Moon
What you need rather than what you intend — the fastest thing in the chart.
- Speed
- about two and a half days in each sign
- Retrograde
- never — it only ever moves forward
- Rules
- Cancer
- Keywords
- need · instinct · memory
The Moon governs the part of a person that does not get consulted: what soothes you, what you reach for tired, what home means before anyone explained it. It is the body's astrology as much as the mind's.
It moves about thirteen degrees a day, which is why an unknown birth time matters here more than anywhere else — over a single day the Moon can cross a sign boundary and change the answer entirely. A chart cast without a time is honest about houses; it is also quietly approximate about this.
Where Moon stands right now is on the sky today.
Where it stood the day you were born — cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.