A House is a House for Me: On Mother, Home, and the Moon-Chiron Wound

Today, I found myself reading a children’s book I hadn’t seen since I was six or seven years old. It’s called A House is a House for Me, written in the 1970s - rhythmic, whimsical, and quietly profound.

The book names all the unexpected places that can be homes: a shell is a house for a hermit crab, a doghouse is a house for a dog, a barn is a house for hay and cows, a tree is a house for birds. There’s something so innocent about it - so clever and simple - and yet as I read it aloud to myself, tears streamed down my face.

Not because the book was sad, but because I was remembering something. Or rather, someone - a little girl I used to be.

A little girl who was always moving.

A little girl whose homes were never fixed.

A little girl who learned - far too early - that home could be temporary. That it might be lost.

Reading the book was like stepping into a memory I hadn’t consciously held. And as I spoke the words aloud, I felt like I was reading not to myself now, but to her. Like I had become the mother I needed - just for a moment.

The Birth Chart Knows Before We Do

In astrology, I have Moon conjunct Chiron - an aspect that speaks to a wound around safety, belonging, and the mother. It often points to a childhood where emotional nurturing was fractured, inconsistent, or simply missing. It’s the kind of chart signature that makes home feel like something just out of reach - both externally and internally.

The Moon represents how we feel safe, how we’re held, how we soothe. Chiron represents the wound we carry through life - the place where pain and potential for healing coexist. When the Moon and Chiron sit together in the birth chart, the message is clear: you will have to learn to mother yourself.

This is not a comfortable placement. It doesn’t give you a neat story. It gives you longing. It gives you grief. And eventually, if you’re willing to sit with it - it gives you wisdom.

When You Lose the Place That Felt Like Home

For me, the United Kingdom became one of the few places that truly felt like home. I don’t mean just logistically - I mean energetically, spiritually, emotionally. The land. The seasons. The people I met. The version of myself that came alive there.

I lived on my Sun line - a placement in astrocartography that often brings visibility, radiance, and self-expression. And that’s exactly how it felt: like I had come home to my soul.

And then, after a long battle to secure residency, it was taken from me. Unexpectedly. Suddenly. And devastatingly.

That loss wasn’t just administrative. It wasn’t just a visa. It was the shattering of something sacred. A home I had built emotionally - one that, once again, I was asked to leave.

This is the archetypal nature of the Moon-Chiron wound: it brings you back, again and again, to the places where nourishment was missing. Not to punish you - but to show you what still needs care. And where your true foundations must be rebuilt.

Healing Isn’t Linear - It’s a Spiral

There’s a common misconception that healing means we resolve something once and for all. But when it comes to early wounds - especially ones as primal as home, mother, and safety - healing moves in spirals.

We revisit the theme in new forms. We gain insight in one season, only to be cracked open again in the next. We build resilience not by avoiding the ache, but by learning to sit with it differently each time.

And we begin to realise: sometimes, the most profound kind of homecoming isn’t found in a country, a partner, or even a house.

It’s found in the quiet act of becoming the one who can finally hold herself.

Studio Energetics Was Born from This

This is why I do the work I do. Why Studio Energetics exists at the intersection of astrology, nervous system care, and emotional healing.

Because so many of us are still looking for a home we never had. Still grieving the version of safety we were promised but never received. And still trying to make sense of why it all feels so tender, so complicated, and so hard to explain.

If you have Moon-Chiron in your chart, if you’ve lost places, people, or parts of yourself that once felt like home… if you’re still learning how to mother yourself in the absence of being mothered - I see you.

Your story is not broken. It is sacred.

And your birth chart, when read with care, doesn’t just show you what happened. It shows you how to heal - and what you came here to transform.

A Final Note on Integrity in Astrocartography

I feel called to mention something else: I often receive messages from people who’ve been told, often through an Instagram ad or AI, that a single planetary line is the answer to everything - “Move to your Moon line and you’ll find love!” “Your Venus line is where you’ll be happiest!”

But that’s not how this works.

Astrocartography must always be grounded in the natal chart first. Otherwise, it’s like building a house without knowing if the ground is solid. It may look beautiful, but it won’t last two seconds.

When the Moonline Isn’t What You Think

A few years ago, I moved to Mallorca and later to Barcelona - both of which sit very near my Moonline in astrocartography.

I knew exactly what that meant. I had studied my chart. I knew that with Moon conjunct Chiron, this wouldn’t be an easy placement. And yet, I chose to go anyway..

I made incredible friends there - people who still feel like soul family. My pure intention was to overcome the energy of the Moon. But the entire time I lived in these places, it felt like I was carrying a huge sack of rocks on my back. Every single day. Heavy, relentless, and invisible. I even had someone come into my life who said I felt like home and then it disappeared.

It was as though the unresolved grief, abandonment, and emotional ache from my childhood were all being pulled up to the surface. It was amplified, exposed, raw. The same themes I had spent years trying to understand and heal were now inescapable. Living there was like being placed inside the wound itself.

And recently, when I visited again, I noticed it instantly. That same heaviness returned, like putting that bag of rocks back on the moment I stepped off the plane.

It was hard to admit, because I love the people there. I have some of my closest friendships rooted in Mallorca. But the land itself, the energetic atmosphere, doesn’t feel like home to my soul. It never did. It felt like the Moon/Chiron wound made manifest - nurturing in theory, but in practice, deeply destabilising.

This is something I always try to explain to my clients: just because a planetary line is associated with nurturing or femininity or family, doesn’t mean it will feel that way for you.

Your natal chart tells the truth about how that planet behaves in your life. If your Moon is harmonious, you may indeed find deep nourishment on a Moonline. But if your Moon is wounded - as mine is - then moving to a Moonline can feel like stepping into the emotional underworld.

It’s not a mistake. It’s not punishment. It’s an invitation - but one that requires deep readiness and resourcing.

Astrocartography is never one-size-fits-all. And this is why integrity matters. This is why I will always look at your full chart before telling you where to go.

When I guide clients through astrocartography, we start at the root - the soul blueprint - and then look at where the most harmonious or catalytic energies can support what’s already there. It’s not prediction. It’s pattern recognition, intuition, and healing woven together.

With warmth,

Chelsea

Founder of Studio Energetics

Astrocartographer, Integrative Counsellor and Wellness Facilitator

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