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The Moon conjunct the Moon

the transiting Moon's monthly return to conjunct its own natal place, a lunar return, or one person's Moon conjunct another's in synastry

What the tradition reads

A natal chart cannot show the Moon conjunct itself, since a single body cannot stand at an angle from its own degree; the tradition reads this key through transit instead, the same practice of returns that marks the Sun's yearly cycle applying equally to the Moon, whose much faster orbit brings it back to conjunct its own birth place roughly every month, a lunar return. Wikipedia's account of astrological transits notes that a transiting Moon is felt mainly through mood and feeling, coloured by whatever sign and house it is passing through, so the monthly return reads as a recurring, personal marker set within that ordinary emotional weather rather than as a rare event. Between two charts, when this is the most exact aspect between the two people, the main relationship theme is read as emotional harmony and free emotional expression in daily life: sources describe mundane concerns such as home and family typically dominating the couple's shared attention, with partners often ending up sharing a household outright.

The story

A conjunction sets two bodies at, or close to, the same degree, with no real angular distance between them; Ptolemy's own chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs measures the opposition, trine, square and sextile by the number of degrees separating two positions, yet Wikipedia's summary counts the conjunction among the five traditional major aspects sometimes called Ptolemaic, and reports that conjunctions are said to be the most powerful aspects. Selene meets herself most literally in the fifty daughters Pausanias credits her with bearing to the sleeping Endymion, a number some readers connect to the fifty lunar months of an Olympiad, the goddess's own monthly cycle multiplied out into children. The same Selene who yokes her team each night to drive her chariot across the sky, in the words of her own Homeric Hymn, is already, by this account, a figure defined by exact repetition. A conjunction between the Moon and itself, whether met monthly in transit or found between two people in synastry, is simply that same repetition caught at its closest point.

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Corpus key aspect:Moon:Moon:conjunction.