The neat thing about astrology is you can run a chart for pretty much anything: a person, a government agency, a film, etc. To illustrate: a hobby of mine is looking up the charts of pharmaceutical drugs (“entities” I call them) based on the dates their patents were filed. From a wellness standpoint it’s useful to check the charts of any pharmaceuticals you’ve taken or might take and compare those charts to your own chart. By ingesting the drug you are literally merging with it just as you merge with a lover. Performing a synastry analysis between your chart and the drug’s chart is thus a very prudent consideration, particularly since Saturn (karma) is now in Scorpio (mergers).
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy it occurred to me to look up the chart for what is believed to be the primary patent for the technology used in HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program). For those who don’t know what HAARP is: Officially it’s a ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and DARPA but a number of informed analysts have suspected it’s a weaponized form of weather manipulation. If weather manipulation sounds outlandish or the province of conspiracy theory it really isn’t. The New Zealand government, for instance, was studying how to weaponize tsunamis as far back as World War II. (Source) In 1996 an internal report by the U.S. Air Force report indicated weather patterns will be fully weaponized by 2025. (Source)
The HAARP installation, pictured above, is located in remote part of Alaska and was built by the defense contractor BAE Advanced Technologies. BAE is, among other things, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of electronic warfare systems. (Source)
Here’s the chart for the primary patent associated with HAARP:
We don’t know what time it was filed but I’m going to guess 9:30 am. This places the ascendant in late Aquarius, the sign of technology. More importantly it makes Uranus in Sagittarius the chart ruler, right on the Midheaven. The Midheaven represents a chart’s relationship to the public at large, including the government, while astrologer Raven Kaldera has associated Uranus in Sagittarius with the myth of “Oya”, an Afro-Caribbean weather goddess who manipulates winds, thunderstorms, and lightning strikes:
Lightning and thunder and rain and wind. Stolen fire in a pot. Smashed crockery. The while of purple cloth and copper beads. A swarm of locusts, a charging water buffalo. A glass knife slashing, a spinning top. A tornado sweeping the sand clean and white.
Oya is the weather goddess of the Afro-Caribbean Yoruba religion. Capricious as a lightning strike, one calls on her at one’s own risk. (Source)
Regardless of where HAARP’s ascendant is, the chart for its patent has a Mars/Uranus square. Adrian Ross Duncan says Mars/Uranus squares are associated with “shock tactics” while Sue Tompkins associates them with “sudden violence”. (Source) HAARP’s Mars is in Pisces which means the “shock tactics” or “sudden violence” will involve Piscean matters: deception, diffusion, drugs, and chemicals.
Songs have astrological charts just like people, companies, organizations, events, vessels, space satellites, etc. Just use the song’s release date as its date of birth and you can bring up its chart just like you would for a person or an event. To illustrate: the other day I was listening to the radio and the 1983 song “Talking in Your Sleep” by the Romantics came on. Listening to the chorus “I hear the secrets that you keep when you’re talking in your sleep” got me thinking “Okay, one of its luminaries is probably Pisces since Pisces rules sleep while the other luminary is probably Cancer (emotional intelligence) or Scorpio (secrets)”. Take a listen to the song and see if you can make a guess as to its Sun/Moon pairing:
Here’s where things get interesting: I’ve done 50 Sun/Moon articles and my favorite one thus far was the Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon article on SeaSat One, NASA’s amazing oceanographic satellite. (Source). “Talking in Your Sleep” includes the line, “When I hold you in my arms at night, don’t you know you’re sleeping in a spotlight?”. Now take a look at NASA’s original drawing of SeaSat and see if you don’t notice something extremely uncanny:
Artist's original concept image of SeaSat (Image Source: NASA, NTRS)
Like many Cancer/Pisces individuals, SeaSat excelled at sensing all things hidden. NASA launched it to study the oceans using remote sensing technologies that could see hundreds of feet deep into the oceans. What surprised the heck out of them was that it also ended up “hearing secrets that the United States keeps while it talks in its sleep”. Among other things it picked up, SeaSat unexpectedly detected all the U.S. ICBM armed submarines in addition to spotting experimental stealth bombers which at the time were a “black project” being flown out of Area 51. That seems pretty good example of somebody “hearing (seeing) the secrets that you keep while you talk in sleep.”
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Combine the extreme intensity of a Scorpio Sun with the high-speed, high-adventure, high-volume instincts of a Sagittarius Moon and the result can feel like a heart pounding run through hell. Astrologer Wendell C. Perry writes of the Scorpio/Sagittarius individual, “You feel that you are at war with yourself because you can never be as forthright, expansive, and trusting as you would like. The world is just too scary a place”. (Source). Jacqueline Bigar writes, “Even you want to go ‘whoa’ and stop this ride”. (Source) This is one of the most action oriented of the 144 Sun/Moon pairing as both signs have the theme of “attack” symbolized within their glyphs. Scorpio is symbolized by the Scorpion, the Snake, and the Eagle – all deadly predators who thrive within extremely hostile environments while Sagittarius is symbolized as a wild haired centaur-archer armed with a quiver full of flaming arrows. The pairing is thus well equipped to take on a world that has become a very scary place (Scorpio) to take a ride through (Sagittarius). To illustrate: using its premier date as its date of birth, the original Terminator film is a Scorpio with its Moon in Sagittarius. (Chart) If you’ve never seen the film it’s a fictional but fundamentally accurate projection of what might be the Zodiac’s most courageous, committed, and socially concerned Sun/Moon pairing.
Terminator stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the “T-800” model Terminator — a heavily fortified contract killing machine from the future who gives no quarter and whose cybernetic brain possesses no fear of death. In effect, the T-800 is the sci-fi world’s version of an assassin (Scorpio) on a mission from abroad (Sagittarius Moon). Opposite him is actress Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, a young woman who transforms herself from a wilting violet afraid of her own shadow into a ferociously self-sufficient badass who defeats the heartless killer sent to eliminate her and her unborn child. Both the T-800 and the Sarah Connor characters are textbook Scorpio/Sagittarians albeit from opposite ends of the spectrum: one’s been programmed to serve the ice cold forces of technological centralization by inflicting death, the other’s been called to disrupt them by preserving life. Both are totally implacable in the pursuit of their objective(s).
Something similar can be said of the Kyle Reese character, portrayed to utterly feral effect by actor Michael Biehn. Both Reese and the T-800 are covert agents (Scorpio) on far-ranging quests (Sagittarius) but one is there to save lives while the other is there to destroy them. Reese is intensely courageous (high-Scorpio) and totally committed (high-Sagittarius) while the Terminator is coldly murderous (low-Scorpio) and unthinkingly fanatical (low-Sagittarius).
The emotional intensity in the film is a good, if exaggerated, approximation of the impassioned zeal this combination is capable of once it’s committed to a cause of life-and-death proportions. Scorpio can be tenacious to the point of being obsessive while Sagittarius can be zealous to the point of being fanatical. Pair the two together and you get somebody who can be absolutely unwavering once they’ve set their mind on a particular path. Astrologer Bill Tierney explains:
Scorpio/Sagittarius types have a touch of crusader with militant undertones in them. This combination needs something vast and all-consuming at which to aim their forces in order to keep their energies from being destructive . . . Scorpio provides the drive and endurance to succeed against all odds, while Sagittarius keeps vision alive, even during the most grueling of times.(Source)
In the fictional world of Terminator, Kyle Reese’s all-consuming quest is saving the mother of the future. In the real world this combination is attracted to similarly all-consuming quests that involve epic battles between good and evil. The AIDS epidemic in Africa, the brutality of Iphone factories in China, or human-trafficking in Eastern Europe are the type of causes a Scorpio/Sagittarius individual will often be found crusading against . . . or on behalf of should they turn to the darker possibilities of this Sun/Moon pairing.
If Reese comes off as a paranoid fanatic in the above scenes that’s because paranoia, fanaticism, and phobias, are some of the liabilities of this Sun/Moon pairing. Of course, as the saying goes, “It’s not paranoia if they really are after you”.
Even those Scorpio/Sagittarius individuals who go on all-consuming crusades for non-violence will often find themselves engaged in legal, social, or political confrontations as ferocious as a battle with the Terminator. To illustrate: the chart for the premier of Terminator and the natal chart of film star turned AIDS icon Rock Hudson are uncannily similar. Both Hudson and Terminator have Sun in Scorpio, both have Moon in Sagittarius, both have Jupiter in Capricorn, both have Saturn in Scorpio, both have Neptune in a fire sign, both have Pluto in a water sign. Terminator was about battling an unstoppable cybernetic killer with mysterious origins while Hudson become an icon for battling an unstoppable viral killer with mysterious origins. AIDS is a sexually transmitted killer while in Terminator the T-800 kills Sarah’s romantic and sexual partner. At one point in the film Reese describes the T-800 as, “an infiltration unit, very tough, very hard to beat, it won’t stop until you are dead.” That just so happens to be a good description of HIV as it infiltrates a person’s immune system, is very hard to beat, and won’t stop until its target is dead. The T-800 was made of “heavy metal alloy” that was hard as rock while “Rock” was Hudson’s nickname, conjured up by Hollywood producers to make him seem tough as steel.
In Terminator, Reese’s death at the hands of the T-800 prompts a previously carefree Sarah to learn to defend herself against a heartless computer system known as Skynet. Hudson’s death at the hands of AIDS prompted a generation that had previously been relatively carefree on sexual matters to learn to defend themselves against a heartless virus known as HIV.
Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon: The Enemy of the State
Speaking of paranoia, using its premier date as its date of birth the 1998 film Enemy of the Sate – is also a Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) Like Terminator, the film is essentially a quest (Sagittarius) through the valley of death (Scorpio). In Enemy of the State, it’s the valley of death formed by the world’s most powerful intelligence agency the National Security Agency that the protagonist must crusade through in order to survive:
“Surely the film is at least a bit of a paranoid (Scorpio) exaggeration (Sagittarius), right?” Probably not. According to a 2007 article in the UK Register, intelligence agencies can now perform real time Enemy of the State style surveillance on *all seven billion people* on the planet. (Source) That the film would be so prescient in its depiction of the police state is no surprise given the shrewd, sophisticated, and truth-seeking nature of its Sun/Moon pairing. This pairing makes a good investigator, one that’s excellent at quickly grasping the big picture (Sagittarius) no matter how deep and dark (Scorpio) it might be.
Calling this pairing as the “enemy of the state combination” might seem a bit of an exaggeration but a number of high profile enemies of the state are Sagittarius/Scorpios, be they actual enemies of the state or simply ones in spirit. Former Bloomberg corporate finance reporter Mark Pittman is a Scorpio with his Moon in Sagittarius. Pittman is the journalist who mysteriously died after successfully suing the U.S. Federal Reserve, the central banking cartel that is at the center of myriad global conspiracies. (Chart) Prior to his passing, Pittman had discovered that “the amount going to prop up the financial system dwarfed the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) [issued in 2008]. It added up to $12.8 trillion and it wasn’t clear in all cases where the money was going” according to his Wikipedia entry. So too is Paula Broadwell, the Lt. Colonel turned author who was having an affair with David Petraeus, director of the CIA. (Chart)
Broadwell is likely in a state of complete psychic shock at this time as her entire life has been a vast, all-consuming, totally-committed Scorpio/Sagittarius style crusade aimed at serving, protecting, and doing everything right by “the system”. From being both the valedictorian and the homecoming queen of her high school class to serving 15 years active duty in the Army to getting a Master’s degree from Harvard, she probably never imagined there would come a day when twelve FBI agents would be searching her house at one a.m. over a scandal that seems suspiciously timed to distract people during an election year.
The military-government circles Broadwell moves in are still 1,000% a boys club, one with with serious leanings towards religious fundamentalism and Victorian era moral standards. That means whatever the real reason for this scandal, she’ll be the one taking all the heat for it. Petraeus will simply lay low for 6-to-12 months before sliding into a high paying executive gig at a large military contractor. The situation is unlikely to resolve so smoothly for Broadwell. While she’s not an actual enemy of the state, either in action or in spirit, she is now likely to be treated as a pariah both professionally and socially. Among other things, her security clearance has been pulled which means her career as a counterintelligence officer is about as DOA as Will Smith’s career as an attorney was in Enemy of the State.
Astrologer Carolyn Reynolds writes of the Scorpio/Sagittarius female, “. . . she fares well whatever the climate because she can survive. This one will hunt and fish with you. You can take her to Africa and she’ll out shoot you and the rest of the hunters.” (Source) No kidding. In addition to having served as a special operations command officer, Broadwell has (or had) a side gig working as a firearms demonstrator for the high-end automatic weapons manufacturer KRISS. Here’s a screenshot of her literally “out shooting the boys” taken from one of the company’s promotional videos:
Scorpio/Sagittarius women will often “outshoot the boys” to quote Carolyn Reynolds. Photo: KRISS
As Broadwell’s curriculum vitae testifies to, Scorpio/Sagittarius is one of the most action oriented of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings. the two together and you have a Sun/Moon pairing that’s predisposed to a life of high speed adventure and high stakes confrontation. Actor Charles Bronson, best known for portraying freelance hitmen, vigilante cowboys, and other battled-hardened characters is also a Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart)
Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey write of the Scorpio/Sagittarius individual’s deductive prowess, “Your greatest strengths are a probing, questing, analytical mind which is quick to see the large implications of facts . . .” (Source) Astronomer Carl Sagan is a Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon known for having an intensely probing, questing mind. (Sagan’s Chart) Sagan obviously never traveled through literal time or survived a literal nuclear holocaust like his fictional astro-twin Kyle Reese. His work did, however, take him on wide ranging quests through the concepts of space and time. He also spent several years studying the horrors that a large scale nuclear disaster or environmental collapse can bring. (Source)
According to the Harveys, a metaphoric image for the Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon individual is, “A child gazes up at the night sky, captivated by the mystery of deep space. An alien appears, and reveals a glimpse of the child’s future as a famous astro-physicist.” (Source) That image is an almost literal approximation of Sagan’s life story: he was captivated by the mystery of deep science beginning in his childhood, was very interested in the possibility of making contact with extra-terrestrial life, and he did grow up to become a famous astronomer who was well-versed in physics.
Despite being a staunch skeptic of astrology, Sagan would probably be pleased to know that the International Space Station, launched (born) November 20th, 1998 is a Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon just like him. (Chart)
Like many of its Scorpio/Sagittarius astro-twins, the ISS is on a quest (Sagittarius) though an environment (outer space) so fraught with dangers that it is, in a manner of speaking, a valley of death (Scorpio).
Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon: “The Forerunner”
Pablo Picasso is also a Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) His best known painting is Guernica, which he created in response to the valley of death that Guernica became when it was the target of a Nazi blitzkrieg campaign in April 1937. The painting become an international icon for the suffering that war inflicts on both physical and psychological landscapes:
Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon: Guernica as painted by Pablo Picasso
It’s hard not to notice that Picasso’s Guernica bears a number of thematic similarities to the future we’re given glimpse of in Terminator. Take a look at this video of Reese’s flashbacks or at this screenshot of them and compare it to Picasso’s image of Guernica:
Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius: the future as envisioned in Terminator
While Terminator may not occupy quite the same revered level of art that Guernica does, there are clearly some pretty significant parallels between the two works. The silent horror invoked by Guernica was an all-too-accurate approximation of the highly-mechanized world war just over the horizon for much of Europe. Similarly, the high-tech warfare waged by heartless cyborgs in Terminator has turned out to be an all-too-accurate approximation of the high tech warfare waged for heartless corporations in the year 2012.
That Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon works such as Terminator and Enemy of the State and Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon individuals like Carl Sagan and Pablo Picasso were able to grasp certain truths years before others makes sense given the ecological niche of their Sun/Moon pairing. Astrologer Jefferson Anderson tells us that Scorpio/Sagittarius is the Sun/Moon pairing of “the Forerunner” who “can believe truths that others find hard to fathom, perhaps because it is so far ahead of everybody else.” (Source) This includes truths so unnerving that one must first crusade through a valley of death in order to grasp 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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Combine the natural courage of an Aries Sun with the instinctive dexterity of a Gemini Moon and the result is one of the most exciting, most exhilarating, and most totally unpredictable Sun/Moon pairings. Loaded with moxie, full of attitude, and exuding an aura charged with electricity, this combination typically talks, moves, and thinks like a human firecracker. Astrologer Jefferson Anderson calls this the Sun/Moon pairing of “The Speed Demon” while Suzi and Charles Harvey say one if its greatest strength is its ability to “reach for the stars.” (Source) Felix Baumgartner, the skydiver whose record-breaking leap from the edge of space set the internet ablaze in the fall of 2012, is an Aries Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) Baumgartner sure seems to be doing a good job of “reaching for the stars” while during his descent from the edge of space he became the first skydiver to break the sound barrier of 690 miles per hour. A “Speed Demon” indeed.
Baumgartner has a number of fast-moving, chutzpah-loaded astro-twins worth checking out, including former WWE superstar Amy Dumas aka “Lita”. (Chart). Like Baumgartner, Dumas is a sky-diver (of sorts) whose capacity for “lively” self-expression is a testament to this pairing’s risk-taking moxie and fire-cracker like temperament. Like Baumgartner, she too “reached for the stars”, although the stars she reached for were the ones located amid the wildly colorful constellations of the World Wrestling Federation instead of those at the edge of space.
Exciting acrobatics for sure but that voice over of an out-of-character Dumas berating the audience is pretty obnoxious don’t you think? Well it’s to be expected given her astrological pedigree. Jefferson Anderson writes of the Aries/Gemini’s flash-fire like temperament, “You are never one to sulk in a corner, unless your need to communicate is somehow thwarted by an unattentive (or unappreciative) audience. If so, you may be subject to a sudden but fleeting temper tantrum that people will long remember.” (Source)
The textbook Aries/Gemini is fiercely independent, quick to be bored, and an extreme seeker of novelty. They will not give a second thought to throwing convention, caution, and concerns about what others may think all to the wind when in pursuit of a new hobby, passion, or even career. Mrs. Dumas, for instance, moved to Mexico at age 19 to pursue wrestling on more or less a whim. She’ll probably be making similarly spur of the moment decisions well into her senior citizen years as Aries/Gemini is somewhat of a permanent teenager.
This pairing is one of the Sun/Moon pairings most likely to have pants-crappingly high car insurance premiums. Astrologer Bill Tierney writes, “Both signs know little about applying the brakes in life, and tend to go at whatever interests them at a rapid pace.” (Source) To illustrate: Martial artist Jackie Chan is an Aries Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) Known for both his fun loving demeanor and his fast moving fists, Chan has starred in three installments of the Rush Hour franchise, an appropriate titled vehicle for a Sun/Moon pairing as fast moving as Aries/Gemini:
Speaking of “rush hour”, Aries Sun, Gemini Moon individuals often live their lives according to the philosophy of “Who needs seat belts when you don’t have brakes?” This makes them the life of pretty much any party but also prone to accidents, particularly when they’re rushing head first into something new as they so often are. Dumas, for instance, once nearly decapitated herself when she overshot her target while performing a head first stunt known (appropriately) as a “suicide dive”:
In the lead up to Baumgartner’s record setting skydive a number technicians were concerned that his leap would end up as the world’s most well publicized “suicide dive”. Jackie Chan has also had a number of head on brushes with death or dismemberment as a result of “suicide dives”m including one incident where “his grip on a branch slipped and Jackie fell forty feet to the ground below. Chan landed hard on his head, hitting a rock and caused a partial skull fracture, resulting in bone entering his brain.” (Source) But a Sun/Moon pairing as perpetually effervescent as Aries/Gemini rarely gives too much thought to such possibilities so let’s just skip, bounce, and bubble along to something more exciting . . . like . . . hot guys on tricked out motorcycles!!! Outlaw motorcycle customizer Jesse James, best known as the CEO of the West Coast Choppers motorcycle shop and one time love interest of actress Sandra Bullock, is an Aries/Gemini. (Chart)
Aries Sun, Gemini Moon individuals typically have very fast moving trains of thought and little patience for slow moving, cautious types. Astrologer Linda Goodman points out in her book Love Signs that, “Since Aries bubbles with naive impetuosity, and Gemini is determined to attain complete independence by breaking every bond of the spirit, maturity of [thought is not emphasized] with this pairing”. (Source) Mr. James, for instance, is now nearly an icon for making decisions based on less than fully matured thinking patterns:
Aries Sun is considered the most brashly impetuousness of solar placements while Gemini Moon is nourished by social and communicative gymnastics. The combination gives Aries/Gemini individuals a vivacious, eternally youthful energy that electrifies those who come in contact with it. Anderson tell us that “despite lacking diplomatic skills this combination is usually quite popular”, as this video of Dumas signing autographs makes clear.
Aries Sun, Gemini Moon Astro-Twins: Bette Davis, the City of San Francisco
Dumas and Baumgartner have a few fellow Aries Sun, Gemini Moon astro-twins worth mentioning. The first is Hollywood Golden Era actress Bette Davis. (Chart) Similar to Mrs. Dumas, Davis was considered at her best when portraying characters with an aggressive edge who were willing to take things to extremes. It was Davis who coined the phrase, “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” which was originally a line of hers in the film All About Eve.
Like many Aries Sun, Gemini Moon individuals, Davis was also an excellent trash-talker full of honest if totally untactful observations. Davis once observed of her longtime MGM rival Joan Crawford, “She’s slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie”.
The city of San Francisco, incorporated (born) on April 15th, 1850 is also an Aries Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) Not unlike its Aries Sun, Gemini Moon astro-twins Amy Dumas, Bette Davis, and Jesse James, the city is known for its high-flying night life and “live-wire” social orientation. It also has a flourishing “outlaw biker” scene, at least in a manner of speaking.
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Combine the globe-trotting, devil-may-care nature of a Sagittarius Sun with the theatrical instincts of a Leo Moon and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that is larger than life, enthusiastically dramatic, and always the star of the show no matter where life takes them. Astrologer Jefferson Anderson calls Sagittarius Sun, Leo Moon the pairing of “The Showoff” who simply “doesn’t have the hang-ups and inhibitions that plague so many others”. (Source) Linda Goodman tells us that Sagittarius/Leo is the combination of the one man or one woman “circus parade” that will “jet propel” themselves high-and-far:
There’s plenty of contagious enthusiasm and genuine affection when these signs combine . . . together they have the power to jet-propel toward the impossible. This combination can bring much happiness to the world.
Sagittarius needs the strong net of Leo’s protection to catch them when they fall from their swinging trapezes, just as Leo is secretly thrilled by the Archer’s colorful tumbling acts. When these two courageous signs combine life will never rain on their circus parade.(Source)
To illustrate: professional wrestling superstar Rob Van Dam is a Sagittarius with his Moon in Leo. (Chart) Van Dam is often referred to as “The Whole ‘Effing Show” and “Mr. Pay Per View” for sensationally entertaining in-ring performances. Among wrestling fans he’s a widely admired as a risk-taking (Sagittarius Sun) super-legend (Leo Moon), a deacon (Sagittarius) of high drama (Leo Moon) whose become an icon for jet-propelling himself through circus style stunts so thrilling that they, quite frankly, defy description:
Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey tell the Sagittarius Sun, Leo Moon pairing, “your drama and volatility burn more sensitive souls who will wonder what hit them.” (Source) Professional wrestling is, of course, choreographed but if you watched the first few moments of the above video you’ll see just how correct the Harveys are in their assessment of this pairing’s hard-hitting sense for the dramatic. The Sadge/Leo individual’s penchant for both high-theater and high-adventure also what makes this is one of the Sun/Moon pairings most likely to have pants-crappingly high health insurance premiums. Astrologer Jacqueline Bigar says this pairing is “athletic and willing to take wild leaps of faith.” (Source) Or, in the case of a Sagittarius/Leo like Mr. Van Dam, “wild leaps of faith” off top turnbuckles, 20 foot ladders, and even into live audiences. (Video)
In relationships this pairing has a surprisingly high capacity for happiness. Passionately romantic, the Sagittarius/Leo individual takes as expansive, high-energy an approach to romance as he or she does to public performances or the study of herbal lore. According to astrologer Hazel Dixon Cooper this pairing wants “the whole ‘effing show” when it comes to matters of the heart, “Funny, optimistic, loyal and honest, this is one of the best Sun/Moon combinations”. (Source) Van Dam has been with his wife Sonya for twelve years, stating in a recent interview, “I’ve been with the same gal for twelve years and I’m the happiest man in the world relationship wise.” (Source)
Van Dam isn’t the only Sagittarius Sun, Leo Moon to make a name for himself in the world of high-flying acrobatics and death-defying forms of theater. Charles Ringling, the founder of Ringling Brothers Circus, is also a Sagittarius Sun, Leo Moon. (Chart) In the wrestling world, Van Dam is known as “Mr. Pay Per View” while Ringling can be thought of as the original “Mr. Pay Per View”. Ringling is thought to have coined the phrase, “The show must go on”, a motto that Mr. Van Dam more or less lives by.Nor is Van Dam the only notable Sagittarius/Leo individual to wear extremely bright, colorful, and tight-fitting outfits to work. Actress, peace activist, and fitness icon Jane Fonda is a Sagittarius Sun, Leo Moon. (Source) Like Rob Van Dam, Jane Fonda tends to be the “whole ‘effing show” no matter where she goes or how she chooses to express herself:
Whatever their chosen profession, Sagittarius/Leo individuals will most often be found where there is some type of “main event” that they can be at the center of. Arthur Fielder, the longtime conductor of the Boston symphony, is also a Sagittarius Sun, Leo Moon. (Chart) Fielder didn’t have a catchy nickname like “Mr. Pay Per View”, “Mr. Monday Night”, or “The Whole F–king Show” but you don’t end up conducting the Boston symphony for 50 straight years unless you’re capable of putting on one hell of a performance.
Sagittarius/Leos make for great show-offs, certainly, but there is more to this pairing than just high drama and high ratings. This combination takes a approach to intellectual and spiritual matters that is every bit as passionate as it does to giving public performances. According to the Harveys, a metaphoric image for the Sagittarius/Leo combination is, “At an emotionally moving ceremony, the shaman of the gypsies is given an honorary university degree in herbal lore and ancient geography.” (Source) That’s an uncannily accurate approximation of Rob Van Dam. Wrestlers are essentially the modern day, sports entertainment equivalent of gypsies while Van Dam, who has studied eastern forms off spirituality, is probably the closet thing they have to a shaman. He doesn’t have an honorary degree in herbal lore but he is a very vocal advocate of marijuana legalization. He’s even financed a documentary along with Tommy Chong about the benefits of the plant and the government’s brutal insistence on criminalizing it.
In addition to jet-propelling itself wide and far, this pairing will often thrust its principals (Sagittarius) into the limelight (Leo Moon). Jane Fonda became famous in the 1960s for her extremely outspoken (Sagittarius), high profile (Leo Moon) opposition to the war in Vietnam. In 2006, Van Dam did something similar when he refused to go on the WWE’s tour of Iraq because he felt the war was for oil. He was the only high profile wrestler to come out in opposition to the war. Among wrestling fans his name is now synonymous with medical marijuana due to his wide ranging (Sagittarius) enthusiastic (Leo Moon) efforts at getting the plant legalized.
Van Dam actually owns a comic book store in Southern California and, as coincidence, would have it the new comic book Bitch Planet is a Sagittarius with its Moon in Leo based on its debut date. According to astrologer Heather Renae Horton, “the comic takes place in a male-dominated future where women deemed ‘non-compliant’, or otherwise inconvenient to their male overlords, are sent to the Auxiliary Compliance Outposts (ACO), aka ‘Bitch Planet’—a penal colony in outer space. True to their Sagittarian nature, the women on Bitch Planet are raw and strong, both physically and mentally. The combination of the Sun in adventuresome Sagittarius (the wild horse) and the Moon in dramatic Leo (the lioness) makes for an exhilarating display of justice-minded resistance against Earth’s new, autocratic male order.”
Astrologer Bil Tierney says the Sagittarius/Leo pairing “will often inspire others to do their best and never give up on their highest goal. These signs are strong morale boosters”. (Source) Jane Fonda boosted the morale of fitness aficionados and those opposed to the war in Vietnam. Van Dam boosted the morale of wrestling fans and those opposed to the war in Iraq. Strange as it may seem at first glance, a comic like Bitch Planet is doing something similar. At a time where the forces of autocracy seem to have fully retrenched themselves, the comic is providing its readers a bit of inspiration that non-compliant (Sagittarius) forms of creative self-expression (Leo Moon) could help jet-propel us past the forces of autocracy — something that recent events have made clear is needed now more than ever before.
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 astrological consults at his contact page.
Combine a Capricorn’s natural toughness with a Scorpio Moon’s instincts for power and mystery and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing oriented towards emotional self-possession, power through stealth, and being impossible to resist. This combination of intensely potent traits makes for a terrifying super-villain if cast for evil or an anti-hero of tremendous psychological depth if cast for good. To illustrate: actress Jane Badler is a Capricorn with her Moon in Scorpio. (Badler’s Chart) She’s best known for playing Diana, the man-eating, mind-bending, mega-maniacal chief science officer in the original 1983 mini-series V. Badler, who is also an accomplished singer, is well into her second Saturn Return and appears to be as good at acting bad(ler) as ever:
Of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings this is arguably the one most able to survive the crushing pressures of life’s more subterranean realms. Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey write of its stainless steel psychological backbone:
Compassion and the courage to undergo suffering for the sake of regeneration is your greatest strength. You have a resonance with suffering and the darker side of human experience, and want to do something about it.(Source)
At least that is what happens when this Sun/Moon pairing is operating at its highest expression. What happens when it’s coming from a less spiritually evolved place? For the answer to that we turn to Badler’s 1983 portrayal of Diana. Her original interpretation of that character approximates what happens when the ambitious nature of a Capricorn Sun and the psychological prowess of a Scorpio Moon both simultaneously turn to their dark sides. When possessed by its shadow, this Sun/Moon pairing goes from tenacious to ruthless, from authentically compassionate to deeply sinister, from refusing to tolerate fools to stopping at nothing in the pursuit of power:
Now take at look at this aggregation of Badler’s scenes from the 2009 series. In the re-imagined series, we find out that Diana suffered something akin to a nervous breakdown after being overwhelmed by human emotions. She has spent the last 15 years in a subterranean prison locked away and left for dead “like a dirty little secret”. During her time in solitary confinement she has come to understand the soul as something not to be enslaved by technology but to be felt deep inside the heart. “Heartache, pain, sorrow . . . I felt it all”, the new version of Diana responds when her daughter demands to know what she’s been up to the last few years.
Want your mind blown? According to the Harveys, the metaphoric image for Badler’s Capricorn Sun, Scorpio Moon combination is, “A prisoner in solitary confinement undergoes a spiritual transformation . . .” (Source) That’s a nearly exact description of the 2009 version of Badler’s alter-ego Diana.
Capricorn and Scorpio may be the two “tough muthas” of the zodiac but don’t think it’s all suffering, survival, and gnashing of teeth with this combo. Tuned as it is to the less pleasant dimensions of human existence, Capricorn/Scorpio natives posses potent yet greatly underrated senses of humor. It’s not the roll on the floor and laugh out loud brand of humor of Cancer is famous or the physical hi-jinks of slapstick loving Sagittarius. Capricorn Sun, Scorpio Moon humor is more the dark sort of satire that subtly communicates a deeper reality while making you feel a good deal more uncomfortable than you were prepared to feel. Take a look, for instance, at this video of Badler meeting with one of the executive producers of the 2009 version of V:
(Don’t worry, she didn’t actually eat the rat.) Here’s the kicker about that video: the producers of the new V actually made her audition for the role of Diana. Given the iconic nature of her original performance, making Jane Badler re-audition for the role of Diana is about as much a “WTF?” move as making Arnold Schwarzenegger re-audition for the role of the Terminator. What Badler managed to communicate in between the lines of that video is “I can’t believe you guys are actually making me audition for this role. Are you seriously thinking anybody else can do it like me? I guess I just have to show you amateurs how it’s done.” Of course being a Capricorn/Scorpio she’s shrewd enough to make the point subtly and within the boundaries of a humorous YouTube skit.
The Capricorn/Scorpio pairing ages quite well, as you may have noticed watching the above video. Speaking astrologically, here’s why: each sign correlates to a certain age range. Scorpio correlates to years 49-56, the age at which a person is just coming into full command of their personal power. Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, the planet associated with the alchemical processes that keep vampires and other creatures of the night looking eternally youthful. Capricorn correlates to years 63-70, the age at which a person begins to be seen as a source of wisdom. It’s ruled by Saturn, the planet associated with anything built for the long haul and is considered the “sign of reverse aging”. (Source) Put the two signs together and you get a Sun/Moon pairing for whom the first 55 or so years of life are what’s known as “the warm up period”.
Capricorn Sun, Scorpio Moon Astro-Twins: Jane Badler, Pat Benatar, Henry Miller
Badler’s Capricorn Sun, Scorpio Moon astro-twin is singer Pat Benatar, best known for songs such as “Love as a Battlefield”, “Hit me With Your Best Shot”, “Sex as a Weapon”, and “You Better Run”. (Benatar’s Chart)
Like Mrs. Benatar, Mrs. Badler is a singer whose songs channel this pairing’s intensely felt emotions: “Men Who Lie”, “I Want a Lot of Boys to Cry at My Funeral”, and “The Devil Has My Double” are a few of her recent singles. People with the same Sun/Moon pairing often bear an impossible to dismiss resemblance to each other even if they’re obviously not related by blood. In the case of Benatar and Badler, the camera picks up on both the angular jawline (Capricorn’s toughness) and the compelling eyes (Scorpio’s intensity):
Singer Rod Stewart – best known for his song “Do You Think I’m Sexy?” – is also a Capricorn Sun, Scorpio Moon. A 2010 Huffington Post article about Stewart’s appearance on the Piers Morgan show summarized the Capricorn/Scorpio zeitgeist of emotional intensity and psychological catharsis quite well:
His second wife, model Rachel Hunter, divorced the singer in 2006 after 16 years of marriage–a heartbreak that took time and therapy to get over.
“Bl**dy hell did it [hurt]. Karma gets you! It was a good six months of laying upstairs, looking at the ceiling in bed, couldn’t get out of bed, didn’t drink for six months. That’s how bad it was.” Stewart said.(Source)
According to Wikipedia, “Stewart was born at home during World War II, half an hour after a German V-2 missile warhead fell on the local police station.” (Source) For the Capricorn/Scorpio native sometimes love – and even life itself – really is a battlefield.
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 consults at his contact page.
Leo is the Entertainer and the Performer, the Actor and Actress, the King and the Queen, the Movie Star and the Showman, the Mistress of Ceremonies and the Professor of High Theatrics. Ecologically, this sign is associated with the middle of summer – a time when the weather is at its warmest, the sky at its brightest, and even the most solitary of animals can be seen out and about strutting their stuff. People with their Sun (identity) in this warmly generous sign thus typically become identified with their ability to attract attention to themselves. Actress Lynda Carter, whose name is now synonymous with Wonder Woman, is a representative Leo Sun.
Sitting 120 degrees from Leo is Sagittarius, the sign of the the Traveler, the Truth Seeker, the Scholar-Sage, the Philosopher-Prophet, the Professor of High Adventure, and the Department Chair of Broad Intellectual Horizons. Possessed by the energy of a wild horse, prone to taking off on wild escapades, and always looking towards new frontiers, Sagittarius is the sign most likely to go on long distance trips. When a person’s Moon (emotional needs) is in Sagittarius (travel), going on long distance trips is necessary for their emotional health. Sometimes these trips will be geographical in nature but other times they will be across religious, spiritual, or social terrains. Russian Cosmonnaut Valentina Tereshkova is a Sagittarius Moon who embarked on the ultimate high-adventure trip when she became the first woman in space on June 16th, 1963. (Chart)
Combine the theatrical, generous and heart-centered stage presence of a Leo Sun with the high-octane, high-adventure, devil-may-care instincts of a Sagittarius Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that takes an extraordinarly romantic, forthright, and passionate approach to life. Leo is ruled by the Sun which sits high in the heavens while Sagittarius is the associated with far-off horizons and trips across the high seas. Combine the two together and get you the Sun/Moon pairing of the “queenly nomadic, the regal philosopher, the traveling entertainer, and the daredevil extrovert”, to quote astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey. (Source) Imagine a young child bursting forth full speed on a tricycle to explore the wide world of excitement and discovery that lays outside the confines of their family’s front yard and you’ll have a good metaphor for how this pairing approaches life.
Of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings the Leo/Sagittarius is probably the pairing most likely to be famous for going on some sort of fantastic voyage or spiritual super-quest. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, a Leo/Sagittarius. He’s a high profile but fundamentally representative example of how high and how far this pairing is willing to travel once possessed by the spirit of a quest:
Obviously very few Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon individuals will end up faring through outer space like Mr. Armstrong did. Most, however, will have the travel bug like nobody’s business. Astrologer Jefferson Anderson writes of this pairing’s penchant for high-seas and far-off horizons, “Practically everything under the Sun intrigues you. With so many new lands to explore, so many new people to meet, and so many ideas to ponder, no wonder you can’t find the time to finish anything.” (Source) British Army office T.E. Lawrence, best known as “Lawrence of Arabia”, is a Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon whose life of nomadic travel and daredevil extroversion was eventually turned into the blockbuster 1962 film bearing his name:
Even those Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon individuals who don’t go on to become known for being world travelers will find a way to express the wide-ranging, far-reaching potential of this pairing, oftentimes writing books or music to do so. Rapper Coolio is a Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) He’s best known for the hit 1994 song “Fantastic Voyage”, the title of which could be the life theme song for this Sun/Moon pairing. When Coolio raps, “Come on in let’s take a ride. Don’t you say shit, just get inside” he is speaking sacred truths for Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon people of all cultures:
Take a look at this photo of Armstrong courtesy of NASA and compare it to a still-shot from Coolio’s video for “Fantastic Voyage”. While the socio-demographic profiles of the individuals couldn’t be more different, what you’ll notice in both photos are all the major hallmarks of the Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon pairing: a charismatic individual (Leo) surrounded by an entourage of wild world travelers (Sagittarius) about to embark on a joyous, moral-boosting voyage in a first class vehicle:
Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon:The Fantastic Voyage
Curiously enough, both Armstrong’s fantastic voyage to the Moon and Coolio’s “Fantastic Voyage” music video have strong spiritual overtones. When Armstrong landed on the Moon there was for a brief shining moment a sense that maybe just maybe humanity could learn to walk away from warfare and violence. If you listen closely to the lyrics to “Fantastic Voyage” you’ll note that it’s actually an anthem expressing hope for an end to gang violence.
Comparing an astronaut like Neil Armstrong to a rapper like Coolio might seem a bit of a stretch but any Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon individuals reading his will likely “get it”. This pairing has the ability to grasp broad-based, big-picture truths while not getting excessively hung up on details like what a person’s skin color, hair style, or choice of vehicle is. There is also a strong, spiritually-inclined, social consciousness that comes with this pairing. Actress Sally Struthers, best known for her “Feed the Children” commercials, is a Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) Roberto Clemente, the Hall of Fame baseball player who died in a plane accident delivering food aid to children, is also a Leo/Sagittarius. (Chart)
As both the entertainer and the monarch of the zodiac Leo is usually at the center of any party. Sagittarius, meanwhile, is the sign most likely to travel far and wide to find a good party. Combine the two together and you get one of the most fun-loving of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings. Jefferson Anderson writes of this Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon individual:
Action is the word that describes you best. People know when you are around because of all that moving about! Never content to fantasize about excitement you go out and create it.” (Source)
This ability to generate excitement makes it an ideal combination for a professional party starter of some sort. Deidra Muriel Roper, best known as DJ Spinderella of the pioneering female rap group Salt-N-Pepa, is a Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) If you’re not familiar with Mrs. Spinderella, she can be seen this video behind her signature turntables. Being a Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon it’s no surprise she’s the one to get the party started in the video’s opening seconds:
Leo/Sagittarians dream huge dreams and inspire others to do the same. Neil Armstrong did just that for a generation of young people interested in the sciences when he landed on the Moon. Mrs. Spinderella did something similar for a generation of young women interested in hip-hop when she landed at the top of the music world.
Both Leo and Sagittarius are extremely passionate signs so it should come as little surprise that the combination can be quite a handful in the romantic arena. Pair the demanding aggressiveness of the Lioness (Leo) with the high adventure antics of the Centaur-Archer (Sagittarius) and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that will tend to exhaust both itself and its romantic partners. This is particularly the case for the Leo Sun, Sagittarius female as astrologer Jacqueline Bigar explains in her book Women and Their Moon Signs:
You can be a delight to the right man. You will chase, pounce, and attack. He just needs to tell you how very wonderful you are. Your need for adulation can get be a bit much for your partner. You are good, you know it, and you want to know HE knows it. (Source)
Anybody in a relationship with a native of this pairing is well-advised to double down on their intake of B-vitamins, Siberian Ginseng, and Omega-3 rich fish oils. Each of these supplements are reputed to enhance both intellectual and physical stamina and you will need a world of both if you want to keep up with the textbook Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon individual. This pairing will find monogamy a hard road to hoe until it finds a partner with whom it can share its deeply romantic vision of what love – and life itself – has to offer.
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