##### Moon Mind and [[Consciousness]] The Moon is the most important planet in Vedic astrology because it reflects the mind and [[Consciousness|consciousness]]. The Moon reveals how we perceive the world. It determines how someone feels throughout life. The Moon also determines your awareness and consciousness in terms of intelligence, feelings, emotions, sensitivity, security, the Past, and mother issues. <span style="background:rgba(240, 200, 0, 0.2)">The Moon casts the filter that influences how we perceive the world</span>. Our world is perceived via our feelings, which are initiated by our upbringing and past experiences (also ancestral karma and past-life experiences) aka ACEs. It reflects our experience with our Mother and thus our sense of Security. This will flavor the person’s entire experience, how they regard the world and environment and other people. How we perceive the world through our feelings and emotions influences how we think about the world and what we believe about everything else. We might feel logical and scientific, but this undergirds and directs our scientific thinking. All of this is based on our emotional body (or Etheric Body). ###### The patterns set in the Machinery of the World will direct our World Building and the building of our Soma Body. The Moon determines how we illumine our thoughts as they emerge from our feelings. All these indicators reveal who we are and our sense of ourselves in our surroundings. <span style="background:rgba(240, 200, 0, 0.2)">The reflective force of the Moon illuminates the darkness of the night as it reflects the light of the Sun. </span> If the Sun represents cognitive awareness then this cognition is what is reflected from the Moon as the feelings emerge from the inky black darkness of the generative secrecy. The waxing and waning reflect the Moods and experiences felt on Earth. The Full Moon is a time of great illumination and awareness. The New moon is most introspective. The phases reflect the changeable feelings we experience. These aspects continue into our [[copilot on Dreams|dreams]] at night, motivated by our minds and feelings and directed by our subconscious mind. Because the Moon reveals the most important intricacies of our mind, past and present feelings and emotions and security, it directs our thinking. Our thinking process influences how we relate to other people, our environment and life’s circumstances. Etheric Sandwich and the 4 Ethers which correspond to the Elements: - Life Ether ([[Fire]]-Akasha) - Light Ether (Air-Mind) - [[Love]], or Tone Ether (Water-Astral) - Chemical Ether (Earth-Material)