What do the daily moon signs really bring? 
by Dana Gerhardt

I’ve bought plenty moon sign books over the years.  They’re filled with delicious predictions and prescriptions:  Avoid jaw operations on Taurus moons…  When bread is baked on cardinal moon days (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn), dough rises higher and baked goods are fluffier…  Pisces moons bring romance…  Schedule your heart-to-heart talks  for a moon in Aries or Libra.  

I’ve also gotten plenty of emails and letters from people sharing their personal experience with moon signs:  My best insights always come at Sagittarius moons…  My husband had an eye operation when the moon was in Leo and it did not go well…  Whenever my children started school on a Taurus moon, they had a super year…  

This lunar knowledge is always delivered with the confidence of a scientist who has replicated his experiment around the world.  And who among us doesn’t get excited at the juicy promise that our bumpy lives can be smoothed by simple attention to moon signs?  Successful medical operations!  Auspicious starts for countless endeavors!   Perpetually fluffy cakes!

Yet I’ve noticed a definite lack of agreement on what each moon sign will bring.  Advice in one book often differs from another.  What works for one person won’t be true of the next who sends me an email.  Testing the predictions against my own experience, there is sometimes an uncanny accuracy.  Weak digestive tracts do flare on a Virgo moon!  The moon is in Gemini and everyone’s so chatty!  And yes, the air does feel damp this Pisces moon!
 
But at the next moon in Pisces, the air feels the same as it did on the previous day when the moon was in Aquarius.  On Virgo’s moon I look in vain for people popping DiGels and Tums.  Worse, the office is quiet and sullen in festive Gemini.  Then it erupts in a party mood in dour Capricorn, of all things.  I don’t know why this is so.  Nailing moon sign traits is as tough as nailing rainbows.  

One explanation is that there are so many unnatural influences on earth now, in our gardens and in our bodies, that the moon’s influence has thinned.  Traditional moon lore may just not be relevant today.  Quantum physics further suggests that observers affect the thing observed; what one expects to see actually conditions the result.  Multiply the observers and the diversity of claimed lunar effects is increased – and what appears for one person on an Aries moon will not hold true for another.  

We live in an information age and such news is disconcerting.  We want moon facts.  Yet our deep thirst for information and the proliferation of “facts” could just be the real problem.  Before the flood of mass-produced newspapers and books, not to mention the internet, moon truths were discovered and passed on with an intuitive sensitivity that is often lacking today.  Thus a working healer discovered over time a real connection between the rhythms of the moon and her patients' ills.  If she shared these secrets with anyone, she selected her students intuitively.  Along with her moon lore, she likely transmitted, wordlessly, invisibly, much of her lunar connection too.  

Intuition cares less for general facts than it does for what each of us needs to know in our lives right now.  There may be great discoveries in store for us if we follow daily moon signs, but we must come to them personally, or not come at all.  It has taken me years of trial and error, of working in my best lunar lab coat, to discover this simple truth.  Moon signs function not as a clock, but as an oracle, shifting their insights to suit each of its petitioners.  Like so many of the moon’s gifts, they are alternately subtle, striking, and sublime.  They can make their way to us so personally and tenderly, that it can feel, when their inspiration shines, like an act of love.  

When you think like a prophet instead of a scientist, moon signs reveal the deeper meanings of events around you.  They can also illuminate a personal cycle that has a deep and real significance just for you.  It’s not necessary to watch moon signs every day.  In fact that may be a little greedy.  Rather, keep a light and whimsical eye on moon signs and discover their secrets personally.  Start simply.  Watch for the days when your sun or moon sign returns each month.  Note what happens and how it feels.  Add more signs when you’re ready.  

Read the facts in moon books lightly too.  They are a marvelous way to feed your intuition, but should never replace it.  I’d be happy to offer you some of my own intuitive jump-starters:  consult my daily moon signs on this website and on the home page of Star IQ’s website (follow the link to the daily moon sign).  Enjoy all the lunar rainbows you can!