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How can a child’s horoscope help?

Kindergarten – a place of despair or a rainbow land?

Ms. Basia* is my regular client and has also been Jack’s mother for 2.5 years.

She decided to get a horoscope for her child when she started considering returning to work, but was worried about how her son would react to the new environment.

She remembered quite clearly that she didn’t like kindergarten and felt abandoned by her parents.

Looking at Ms. Basia’s horoscope, this did not surprise me at all.

Her Moon is in Cancer, which indicates a highly emotional nature and attachment to home, especially to the mother. It also forms a disharmonious aspect with Saturn (feelings of abandonment, imposition of discipline). Ms. Basia’s horoscope indicates a more introverted nature, and the large number of planets in fixed signs suggests a rather slow adaptation and sometimes even resistance to change.

Looking at my client as an adult, these same traits have given her a strong will and influenced her style of motherhood—warm and caring, but also with a tendency toward overprotectiveness, possessiveness, and a dislike of institutions.

When I looked at Jack’s horoscope, I breathed a sigh of relief. He is a native Aries with the moon in Sagittarius. Considering that both signs are fiery, he is a child full of energy and optimism. The Sun in Aries is very confident and excited about new challenges. As for the moon in Sagittarius, he feels best when traveling or acquiring new knowledge and interacting with others. For him, the concept of “home” can mean the whole world!

While the moon in Cancer would actually prefer to stay at home, clinging to mommy’s skirt (here my client applauded, saying that every vacation during her childhood she would get a fever and be sick until they returned to her beloved home where she miraculously regained her strength), the Moon in Sagittarius needs space and to broaden its horizons, and it is quite possible that being locked up at home could have a negative effect on its health.

The signs of Cancer and Sagittarius are so different in the zodiac that they don’t have much in common. In practice, this may mean that their emotional nature, needs, and habits (the domains of the moon) will be completely different.

Ms. Basia and her son will probably learn a lot from each other, and awareness of their different needs can be extremely useful, especially when living under the same roof!

But back to kindergarten, the Moon in Sagittarius is a definite YES for me.

Jacek also has a significant number of planets in the third house, which is responsible for interactions with the immediate environment, such as neighbors, siblings, communication, and primary education. This is another hint that kindergarten and interaction with peers will fuel his innate curiosity and desire to explore, and Jacek will feel right at home there.

Now you’re probably wondering why Ms. Basia has any doubts. Doesn’t she know her own child?

As we know, human nature is very complex. That’s why I’m not a fan of general horoscopes for the 12 signs of the zodiac, because we are not just one of 12 templates!

In astrology, there are as many as 10 planets (including the Sun and the Moon, and we have not demoted Pluto).

Each of them corresponds to certain functions and characteristics, each can be in a different sign and in a different sphere of life, and also in different interactions with others, which gives us a rather complicated picture to analyze.

But let’s get to the point. Jacek has a so-called Ascendant in Capricorn with planets nearby.

Our Ascendant influences our personality. It is with this sign that we react to new things and make first impressions. Capricorn gives a more serious and cautious approach. I decided that with such a fiery constellation, this grounding energy is most beneficial.

The planets in the first house (Ascendant) also play an important role in personality. Here I found Mars (anger, impetuosity, sudden strong reactions), Saturn (blockages, responsibility and even more caution) and Pluto (intensity, need for control). Here we have a very strong counterbalance to the previous energies. The planets described in the first house and Ascendant are usually the traits we see first when we come into contact with a young person.