Moon or Chandra in Sanskrit is the closest planet to earth. It strongly controls human emotions, feelings, and moods. Moon rules Cancer and the 4th House. It spends 2-1/2 days in each sign and takes approximately 30 days to complete its astrological cycle through each zodiac sign.

Moon is the only planet in astrology that revolves around the Earth. The distance between the Earth and Moon is approximately 2,38,000 miles. Moon rules the lives of the beings on Earth. Moon also represents mother, since it is feminine in nature, it makes us timid. Moon governs the impregnation, birth of the child, and rules the infant stage of a person. Afflicted Moon at the time of birth causes ailments and does not allow to have proper growth. Its proximity to the Earth and rapidity of motion make it a powerful significator. It rules liquids, fresh water, milk, groceries, fish, drinks, sailing, brewing, nursing, and females. Moon’s impact on the brain is very powerful as it is too close to the earth. People ruled by Moon are usually sensitive, emotional, and domesticated, possessing a love for home. If Moon is not favorable in the chart, the natives may be too easygoing, there could be an overindulgence in eating, drinking, or pleasure. A person ruled by Moon does well as nurses, cooks, confectioners, grocers, gardeners, in liquids, stewards, clerks, etc.

•  It is friends with Jupiter, Sun, Mercury, and the enemy with Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu. Vimshottari Dasha of Moon is 10 years and constellations are Rohini, Hasta, and Shravan.
•  If Sun is the father, Moon is the mother; the mother brings up the child so Moon is a strong significator of mother and motherly things as it is a female planet and considered as the queen among planets. A strong Moon indicates great love and care from the mother and makes the mother capable enough to bring up and develop the child’s mental faculties. Moon is the secondary significator for the wife.
• Strong Moon gives a career in public relations, administration, housekeeping, nursing, cooking, catering, psychologist, and physician-like jobs related to care and feelings. Hotels, restaurants, public places, hospitals are connected with Moon. Moon also represents water so watery places, things related to water such as ships or sailors are connected with Moon.
•  Good Moon gives a pleasing appearance, good speaking abilities, good memory, good deeds, good imagination, good intellect, fertility power, and good feelings. Moon also gives feminine nature so people with good Moon are generally liked by females.
• Weak Moon may give you a fickle temperament; intolerance, insensitivity, and even insomnia as Moon represent sleep. Through Moon, you can also check family, financial solvency, happy married life, inheritance, income, and gains, basic comfort, family, basic education, the status of married life, social behavior, etc.
•  In the body, it represents face, mind, feelings, tolerance, intellect, imagination, good memory, fertility, blood, breasts, stomach, lungs, chest, left eye for males, and menstrual cycle, generative organs, and right eye for females.

Moon Represents: Mother, Motherly figure, Women, Emotions, Imagination, Intelligence, Travelling, Desires/ Passions, Memory, Childhood (especially till age 5 or so), Milk, Water, Watery places- oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, Bathrooms, Travelling related professions/ agents, Seamen, Fishermen, Public opinion, Mass fame (especially with common man), Leadership like the sun but in a gentle fashion (as opposed to burning hot nature of sun), Changeability/ Adaptability, Agriculture (especially when related to Saturn), Fertility in women, Womb, Lungs, Breasts, Fluid systems of the body – Lymphatic system/ Circulatory (Blood), Tonsils and upper throat area, Left eye and eyesight in general, Water element.