RED WHEEL/WEISER

aspects’ we can see also a tension that can be both highly developmental and destructive. Again, it depends on the environment and its impact. The more work and effort that a situation demands, the more it tends to be highly structured and complicated by ‘possibilities’, with little room for spontaneity and flux.

The Moon and the mother are very important in establishing a woman's security and her capacity to nurture herself. The mother archetype, of course, is pertinent to the woman as a potential mother, whether that is biologically the case or not. An infant girl who has difficult aspects from the Moon to Saturn will experience mothering in a way that suggests that mothering is an effort. If a woman cannot nurture herself and feel secure with her Moon/ emotions, then it is very likely that she will ‘choose’ relationships that are demanding and unfulfilling and will cause her to examine her nurturing needs at some critical point in her life. A hard aspect from the Moon to Saturn very often undermines a woman's emotional needs and she is more likely to accept difficult and unsatisfying relationships as part of her ‘destiny’.

These planets all trine Jupiter in Pisces.