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Moon in Libra

Moon in Libra people have a strong need for partnership. Without someone to share their lives with, they feel utterly incomplete. This is why many people with this position get involved in marriages or living-together arrangements quite young.

Because this drive for harmony, peace, and sharing is so powerful, Lunar Librans are apt to do a lot of conceding. They are sympathetic and concerned for others, enjoy socializing, and revel in a good debate. Mental rapport with others is especially important to them.

Lunar Librans feel safe and secure when they are in a partnership. These are the people who seem to always need to have someone tag along with them wherever they go–even if it is to the corner store. They find strength and reinforcement in and through others.

Both men and women with this position are often quite charming. They can be very attractive to be around, and are often given to flirtatiousness. Rarely directly aggressive, these people win your heart with their gentle and refined ways.

Moon in Libra natives simply can’t help but see flaws in their environment and their relationships. In fact, anything out of whack will bother them until it’s fixed. Although diplomatic with acquaintances, when Moon in Libra natives argue with their long-standing partners, they rarely let up until they win.

And, winning an argument is a Libran specialty–in fact, they may not even believe what they are saying, but will adopt all kinds of ideas just to get the last word. Living with Lunar Librans can sometimes feel like you are on trial, and Libra is the expert lawyer. Sometimes, though, Libra is defending you and supporting your point of view.

Lunar Librans’ idealistic outlook and constant striving for the best, most harmonious lifestyle can lead to much discontent. Looking for that one (elusive) perfect way to lead their lives can detract from enjoyment of the moment

Relationships

Seeks Partnership: She finds emotional comfort in relationships and is naturally drawn to partnership, as long as there is emotional connection and respect. 

Fear of Commitment: The desire to weigh all options and the fear of making the "wrong" choice can make her afraid of commitment, not necessarily because she's unhappy, but because she doesn't want to give up potential experiences. 

Needs Emotional Security: True emotional security comes from a relationship that is fair, balanced, and where her feelings are acknowledged and appreciated. 

Mental Connection: A deep intellectual connection is vital; she gravitates toward lovers who are willing to share and engage in true mental rapport. 

Challenges

Indecision: The desire to consider all angles can lead to significant delays and internal debates when making decisions. 

People-Pleasing: To avoid conflict, she may become a people-pleaser, which can sometimes lead her to lose sight of her own needs and desires. 

Fear of Being Wrong: A strong aversion to looking foolish or being incorrect can make her cautious and resistant to taking risks or facing difficult truths

Libra Moon in the 8th house

The Moon in your chart shows how your mother nurtured you, what is needed to feel emotionally satisfied, and how you go about fulfilling those needs. In esoteric astrology, the soul hides in the moon sign. Meaning you have tendencies to express the sign’s lower qualities when reacting to a situation, especially when in an intimate relationship. 

There’s a tendency to use manipulation to attain emotional satisfaction instead of honesty about personal needs. The Moon also reveals your insecurities. Therefore it shows what you do when you retreat into vices; food, people, emotions, status, or things. 

Even though your Moon sign is where your soul hides, it is also where you can find your greatest strength. Looking at the Moon placement gives a hint of how to address internal needs and integrate with “darker” or unseen parts of yourself. By nourishing your emotional needs daily, you can nourish those around you by providing intimacy, acceptance, and nonverbal care. 

keep in mind that this article only covers the surface of this particular placement. You must consider your Moon’s relationship to other planets in your birth chart 

Libra Moon Sign Meaning, Element, Quality, and Ruler 

When the Moon is in Libra, you have a cardinal Air Moon. Your Moon is ruled by Venus, the planet of love and relationships, and adds the need for you to love and find pleasure in life. You find comfort in communicating and doing something about your ideas --amongst many other things. 

You’ll often hear that Libra Moon’s traits exhibit a need for justice, romance, diplomacy, cooperation, and harmonious aesthetics. These traits are usually accurate, but you must consider that your Moon in the eighth house changes it significantly. 

So what does the Moon in the 8th house mean? 

With your harmony-loving Moon in the house of death and rebirth and other people resources, you’ll learn to find comfort around these things and develop a strong sense of self when merging with another. 

This is not easy for Libra, especially if the Moon is wounded in the eighth house and has to learn how to rise and grow from traumatic experiences. The eighth house is the place where we hide what we are most ashamed of. It is the place where we have to deal with other people’s money, our debt, and a sense of powerlessness to find our power. 

If you harness your Moon and understand the good traits you possess with your Moon in Libra in the eighth, you’ll become a master of sharing resources with another and while honoring what you need and desire at the same time. 

So let’s go into the daily struggles that you may experience with this Moon sign. 

Daily Struggle 

With your Moon in Libra in the eighth house, you struggle with indecisiveness, judgment, feelings of being incomplete, and having to deal with other people’s desires, emotions, and resources. With your Moon in Libra, you have to understand both sides of the equation, especially when dealing with other people’s money, sexual desires, and motives. 

You want to understand what makes people tick and what makes them crave for more. With your Moon ruled by Venus, you effortlessly get this information out of reading the other’s body language or direct communication and become what they desire. 

You invite them in with your emotional allure and ability to accommodate them and help them feel seen.  If you use this gift to your detriment, you’ll fall into unfulfilling relationships and remain trapped in judging yourself and the other. One of your motivations behind figuring out the other’s needs is to make sure you do not end up alone. You do not want to be the wrong partner for another and desire to be the ultimate lover to feel safe. You crave connection, and if not conscious of this desire, you will likely sacrifice yourself to get it. 

When you fall into judgment, this locks you away from getting your needs met because you can not see yourself clearly and cannot see the other.  So you’ll continue to create this facade that you are worthy of a relationship because you are nice and please your partner just right. 

You’ll then see how others are different and perhaps judge them so that you’ll appear the best lover and partner. -- this is all power play since your Moon is in the 8th house. With you struggling to remain worthy and feel loved by your partner, you continue to carry emotional weight and feel inauthentic and idle in the relationship. 

It also becomes impossible for you to deal with other people’s dissatisfied feelings because it reminds you deep down you are not satisfied but must keep the balanced/harmonious facade to get your needs met. However, this is nothing to feel upset about or feel ashamed of. Your connection to your Mother or Mother-figure has taught you this way of being to survive.  

Moon in Libra Relationship with Mother 

You may have perceived your mother as a lover, caregiver, and sometimes a push-over to the point of breaking. She was a fierce lover and valued aesthetically pleasing surroundings and people. She loved looking good and appearing picture perfect in front of others, more importantly, her lover. 

As you watched your mother from a young age, you started to develop your ideas around who your mother is and what a mother should be. You may even begin to express similar qualities to your mother and have identical relationship scenarios (consciously or unconsciously). You may find yourself avoiding conflict in your relationships by appearing picture perfect and doing just the right things. You also love creating beautiful environments and keeping harmony.

Because of your mother’s need for social life (even if her circle was small), you learned to value connection in such a way and look for deep, intellectually stimulating relationships. 

Thanks to the gift that your mother has given you unconditionally, you had a head start in learning the value of relationships and how to be diplomatic and compromising at best. But if she was emotionally shut down due to struggling to get her needs met, you too must learn how to overcome this and become the ultimate partner with regenerative abilities. 

Libra Moon Emotional Needs  

As a Libra Moon in the 8th native, you need a harmonious home life for you to feel emotionally safe. But this need can be difficult to fulfill if you are inflexible to change. The 8th house brings a lot of change and a constant sense of instability due to a deep need for growth. 

You can no longer stay emotionally dormant with this placement. You have to learn how to face your emotional needs and do whatever it takes to create for yourself. You appreciate having a partner by your side to constantly challenge who you are and gain justice from hidden past wounds.  

Another thing to be aware of, the eighth house themes can influence your love for aesthetically pleasing surroundings. These aesthetics can be gothic, occultic, dark, mysterious, and metaphysical by nature with a hint of glamour. 

You need opportunities to socialize and develop intimate, deep relationships, or you’ll feel like something is constantly missing. If you can acknowledge your needs and believe that you are worthy of having them, you can find balance in chaotic situations and put others at ease. 

How to integrate 

To feel whole and at home in your body, you must realize your need for honest relationships. You can not settle in relationships that do not acknowledge your needs and values and allow you to hide behind the other’s needs. 

You need a relationship that nurtures your intellect and ability to find justice for yourself and those you are helping. You need a relationship that holds space for you to grow and evolve emotionally, or you will exhibit toxic Libran behavior. Once you address your emotional needs on a moment-to-moment basis without compromise, you have the power to create harmonious relationships and aesthetically pleasing surroundings and lifestyle. 

How to nourish others

With your Moon in Libra in the eighth house, you have the gift of nourishing others through intellectual intimacy. You pick up on the other’s needs and know how to accommodate their desires. You know how to help others seek justice and will do anything if you have built a strong bond. 

But you must acknowledge your needs before taking on someone else’s. Because your Moon is in the eighth house, you are a psychic sponge and easily can take on other people’s unspoken desires and dark emotions. Or at least, you anticipate them more than others due to your upbringing. 

Don’t be afraid of this ability, because it is a gift. You just have to sharpen your discernment and skills and not be ashamed of what you feel and value. Once you can do this, you’ll be unstoppable and have a great partner by your side