounded by luxuries by grace by beautiful things and so oftentimes you can look at that and the mistake a lot of people make us will say well from the ascendant there are so many benefit plan 'its in good positions from this ascendant they must be a good person well no the ascendant is the person's path in life they will have better things around them physical concrete things that's we that's what the ascendant is all about the physical concrete path of a person's life but then you go look at their moons slammed between Mars and Saturn and Rahu and Ketu and a lot of painful planets and so they may have all this good stuff around them but inside it's like they're crippled you know they're emotionally crippled inside so they're not necessarily the person that you want to spend time with they're not necessarily the person of wonderful character that you know you can count on and again this is not to be judgmental it's just that some people are stronger attributes in different areas just like if you're suffering deeply from a great loss you don't want to go find someone with a saturn k to moon position prominent because they may not be able to handle what you've got because they can barely handle their own past negative emotional Karma maybe you want to be around someone with a nice jupiter moon or a good position of mercury to them and so on you can talk to someone they can hear you you can listen they can see your point of view and help you understand yourself better so this is not to make any kind of judgments again at all and I want to say that over and over again because it's very easy in astrology to make snapshot judgments that are correct especially if you've not looked at the entirety of the chart but the reason I bring this up is I just want you to start thinking about understanding that the ascendant is the person's path in life what are they going to meet is they go down the road of their life that's what you're looking at from the ascendant are these going to be more difficult things a mixture of things more pleasant easy things that's the ascendant when you're looking at the person's moon sign you're seeing how do they emotionally experience the world process the world how do they respond on the difficulty arises are they already crippled by some difficult Karma's so therefore when a problem arises they just collapse or do they have a lot of support from positive planets helpful planets that make them stronger emotionally that's what the moon sign shows you and the moon sign can be used as a secondary ascendant for numerous reasons number one it gives you confluence because if you see things lining up in regards to their path and life as well as from the new design you're going to have a better ability to say yes I have a a better sense there's more confluence here showing that they will experience these things because not only will they experience a difficulty but that we would respond to in a certain way the ascend in the moon sign but you can use the moon as a secondary ascendant where even a Senate by itself if you don't know the birth time because again if you know a person's psychology if you know how they think if you know how they perceive and understand the world all the influences related to the moon you know how they're going to respond to future situations you talk to someone long enough about their relationships and you know that they always see the bad and other people they're always looking for the negative and other people well what happens there they come to you and they say well I just met this new person and you know from their moon sign or even just talking to them how they respond in the long term about relationships you can say well it's probably not going to work because you want to do this you want to see the negative in the person you're going to see them through the lens of your past childhood traumas and so you want to eventually find fault with them and it's going to fall apart and one last thing about the moon and the ascendant is that if the moon is how you perceive things in the ascendant is what you get well you may see in a person's chart that they get relationships but you see from the moon a sign with all cruel planets influences and that they're never happy in the relationships and you know people like that who've been married forever and yet they're miserable similarly you can see someone who possibly doesn't have any combinations giving strong long-lasting relationships but they have the ability to enjoy the relationships while they're there that would be the moon sign or planets from the moon sign and I've given more extremes in these kinds of examples because really everyone's going to be a mix and depend on the time cycle you're in that's going to accentuate different aspects of the chart but ultimately this is what you have to think about when you're considering the difference between the ascendant and the Moon sign one is the path the other is the emotional perception or response to that path which in and of itself is very telling about how a person lives their life and the experiences that they have