Planet
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 to go next
Right now
Where Moon stands at this hour is on the sky today, with every other body beside it.
Always forward
Moon never retrogrades, so it has no stations to wait for. The ones that do are tracked separately.
In your chart
Where it stood the day you were born: cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.