Renown as the Health Guru of the Zodiac, Virgo is the sign most likely to use a computer database to track their daily intake of vitamins and minerals. This is why, according to astrologer Stella Hyde, the best way to drive a Virgo to the verge of a nervous breakdown is to simply have Big Macs delivered to their house on the hour, every hour for a day. (Source) “Oh for the love of all that is good and holy, nooooo!!!” my own Mars in Virgo cries out upon envisioning such a scenario.
Given Virgo’s aversion to fast food maybe it’s no coincidence that muckraking journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, has a Mars/Venus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo. (Chart)
Along with being the most health conscious sign of the zodiac, Virgo also excels at journalism due to its eye for detail, accuracy, and near fetishtic love of footnotes. In medical astrology Virgo rules the intestines which separate what stays with the body for nutritive purposes from what must be discarded as waste. It’s thus rather fitting that one of the most detailed books on the horrors of industrial food production was written by a man with a stellium in Virgo. This is, after all, the sign most accustomed to dealing with pathogen loaded waste, be it the type that our bodily processes produce or the sort that fortune 500 companies stock the store shelves with.
When not giving out extremely detailed vitamin recommendations, Virgo can be found serving others in a quiet but technically proficient fashion. Anybody who makes their living cleaning up other people’s messes usually has an emphasis in this service oriented sign. That nerdy (yet strangely hot) guy or gal in the IT department who shows up after hours to fix your computer because you failed to download the appropriate virus protection software? Probably a Virgo. Same for many members of the janitorial crew who anonymously clean your work place up at night.
The dark side of this tendency to serve in silence is that Virgo can fall into humiliating social roles or soul-crushing daily routines. In these situations Virgo is neither compensated or appreciated in a manner congruent to the service they provide. Even though he likely has no interest in astrology, Schlosser clearly understands the less pleasant side of the Virgo archetype. He first came to national prominence for a series of articles on Big Ag’s exploitation of farm workers and meat packers, two populations of service workers (Virgo) that are horrifically under-appreciated in our society:
A guaranteed way to get revenge on a Virgo is to mess with their filing system(s). Of course if their filing system is being used to write a book as important as Fast Food Nation maybe you should find another way to get back at your Virgo. As Mrs. Hyde explains in her book Dark Side Zodiac, diluting your Virgo’s supply of Clorox or leaving shrimp in their drapes will also do the trick. It may drive them temporarily batso but it will do so while not impeding on their crucial yet so often under-appreciated Virgoan life’s work.
Combine a Scorpio Sun’s orientation to psychological resources with a Taurus Moon’s instincts for material resources and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that’s unswerving and unwavering, indefatigable and intimidating, impassioned and intense. Astrologer Sue Tompkins tells us that when Scorpio/Taurus axis is emphasized in a person’s chart, “confrontations are to be expected”. (Source) Astrologer Bill Tierney makes a similar observation in his book, “People with this combo emphasized are powerhouses who can control their emotions even in grueling situations in which others would crack up . . . these signs have a tremendous sense of resourcefulness and indomitable will that can help them overcome just about anything”. (Source) To illustrate: Hall-of-Fame baseball pitcher Bob Gibson is a Scorpio with his Moon in Taurus. During his career he was known for his powerhouse array of pitchers, confrontational attitude, and indomitable levels of endurance. According to sportswriter Joe Posnanski, “Gibson threw his 95-mph fastball and savage slider by unfolding into a windup that screamed ancient violence . . . This was the windup David used when smiting Goliath.” (Source)
Stella Hyde tells us that Scorpio is the Samurai and the Vampire Slayer of the zodiac while Taurus Moons do well in professions that focus on territorial matters such as bounty hunting. (Source) Gibson, of course, wasn’t a literal Vampire Slayer turned Bounty Hunter. However, he did spend 20 years wielding his savage fastball/slider combination to mow down hitters as feared as Reggie Jackson, Dusty Baker and anybody else who dared crowd the inside of home plate, a piece of territory that he very much considered his own.
In astro-mythology, the Scorpio/Taurus axis is associated with Persephone’s trip to hell and back. (Source) These days professional athletes are widely considered to be overpaid, over-coddled egomaniacs. It’s thus difficult to think of a career in professional sports as being akin to a trip through hell and back. However, in Gibson’s time things were a good deal different. The salaries at that time placed most players closer to the middle class than to millionaire status while conditions were more “survival of the fittest” than sky-box swank. Furthermore, Gibson broke into professional baseball in the 1950s, a time when there was an extremely intense taboo against black pitchers. Gibson explains in his 1994 autobiography, “Because pitcher is the most commanding and cerebral position on the field, it is the one – like quarterback in football – that the sport and society is least willing to hand over to a black man.” (Source) Recounting his time playing in the South in the 1950s, Gibson writes:
I was intrigued by the one of the many nicknames the people at the Columbus ballpark used in connection with me: Gator Bait. I happened to ask a doctor friend if he knew what the term meant and he explained that one of the redneck traditions down in the lowlands was to tie a black kid to the end of a rope and drag him through the swamp in order to lure the alligators.(Source)
Other experiences of Gibson’s in the 1950s were “too personal and pungent to even talk about.” (Source) He later recounted similar experiences even once in the major leagues. Gibson was a power pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, not a mythological goddess on a trip through a Pluto ruled underworld. However, given the circumstances surrounding his path to and through the big leagues, the arc of his Hall-of-Fame career has more in common with Persephone and her trip through Hades than might be initially recognized. When asked about his reputation for being intimidating, Gibson responded “I wasn’t trying to intimidate anybody. I was just trying to survive.” That could well be a motto for the Scorpio/Taurus pairing.
As both Scorpio and Taurus are survival/resource signs, this pairing is often involved in issues of food and sustenance. Scorpio typically opts for intensely flavorful food while Taurus Moons are nourished by “traditional comfort foods like potatoes and hearty stews, as well as sensual foods like mangos and chocolate. This will soothe their need for security and sensual satiation” according to astrologer Fern Feto Spring. (Source) Raven Kaldera calls the Scorpio/Taurus pairing the “Earth Mother”, an imminently practical figure who “feeds and clothes all who come to her and makes sure that their bodies are taken care of in as much comfort as can be mustered”. (Source) Gibson may not be an “Earth Mother” per-se but one post-baseball business enterprises was Gibson’s Spirits and Sustenance, a restaurant in his home town of Omaha. Gibson describes the restaurant’s food and the facets of its operation in steady, satisfying, down-to-earth manner associated with this pairing:
I’ve always been proud of my chili and offered it at the restaurant much too cheaply, the purpose being not to make money on it but to have it recognized as the best chili in town. I had the same ambition for our hamburgers, which were handmade.
I was intent upon carving out a reputation citywide. For that reason, I had my hands in every facet of the operation, starting with the design and construction of the building. I’d originally hired an architect but when I was dissatisfied with his plans I tossed them out and created my own. When those were approved, I spent a few more months driving in nails.
Scorpio/Taurus often do well in professions that involve masterminding or insuring (Scorpio) the procurement of treasure or territory (Taurus Moon). According to astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey, the Scorpio/Taurus people typically have a natural understanding of man’s most primal drives:
You have a real sense of the basic impulses that motivate people – love, devotion, hate, fear, and greed. You have a good sense of value and are likely to have a shrewd business acumen, with a gift for handling money . . .” (Source)
To illustrate: attorney turned baseball super-agent Scott Boras of the Boras Corporation is a Scorpio with his Moon in Taurus. (Chart) Boras is considered one of the most powerful forces (Scorpio) in the business of baseball (Taurus Moon). He may be the individual most directly responsible for the average major league player salary going from $200,000 in 1981 to $4,200,000 in 2016. A 2007 profile in the New Yorker quoted a fellow sports agent as calling Boras, “the absolute special forces guy of contract negotiation”. (Source) A 2016 ESPN article observed similarly, “When there’s no obvious source of power in a negotiation, he finds it, finagles it, finesses it, flies it over the stadium.” (Source)
As you might imagine, the players love him as his shrewd business acumen and gifts for handling money have helped them procure excellent financial returns on their own resources — their bodies and physical skill-sets. Among team owners he is hated and feared. They see him as nothing less than a super-villain (Scorpio) running an extortion racket (Taurus Moon) and have deployed their surrogates in the media to make sure he is depicted as an icon of greed to the fans. The less visible (Scorpio) reality on the ground (Taurus) is that he represents millionaires (the players) in their battles against billionaires (the team owners). Legal precedents set in favor of millionaires battling against billionaires are actually highly relevant to middle class workers who must negotiate with multi-national corporations. A former professional player himself Boras’ breakthrough came in 1981 just as was in the peak of his first Saturn Return – an astrological rite of passage that signals the onset of true adulthood. From the 2007 New Yorker profile of Boras:
That summer, he approached a tall pitcher named Tim Belcher, who had just finished his junior year at Mount Vernon Nazarene College, in Ohio, and had been selected No. 1 over all in the amateur draft by the Minnesota Twins. College juniors were seen as highly exploitable, because of the quirks of N.C.A.A. eligibility rules. They had no bargaining leverage. The Twins initially offered Belcher eighty thousand dollars to sign, which was twenty thousand dollars less than Rick Monday had received in 1965, as the first pick in the first draft.(Source)
As Boras correctly pointed out at the time, Belcher was a 21 year old college kid who hadn’t even finished his undergraduate degree while the Twins were a major league sports franchise with a team of highly-trained attorneys. It was thus ludicrous to expect negotiations between the two to be anything approaching fair if Belcher went into the process by himself. Based on Boras’ advice, Belcher did not to sign with the Twins, a decision that sent shock waves through the baseball world. Belcher re-entered the draft the next year and ended up signing with the New York Yankees for $120,000. Draft bonuses steadily over the next thirty years in large part due to Boras’ efforts at representation. These days a player drafted where Belcher was drafted in 1981 will sign for millions — which only seems outlandish until your remember that the people signing the checks are representing multi-national corporations worth billions.
Astrologer Jefferson Anderson calls Scorpio/Taurus “The Leader” who in addition to being excellent at resource management also “feels an urge to help those less advantaged”. (Source) What Boras was doing with Belcher, and scores of young players since, isn’t just contract negotiation; it’s actually resource management on behalf of individuals who would otherwise be at an enormous disadvantage in their dealings with huge sports conglomerates. This makes him, in effect, akin to a modern day Vampire Hunter (Scorpio) on a hunt for bounty (Taurus Moon), a Saumrai (Scorpio) of fortune (Taurus Moon), one who wields contract law and legal precedent as effectively as samurais of old wielded katanas and wakizashis.
Both Scorpio and Taurus are what’s known as “fixed” signs
The world of high stakes professional sports contracts may not be a literal hell like Persephone’s trip through the underworld or Bob Gibson’s trip through the Deep South but it is a notoriously dog-eat-dog world where ruthlessness, lawlessness, and bloodthirsty backstabbing are what’s known as “the nice parts of the industry.” As a former associate of Boras has observed, “In this business, if you’re not paranoid, you’re not doing your job.” (Source)
The baseball world is particularly cold and ruthless when it comes to the treatment of pitchers as they are the players most likely to see their careers shortened due to the repetitive strain of overhand throwing. According to a member of a team’s medical staff quoted in the ESPN article on Boras,”There is one group of people out there that feels that pitchers are a commodity, and you use them until they’re used up, then you bring the next person in”. Boras isn’t an Earth Mother as per Kaldera’s description of the Scorpio/Taurus pairing. However, in a sport that routinely grinds pitches up and throws them out like yesterday’s garbage, Boras has made his mark making sure the pitchers he represents have everything they need to succeed, from top flight legal counsel to sports psychologists and orthopedic surgeons to stacks and stacks of research studies.
According to the Harveys, two metaphoric images for the Scorpio/Taurus pairing are, “A celebrated surgeon amasses a fortune” and ” A successful businessman probes the mysteries of life”. (Source) Both images are actually excellent approximations of Boras. He’s not technically a surgeon but he does have a degree in industrial pharmacology and his firm has conducted pioneering research into keeping players healthy, both physically and psychologically. His firm has thus accumulated enormous amounts of knowledge about the mysteries surrounding performance, injuries, and risk; all seen and unseen factors that enable one player to maximize the long term ROI on his skills as compared to another. For this he’s become a sports celebrity and amassed multiple fortunes; not only for himself and his clients but also for players throughout baseball as aggressive representation of his clients has created a rising tide of salaries for the entire ecosystem of professional baseball.
About the Author: Matt Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or consults at his contact page.
Last fall I posted an analysis of the chart for the 1963 film The Great Escape. A Cancer Sun, Sagittarius Moon, the film was based on the true story of 76 Allied airmen who escaped from the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in Nazi occupied Poland. Out of curiosity I looked up the chart for the actual Great Escape, which begun at 10:30 PM on March 24th 1944 just outside of Sagan, Poland. (See Chart) It turns out the escape was launched the evening of a new moon at 4 degrees Aries, a fitting time to launch such a daring operation for reasons both environmental (low light makes it easier to escape) and astrological. New moons represent tremendous outpourings of energy while Aries (the Warrior) represents the spirit of courage, confrontation, and self-preservation. In nature, Aries is the energy of a plant bursting through the soil during springtime. Take a look at the first 45 seconds of this documentary on the escape for a powerful example of humans expressing Aries energy:
Aries, like all signs, has 30 degrees (0-29) to it, with each degree corresponding to a slightly different sub-type of that sign. The Sabian Symbol for 4 degrees Aries is an uncannily accurate approximation of the escape from Stalag Luft III:
“In the darkness of the sky, lightning strikes show the silhouette of a strong man who climbs up to top of a mountain, unafraid of the storm.”
Ambitious, tenacious, and enterprising character. [Facing] nearly insurmountable obstacles . . . one goes through many perilous adventures and achieves many conquests owing to one’s perseverance and courage. (Source)
Just substitute a “man who climbs to the top of a mountain, unafraid of the storm” with “a man who escapes into the forest, unafraid of the stormtroopers” and the Sabian Symbol for 4 degrees Aries offers a near perfect summary of World War II’s most famous prison break, one that just so happened to occur the night of a new moon at 4 degrees Aries.
The escape’s ascendent (external appearance) is in Scorpio – the sign of spycraft and sorcery, shadows and underworlds, covert operations and subterranean dealings. People with Scorpio ascendants have the capacity to go stealth when they interact with the world. It’s thus the ideal ascendant for an escape operation launched under the cover of darkness and based around a secret network of subterranean tunnels.
The 2012 film The Hunger Games, whose plot is not all together different from the real life events of the great escape from Stalag Luft III, is also an Aries Sun, Aries Moon. (Chart)
Actress Lucy Lawless, best known as the sword wielding star of the television show Xena: Warrior Princess, is also an Aries Sun, Aries Moon. (Chart)
Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel Casino Royale was published April 13th, 1953, making the James Bond character an Aries Sun, Aries Moon as well. (Chart) Sean Connery, the first actor to portray James Bond, has his North Node (destiny) in Aries. (Chart) Daniel Craig, the current James Bond and widely considered second only to Sean Connery in terms of Bondian authenticity, has Mars, Saturn, Moon, and North Node all in Aries. (Chart)
Aries Sun, Aries Moon individuals aren’t literally “licensed to kill” but they sure are licensed to demonstrate the Aries qualities of courage, confrontation, and self-preservation. Some, like Lucy Lawless and Daniel Craig, will project those qualities into the imaginal world of film. Others, like the 76 Great Escapers, will utilize them amid real life circumstances so terrifying that no Hollywood film could ever do them justice.
Pisces is the sign most likely to move in and out of other dimensions. Sagittarius is the sign most likely to travel across wide-ranging terrains, both physical and philosophical. Combine the trans-dimensional nature of a Pisces Sun with the freedom loving instincts of a Sagittarius Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is far-seeking, freedom-loving, and frontier-faring. Craving adventure, variety, and novelty this is the Sun/Moon pairing most likely to go on road trips so unbelievably wild they will just blow your mind. To illustrate: Russian Cosmonnaut Valentina Tereshkova is a Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) Officially the first woman in space, Tereshkova embarked on her voyage to the final frontier on June 16th, 1963.
Being so attuned to other dimensions and far-away frontiers, the Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon individual struggles to handle earthbound matters. Jefferson Anderson writes of this pairing’s tendency to ignore life’s mundane-but-important details:
At home with Nietzsch or Kierkgaard, you are thrown into a quandry when it comes to balancing your checkbook! You are not the practical sort. You live in a world of ideas and impressions, and the mundane details of life annoy you. Fortunately your keen intuition manages to steer you away from perilous conditions that anyone else as capricious and absentminded would fall into helplessly. (Source)
As far “steering clear of perilous conditions”, there’s an important detail generally omitted from Tereshkova’s biography. Frank Edwards, a former columnist for Fate Magazine, describes the perilous conditions that formed the backdrop to Tereshkova’s mission:
Tereshkova was NOT the first woman into space — she was the first woman to come back from space. There is a difference — and the difference is grim. . . . there were many scientists both in and out of the Communist countries who knew the truth, that the first woman into space never came back. (Source)
On May 23rd, three weeks before Tereshkova’s trip, a listening post at the Torre Bert Space Centre in Italy picked up a series of deeply unsettling voice communications between a Russian spacecraft and mission control:
To this day the identity of the woman heard in the above transmission remains unknown. What is known, according to the Judica-Cordiglia brothers who manned the listening post at Torre Bert, is that “Three days later, on May 26, 1961, the soviet press agency announced the return to earth on the 23rd of a unmanned satellite the size of a city bus. Its launch had not been previously disclosed and its purpose was unknown.” (Source)
As the first woman to venture into the unknown realms of outer space Tereshkova was extremely fortunate to be a Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon. Astrologer Bill Tierney tells us, “This pairing has a marvelous way of communicating with angels on high. Miracles happen for them more than any other combination of signs.” (Source) Given the grim fate that seems to have befallen her predecessor it’s not too much of a stretch to assume Tereshkova really did have “angels from on high” watching over her.
Strangely enough, Yuri Gagarin – officially the first man in space – is also a Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Source) Like his astro-twin Mrs. Tereshkov, Gargarin also seems to have had a few guardian angels looking over him. Eight years after his famous flight on board Vostok One, Gargarin narrowly missed being the pilot for Soyuz One which resulted in a fatal crash.
Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon: Temporal Rifts, Parallel Timelines, Messages from the Past, Images of the Future
The ability to communicate with angels is also what tunes this pairing to multiple levels of reality and to even more mind-blowing possibilities such as multiple timelines. Consider, for instance, the plot of “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, one of the most popular installments of the Star Trek television franchise. The episode originally aired on February 19th, 1990, making it a Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) In the episode a temporal rift creates a fascinating if mind bending network of parallel time lines. The only way for the official timeline to be maintained is for a female crew member to volunteer for a suicide mission through time and space:
Guinan’s line to Captain Picard regarding the multiple realities at 4:03 of the above clip, “I can’t explain it to myself so I can’t explain to you, I only know that I’m right” could easily be life’s motto for this pairing. It may seem a bit “out there” to draw parallels between a real life person such as Valentina Tereshkova and an episode from a fictional television show but Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon knows better than any other combination that truth is stranger than fiction and and sometimes fiction is truer than truth.
Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon: Multiple Dimensions, Final Frontiers, Other Worlds
Speaking of concepts so mind-blowing they enter the frontiers of the unexplainable, Albert Einstein is also a Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) Curiously enough, his theory of relativity bears a strange resemblance to the narrative backdrop to “Yesterday’s Enterprise”. Take a look at this computer generated representation of Einstein’s theory on the left and compare it to a screenshot of the temporal rift depicted in “Yesterday’s Enterprise” on the right:
Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon: Einstein's theory of relativity on the left; a temporal rift in 'Yesterday's Enterprise' on the right
Notice any similarities?
Like the starship from the past depicted in “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, Einstein traveled through the dimensions of space and time. The only difference is his journeys took place not on board a warp-speed capable starship but inside the vastness of his own warp-speed capable mind. His famous letter to FDR regarding the potential of atomic weapons in 1939 probably altered the course of the second world war as much as “Yesterday’s Enterprise” altered the course of the galactic war depicted in Star Trek.
Copernicus, the 16th century astronomer whose book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres is considered the starting point of the scientific revolution, is also Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) Like his astro-twin Albert Einstein, Copernicus’s theories took him so deep into the final frontiers of human knowledge (of his time) that they altered the course of world history. According to his Wikipedia entry, “His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.” (Source)
Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon: Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
Given his interest in astronomy, Copernicus would probably be interested to know that on March 14th, 2012 NASA released an image of the entire universe as observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. (Source) Yes, you read that correctly: “the entire universe”. A high resolution version of the image is available here and really must be seen to be believed. Using the image’s release date as its date of birth it is a Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon just like Copernicus. (Chart)
Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon: The Entire Night Sky (Source: NASA)
You think that’s mind-blowing? Strap yourself in because you ain’t seen nothing yet. Get a load of the “ChronoZoom Project”, a joint research effort between the University of California, Moscow University, and the Microsoft corporation that allows you to point and click your way through the totality of time and space itself: everything from cosmic history to earth history to human history, to the origins of the stars, to the origin of life itself. The project is essentially a space-time travel machine albeit one that stays within the bounds of your computer. Using the date of its release as its date of birth, the ChronoZoom Project is a Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon just like travelers of space and time Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gargarin, Albert Einstein, and Copernicus.
That Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon individuals or projects would be at the forefront of space travel, dimensional physics, astronomy, and time travel is no surprise. At its best this pairing will explore matters so extraordinary they seem magical.
Sagittarius is the Traveler, the Truth Seeker, the Scholar-Lecturer, the Philosopher-Prophet, and the Professor of High Adventure. Possessed by the energy of a wild horse, prone to taking off on wild escapades, and always looking towards new frontiers, Sagittarius is the sign most likely to go on long distance trips. Sometimes these trips will be geographical in nature but other times they will be across religious, spiritual, or moral philosophies. Oftentimes they will be across both.
When Sagittarius takes its desire to seek the truth to extremes it goes from being the Philosopher to being the Fanatic, from being the Professor of High Adventure to the Purveyor of Religious Warfare.
The film Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, released (born) December 6th, 1991 is a Sagittarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) The film hits all the major Sagittarian themes: long distance travel, involvement with foreigners, and broad based issues of morality. In particular the film touches on the examination of *belief systems*, including those taken to the point of fanaticism. In The Undiscovered Country, the belief system to be examined is Captain Kirk’s fanatical, almost religious like, belief that the Klingons are subhuman savages, a belief born from the fact his son was murdered by them.
Sagittarius is traditionally symbolized as an Centaur-Archer firing a flaming arrow at a far-off target. Astrologer Austin Coppock tells us this is the sign of “Doom’s Super Soldier” who will stop at nothing once possessed by the spirit of a crusade. (Source) In this next clip Admiral Chang – the film’s fanatical doom super soldier from abroad – quotes Shakespeare as he fires off a volley of photon torpedoes, the futuristic equivalent of the Archer’s flaming arrows. Meanwhile, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy rush to prepare one final flaming arrow of their own:
Double Sagittarius types often sport a sense of humor as wide ranging as their philosophical escapades. Take a look at this scene where Lt. Uhura, played by Nichelle Nicholas, attempts a foreign language without the benefit of the high-tech universal translator for an example of the double Sag’s boisterous laugh and rollicking sense of humor.
Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Sagittarius: Trek Through Space, Quest on the Martian Frontier
Curiously enough, the Curiosity rover launched by NASA on November 26th, 2011 and currently en route to Mars is also a Sagittarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) Astrologer Jefferson writes of the double Sagittarius pairing, “You need plenty of space in which to move about and do exactly as you please . . . lots of travel is essential to your health.” (Source) Luckily for the Curiosity rover it will have an entire planet to roam across, a near dream for a double Sagittarius:
In medical astrology Sagittarius rules the hips (running muscles). Perhaps then it’s no surprise that a double Sagittarius rover like Curiosity has a base so much wider and larger and tires so much more rugged than its predecessors the Spirit and the Opportunity rovers. The Curiosity is the rover on your right, the scientists’ left:
Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Sagittarius: the Curiosity rover is on your right
The Curiosity rover even bears a strange similarity to the symbol for Sagittarius. Consider, for instance, how an image of the Curiosity released by NASA in 2011 compares with an image of the symbol for Sagittarius as published by Johannes Hevelius in 1690:
Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Sagittarius: the Mars Curiosity rover on the left courtesy of NASA/JPL, drawing by Johannes Hevelius from 1690 on right
If you didn’t know better you might even think the device the Curiosity is carrying on its left side is some type of mechanical bow or that the laser beam it’s firing is a flaming arrow.
It should be noted that along with its Sun (identity) and Moon (emotional needs), the Curiosity also has Mercury (communication) and the North Node (destiny) in the sign of wide intellectual horizons. Its Mars (how it fights) is in Virgo, the sign of analysis. Mars in Virgo is a great placement for forensic researchers who must dig deep and analyze the heck out of things, which is more or less what the Curiosity is doing up there on the red planet.
Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Sagittarius: “The heights of artistic and spiritual expression”
Of course there is more to this sign than exotic cultures, flaming arrows, and non-stop action across the high seas of deep space or great plains of the Martian frontier. Sagittarius is ruled by the planet Jupiter, the most expansive of planets. When a person (or project) has both their Sun (identity) and Moon (emotional needs) in Sagittarius they will thus be very oriented to an expansive “Big Picture” view of things. Astrologer Jefferson Anderson explains:
. . . for this pairing, every facet of existence takes on cosmic, abstract proportions. Clarity of thought and lofty inspiration life you above the masses and into the realms of philosophy. Capable of ascending to great artistic and spiritual heights, you nevertheless have genuine difficult when it comes to returning to Earth. (Source)
On December 15th, 2009 the American Museum of Natural History released an amazing six and a half minute video entitled The Known Universe that may be the ultimate example of the Double Sagittarian’s capacity to “ascend to great artistic and spiritual heights.” The video takes the viewer on a bird’s eye trip from the Himalaya Mountains all the way out to the furthest known boundaries of space and time. Using the video’s original upload date as its date of birth, it too is a Sagittarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart)
The scholar of the Zodiac, Sagittarius loves museums and long distance trips. Maybe then it’s no coincidence a museum staffed by scholars produced a double Sagittarius video that takes the viewer on the longest of long distance trips, whether measured in terms of miles traveled or minds blown.
Aries and Libra are opposite signs but opposites always have a lot in common. In the case of Aries and Libra, what they have in common is the capacity to fight. Aries fights using force, Libra fights using finesse. Aries is motivated by self-preservation, Libra by the desire for justice. Aries is oriented to the application of power, Libra is oriented to the balance of power. Aries is the Warrior who charges dead ahead at the enemy, Libra is the General who anticipates their next move. Together these two signs form the “confrontation axis” of the Zodiac. Using its operational start date as its date of birth, the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto was an Aries Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) It’s arguably one of the best examples of righteous confrontation and organized resistance of the last 100 years:
Jefferson Anderson refers to Aries Sun, Libra Moon is the Sun/Moon pairing of “The Rebel” who is darn near unmatchable when it comes to “sheer determination, boldness, and aggression.” (Source) Amy Goodman is an Aries Sun, Libra Moon best known as the hard-charging, trouble-making, rabble-rousing host of Democracy Now. (Chart) As you might expect from somebody with an astrological pedigree so oriented towards confrontation, Goodman has made a career of doing battle with society’s most entrenched power structures. During one particularly notable battle at the 2008 Republican National Convention she was arrested by police officers in full SWAT gear:
Getting arrested at the RNC was a walk in the park compared to some of Goodman’s previous confrontations. According to Wikipedia, “In 1991, Goodman was beaten by Indonesian soldiers after witnessing a mass killing of Timorese demonstrators. In 1998, she documented Chevron Corporation’s role in a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and villagers who had seized oil rigs.” As Jefferson Anderson writes of Aries Sun, Libra Moon individual, “Your kind of determination is likely to get you into trouble . . .” (Source)
Actor and martial arts expert Steven Seagal is also an Aries Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) Best known for playing cops, soldiers, and other bad-asses, Seagal’s also been involved in a number of environmentally conscious films that would make his soul-sister Amy Goodman quite proud. In 1994 he directed and starred in On Deadly Ground, the plot of which bears an eerie resemblance to the BP oil spill of 2010:
In 1997 Seagal made another environmentally themed film, Fire Down Below, in which he plays an EPA agent fighting industrialists dumping toxic waste in the Kentucky hills. Actors do their best work in roles that line up with their charts. It’s thus no surprise that Aries Sun, Libra Moon native Steven Seagal excels at projecting into the imaginal world of film the same capacity for confrontation that Aries Sun, Libra Moon native Amy Goodman projects across the radio airwaves.
Rowdy Rowdy Piper, best known as a professional wrestler, is also an Aries Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) His fight scene with actor Keith David in the 1988 film They Live is considered one of the all time best, possibly the best, fight scene in the history of film. (Source)
Speaking of Aries Sun, Libra Moon individuals and epic fights: Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law Student whose Congressional testimony set off a firestorm regarding women’s reproductive rights, is an Aries Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) Fluke’s entire chart, in fact, is loaded with Aries/Libra oppositions which means she is hard-wired to confront injustice:
Fluke testified before Congress just as transiting Saturn (maturity) was conjuncting her natal Pluto (extremes), a transit associated with “hard won excellence” similar to the process a piece of coal undergoes when it is turning into a diamond. In the case of Fluke, the “hard won excellence” she’s earned is in maters of confrontation (Aries) regarding issues of balance of power (Libra). While not intending it at the time of her testimony, she’s probably done more to stop fascist gasbag Rush Limbaugh in his tracks than a roundhouse kick from Steven Seagal or a clothesline from Rowdy Rowdy Piper, two of Fluke’s Aries Sun, Libra Moon soul-brothers.
South Node in Libra: Symbol of Past Lives in the Sign of Good Looks, Treachery Disguised as Diplomacy
Libra is the Lover, Artist, Peacemaker, Diplomat, Statesmen, and Counselor of the zodiac. Libra is the sign most directly associated with elegance, social harmony, an innate awareness of the other, and a superb sense of aesthetics. People with their South Node (past lives) in this super-suave sign thus come into this life with these skills already very well-developed. They may also have fallen into the dark side of this sign: co-dependency, subtle treachery disguised as diplomacy, and relying on their looks, charm, and/or ability to manipulate others to get what they want.
North Node in Aries: Point of Destiny in Sign of the Trailblazer, the Ass-Kicker, and Amazon Warrior
The North Node is the solution to any problems, pitfalls, excesses or traumas of the South Node. You can think of the North Node as a person’s destiny, should they choose to accept it. If you don’t believe in “destiny”, you can think of the North Node as being akin to an astrological vitamin cocktail that will remedy what ails you even if it tastes unfamiliar at first.
When the South Node is in Libra, the North Node is in Aries, the sign of the Trailblazer, the Daredevil, the Warrior, the Survivor, the Competitor, the “Ass-Kicker” of the Zodiac. Aries’s role is to clear pathways, dive into the unknown, and fearlessly face dangers that would send other signs trembling and turning tail. Ecologically, Aries is associated with the spring equinox when plants are courageously bursting through the soil and animals are emerging from hibernation to battle for both territory and mating opportunities. It is symbolized by the Ram who will, quite literally, go head to head against adversaries.
Aries is symbolized by the Ram who goes head-to-head.
People with their South Node in Libra are often fixated on relationships but, ironically, the only way they will ever satisfy their relational fixation is by stepping into their ass-kicking North Node.
Mixed Martial Arts superstars Miesha Tate and Ronda “Rowdy” Rousey both have their South Nodes in Libra and their North Nodes in Aries. (Tate’s Chart)(Rousey’s Chart) Take a look at the press conference held during the lead up to their title match on March 3rd, 2012 for a good example of this nodal axis at work. In terms of hair, clothes, and aesthetics, both women obviously have their Libra “Finesse Pimp” skills down pat. They also have both clearly stepped into their Aries “Ass-Kicker” North Nodes:
Libra socializes its way into a room, Aries busts through the door boots kickin’ and fists flyin’. Libra is a natural at the negotiating table, Aries prefers to flip tables, as the above video makes clear.
Actress Lucy Lawless, best known for portraying “Xena Warrior Princess”, has her South Node in Libra and North Node in Aries just like Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey. (Chart) Lawless has never fought competitively like Tate or Rousey but she has done an excellent job of projecting the warrior spirit of her Aries North Node into the imaginal world of stage and screen:
Lawless – whose last name practically screams “I’m Aries, bitch!” – has benefited from having a Sun/Moon conjunction in Aries as well as having Saturn (wisdom, maturity) conjunct her North Node. According to Celeste Teal, Saturn conjunct the North Node is associated with taking a very practical, patient, and self-disciplined approach to the work represented by the North Node. (Source)
Rapper LL Cool J, short for “Ladies Love Cool James”, has his South Node in Libra and North Node in Aries. (Chart) He chose his oh-so Libra stage name at age 16, a time when most people have yet to begin fully accessing their North Node. Here is a video of his very Libresque song “I Need Love” from early on in his career:
A few years later he made the video “I’m Bad” in which he must rescue his girlfriend from underworld types while dressed in an all red track suit, wearing converse sneakers, and displaying a series of over-sized gold chains. It doesn’t get any more Aries than this:
LL’s later videos such as “Mama Said Knock You Out” (filmed in a boxing ring) and “Tina’s Got a Big Ole Butt” (about a young lady with a big ole butt) also accessed the straight shooting bravado and libidinous energies of his Aries North Node.
The all-time flag bearer for a person who has managed to incorporate the super suave “game” of a Libra South Node with the adrenalin laced physicality of an Aries North Node could be actor Sean Connery, whose name is still synonymous with the iconic British spy he portrayed during the 1960s. (Connery’s Chart)
Out of curiosity I ran the chart for the James Bond character using the publication date of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel Casino Royale as Bond’s date of birth. (Chart) The book – and thus its main character Mr. Bond – has its Sun at 23 degrees Aries and Moon at approximately 18 degrees Aries. Connery’s North Node is at 24 degrees Aries. In other words, the two luminaries (Sun and Moon) of the James Bond character light up Connery’s North Node (destiny) like a pair of flood lights. Portraying that character truly was his destiny.
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