This is one of the craftiest and most formidable of combinations. This person is both wise and of strong heart, ruled over by Venus and Uranus, with the Moon exalted in Taurus. Moon in Taurus contains within the person a deep, broad, palpable spectrum of emotion which the person is very comfortable and familiar with, and lets a chosen few become very familiar with too. This person often ends up (for short times) as the root-end, the very cellar, to their lovers’ or their friends’ beings; their inward-most selves are just…so vast, so lofty, the sky of the underneath, the sky reflected in the lake. Taurus is a private, protective sign, but one which is very understanding and resists judgment when their doors are open; it’s one reason the Moon does so well in Taurus, because the emotional body is rich in dignity. The sign is slow, deep, with deep reserves of inner authority, and this inner authority is so strong that the person’s form of fight is more in passive resistance or stubbornness than in actual out in the open words or fists. Essentially the person has too much to protect, and yet, their other nature being in Aquarius makes all they hold dear available fodder for their own fires. They will live a life of seeing what they love go up in flames, sometimes. That all one can really hold onto is in the mind and in the heart. The losses in material reality make this a sharp Taurean Moon to possess. Together, Aquarius and Taurus combines into an unbelievable density. The person is layered beneath quirks, deep routines, fixed ideas, and a deep, immovable memory which creates the most stubborn constitution in the entire zodiac. This person may, in their field, represent the highest pinnacle of expertise, but narrow, narrowly defined they become through temptation of mastery. Neither Taurus nor Aquarius is the kind of sign to give way, to give in. Both of the fixed cross, containing that seething square between them, which is indicative of the subconscious at war with the consciousness and the antipathetic nature of the parents to one another, this person learns to trust above all their own way of seeing and doing things. Often, what they saw others do around them was either blatantly wrong or blatantly traumatic, and the person makes it to adulthood knowing well enough what trauma is. Every Sun and Moon square person does. They are private, with their own demons to wrestle with, and being essentially of that kind Taurean nature, they are loathe to push too much on others. Yet, it still might happen. Aquarius is the most wild and unpredictable of the signs, ruled over by Uranus, and willing to be cold-cleaned by truth above all, which always trumps material reality. The Taurean Moon may get run over rough-shod here because after all it is the Sun that is brightest, it is the Sun that is the authority. The Aquarian Sun with such a deep, sensitive Moon will push away his or her protective instincts because they are too painful to bear. He or she will feel their moral compass swing drastically in one life. It may not be clear to them for a while what they are doing to others, what they are taking in from others, till the damage starts to congeal very solidly within. The person has to get a little removed, and spectral to see, so their Taurean nature, the best part of themselves, can have room to breathe. He or she observes best with space, time, and somewhere peaceful to integrate. Once this integration has happened, the person becomes the authority on a certain subject, a way of being, and this in pure Aquarian form gets broadcasted back out to others. Or not, it depends. The Taurean Moon can keep the person completely private. But impartial, cool. The Taurus Moon is at the waxing First Quarter for an Aquarian Sun, the most active, anxious angle of the Moon cycle; peace can only last so long. But the Taurus part of them is likely where it is found, stored, like deep memory, in visceral story. Being at peace is really their highest goal. Achievements come very naturally, and can be squandered spectacularly too—these are not what matters as much as inner peace and routine. Taurus is a peaceable sign, one which values slowness and a sense of perspective that gets deeper, slower, richer over time, like a stew. Cannot be described so easily to other people. Known to be rather tight-lipped actually, Taureans convey better by body language, by a glance of the eye. They understand energies. Aquarians are very similar—they read energies, what the symbols mean, and both signs relish in tunneling down pathways to revelatory conclusions that become, for them, what it is they can rely on. They are extremely self-informed. Essentially this is a troubled person, shuffling between great journeys, but always hopeful of coming to that place of peace, which is inner—always inner. The Aquarian-Taurus who feels it is out there, far away where they can be happy, where their life will begin to make sense, or come to fit the mold, the vision, they have seen for themselves, is deluded. Their brains have gotten so depressed from the struggle of the Sun-Moon square that fantasy seems the only way out. But all the journeys, the innumerable details, the tunneled visions, the revelations, the fantastic relationships, and the madness—these are phases, cloaks worn for a time, as when the Aquarian pours down libations on the earth and the sun strikes the liquid into endless color, so very varying and colorful is the Aquarian life. Taurus is still, the enclosed, still, beating heart, that dreams of something so much simpler. The Sun Moon square represents in a sense an unresolvable dream, an unreconcilable vision. This is the combination of my mother in law who I have had the chance to observe very closely, but whose secrets I will not air here. As well as curiously, Bill Maher, a public figure of some oratory, political genius, yet very defined, very hard-cut, and a loner.