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Combine the extreme intensity of a Scorpio Sun with the competitive instincts of an Aries Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is highly combative, hyper-individualistic, and always looking for a fight. Astrologer Bil Tierney says this pairing is “built for confrontation”. (Source) To illustrate: using its incorporation date as its date of birth, Boston Dynamics Inc. is a Scorpio/Aries. (Chart) They’re the company the Pentagon has contracted with to build what looks like the real life incarnation of “The Terminator”, the hyper-confrontational cyborg from the future famously portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Take a look:

Using its establishment date of 11/21/1977 as its date of birth, the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (aka the “Delta Force”) is also a Scorpio Sun, Aries Moon. (Chart) This undated photograph of four Delta Force “Operators” courtesy of the Department of Defense starkly summarizes the modus operandi of what might be the zodiac’s most dangerous Sun/Moon combination. Like the machines built by Boston Dynamics, Delta Force is an organization that’s very much “built for confrontation”:

Scorpio and Aries form what’s known as a “quincunx”, a potentially volatile astrological aspect that’s as difficult to reconcile as it is to pronounce. Signs that quincunx each other are so different they may as well be from different planets if not different dimensions. About the only thing Scorpio and Aries have in common is they’re both ruled by Mars, the planet of war. (Aries is ruled by Mars, Scorpio is co-ruled by Mars and Pluto) As astrologer Linda Goodman explains in her book Love Signs, Scorpio fights like a ninja, Aries like a prize fighter:

Combine the two together and get you a Sun/Moon pairing that will storm life by the front door, the back door, and all points in between — something this video about the Delta Force selection process makes abundantly clear. Using its original release date as its date of birth, spy novelist Tom Clancy’s best selling, reality based Splinter Cell video game franchise is a Scorpio Sun, Aries Moon every bit as confrontational in the imaginal alter-verse of video gaming as the Delta Force is in the very real three dimensional world of war-fighting. (Chart) According to Wikipedia, the series features themes that are both covert (Scorpio) and aggressive (Aries), “the game stars protagonist Sam Fisher as a highly trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA.”

Using its original release date as its date of birth, the video game Tomb Raider is also a Scorpio/Aries. Like Splinter Cell, the game is full of action and adventure. It was also intensely (Scorpio) pioneering (Aries) in its own right as it was the first high-profile video game to feature a female character — Lara Croft — as its protagonist.

Have a knuckle dragging, uber-Republican, pro-Haliburton, pro Dick Cheney type in your family who thinks astrology is just a bunch of bunk? Tell them that the U.S. Delta Force and/or Splinter Cell are both Scorpio Sun, Aries Moons — then read to them what Charles and Suzi Harvey have to say about this combination, then sit back and watch their jaws drop as low as their knuckles:

Even those Scorpio/Aries individuals who are completely opposed to militarism will take an intensely “guns blazing” approach to their opposition. To illustrate: using the group’s formation date as its date of birth, the “Free P***y Riot” (FPR) is a Scorpio Sun, Aries Moon. (Chart) The FPR are a hyper-confrontational, pro-feminist, pro-LGBT, Russian punk rock political protest group, not an American special forces group, but given the ruthless approach Vladimir Putin takes to his political opponents there’s no doubting their willingness to “mix it up” or to “rally to the barricades” in aid of their cause. Like the members of the Delta Force, the missions the FPR go on are dangerous enough that its members must disguise their identities. Like Tom Clancy’s spy thriller video game series, FPR is also something of a “splinter cell”, one whose members have landed in prison as a result of their efforts:

Unfortunately, always being ready to “rally to the barricades” with “guns blazing” ready to “fight, fight, fight” comes with a deep cost. Life is a jungle for many (most?) Scorpio/Aries natives which is also why you’ll find a disproportionate number who suffer from stress disorders. Grant Lewi cautions his readers, “This combination has a high temper which can be explosive to the danger point . . .” (Source)

Scorpio/Aries Martin Luther is a 16th century German monk, priest, and professor of theology who went to war against the moneyed corruption of the church. (Source) For his efforts he was excommunicated by the Pope and condemned as an “outlaw” by the Emperor of Rome. Luther also married a runaway nun, which should give you an idea of the type of romantic partner many Scorpio/Aries men are attracted to. Legendary blogger-provocateur Matt Drudge is a Scorpio/Aries whose made a career doing to the establishment media what Martin Luther did to the Church. Even those of us who find his brand of politics profoundly distasteful can recognize that he’s certainly “rallied to the barricades” in defense of free speech and independent media. In fact, during the late 1990s he so effectively rallied to the barricades of free speech that he became Bill and Hilary Clinton’s public enemy number one. At the time the Clintons were at the peak of their power while Drudge was still working a low wage job to support himself. One need not agree with his politics to recognize that only a person with intense (Scorpio) levels of courage (Aries Moon) would have dared to do that.

About the Author: Matthew David Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults via Twitter, his first YouTube channel, his second YouTube channel, SoundCloud, LibSyn or this site’s contact page.

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By now you’ve heard about “PRISM”, the NSA surveillance program so all encompassing it can “watch your ideas as they form”, to quote Edward Snowden’s assessment of its capabilities. What you probably haven’t heard about is a database and pattern recognition program by the name of “PROMIS”, the circa 1982 granddaddy progenitor of today’s mass surveillance systems. Why haven’t you heard about PROMIS before? There’s a number of reasons not the least of which is journalists who get too deep into the story have a nasty habit of turning up dead, usually under very suspicious circumstances. (Source) An astrological consideration of PROMIS is certainly in order at this time because, as an early 1990’s Australian news program “A Current Affair” describes it, the PROMIS saga revolves around “spying on a scale never before imagined”:

Using the date of its creation as its date of birth, PROMIS is a Pisces Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) Astrologer Linda Goodman observes that Pisces “absorbs people’s feeling and emotions like a psychic sponge” while Gemini “always wants something to read.” (Source) As explained in a previous article, this pairing can get so good at connecting, collating, and cross-indexing subtle impressions from the psychic world (Pisces) with data driven perceptions from the information world (Gemini) that he or she will seem to sense your thoughts before you do:

Short for “Prosecutor’s Management Information System”, PROMIS was originally intended as a federal case management tool. Designed by former NSA analyst Bill Hamilton, it worked by reading and integrating a wide variety of previously non-compatible databases into a single elegant, searchable, private proto-Google. This enabled the prosecutor to peer into previously “hidden layers” (Pisces) of a case to “uncover less visible facts” by “spotting, observing, and articulating” (Gemini) all the actions of the defendants, witnesses, arresting officers, judges, detectives, and defense lawyers in all their previous cases. (Source) When all that information was cross-collated and analyzed it became easy to predict which defense attorney and/or which judge was going to take which course of action in which case with what degree of probability. A legal strategy that might have taken months or years to research and develop before PROMIS could now be decided upon in nano-seconds. For the attorneys with access to it, PROMIS was, in effect, a micro-processor powered crystal ball.

Intelligence agencies quickly realized that with a few modifications PROMIS could be altered to quickly cross-collate and analyze a target’s bank deposits/withdrawals, credit card transactions, insurance files, stock investments, book purchases, phone calls, geographic movements, as well as those of all their associates out to several degrees of separation. When all of that information is overlaid with data from reconnaissance satellites, surveillance cameras, and license plate readers the resulting dossier is astonishing in its thoroughness. Investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts, the Assistant Secretary of HUD during the Bush I administration, has said the film Enemy of the State is a good approximation of what these systems were capable of back around 1992. Today the systems are run not by humans sitting in front of terminals but by automated, artificial intelligence powered super-computers that compile high detail, low-cost, real time dossiers on the entire population, not just selected troublemakers. (Source) What’s depicted in Enemy of the State is thus more than a generation out of date but if you fast forward to 00:48 of this scene you’ll at least get a decent, if fictionalized, visual reference for how invisible (Pisces) connections (Gemini) can be discerned with PROMIS progeny:

According to LAPD narcotics detective turned investigative reporter Michael C. Ruppert, by the turn of the millennium the system had mutated into an automated, algorithm driven Hydra, with a computerized “head” invisibly (Pisces) peering (Gemini) into every database and through every camera on the planet 24 hours a day. (Source) In other words, how modern government surveillance is less “FBI agent listening in on your phone calls” and more “All Seeing Eye, Version 2.0”:

There are, of course, perfectly legal and reasonable uses for PROMIS. According to Bill Hamilton, it’s now routinely used to by banks, insurance companies, and law enforcement to spot everything from identity theft to insider trading to insurance fraud to tax evasion. By 2007, the technology had advanced to the point that credit card companies could even predict which married couples would get divorced with a 95% plus rate of accuracy just by running their credit card transactions through AI-powered “data waterfalls”. (Source) That’s more accurate than most psychics (Pisces), no matter how many inquiries (Gemini) they make.

The software’s predictive abilities come alive via the power of what’s known as “block modeling”, a process IBM pioneered beginning in the 1980s when it began building computerized models of its own employees. (Source) (It’s now called “dimensional modeling”) How it works: let’s assume a person is so unique that they’re one in a million. That means there’s 350 other people with their exact psychological profile just in the United States alone. Even the most unique person’s thoughts can thus be predicted with a high degree of accuracy based on what the other 349 people in their respective data “block” have done or thought in similar situations. If an agency or corporation can data mine all of a person or community’s emails, phone calls, google searches, banking records, etc, then automatically compare and cross-analyze those against the same data mined from all the other persons and/or communities in similar “blocks” the resulting psychological profiles start to get extraordinarily granular. The software is so powerful that, according to a 1991 Vanity Fair article, journalist Danny Casolaro was murdered for his investigation into it. Dubbed “the Octopus conspiracy”, the story even made an episode of the television series Unsolved Mysteries. Fast forward to 4:07, you’ll even get to see Bill Hamilton, the man who developed PROMIS in the first place:

Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey tell us the Pisces/Gemini pairing has internal “lines of communication” which are used to “keep a running commentary on people and situations” (Source) That’s exactly how PROMIS works, by accessing every “line of communication” imaginable to keep running, real-time dossiers (“commentaries”) on not only people but also entire governments, organizations, neighborhoods, corporations, communities, ecosystems, families, and financial markets. According to a UK Register article entitled “War Games on the Grandest Scale”, the Pentagon has been utilizing PROMIS like systems to build virtual reality computer simulations of all 6.5 billion people on the planet since 2007. The system, called the “Sentient World Simulation” is, for all intents and purposes, a psychic (Pisces) data exchange (Gemini) — one that can predict the likely actions of an individual or community years before they’ve even thought to take them. That sounds like something out of a futuristic science fiction movie but it’s actually already decade old technology. According to a recent PBS article, in the early-to-mid 2000s the National Security Agency developed a computer system called “AQUAINT” (Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence), an artificial intelligence powered black box agents can query to find out what person X thinks about subject Y. (Source) AQUAINT is, in effect, a psychic surveillance system — one whose lineage can almost certainly be traced back to the PROMIS software originally designed by Bill Hamilton and stolen from his company INSLAW.

When Jefferson Anderson wrote in 1978 that the Pisces/Gemini pairing is “actually several clever individuals inside of one and can play any part in order to get what you want” he had no idea just how accurate he was. (Source) The ability of PROMIS progeny to manipulate any database (“play any part”) makes them extremely effective at enabling subtle manipulation of both groups and individuals, from Wall Streeters to whistle-blowers, multi-national corporations to localized protest movements. Suffice it to say, it’s a excellent tool for blackmail and intimidation. Those old school J. Edgar Hoover tactics, while still useful, are crude child’s play compared to where PROMIS progeny really shine. When integrated with the latest advancements in neural networking and parallel processing they can perform not only surveillance but also intervention in the systems being monitored: cell phones, power grids, court systems, oil rigs, research facilities, traffic lights, automobiles, stock markets, email accounts, tax and regulatory records, anything computerized. (Source) Whoever wrote the 1992 Robert Redford film Sneakers had such a detailed understanding of PROMIS software’s capabilities that it’s amazing the movie was even allowed to be made. In one particularly chilling scene, Redford’s team realize the software can be used not only for theft and espionage but to do things like artificially shut down parts of the power grid or even to crash passenger jets by manipulating air traffic control systems:

As coincidence would have it, PROMIS dervied software was on the computers of the FAA, NORAD, the Secret Service, and the White House the day of the 9/11 attacks. (Source)

Using its original air date as its date of birth, the classic Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” is also a Pisces/Gemini — one whose plot bears more than a few similarities to the PROMIS software saga. (Chart) In the episode space aliens on a secret mission use advanced technology to manipulate a town’s electrical and telecommunications grid, plunging the residents into a frenzy of paranoia, suspicion, chaos, and violent scapegoating. A 2002 reboot of the series replaced the team of invading space aliens with a secret Pentagon unit tasked with stoking people’s fears of terrorism.

In the epilogue to “Monsters” Rod Serling stated, “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts . . .” Unfortunately, as events of the last decade have made clear, the mass weaponization of our thoughts is no longer something confined to the Twilight Zone.

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.

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Combine an Aquarius Sun’s radical inventiveness with a Virgo Moon’s instincts for clear thinking and forensic research and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that will not only seek the truth but will actually find it. Astrologer Bil Tierney says this pairing is “not afraid to be exposed to knowledge and will not tolerate censorship.” (Source) To illustrate: using its registration date as its date of birth, the website Declassification-Engine.org (DCE) is an Aquarius Sun, Virgo Moon. (Chart) The site has some similarities to Julian Assange’s brainchild Wikileaks but with one big difference: the DCE traffics only in publicly available documents that have already been declassified. What makes the DCE unique is that its proprietors have developed radically advanced technologies (Aquarius) that can actually decipher (Virgo) the parts of declassified documents so often censored behind black bars. Exactly how they do this is beyond the technological understanding of this astrologer but Wired Magazine recently published a lengthy profile of the DCE so if you’re curious about its methods — and Aquarius/Virgo is always curious — then that’s a good place to start.

Astrologer Stella Hyde says Aquarians make for great data miners while Virgos make for great crime scene investigators. (Source) While the folks behind DCE are by no means political radicals, it sure seems their data mining (Aquarius) techniques could potentially be used to discern (Virgo) evidence of crimes committed in the name of national security but hidden behind those ubiquitous blacked out redactions.

Using its registration date as its date of birth, the website ShadowStats.com is also an Aquarius Sun, Virgo Moon. (Chart) According to a San Francisco Chronicle profile of the site, ShadowStats is “a one-man crusade to expose official economic data as grossly misleading at best and, at worst, a pack of lies.” (Source) One of the key research findings repeadtedly published on the site is just how cooked the government’s official unemployment numbers are. According to ShadowStats, the U.S. unemployment rate is generally 250-300% higher than what the government says it is. Many of us have suspected this to be the case but ShadowStats has utilized advanced technologies (Aquarius) and forensic research (Virgo) to actually prove it.

Aquarius/Virgo makes for a great analyst and loves to study curious phenomenon so here’s a very curious phenomenon that a number astrological analysts have come across in their studies: the character traits of an actor’s signature role(s) will usually match the characteristics of their Sun/Moon pairing, often to an uncanny degree. To illustrate: actor Marc Singer is a Aquarius Moon, Virgo Moon. (Chart) Singer is best known for portraying truth-seeking (Aquarius) journalist (Virgo) Michael Donovan in the ground breaking 1983 miniseries “V”. In particular he’s most remembered for a pair of scenes widely considered to be two of the most shocking moments in television history. In the first scene he climbs aboard the alien mother-ship and finds out that the Visitors are not the benevolent humanoids they’ve been passing themselves off as:

In a later scene he comes to find out that the real reasons the Visitors have traveled across the galaxy are not to seek our assistance but to steal the Earth’s water and abduct humans for use as food back on their home planet. According to astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey, a metaphoric image for Aquarius/Virgo combination is “Aliens extract human genes to breed the human race on a planet of superior design.” (Source) That’s a spooky accurate approximation of the Visitors’ conspiracy to use humans as food back on their home planet uncovered by Singer’s truth seeking alter ego Mr. Donovan.

What’s really spooky about the original “V” is just how how similar the modus operandi of the Visitors was to the modus operandi of the Bush/Cheney regime. Just substitute “water from Planet Earth” with “oil from Iraq” or “laundered drug money from heroin soaked Afghanistan” and the plot of V offers an excellent approximation of the actual agendas behind the various wars initiated since 9/11. The mysterious epidemic of deaths among microbiologists during the Bush/Cheney years even parallels the disappearance of scientists depicted in V. The Bush/Cheney regime may not have planned to use humans as food but their friends on Wall Street have certainly been eating Americans out of house and home. What’s equally spooky is that the only journalist in the mainstream media principled enough to call Bush/Cheney out for the fascist reptilians that they are was Keith Olberman who, like Marc Singer, is also an Aquarius Sun, Virgo Moon. (Chart)

Scorpio is the sign of the Covert-Op and the Deep Cover Cop, the World Wide Vampire Slayer and the Witch Goddess in Chief, the Psychologist Emeritus and the Sorceress Semper Paratus. When a person or project has their Sun (identity) in this clandestinely inclined sign they will come to be identified with psychology, intensity, or deep level research. According to astrologer Judy Hall, Scorpios are naturals in “silent-but-deadly” professions such as experimental science or submarine surveillance. (Source) To illustrate: using its establishment date as its date of birth the Tonopah Test Range, aka “Area 52”, is a Scorpio Sun. (Chart) Area 52 is the younger, much more secretive sister of the infamous “Area 51” base. This Area 52 mission patch, obtained by way of geographer Trevor Paglen’s book Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes, suggests the base is home to occult projects, secret technologies, and silent-but-deadly aircraft that are to the year 2013 what submarines were to the year 1320:

Sitting 120 degrees from Scorpio is Pisces, the sign of Psychic and the Seer, the Mystic and the Mist, the Specter and the Spook. Pisces shares Scorpio’s attunement to the mysterious but whereas Scorpio seeks out the unspeakable, Pisces seeks out the unfathomable. Scorpio digs deep, Pisces dissolves boundaries. Scorpio susses out the taboo, Pisces puts the taboo in a trance. Judy Hall says Pisceans do best in professions that involve intuition, illusion, or imagery as well as any endeavor which requires connection to the ocean, be it the actual ocean or the oceanic realms of the unconscious. (Source) When a person’s Moon (emotional needs) is in this elusive sign they need to be involved in matters hypnotic, intuitive, illusory, or mystical in order to feel emotionally nourished. For instance, physicist Russel Targ is a Pisces Moon. (Chart) Targ has published more than a 100 papers on plasma physics, laser applications, and electro-optics but is best known for co-founding the Stanford Research Institute’s remote viewing program. Under Targ’s leadership, the SRI spent 23 years and $25 million investigating psychic spying methods for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies. (Source)

Combine the secretive nature of a Scorpio Sun with a Pisces Moon’s affinity for the hypnotic realms of the unconscious and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is imaginative, mysterious, and deeply in tune with all that is hidden. This pairing is quite capable of communicating information without speaking or speaking without communicating information, both of which are survival skills when you lead a life filled with subterfuge as Scorpio/Pisces often does. For instance, Claus Von Stauffenberg — the German military officer who was executed for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler — is a Scorpio/Pisces whose life was filled with more subterfuge than a Tom Clancy novel. (Chart) If you’re not familiar with Von Stauffenberg’s story he was portrayed by Tom Cruise in the 2011 film Valkryie.

Jefferson Anderson calls Scorpio/Pisces the Sun/Moon pairing of “The Sponge” whose ability to absorb energy from the environment “allows it take on the color of its surroundings like a chameleon”. (Source) To illustrate: using its launch date as its date of birth the U.S. government’s “Advanced Technology Observatory Platform” (ATOP) project is a Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon. (Chart) Almost nothing has ever been officially disclosed about the ATOP project but between its astrological chart and clues found in its mission patch we can make some educated guesses as to its capabilities. For starters we know that since we’re dealing with a Scorpio/Pisces entity what’s not shown in the patch is more important than what is shown. Additionally, astrologer Stella Hyde says Scorpio makes for a great secret agent while Pisces makes for a great escape artist. (Source) We can thus deduce that the ATOP project might have involved some sort of technology which would allow a secret agent (Scorpio) to make his or her escape (Pisces):

According to Linda Goodman the Scorpio/Pisces combination of signs is associated with deeply subtle, very covert forms of movement. When paired together they take on “an other-worldly ability to navigate the invisible realms that connect people on psychic levels” she writes in her book Love Signs. (Source) It’s unlikely that ATOP has anything to do with the invisible realms of the psychic world, at least not on the literal level. It may, however, have something to do with technology that absorbs light from the surrounding environment in order to produce optical invisibility, not unlike what a chameleon does. In other words, a cloaking device. At least that’s what some informed observers such as Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs seem to think it might be. As Pilkington explains in his 2010 article on the mystery of ATOP patch, “today’s radar-evading drones are carefully optimised to blend in with the sky and to avoid casting shadows.” (Source)

Marie Curie is another Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon known for handling dangerous material. (Chart) She won a Nobel prize for her pioneering work with radiation, also an “entity” which also casts no shadows. Something similar can be said for the infamous “Men in Black” (MIB), the ominously dressed government agents thought to show up at people’s door to intimidate them into silence should they learn too much about extraterrestrials. The concept of the “MIB” was popularized by the comedic film franchise starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith but they’ve been rumored to exist in real life since the 1956 publication of the book They Knew Too Much. Nobody knows for sure what the truth is about the real MIBs but many UFO aficionados seem to think they originated with the U.S. Air Force’s Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS), a classified unit established shortly after World War II. According to a recent article in Air & Space magazine:

Using its establishment date as its date of birth, the AISS is a Scorpio/Pisces organization. (Chart) Even if reports of UFOs and “Men in Black” are the product of imagination or fiction, the AISS still fits the profile of a Scorpio/Pisces organization as they are tasked with top secret missions (Scorpio) to capture crashed enemy airmen — individuals who can be thought of as the modern day equivalent of escaped ghosts (Pisces Moon).

According to astrologer Grant Lewi, this pairing “can see right through people, maybe better then they can see themselves”. (Source) The ability to see through people while remaining (nearly) invisible endows this pairing with the capacity to see things hidden out of sight and hide things that are seen in plain sight. To illustrate, sculptor Jim Sanborn is a Scorpio/Pisces. (Chart) He’s best known for creating the encrypted Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In true Scorpio/Pisces fashion, Sanborn placed four coded messages within the Kryptos sculpture, each of which is a mystery hidden in plain sight. (Source).

It took 8 years for one of the CIA’s cryptanalysts to decipher three of the messages, one of which happens to nicely sum up the Scorpio/Pisces approach to life, “Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of iqlusion”. If you’re wondering what the word “iqlusion” means, it turns out Sanborn included misspellings in the messages to add an extra layer of subterfuge to the Kryptos mystery. (Source) Scorpio/Pisces can be sneaky like that.

Twenty years after the first three Kryptos messages were deciphered, the fourth remains a mystery.

Kryptos may be Sanborn’s most famous sculpture but some of his others, such as the Cyrillic Projector located at the University of North Carolina, are just as riveting:

Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey say one of the Scorpio/Piscean’s greatest strengths is the ability to “capture the imagination” while “evoking a mysterious atmosphere”. (Source) Sanborn’s Kryptos statue has captured the imagination of a generation of cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, while his other statues have made his name more or less synonymous with the “ability to evoke a mysterious atmosphere”. Here, for instance, is a Sanborn sculpture outside M.D. Anderson’s library at the University of Houston courtesy of Flickr member “MeltedPlastic” that is both captivating and mysterious:

Many of Sanborn’s sculptures make use of what a Rhizome.com article calls “eerie luminescence”. (Source) While few Scorpio/Pisceans will necessarily become sculptors like Sanborn, many will be attracted to lagoons, full moons, and other haunting landscapes which are both eerie and luminescent.

Hilary Clinton is probably the world’s most (in)famous Scorpio/Pisces. While Sanborn is known for placing hidden messages inside the Kryptos statue he was hired to build at CIA headquarters, Clinton is now (in)famous for hiding email messages in a private server she had built, possibly to elude the prying eyes of three letter agencies like the CIA.

Like his fellow Scorpio/Pisces Marie Curie, Sanborn is fascinated by invisible forces of nature such as radiation. In a sculpture entitled Critical Assembly, Sanborn included a disassembled sphere that had been designed to hold the nuclear payload of plutonium and uranium — glowing substances which Marie Curie actually carried around in necklaces she fashioned, a habit which ultimately led to her death.

Sanborn probably hasn’t ever made a habit of carrying radioactive materials around in necklaces like Marie Curie but for his sculpture Terrestrial Physics, he did recreate a fully functional particle accelerator. When working on the sculpture he managed to achieve nuclear fission, albeit at a low level. (Source) He also seems to have exposed himself to naturally radioactive uranium ores for his Uranium Autoradiograph Series. (Source) Few Scorpio/Pisces will go so far as to handle materials that are literally radioactive the way Curie and Sanborn have but many will end up working with issues that are psychologically, socially, or artistically radioactive.

This pairing’s affinity with the death, danger, and the dark undercurrents of the occult means it’s also going to lean towards the paranoid side. For instance, in an interview he gave with the Washington Post Sanborn described the extremely secluded nature of his art studio, “I needed 15 acres, minimum, to insulate myself . . . I have video cameras, threatening signs, whatever it takes.” (Source) That Sanborn would go to such extremes to protect his privacy makes perfect sense. Of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings, Scorpio/Pisces might be the one most likely to subscribe to the philosophy of “It’s not paranoia when they really are watching you” — a philosophy that recent events have proven is no ghost story.

About the Author: Matthew Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults via Twitter, YouTube, Spreaker, Soundcloud, or his contact page.

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