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The Moon in the eleventh house

the Moon in the eleventh house (Western)

What the tradition reads

The eleventh house is described by Alan Leo as the house of friends, acquaintances, hopes, wishes and aspirations, which, taken alone and free from affliction, he counts a benefic house inclined toward good fortune, pleasure and happiness, and which has sympathy with the tenth in the charts of those concerned with the many rather than the few. The Moon placed there is read by the tradition as an emotional need for genuine belonging within a group, looking to friends and acquaintances for the same kind of support a closer placement might seek from family alone. The astrologers read hopes and larger goals here as sincerely altruistic, though liable to shift as the placement's mood shifts, which can make settling on one steady, long term aim more difficult than it is for a more constant temperament. Friends are read as a genuine, chosen family for this placement, a close kinship built specifically around shared ideals or beliefs rather than around blood or circumstance, and the emotional comfort of belonging to such a circle is credited as one of the placement's deepest sources of security. The tradition's caution is a sense of self that depends so heavily on the group's approval or the group's current mood that the placement can lose track of what it actually wants once it is separated from that circle, however briefly.

The story

Selene rarely had a temple or a priesthood entirely her own. Her worship was folded, again and again, into the cults of other goddesses associated with the night and the moon, chiefly Artemis and Hecate; all three were regarded as moon and lunar goddesses together, even though only Selene herself was considered the actual personification of the Moon. It meant that Selene's own worshippers rarely approached her entirely alone; belonging to her cult usually meant belonging, at the same time, to a wider network of moon and night goddesses whose identities had grown genuinely intertwined with hers, even while each kept a distinct role of her own. The Moon in the eleventh house is read through this same joined belonging: an emotional identity that finds real strength not in standing apart but in being folded into something larger than itself, sharing its own name and its own light with a whole community of kindred figures.

Written from

Corpus key planet-in-house:Moon:11.