Pair the Sun (conscious identity) in the sign of justice and fairness (Libra) with the Moon (unconscious instincts) in the sign of order and strategy (Capricorn) and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is strategic, organized, and diplomatic, with a very well developed sense of liberty, justice, and fairness for all. To illustrate: using its premier date as its date of birth, the hit 1980s show Knight Rider is a Libra Sun, Capricorn Moon. (Chart) In the show David Hasselhoff portrays a former police officer recruited by the “Foundation for Law and Government”, a well-heeled social justice (Libra) organization (Capricorn) with its own in-house technology directorate loosely akin to Lockheed’s “Skunkworks” division (makers of stealth spy planes):
The show’s writing and plot-lines are pretty much standard Reagan-era pablum but its mysterious theme song and cryptic voice-over sure do provide a lot of sizzle. As the narrator tells us the show depicts “A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.” That’s actually a pretty fitting description for a chart with Pisces (mystery) Rising (appearance) and Neptune (illusion) on the Midheaven (status before the public).
Geographer-provocateur Trevor Paglen is a Libra Sun, Capricorn Moon whose taken more than a few real life “shadowy flights” into the “dangerous world” of black budget military projects that “do not exist”, at least not officially. (Chart) According to a recent profile published in the New Yorker, “Paglen takes photos of off-limits military installations such as Area 51, and of buildings, aircraft, and offices connected with the top-secret black world”. (Source) For his 2010 book Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Black World he even traveled to Afghanistan to take photos of an infamous CIA “black site” prison known as the “Salt Pit.” Doing so without getting killed, jailed, or dying from exposure required pairing the legal instincts of a lawyer (Libra) with the physical stamina and capacity for self-preservation of a goat-herder (Capricorn Moon). The same can likely be said for what it took to take this photo of the NSA’s headquarters, which Paglen captured in 2014 and released into the public domain:
Paglen doesn’t ride around in a high-tech talking car that speaks to him but he does make use of the latest in high-tech photo-telescopic equipment to produce art that speaks volumes. Here, for instance, is a photograph taken by Paglen of an NSA listening post that captures communications as they bounce off the Moon:
The voice over to the Knight Rider theme describes the Michael Knight character as “a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law.” Paglen isn’t exactly “a loner” but by his own admission the confounding yet provocative nature of his art makes him a very difficult man to employ. (Source) He may not be on a literal “crusade to champion the cause of the innocent” but as one review of his books put it his writing is “impassioned, rigorous, relentless, and delivers eye-opening details” about a world of shadow entities that do operate “above the law.”
Speaking of “criminals who operate above the law”, Colonel Oliver North is also a Libra Sun, Capricorn Moon albeit one who is to Mr. Paglen what G. Gordon Liddy is to Robert F. Kennedy. (Chart) Astrologer Jefferson Anderson warns the Libra/Capricorn pairing to keep its Machiavellian tendencies in check or it runs the risk of “becoming just another Iago.” For those whose knowledge of Shakespeare has yet to fully expressing itself, Iago is the career soldier caught conducting his own illegal military operations in Shakespeare’s play Othello. (Source) When Iago’s operations are finally uncovered he states, “Demand of me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak a word.” That’s exactly what Oliver North pleaded when his Machiavellian role in Iran Contra was finally exposed:
A key point that Paglen makes in his books is that classified operations are now such a ubiquitous part of the American economy that pretty much everything and everybody from restaurants and post-offices to lawyers and doctors to auto mechanics and computer repair people has an evil twin counterpart working in the “black world”. That principle appears to apply even to Paglen himself. After all, his evil (astrological) twin Oliver North is as well-known for conducting black budget operations outside the rule of law as Trevor Paglen is for illuminating them via his art.
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Pair the intuitive abilities of a Pisces Sun with the pioneering instincts of an Aries Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is equal parts sensitive poet (Pisces) and ass-kicking crusader (Aries). According to astrologer Jefferson Anderson this pairing will leverage its access to ethereal realms (Pisces) in order to ram its way through to the finish line (Aries):
Cunning, shrewd, and subtle, you know how to get your way through charm and subtle persuasion. That remarkable sixth sense of yours lets you know instinctively whom to trust and whom to avoid. In addition, your sharp mind is well suited to a career in engineering.(Source)
In the Medieval days the textbook Pisces/Aries might have been found putting their “remarkable sixth sense” to use in service of the King or Queen, advising them on “whom to trust and whom to avoid” as well who to single out for further surveillance, blackmail, or even who to eliminate. Today this pairing’s cunning intelligence and capacity for subtle persuasion are more likely be expressed via technological means or applied to innovative engineering projects. To illustrate: using the date of its establishment as its date of birth, the ECHELON network is a Pisces Sun, Aries Moon. (Chart) If you’re not familiar with ECHELON it’s the worldwide satellite surveillance and communications intercept network jointly operated by the United states, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. (Source) An engineering project of colossal scale, its official role is to inform signatories to the “Five Eyes” agreement “whom to trust and whom to avoid.” In effect, ECHELON’s intercept abilities gives these signatories the technological equivalent of an “uncanny sixth sense.”
According to astrologer Linda Goodman the Pisces/Aries pairing will “spend much time discussing secrets . . . including all matters of the occult, the esoteric or the metaphysical, such as astrology, hypnotism, astral travel, telepathy and the like”. (Source) ECHELON does not literally make use of astral travel, telepathy, or other occult methodologies but its surveillance and intercept capacities are so advanced they may as well be from the other realms. The people who operate the network do indeed “spend much of their time discussing secrets”, both political secrets and industrial ones. For example, former NSA analyst Wayne Madsen believes ECHELON has been used to conduct financial espionage on behalf of U.S. automobile companies. (Source) A number of high-ranking legislators have voiced similar concerns, mainly that the system has been used to steal secrets from uncooperative companies and provide them to companies willing to play ball with the “Five Eyes” organization. (Source)
The textbook Pisces/Aries can be incredibly imaginative in coming up with ways to absorb impressions while hidden away in their own private sanctuary. The ECHELON system, for instance, makes use of a phenomenon called “Moon Bounce” which according to author Trevor Paglen involves “capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.” (Source) In 2010 Paglen used advanced “limit” tele-photography techniques to capture this image of an Echelon listening post designed to make use of “Moon Bounce”:
Using its establishment date as its date of birth, the search engine “Shodan” is also a Pisces/Aries. (Chart) A recent CNN article referred to Shodan as the “scariest search engine on the planet”, describing it as “a kind of dark Google, looking for the servers, webcams, printers, routers and all the other stuff that is connected to and makes up the Internet.” (Source) What’s really scary is that Shodan also provides access to countless industrial control computers which run the world’s power grids, water plants, traffic systems, chemical factories, water treatment facilities, data centers, and at least one nuclear particle accelerator. (Source) In short, Shodan is to home based hackers what ECHELON has been to high level spooks:
Strange Coincidence #2: ECHELON and Shodan aren’t the only Pisces/Aries who’ve attained mythic status for the ability to intercept communications and/or hack into the grid. Steve Jobs is also a Pisces/Aries. (Chart) In the mid 1970s Jobs earned seed money for Apple Computer by selling what were known as “blue boxes”, small devices designed to make free phone calls by hacking into the phone system. The methodologies Jobs used were known as “phone phreaking” and were as imaginative and innovative as the intercept methodologies upon which ECHELON and Shodan are built. (Source) They were also totally illegal.
The flip side to being so vividly imaginative is that this pairing is often “led into situations so mysterious, so intertwined with intrigue and half-truths that even a Ouija board couldn’t get to the bottom of the whole mess” according to Mrs. Goodman (Source) A case could be made that Jobs’ original ‘blue boxes’ were, in effect, the technological equivalent of Ouija Boards: primitive motherboards designed to conjure free phone calls from Ma-Bell, the vast copper-wired, analog-era, super-entity that was to denizens of 1970s corporate telephone systems what communications deity Papa Legba was to practitioners of Haitian Vodou. In a 1994 interview Jobs described the process of using the primitive blue boxes to control hundreds of millions of dollars of telephone infrastructure as being akin to a “powerful form of magic”:
Using the date of its establishment as its date of birth, the “President’s Working Group on Financial Markets” aka the “Plunge Protection Team” (PPT) is another Pisces/Aries associated with forms of conjuring. (Chart) Created in 1988 by President Reagan, the PPT is officially tasked with “maintaining investor confidence”. (Source) How the PPT accomplishes this is as “intertwined with intrigue and half-truths” as the inner workings of ECHELON. For example, while the PPT is thought to have played as direct a role in managing (manipulating?) the 2008 financial collapse as Steve Jobs played at Apple you’d probably need a Ouija board, tarot cards, a few “blue boxes”, and the modern day equivalent of a witchdoctor or two to discern the specifics of the group’s interventions:
Astrologer David Wells says this pairing’s “strength lies your magic, an intuition that knows how to drive through life.” (Source) Astronaut Gordon Cooper is a Pisces/Aries whose intuitive ability to manually drive the Faith 7 spacecraft saved both his own life and, quite possibly, that of the U.S. Space program. (Chart) Unlike later missions the Faith 7 was designed for fully automatic control with no input from the occupant. In other words, there were no instruments on board which would have allowed Cooper to take control of the craft even if he had wanted to. This became a major problem when the capsule experienced a near total power failure during its 19th orbit around the Earth. By the 20th orbit all readings of altitude and orientation were lost. By the 21st orbit the capsule’s automatic stabilization and control systems had failed completely. At that point Cooper was, for all intents and purposes, a dead man careening through space.
Cooper, tapping into that Pisces/Aries capacity for innovation, literally “hacked” into capsule’s engines and took control of them manually. Using his understanding of star patterns, his wristwatch, and calculations he wrote out on the capsule’s window with a number two pencil he successfully estimated the correct pitch for re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. According to NASA, “Cooper’s cool-headed performance and piloting skills led to a basic rethinking of design philosophy for later space missions”. (Source) Following his retirement from NASA, Cooper attempted to expose the truth about UFOs. He also contributed to the book In the Shadow of the Moon, an appropriately titled work for a Sun/Moon pairing as willing to adventure through the ethereal realms of the unknown as Pisces/Aries.
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, YouTube, SoundCloud, LibSyn or this site’s contact page.
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Pair the protective nature of a Cancer Sun with the clandestine instincts of a Scorpio Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is private and instinctual, mysterious and intriguing, dramatic and passionate, extremely cunning and nearly impossible to read. Other Cancers stay close to the seashore, this one swims with the sharks. To illustrate: using its release date as its date of birth, the 1981 cult classic film Escape from New York is a Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) Astrologer Jefferson Andersen refers to Cancer/Scorpio as the pairing of “The Cobra” who is “not the timid, insecure, and introverted Cancer one so often reads about”. (Source) Amazingly, the name of Kurt Russell’s anti-hero protagonist in Escape from New York is “Snake Plissken”. He even has a tattoo of a cobra on his stomach:
This pairing is profoundly tuned in to deeply hidden undercurrents and is thus rarely wrong about the true direction of any human endeavor, whether on the political stage or in one’s private life. Cancer/Scorpio may not be psychic but it’s certainly prescient. The plot for Escape from New York is a great, if disturbing example of just how well-calibrated Cancer/Scorpio prescience can be. Written by director John Carpenter nearly 30 years before the events of 9/11, the film’s opening scene depicts terrorists hijacking an airliner and then flying it into a New York City skyscraper. In the film’s 1996 sequel a right wing Christian fanatic seizes the U.S. presidency, launches a global war against Muslims, outlaws gay marriage, and turns the homeland into a police state. (Sound familiar?) Astrologer Jacqueline Bigar says this pairing often “knows what is coming before it does”. (Source) Yeah, I’d say so:
Cancer is the sign most attuned to family, clan, and country while Scorpio is the sign most attuned to matters of a secretive nature. The combination is one of the few which is willing to probe those family (Cancer) secrets (Scorpio) that one simply does not talk about. In Escape, Mr. Plissken is tasked with retrieving the U.S. nuclear launch codes, which are the national version of unspeakable family secrets.
Astrologers Charles and Suzi Harvey describe the Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon pairing as resonating with souls trapped within “psychotic underworlds”. (Source) You’ll be hard pressed to find a better example of people trapped in a “psychotic underworld” than this scene from Escape from New York:
According to Kurt Russell’s commentary on a special edition DVD version of Escape from New York, that scene set the emotional tone for the entire film. I’d say it gives you an extreme but fundamentally accurate idea of the type of situations that a Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon person tends to find themselves in.
This is arguably the Sun/Moon pairing par-excellence for emotional courage. According to the Harveys, its fearless pursuit of what lays in the shadows makes it an excellent psychologist, shaman, or (financial) witchdoctor:
You are brooding emotion incarnate . . .
You love suspense and mystery, and are drawn to understanding and grappling with the dark side of life . . . you have something of the detective and the psychoanalyst in you . . . You truly come alive when you have been given a search warrant to look inside a troubled mind (or bank account.)(Source)
That’s a pretty good approximation of the Snake Plissken character. His disposition is certainly of the “brooding” persuasion and he definitely grapples with the dark side of life, both the dark side that is the police state government and the dark side that is life on the island of New York. He isn’t given a search warrant to look inside a troubled mind but he does get marching orders to go inside the deeply troubled recesses of a society gone mad.
Being so tuned to the darker dimensions of life, Cancer/Scorpio often possesses a darkly wry if under-appreciated sense of humor:
Both signs are also masters at navigating (subtly manipulating?) the unspoken currents of human psychology. It’s thus fitting that we’re left in the dark over how Kurt Russell’s character lost his left eye. Allowing the viewer’s imagination to conjure up what the back story of that eye patch might be results in a malevolently heroic shadow around Russell’s character that no amount of special effects could have generated.
Speaking of “malevolently heroic” types . . . Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange is a Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon whose real life biography bears an uncanny resemblance to the fictional biography of the Snake Plissken character. (Chart) Plissken’s mission in Escape entails the procurement of “leaked” state secrets not unlike what Assange’s job with Wikileaks entails. Assange’s icy disdain for the establishment is a close cousin of Plissken’s snarlingly contempt for it. Plissken is wanted for “moral crimes against the United States” while Assange may become one of the most wanted men in U.S. history should the Department of Justice get its way. Swap Plissken’s eye patch and gun-slinging prowess for Assange’s laptop and computer hacking skills and the two are near mirror images of each other.
Using its establishment date as its date of birth, the United States Secret Service is also a Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) Cancer is the homebody of the zodiac known for their attachment to home, family, klan, and country while Scorpio Moons are emotionally nourished by situations where the line between life and death is a thin one. The Secret Service is essentially an agency of highly protective homebodies (Cancer) tasked with going on secret operations (Scorpio). Like the Snake Plissken character we meet in the Escape films, two of their primary missions include protecting the president and securing the U.S. nuclear launch codes.
Secret Service agents just after the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan
Unknown to most of the public, the Service is tasked with far more than just their protective duties. Originally organized under the Department of the Treasury, the bulk of the work the Service does involves the suppression of counterfeiting, money laundering, identity theft, and other financial crimes. (Source) Recall that the Harveys write of the Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon individual, “You truly come alive when you have been given a search warrant to look inside a troubled mind (or bank account).” (Source) That’s about as good a one-sentence summary of the Service’s law enforcement duties as is reasonably possible. It’s also a good summary of Assange’s duties at Wikileaks as he didn’t “truly came alive” until he begun taking on the “troubled minds” running some of the world’s most powerful banks. Even the Snake Plissken character got his start in psychological underworld that is the banking industry as the opening scene in original, uncut version of Escape has him robbing the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve, an institution that is almost certainly run by some very “troubled minds”.
While they’re obviously on opposite sides of the law, Assange and the Secret Service both spend a lot of time navigating the darkest geographies of the human experience. Strangely enough, Assange’s first high-profile target at Wikileaks was the dark geography that is the Church of Scientology while the Secret Service’s first high profile target back in the 1860s was the dark geography of the Ku Klux Klan. (Source) Both organizations have been characterized by former members as psychotic underworlds loaded with unspeakable family secrets. Other Sun/Moon pairings may “go where no man has ever gone before” but, as the trailer for Escape from New York so aptly puts it, only Cancer/Scorpio has the emotional courage to “go in where nobody has ever gotten out.”
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.
Pair the intuitive abilities of a Pisces Sun with the communicative instincts of a Gemini Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that’s adaptable, flexible, versatile and likely to be something of a savant when it comes to languages, both spoken and symbolic. At its best this pairing can reflect what is going on at unseen layers (Pisces) by connecting, collating, and cross-pollinating (Gemini) information from a variety of realms all while remaining opaque, obfuscated or totally obscured if it so wishes. To illustrate: using its premier date as its date of birth the 1972 movie Solaris is a Pisces Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) In the film a psychologist is dispatched to a remote space station to investigate why the crew have all gone insane. It turns out that the oceanic planet the station is orbiting is a sentient entity capable of manipulating, mimicking, and mirroring the crew’s hopes, dreams, loves, and fears back at them:
Pisces is associated with diffusive invisibility while Gemini is associated with multiple identities. The combination can thus ply its trade while remaining opaque, obfuscated, obscured or even disguised as something innocuous, similar to what a chameleon does. In the old days it made for a great witch (or warlock). In the modern day it makes for a great computer hacker. William Gibson, the writer who coined the phrase “cyberspace” in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, is a representative Pisces/Gemini. (Chart) His novels typically feature computer hackers, renegade CIA agents, ubiquitous surveillance systems, and other techno-occult themes that amount to spook (Pisces) loops (Gemini).
Pisces/Gemini films will often touch on the similar themes to those explored in Gibson’s novels. To illustrate: Using its premier date as its date of birth the 2011 film Source Code is also a Pisces Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) The “psychic” entity in Source Code is not a sentient planet but a sophisticated computer system that enables whoever’s plugged into it to experience life through the eyes of another person. Jefferson Anderson says the Pisces/Gemini pairing is actually “several clever individuals” inside of one who is “willing to play any part” to accomplish their objectives. (Source) In effect, that’s exactly what the computer system in Source Code allows the person plugged into it to do. Technology like that may (or may not?) be the domain of science fiction but the textbook Pisces/Gemini will be a natural at sensing the energy in their environment. Sometimes they’ll be so good at absorbing impressions they might not know whether their thoughts are their own or those of somebody else, a phenomenon that the protagonist in Source Code struggles with:
Paranoid Pisces is the sign most likely to have an unlisted phone number. Multifaceted Gemini is the sign most likely to have ten cell phones, each forwarding you to another cell phone (or two). The Pisces/Gemini combination is thus very difficult to track down – and for good reason. To illustrate: using the date it was filed as its date of birth, the Pentagon’s “Operation Northwoods” is a Pisces Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) If you haven’t heard of Northwoods before, it’s a 1962 plan by the Pentagon to stage terrorist attacks against the American as a pretext for an invasion of Cuba. Part of the operation including hijacking commercial airliners full of passengers. Northwoods was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff but outright rejected by President Kennedy when it was presented to him. Declassified in 2001, ABC News first brought it to the public’s attention just a few months before 9/11 when reviewing James Bamford’s book Body of Secrets. (Source) You can read the document in its entirety here.
There are all sorts of wonderful things about the Pisces/Gemini pairing but one of its primary liabilities according to astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey is a tendency “to live according to an ever changing relative morality.” (Source) If a Pentagon plan to stage hijackings in order to gain support for an illegal war doesn’t count as a chilling example of “relative morality” I’m not sure what does.
Former Prime Minister of Britain James Harold Wilson is a Pisces Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) During his four terms in office Wilson was the target of a number of actual clandestine operations, each of which was nearly as devious as the plans laid out in Operation Northwoods. At one point Wilson was the target of a planned coup to oust his administration in favor of an unconstitutional “emergency government” spearheaded by various right wing business magnates. (Source) Pisces/Gemini can be very quick on its feet, with the ability to perceive the multiple, parallel layers of a situation. These are the exact traits it takes to successfully stage false flag operations but also the traits necessary to stay one step ahead of them.
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 at his contact page.
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Pair the imaging capabilities of a Pisces Sun with the earthy instincts of a Taurus Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is attuned to feelings both emotional and physical, very appreciative of the arts, and a natural at putting what it picks up via the imaginative realms (Pisces) into physical form (Taurus). According to astrologer Bill Tierney, the experience and creation of beauty is of utmost importance to this pairing:
If we have these signs natally highlighted, it will be good for us to immerse ourselves in surroundings where Nature is at its most exquisite. Pisces needs inspiration, and so, breathtaking landscapes can uplift its soul, while also helping Taurus’ physical senses come alive. Sensuality and spirituality go hand in hand; this is not a combo that can endure ascetism or sensory deprivation for long. Our inner and outer worlds must be ripe and overflowing with color and sound. (Source)
This pairing’s orientation to inspiration and imagination, sensuality and spirituality makes it a great clairvoyant, natural healer, or art therapist. World famous psychic Edgar Cayce is a Pisces Sun, Taurus Moon. (Chart) He spent his life caring for the sick, studying spirituality, and advocating that people immerse themselves in exquisitely beautiful natural surroundings “ripe and overflowing with color and sound” as a means of facilitating the healing process.
This pairing also makes for a great interior decorator. Pisces is the most creative of Sun signs while Taurus Moons have an instinctive feel for beauty, serenity, land, and property.
On the downside, Pisces/Taureans often immerse themselves in idealized fantasies where their normally reliable powers of discernment are turned opaque and obfuscated. Henrik Ibsen is a Pisces Sun, Taurus Moon who once summed up this pairing’s potential for naive susceptibility when he stated, “Castles in the air – they’re so easy to take refuge in. So easy to build too”.
Speaking of “castles in the sky”, using its deployment date as its date of birth the Central Intelligence Agency’s most most mysterious, most expensive reconnaissance satellite – codenamed “Misty” – is a Pisces Sun, Taurus Moon. (Chart)
pisces Taurus
All classified satellites are by their very nature mysterious. The irony, however, is that even the most secret ones are often visible to anybody with a good telescope, some binoculars, and basic high school math skills. What makes Misty so much more mysterious than its brethren is it seems to have the ability to simply “vanish” into thin air, rendering it invisible to even the most sophisticated of observers. This illusiveness has garnered for it near mythic status among satellite trackers not totally unlike the mythic status Edgar Cayce’s psychic abilities garnered for him among the New Age crowd. A 2006 article in Wired entitled “I Spy” explains:
When Molczan went back and compared the mystery orbit to the trajectory of the satellite launched in February, he realized that the unknown object that Eberst and Neirinck had seen was none other than Misty. The amateurs were eager to get another look, but bad weather prevented observation for the next two days.
By the time the sky cleared up, Misty had vanished again.
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Over the years, the network of observers has kept an eye out for Misty, but none so diligently – perhaps obsessively – as Molczan. Even after Misty “disappeared” in 1990, Eberst likely spotted it again on three occasions in the late ’90s, though it was very faint, even through binoculars. He wasn’t sure what the object was; Molczan ID’d it as Misty. Many experts also believe that a satellite launched in 1999, known as “USA 144” but unspotted so far, is a second-gen version of Misty.
For the observers, especially Molczan, finding Misty or its successor has taken on an almost mythological significance. In fact, in the 15 years he’s been scanning the heavens for it, Molczan and some of his colleagues have developed a theory: Misty isn’t just hiding – it’s hiding from them. (Source)
Edgar Cayce had the capacity to dematerialize his mind into realms of light and energy while Misty seemingly “disappears” into the blackness of space by subtlely distorting how it interacts with light and energy. Nobody knows for sure exactly how it manages to do this but informed observers such as Space.com senior writer Leonard David have hypothesized that Mysty is equipped with a “satellite signature suppression shield” which “deflects incoming laser and microwave radar energies, sending them off into outer space.” (Source) Others have theorized that it also deflects or absorbs visible light so that even a sophisticated satellite tracker with a high powered telescope could be staring right at it yet totally unable to see. (Source)
If reflecting energy off into the environment as it maneuvers through outer space is how Misty maintains its illusiveness it certainly makes sense as this is a capability the Pisces/Taurus pairing is renown for. Astrologer Jacqueline Bigar writes of this combination:
You are poetry in motion. Others turn around when you glide by. You know when to communicate, when to change directions. You have a tendency to pick up on your environment and reflect it in some way. (Source)
Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey do tell this pairing, “you are something of a nature mystic who comes alive when your senses meet the sounds, scents, sights, and tactile sensations of the countryside.” (Source) That’s an excellent approximation of both Edgar Cayce and Misty. Cayce was an actual mystic who believed the sounds, scents, sights, and sensations of the great countryside had the ability to bring ill people back to life. Likewise, Misty’s imaging technologies were designed to “come alive” when surveilling the sounds, scents, and sights of the countrysides in Russia, China, Central Asia, and other Regan-era hotspots although they certainly weren’t put to use bringing people back to life.
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This week’s guest was Willow of Willows Web who discussed what’s important when getting an effective astrology reading:
Part Two of our discussion on how to find a good astrologer can be viewed here while part Part Three on what to do if you’ve had an unsatisfactory reading can be viewed here.
One of my favorite books is I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World by geographer Trevor Paglen. (Source) The book is a concise but very thought provoking compendium of occult symbols used within the world of classified military projects and recently received a very favorable review from the New York Times:
The book offers a glimpse of this dark world through a revealing lens: patches, the kind worn on military uniforms. “It’s a fresh approach to secret government,” Steven Aftergood, a security expert at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said in an interview. “It shows that these secret programs have their own culture, vocabulary and even sense of humor.”
Being an astrologer I decided to look up the charts for the organizations and units thought to be associated with some of the patches.
Virgo Sun, Libra Moon: “The Reconnaiter”
These patches are all from operations carried out by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Using its establishment date as its date of birth, the NRO is a Virgo Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) Located in Virginia, the NRO “designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government.” (Source)
According to astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey the Virgo/Libra pairing has “great powers of observation . . . but finds the whole sphere of relating to warm blooded humans a bit messy.” (Source) In each of the NRO patches, for instance, it’s hard to imagine the cold blooded snakes or scaly dragons doing much normal relating to warm blooded humans. From their vantage points high up above the earth they will, however, be able to make wonderfully accurate observations.
Virgo/Libras are typically very courteous to others. To illustrate: the satellites symbolized in the NRO patches are courteous enough not to intrude upon the day-to-day activities of earthlings even as they catalog our every move with total precision.
Some individuals of more conspiratorial persuasions have speculated that it’s the NRO who monitors UFOs as they enter and leave Earth’s atmosphere. (Source) If true that’s an awful strange coincidence because based on its premier date Fox’s bizarre yet strangely entertaining 1995 Alien Autopsy special is also a Virgo Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) According to the Harveys, the Virgo/Libra combination is sometimes a bit of snob who “can forget simply how to be human”. (Source) Yeah, I’d say so:
Virgo/Libra excels at accurate analysis (Virgo) of “the other” (Libra), whether that “other” is a geopolitical rival from across the globe, a romantic partner from across the dinner table, or a space alien from across the galaxy. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, for instance, is a Virgo Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) His analysis of Bill Clinton’s time in office (“he did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky, he was ridin’ dirty”) is as dead on accurate as the high resolution surveillance photos the NRO might be taking of you at this very moment.
Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon: “That Which Casts No Shadows”
This patch comes from the “Advanced Technology Observatory Platform” or “ATOP” for short. The latin phrase at the bottom of the patch translates as “Vigilance Through Stealth”. Not much else is known about the project other than the date of its first flight which is enough to let us know it most likely it’s a Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon. (Chart) Combine the secretive nature of a Scorpio Sun with the mystical instincts of a Pisces Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is imaginative, mysterious and deeply in tune with all that is hidden. Since we’re dealing with a Scorpio/Pisces we know that what’s not shown in the patch is going to be more important than what is shown:
Jefferson Anderson calls Scorpio/Pisces the Sun/Moon pairing “The Sponge” whose ability to absorb energy from the environment “allows it take on the color of its surroundings like a chameleon”. (Source) According to Linda Goodman this 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)
Strange coincidence: Marie Curie is a Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon. (Chart) She won a Nobel prize for her pioneering work with radiation, an “entity” which also casts no shadows.
Gemini Sun, Capricorn Moon: “The Cold Hearted Mathematicians”
This patch is from the 4451st Test Squadron, a highly classified unit originally known as “the Grim Reapers.” (Source) When existence of the unit was publicly acknowledged in the late 1980s they became know as the more family friendly sounding “Ghost Riders.” The imagery on the patch, while loaded with occult symbolism, doesn’t leave too much to the imagination about the nature of the unit’s work:
Original “Grim Reapers” flight patch issued to classified squadron of stealth test pilots. (Photographed by ‘Mr. Smashy’ on Flickr)
The Grim Reapers were the first unit to test the F-117 Nighthawk, the triangularly shaped stealth fighter that Americans became familiar with via CNN’s coverage of Operation Desert Storm. Using the date of the F-117’s first flight as its date of birth it’s a Gemini Sun, Capricorn Moon. (Source) Gemini is the fast moving, highly flexible, fiber optic wired communicator of the zodiac. Capricorn is the hard-assed, hard-working, hoof-busting strategist of the zodiac. Pair the mental agility of a Gemini Sun with the strategic instincts of a Capricorn Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that sees the entire world as a chess board.
If you can imagine a butterfly (Gemini) genetically engineered to have both the backbone and the ruthlessness of a Mountain Goat (Capricorn) you’ll have a sense for this pairing’s basic modus operandi.
You’ll often find this pairing working in experimental physics, engineering, or other technologically advanced fields which require equal parts mental dexterity (Gemini) and back breaking hours of hard work (Capricorn). Astrologer Linda Goodman says that when Gemini and Capricorn meet up it’s usually for “. . . a reason relating to mystery, sex, death, hypnosis, psychiatry or some bending of the mind.” (Source) The F-117 of course doesn’t bend minds, hypnotize people, or mysteriously alter the laws of physics. Its stealth technology does, however, bend radar signatures thereby (metaphorically) hypnotizing its opponents’ computer tracking systems. And it does so using methods so mysteriously advanced they would seem like magic to previous generations.
Of course what keeps the F-117 aloft isn’t magic but cold hearted math.
Strange coincidence: Using its release date as its date of birth the 1987 film Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Gemini Sun, Capricorn Moon. (Chart)
In the film a special forces unit led by Arnold is oblivious to the fact they’re being tracked by a technologically advanced extraterrestrial who can follow them while remaining invisible. In other words, the creature uses stealth technology to stalk and kill its prey in much the same way the F-117 uses stealth technology to stalk and kill its prey.
Scorpio Sun, Gemini Moon: “The Men in Black”
This patch comes from the Air Force “Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities” (TENCAP) which appears to be a unit inside what used to be known as the “Space Warfare Center” (SWC). (Source) The exact activation date for TENCAP is unavailable but the SWC was activated November 1st, 1993. (Source) This makes it a Scorpio Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) Scorpio is the covert operative who knows where the bodies are buried, Gemini is quick thinking communicator who knows where the phone lines are buried. Combine the Sun in the sign of keeping secrets with the Moon in the sign of mental agility and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that excels at figuring out ingenius ways to both find and hide information. Astrologer Carolyn Reynolds says this pairing “will know all the neighbors’ business . . . even though they will have little knowledge about yours”. (Source) No joke about the “neighbors” thing:
The Harveys call this the pairing of “the village gossip who takes their secrets to the grave”. (Source) What if the “village” in question includes neighborhoods above and beyond those down here on terra firma? It’s an apt question because if there was ever a Sun/Moon pairing that would excel at hiding their “neighbors” in plain sight ala Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the film Men in Black it’s Scorpio/Gemini.
Strange Coincidence: Levi Coffin, a 19th century businessman whose Ohio home was considered the “Grand Central Station” of the Underground Railroad, is a Scorpio Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart)
Scorpio Sun, Gemini Moon: Levi Coffin of the Underground Railroad
It’s estimated that Coffin and his wife Catherine assisted 2,000 fugitive slaves over the course of 30 years, often employing incredibly innovative methods that were the 19th century equivalent of technology from the future. You could say they were the original “Men in Black”.
Cancer Sun, Virgo Moon: “The Excellence of Experimentation”
These patches all come from projects or units associated with Area 51. The on patch upper left comes from “The Ghost Squadron”, a unit who (supposedly) fix the actual “black helicopters” we’ve heard so much about. The latin on the patch translates as “A Secret Squadron . . . From Deep in the Night . . . Don’t Ask Any Questions.” The patch on the upper right comes “a test squadron for classified prototype aircraft and advanced concept technology demonstrators” according to Paglen. (Source) Nobody’s been able to figure what the bottom two patches pertain to exactly although there’s been wild speculation on the net that the “Green Door” one has something to do with rooms in which “trans-dimensional portals” are kept locked away. More likely it’s related to military intelligence:
The establishment date for Area 51 is a bit hard to pin down but after doing a good deal of research my best guess is it was “open for business” on July 22nd, 1955. This makes it a Cancer Sun, Virgo Moon. (Chart) Cancer is the homebody of the zodiac who likes to stay fortified from the outside world while Virgo is the precision oriented analyst known for being obsessive about their work. According to astrologer Bill Tierney the textbook Cancer/Virgo is “keenly attentive to details” and excels at “keeping everything well-maintained”. (Source) Area 51 was originally established by the CIA as a fortified base (Cancer) to perform detailed maintenance (Virgo) on its U-2 spy plane.
Author and productivity guru Tim Ferriss is a Cancer/Virgo. (Chart) Ferriss has built up a huge cult following by performing medical experiments on himself as futuristic, freaky, and in some cases as frightening as anything that goes on at Area 51. Stem cell injections, blood letting, brain wave analysis, “polyphasic” sleep experiments, exotic smart drugs imported from European pharmacies, etc. it’s all in day’s work for Ferriss. A 2010 article in Wired Magazine referred to him as a “self-made lab rat”. (Source) Here, for instance, is a talk he gave at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival on what he calls “Hacking the Human Body”:
If you’ve ever listened to late night talk radio you know that Area 51 is considered home (Cancer Sun) to medical and technical experiments (Virgo Moon). Something similar can probably said about what happens at Tim Ferriss’ place.
Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon: “The United Federation of Superfreaks”
This patch comes from Air Force Space Command (AFSC). Using AFSC’s activation date as its date of birth it’s a Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) This is the zodiac’s far-out and far-reaching, kinky freak-show combination albeit one that really excels at technologically advanced forms of forensic research. Cancer/Virgo may enjoy strange health experiments but with Virgo/Aquarius you never know just what (or who) they’re going to bring to the party. For starters they’ll often have friends or colleagues from social backgrounds radically different than their own. In the AFSC patch, for instance, you Star Trek fans will notice that the emblem in the center bears a striking resemblance to the emblem for the United Federation of Planets:
As far as Star Trek type technology goes, if anybody ever invents a zero-point powered orgasmatron that allows you to anonymously exchange genetic databases with residents of Zeta Reticuli it will probably be a Virgo/Aquarius, or whatever the equivalent of a Virgo/Aquarius is in different galaxies where they use different astrological symbols. It’s doubtful AFSC is researching anything quite that exotic but if their Wikipedia entry is any indicator they are involved in developing extremely advanced technology. (Source) Astrologer Carolyn Reynolds says this pairing makes for an “innovative, imaginative, and unpredictable individual” who can develop a near psychic level of rapport with computer hardware. (Source) Who knows, maybe AFSC is working on brain/computer interface technology that allows people to navigate satellites or spacecraft with nothing more than their thoughts. DARPA is already working on similar technology so it’s not totally inconceivable. (Source)
Wild Speculation: They could be working to thwart (or manage?) an alien invasion, to make time travel possible, or maybe on sh-t so disturbingly freaky that words simply won’t do it justice. H.G. Wells, the science fiction author who wrote The War of the Worlds (about an alien invasion), The Time Machine (about time travel), and The Island of Dr. Moreau (about disturbingly freaky stuff) is a Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart)
Strange Coincidence #1 John McAfee, the creator of the anti-virus software that bears his name, is a Virgo/Aquarius. (Chart) His anti-virus software may not be as advanced as whatever’s going on at AFSC but it was decades ahead of its time when originally released. He sold his company in the 1980s and moved to the jungles of Belize where he’s poured much of his fortune into finding a herbal medicines. (Source) According to a 2012 Huffington Post article, McAffe claims he’s also been involved in a massive spying operation the last few years while on the run from the South American authorities. (Source) Whether that’s true or not, what is obvious is that for McAfee — like many Virgo/Aquarians — all the money in the world isn’t worth much compared to a life of constant experimentation and excitement.
Strange Coincidence #2: Using the date the first “Burning Man” was held in Black Rock City as the annual event’s date of birth, it too is a Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) For those who aren’t familiar with Burning Man it’s a free-expression free-for-all festa-palooza held every year in the desert of Nevada where people shed their normal identities for experimental realities more in tune with their unicorn like true selves.
According to the Harveys, a metaphoric image for Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon is “Aliens land and embark on building a new and improved world order”. (Source) That happens to be a great approximation of the AFSC as it seems they utilize assets in outer space to conduct missions down here on earth which ultimately aim to maintain the “world order”. It’s also a pretty good approximation of “Burning Man” participants. After all, if a caravan of “Burners” ever passed you on the highway you might wonder if space aliens in a UFO just did a flyby, albeit ones more likely to be equipped with wildly decorative boas and avant garde ideas than armed with mind controlled death rays and bad intentions.
Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon: “The Lord of Darkness”
This patch is from the 22nd Military Airlift Squadron. According to Paglen, “part of their mission was to conduct late night operations picking up classified aircraft from aerospace plants in Southern California and delivering them to classified locations.” (Source) Using the 22nd’s establishment date as its date of birth it is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) This is one of the darkest, most dangerous, most intensely private Sun/Moon pairings. Astrologer Carolyn Reynolds writes of the Aries/Scopio pairing, “You will never guess what is going on inside this person” while Jefferson Anderson says the textbook Aries/Scorpio is a “very aggressive, extremely independent individual” who struggles to “hold back their belligerence”. (Source) The letters at the bottom 22d’s patch stand for “None of Your Fucking Business”, denoting a belligerent, intensely private life philosophy that will resonate with many Aries/Scorpios.
Strange Coincidence #1: Using its premier date as its date of birth, the 1992 crime thriller Deep Cover is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) The film includes an array of themes close to the heart of any Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon native: shadowy underworlds, double crossing double agents, an atmosphere equal parts paranoia and primordial belligerence, all mixed in with loads of aggressive physical action. The film received mixed reviews but is widely remembered for its distinctive theme song “187 on an Undercover Cop”, which was rapper Snoop Dog’s first big break:
Strange coincidence #2: Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is an Aries/Scorpio. (Chart) It’s highly unlikely she got that high up in the viper’s pit that is Washington D.C. without “doing some shit deep cover on the incognito tip” to quote a line from the Deep Cover theme.
In the above video, for instance, Pelosi tells a reporter she “knows something” about Newt Gingrich that makes it impossible for him to ever be president. She won’t say what it is she knows because, as her demeanor makes clear, what she knows is none of our business.
Sagittarius Sun, Capricorn Moon: “Sir Jest-A-Lot”
This patch comes from the 509th Operations Group, a unit that services B-2 stealth bombers. Back in 1947 the 509th was responsible for cleaning up the “weather balloon” that famously crashed outside Roswell, New Mexico. Using its activation date as its date of birth the 509th is a Sagittarius Sun, Capricorn Moon. (Chart) Sagittarius is the most wildly spirited sign of the zodiac while Capricorn is the sign most realistic about the harsh nature of life on the earthly plain. Pair the boisterousness of a Sagittarius Sun with the instincts for organization of a Capricorn Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that will sing songs, tell stories, and crack jokes (Sagittarius) all while keeping its feet on the ground and nose to the grindstone (Capricorn).
Capricorn/Sagittarius is renown for its sense of humor. Jefferson Anderson calls this pairing of “the Comic” whose “incisive remarks always hit home, though they usually emphasize the darker side of life.” (Source) Of all the patches in Paglen’s book, the 509 patch is definitely the funniest. For starters the presence of the grey alien munching on the stealth bomber is a nod to the lore surrounding the unit as the guys who cleaned up the most famous UFO incident in history. The phrase “To Serve Man” is a reference to a classic Twilight Zone episode where aliens have come to Earth to serve man . . . as tasty dinnertime treats. The latin phrase at the bottom of the patch translates as “Tastes Like Chicken”.
Strange Coincidence #1: science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke is a Sagittarius/Capricorn. (Chart) Like the 509th, his public persona is associated with space aliens. Describing his work Clarke once said, “My main themes are exploration of the position of Man in the hierarchy of the universe, and the effect of contact with other intelligences.”
Strange Coincidence #2: Ozzie Osbourne is a Sagittarius Sun, Capricorn Moon. (Chart) So far as we know he’s never munched on a grey alien or stealth bomber but he did once eat a live bat on stage.
Scorpio Sun, Virgo Moon: “The Private Eyes”
This patch comes from the 23rd Space Operations Squadron (“23rd SOPS”). Using its activation date as its date of birth the 23rd SOPS is a Scorpio Sun, Virgo Moon. (Chart) Scorpio is the deep cover agent while Virgo is the anonymous analyst of the zodiac. Scorpio excels at all matters of a clandestine nature while Virgo excels at mentally intense forms forensic research. Pair the two together and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that possesses tremendous powers of discernment, with darn near X-Ray vision. Bill Tierney writes, “. . . this combo is unbeatable at detective work, whether in trying to solve a crime, uncover a mystery of science, or probe deeply into a troubled psyche”. (Chart) It also tends to have a darkly ironic, often disturbing, sense of humor as the patch for 23rd SOPS demonstrates. Paglen writes, “If you look closely at the contour of the black face, you’ll see another face, with pointy nose and pointy ears, looking left. Who is this creepier dude within an already creepy dude? And what’s up with all the layers of creepy?” (Source)
As far as what the 23rd SOPS does, it has something to do with operating a “a Defense Satellite Communications System Heavy Earth Terminal, Source-B antenna . . .” according to the unit’s official fact sheet. I’m not sure what that means in plain English and given the uber-creepy nature of the unit’s patch maybe I don’t want to know. Whatever it means, I’m sure “They” definitely don’t want people asking too many questions. As astrologer Grant Lewi writes of the typical Scorpio/Virgo, “You hate to have people prying into your affairs and resist any attempt to ferret out your private life . . . you love to listen to gossip and even pass it on – not always with kindly intent”. (Source)
Strange Coincidence #1: Using its premier date as its date of birth, John Carpenter’s 1987 cult film They Live is a Scorpio Sun, Virgo Moon. (Chart) The film stars Rowdy Rowdy Piper as a displaced construction worker who discovers a pair of black sunglasses that allow him to see the world as it truly is. What he finds out is that, much like the face hidden within the face in the 23rd SOPS patch, there are multiple, unseen layers of reality to the everyday world around him (us?). If you’ve never seen the film you owe it to yourself to watch this clip. It’s clearly fiction but feels too close to real for comfort:
Jefferson Anderson writes of Scorpio/Virgo investigative prowess, “Your sensitivity enables you to perceive things that others won’t or can’t. You form conclusions about life that are startlingly accurate.” (Source) Fortunately They Live is just a film so there’s no need to wonder if there might be some accuracy to its startling conclusions about how life in the 21st century really works.
Strange Coincidence #2: Nobel prize winning physicist Patrick Blackett is a Scorpio Sun, Virgo Moon. (Chart) His work on radar defense systems in the lead up to World War II enabled the Royal Air Force to identify bombers from the Nazi Luftwaffe in much the same way Piper’s mysterious black sunglasses enable him to identify extraterrestrial fascists in They Live.
Former LAPD narcotics investigator Michael C. Ruppert attempted to blow the whistle on CIA drug opertions in the Los Angeles area during the 1970s. A 2009 documentary about Mike’s life received exceptional reviews, including a particularly favorable one from famed film critic Roger Ebert who writes, “I have a pretty good built-in B.S. detector, and its needle never bounced off zero while I watched this film. I think you owe it to yourself to see it.” (Source) Mike was a guest on North Bay Astrology Show/em> a few weeks back:
Mike is an Aquarius Sun, Capricorn Moon – the same Sun/Moon pairing as Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Paine. For more information on this pairing make sure to check out this article on Mike’s chart:
Image: Aries/Scorpio Timothy Dalton meeting Princess Diana at the charity premiere of The Living Daylights at the Odeon Leicester Square June 1987 DBase; Contributor: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix /Alamy Stock Photo
Combine the aggressive, hard charging identity of an Aries Sun with the intensely clandestine instincts of an Scorpio Moon and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that can be ruthless and resourceful, passionate and aggressive, dark and dangerous, magnetic and more than a bit Machiavellian. As astrologer Linda Goodman explains, Aries and Scorpio are the zodiac’s two warrior signs:
Aries is the reckless crusader, stirred emotionally by dedication to a cause, and the excitement of a dangerous mission. Scorpio is the seasoned veteran, possessing a deep sense of realities and the strength to endure hardships, with no illusions about the glamour of marching bands, uniforms, and decorations for bravery. Their strategies are very different. Aries defends fiercely, in the front lines. Scorpio attacks suddenly, unexpectedly, from the rear.(Source)
Aries is ruled by Mars, the Lord of War. Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld. The Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon pairing thus excels at warfare (Aries) in the underworld (Scorpio). Francis Ford Coppola is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) He’s best known for directing films such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now — each of which dealt with surveillance, warfare, death, covert operations, assassinations, jealousy and other themes pertaining to the sort of dangerous, subterranean underworlds that Aries/Scorpio considers home. Using its premier date as its date of birth, Coppola’s film The Conversation is also an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) Considered one of the best films of the 1970s, it’s an espionage thriller that includes a unsettling Twilight Zone like twist at the end:
According to astrologer Jefferson Anderson, this pairing’s defiant, militant approach to life can land it in deep trouble with the authorities:
An extremist in thought and spirit, you never do anything halfway. When you succeed it’s total triumph, and when you are defeated, it’s total tragedy. No matter how much trouble you may get into or how many times you land in court, you will always bounce back ready to tackle new challenges.(Source)
This pairing’s willingness to go to extremes makes it a great deep cover agent, one capable of completing missions that would scare the living daylights out of less daring souls — or an actor adept at bringing a sense of authenticity to such roles. To illustrate: Timothy Dalton, the fourth actor to portray iconic MI5 agent James Bond, is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) Sean Connery played Bond as a charming, hairy chested semi-misogynist. Roger Moore brought a light touch and breezy humor to the role while Pierce Brosnan came off more as a professional wine taster than somebody who made a living from spilling blood. Current Bond Daniel Craig brings the thuggish intensity a former bare knuckle boxer or special forces soldier to the role. That’s a step in the right direction but, truth be told, the only actor who portrayed 007 as the smoldering, defiant, malevolent special agent that Ian Fleming envisioned in the original James Bond novels is the criminally underrated Dalton.
Timothy Dalton is an Aries/Scorpio
In true Aries/Scorpio Dalton’s screen tested so much darker and more dangerous than his predecessors that that producers took the series in a much more realistic direction, at least during his brief tenure as Bond. For instance, in The Living Daylights Bond finds himself in Afghanistan where he’s rescued by an American allied heroin trafficker that’s a dead ringer for Osama Bin Laden, a man who was actually an ally of the CIA at the time. (No joke) The OBL character is at odds with an arms dealer that’s a dead ringer for Colonel Oliver North, a man who was then masterminding the Iran-Contra scandal. There’s no way a debonair playboy version of Bond ala Libra/Gemini Roger Moore could have pulled off such a darkly realistic plot like but for an Aries/Scorpio like Dalton it was a natural.
Speaking of the nexus between narcotics trafficking, intelligence agencies, and other malevolent matters, the 1992 crime thriller Deep Cover is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) The film includes an array of themes close to the heart of any Aries/Scorpio: shadowy underworlds, double crossing double agents, an atmosphere of diffuse paranoia, and plenty of dramatic physical action. It also takes a pioneeringly (Aries), intense (Scorpio) approach to race relations. The film’s lead role — an undercover police detective — was originally written for a white actor but director Bill Duke sought to usurp business as usual in regards to who is depicted in what ways on the big screen. The result was a post-Furious styles, pre-Morpheus Laurence Fishburne portraying a character “thrown into the middle of moral dilemmas that torture him and then left to figure his own way out” according to a review by Roger Ebert. (Source)
Deep Cover is best remembered for its haunting theme song “187 on an Undercover Cop”, which set off rapper Snoop Dogg’s musical career. The song is considered an all-time hip hop classic but the real life environment in which Dre and Snoop laid it down was filled with as much drama (Aries/Scorpio) and as much drama as the fictional plot of the film. At the time, Snoop was recently released from prison while soon-to-be Death Row Records impresario Suge Knight had secured Dre’s producing services via mafioso style tactics. The profoundly unsettling events surrounding the production of the Deep Cover theme were recently depicted in the 2015 film Straight Outta’ Compton and the 2001 documentary The Rise and Fall of Death Row.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is another Aries/Scorpio whose political career has been marked by as many moral dilemmas and manifest dramas as any good film noir plot or gangster rap video. (Chart) Pelosi is a politician, not a mafia hitwoman or undercover detective. However, it’s highly unlikely she got that high up in the viper’s pit that is Washington D.C. without “doing some shit deep cover on the incognito tip” to quote a line from the Deep Cover theme.
For instance, in the above video Pelosi tells a reporter she “knows something” about Newt Gingrich that makes it impossible for him to ever be president. In true Aries/Scorpio fashion she won’t say what it is she knows because, as her demeanor makes quite clear, what she knows is none of your business.
In addition to double agents, exorcists, and mafia hitmen you’ll find a disproportionate number of Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon natives involved in extremely innovative forms of science or intensely pioneering scholarly pursuits. Anthropologist Jane Goodall is an Aries/Scorpio who invested this pairing’s pioneering (Aries) psychological capabilities (Scorpio) into studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. (Chart)
Pioneering astrologer Linda Goodman is an Aries/Scorpio who did for the world of astrologers what Jane Goodall did for the world of wild chimpanzees. (Chart) Goodall went “Deep Cover” into the jungle of primate life while Goodman went “Deep Cover” into the equally tumultuous world of astro-psychology. The author of the widely acclaimed best seller Love Signs: A New Approach to the Human Heart, Goodman would likely agree with fellow Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon native Thornton Wilder who once said, “The best part of married life is the fights.”
Goodman is best known for her astrological writings. At first glance it would seem she has little in common with murder-mystery films like The Conversation and Deep Cover. Unfortunately, Goodman’s life was marred by the exact sort of extreme drama (Aries/Scorpio) in real life that Timothy Dalton so effectively projected into the imaginal realms as Agent 007: According to her Wikipedia entry:
Goodman’s books also reference what she referred to as the “disappearance” of her eldest daughter, Sally Snyder in the 1970s, and the mystery around her reported death. Linda Goodman spent much money and many years trying to find Sally, long after police closed the case as a suicide or accidental suicide. Goodman never accepted the official police report and continued to search for Sally for the rest of her own life.
Despite the differences in their respective career paths, one thing is for sure. Put Aries/Scorpio natives in a room for a few hours and they’d like have conversations that would scare the living daylights out of the rest of us.
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, YouTube, SoundCloud, LibSyn or this site’s contact page.
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