Here we have the Sun and Moon at variance, each owning a powerful say in a conflicted, passionate personality. The Sun and Moon are square within the fixed modality, so these two particularly stand off from each other, and there is an immovable stubbornness and a great heart to this person, as well as the classic struggle to keep depression at bay which gives way to a cataclysm of feeling, a Dostoevskian collapse down to the deepest bells that can be rung in the soul. An Aquarius Sun is always aloof, master of its own world, yet we have here, alongside, an undermining and deeply prolific, sensitive, disheartened Moon. Thus the world of the Aquarius experiences tremors which preface total collapse. The person believes he or she is orchestrator of life, and though mastery is certain in any field in which deep focus is applied, there is much underlying the person’s conscious approach that is beyond them, in the realm of inherited trauma, ancestral lore, and deep deep schisms that began before the person’s life was even made up of cells and atoms. The Aquarius-Scorpio person serves as an outlet for the shakings of generations of howling repression. Histories of darkness, tragedies in the family, forgotten about, have created an emotional landscape in this person that is strung nearly to death with a lit up and extremely sensitive alarm system. But he or she runs the whole ladder of emotion—the depths to the heights. And that is the reward; much much more of the psyche, of the heart, is available to be plundered and acts as a guide—for this person is the true and original rebel whose ghosts speak out from the shadows. He or she is sensitive to other people’s bullshit and blindness, all the more so if these are people the person loves; he or she absorbs much, allows much—an Aquarius always does—but the Scorpio within unconsciously absorbs the barest hint of travesty or wrongdoing. The person ends up bristling with the rage of swallowed words until he or she just cannot anymore. All is accessed—rage, despair, bliss, the Aquarius-Scorpio has it all out, occasionally throwing up the carefully, consciously desired life in which the person is invested. And in the wake of the dust there will be much to mourn and even more to wonder at, for the person is fascinated by the mystery of projection and intuition, and the convoluted, intersecting stories lying like strings to be plucked beneath us all. Aquarius is not a Sun bestowed upon the faint of heart, or for those who mirror exactly what their parents or their town surrounding would have them mirror. This person goes for a road that is all but unknowable but to his or herself, and he or she brings with it the heart of darkness itself, what inside them roams through the forest of the soul. In fact, life may be hard to explain. There are so many strange happenings that are karmic, energetic, or of the emotional realm, whereas all the person can socially claim to have done is go to work and go home. The quandaries brew deep under the surface of the Aquarius-Scorpio. The Moon is in its fall, meaning it flies through the egocentric and covetous rings of feeling first before finding by way of the hot stone paths of guilt, sorrow, and remorse, feelings of higher love, humility, and wisdom. It is a long road, but transformative. Meanwhile, the Aquarius Sun knows how to self-soothe. He or she adores getting lost through the transportive streams of literature or music, what have you, or travel, if the person can manage it. The Aquarius-Scorpio I knew traveled only direly, with little in her pocket, and spent many years in the dimmest, most knick-knacky apartment that ever existed in a corner of Queens, but her life may well have been as deep in feeling and powerful as the Queen of England’s (probably much more so as she always had more to lose.) She had many fascinating stories about herself, and the world, people, all she’d seen and known, everything always by accident. This is a person by whom the fates seem to shake by the shoulders; much they plan to do is just left by the wayside. Sometimes in the wreckage of plans all this person has left is themselves. But our deepest dreams, our murmurings in the dark, have a way of finding us, and eventually the Aquarius-Scorpio collides with what he or she really wants when at last ready for it, at an unexpected time. Here the Moon is at three quarters waning, indicating the personality in the throes of conflict and having to integrate life-death-life principles because of circumstances beyond his or her control. The person is a wonderful aid to those in trouble, or hurting. He or she is very desirous that no one feels so alone as they themselves feel. But the irony is this person’s aloneness is deep and incommunicable, and something Dante would have recorded, if he could.