A man’s Mars conjunct a woman’s Moon
July 9, 2008 by Jeffrey Kishner
I had a female client the other day who reported fantasies of being impregnated by her lover. His Mars was conjunct her Moon.
I don’t usually think of the Moon as a sexy planet, but in a woman’s chart, how can it not be tied to sex? The Moon is the mother-child matrix, pregnancy, birth. Women get more horny while they’re ovulating. (One study showed that strippers got the most tips during this part of their cycle!) It’s not a conscious thing, but as there’s a biological imperative to make babies, a women will want to have sex, if only for this reason. (Pleasure be damned!) Mars, of course, is the planet of virility. A man’s Mars would energize or stimulate a woman’s Moon, such that she’d want to carry his baby.
Yet this aspect also contains the seeds of irritability and moodiness. One scenario I imagine is a woman who needs to be nurtured or cared for, while her guy is being brash and selfish, not being sensitive or attuned to her emotional needs. (Of course, the sign placement will modulate the expression of the Moon and Mars in their respective charts.)
Another expression of this “meeting” is that the man will be protective of the woman (using aggression, if necessary). From the perspective of evolutionary biology, if she is indeed carrying his child, it is in his self-interest to make sure the baby survives, because he wants to increase his chances of passing on his genetic material.
Comment below: Do you have Moon-Mars natally or in synastry? How does this aspect play out in your life or relationship?
Related: Moon-Mars Aspects in Synastry: Sex and Psyche
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Yo! Great piece!
I was with a dude who’s mars was conjunct my moon and my moon was conjunct his mars, both in Aquarius, to the exact degree…we were together for years and are still best friends now.
Intense waters, fought like dogs sometimes!! But it’s hard to find anyone else who is so in tune with my thoughts and feelings!! With Aquarius, we were just too busy defending/asserting our independence and strange quirks…
I really feel like he’s the only dude who ‘gets me’ most of the time.
From what I have read, Moon-Mars conjunction in synastry shows great sexual attraction, irrespective of the gender of who owns the Mars vs the Moon in the combination. Jodie & Steven Forrest write in Skymates:
The Moon person encourages and enhances the development of the Mars partner’s sexual confidence and fire, which is of course good news. The Mars partner, meanwhile, possesses a kind of native eroticism which seem custom-designed to go right to the Moon person’s mammal brain, filling the Moon person with passion and also the lunar urge to make a nest & protect it.
Had it the other way around – my Mars and his Moon, among other synastry aspects. The Moon can indicate the woman in the man’s chart and Mars the man in her chart. Anyway, they were in Taurus and very sexual!
My husband’s Venus/Mars conjunction in Virgo is square my Gemini Moon – which, surprisingly, I never really noticed before. Duhr! Interestingly, part of what drew us together was the fact that neither of us wanted to have children.
Leslee, I had the same thing: my Mars conjunct my ex’s Moon, but ours were in Gemini (conjunct his Gemini ascendant, too.) We could always talk about anything with each other, for hours, but there was also a lot of verbal sparring, which wasn’t always fun.
Then I had another ex whose Pisces Moon was square my Gem Mars (the only Moon/Mars contact in our synastry.) Very argumentative relationship, very tense and hurtful to both of us. My normal mode of being in the world grated on his nerves, and our basic sexual incompatibility became a problem almost immediately.
We also had some Mars/Venus issues that were exciting at first (a Venus/Venus opposition, a Mars/Venus square, and a Mars/Venus inconjunct) so it’s tough to tell exactly which cruddy aspect caused which cruddy part of that relationship.
I had a very short-lived, very fiery, very dramatic relationship with someone whose Mars in Scorpio is conjunct my Moon in Scorpio. We were physically comfortable with each other almost immediately, and it seemed like we instinctively knew how to touch one another, what we both enjoyed the most, etc. Aside from the sexual connection, I remember him telling me that he wanted to marry me, have my children, etc. only a month or so into the relationship! This kind of talk was way too much and way too fast for me. We knew each other through my brother for many years, but never really expressed interest in one another. Since our Moon-Mars conjunction is in Scorpio, it also threw a lot of possessiveness, jealousy, and sneaky behavior into the mix. So, in my experience, this conjunction truly has its extreme positives and negatives!
I definitely understand what this suggests..(Jeff, you wrote this?)
I definitely felt it most strongly when I was mid-cycle.Always new when I was ovulating
It got really* intense whenI was winding down towards menopause.LOL
But with Moon conjunct Mars–I only know that tie to annoy.LOL.And really hurt.
I see what Angelise said, and I get that too.
I know another couple with that connection who had a great sex life while together.
But just like I mentioned also, he hurt her like hell.
They annoyed each other, but OK, who doesn’t?
But I knew he’d wind up crushing her emotionally–and so he did.
Aha! I just read what Laura Walton wrote.
As I said…
Laura–”which cruddy aspect, caused which cruddy part of that relationship…HAHAHAHA
*not* funny that it happned that way, but hilarious, to say!:-)
ai.oy. Not new, KNEW when I was ovulating.
hm guess I felt *new* too.;-)
Yes, Karen, I wrote this.
Hi. I found this very interesting, because I don’t normally have these kind of fantasies, but I have lately. AFter reading this post, I think it might be because my progressed moon is sextiling my progressed mars.
To: Karen
RE: Karen Says…My reply is found in parenthesis.
“I know another couple with that connection who had a great sex life while together.
But just like I mentioned also, he hurt her like hell. (Who was the mars in this relationship, and who was the Moon?)
They annoyed each other, but OK, who doesn’t?
But I knew he’d wind up crushing her emotionally–and so he did. (I’m concluding that the woman was the Moon person in this relationship ['emotionally']
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I’m A Men with Scorpio Moon/Mars all conjunct and had a girlfriend with moon pisces sun taurus … well it couldn’t be more intense/passion lustful relation than this one! I knew what she might thought before she even said it! I knew what she needed when she needed that … damn! My next girlfriend was a capicorn moon … a really true turn off …
My boyfriend and I have a double whammy Mars Moon Conjunction in Scorpio/Taurus nonetheless…My moon is in Scorpio which I believe gives me the upper hand in the Precog department, but the head games are epic. Not to mention, the emotional connection is so interconnected that sometimes I do not know where my feelings start and his end….It is incredible how much we are alike, but with different backgrounds and he is 8 years younger. We also have Sun-Venus opposition double whammy…Im a Leo with Venus in Virgo whereas he is a Pisces with his venus in Aquarius…Strange.
I am so glad to come across this site, the quote from Skymates that shygirl wrote just blew me away. What an amazing insight. His Mars/Venus conjunction in Aries conjunct my Moon. Yes I was crushed emotionally. I had attributed it to his Saturn in Cancer being square my Mars in Libra. Bad stuff
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HELP! I am dating TWO men like this. What is the difference here?
#1. HIS moon, my mars: has a sag. moon conj. my sag mars.
#2. MY moon, his mars: has a pisces mars, conj. my pisc. moon.
omg. i am in trouble.