The Bird in Flight

Aries Sun and Sagittarius Moon

I knew an ethereal woman of this combination, who lived through her passions. Impulsive, fearless, visibly sad or startlingly ecstatic—this mark of the double fire. Here the Moon is waning, however, towards the slip of a crescent, and so the person has a stronger mark of contemplativeness and sorrow than other double Fires. There’s a keen sense of loss—a dire holding that comes with gain, and an expected deflation or settling down to embers when endings become imminent. The Aries Sun, as I’ve described elsewhere, is that of the rogue, the loner, and owning the Cardinal Fire Sign as one’s Sun forever marks you as someone who listens to the gut and almost always follows it for better or worse—“the road less traveled by.” There are many dead-ends with an Aries, as well as fresh starts—this person, like the dearest child, is well taken care of by the universe simply for his or her brash boldness, for a willingness to spark again. Which they do even after deep and devastating loss. The Sagittarius Moon helps them. This is a stoic, almost invisibly burning saturation of a Moon; to have a Fire Moon, especially a Sagittarian one, is to know the love of the moment and being ecstatic in one’s own skin. Equally as pleasurable are moments of contemplation and integration later. This person inhabits a body and a time and place that combine a multitude of sensations. They are aware of multiple planes of existence at once—the dreaminess of time, place, the catalyst they perceive as themselves really sends them for a loop. They live on the knowingness of divine timing, and their minds are extremely active and responsive. The Aries-Sagittarius is an incredibly social being, yet also a loner—and they revel in this contradiction. Arresting, philosophical, expansive, and curious of everyone from friend to enemy, they are fierce and loyal, subjective and pensive. The Waning Moon lends a je ne sais quoi—this person seems always elsewhere, in his or her own thoughts, adjusting to something unseen. They carry some living pain around for the Aries feels everything the most keenly—there is very little divide between thought and body-sensation, and they are as reactive and sensitive as more unconscious mammals. The Sagittarius Moon makes sure that the sensations are processed on a highly intellectual level, a very spiritual level, one above and beyond inherited tendencies. This person escapes with their mode of coping. They are also genius in most of their intuitions, though they have a bad habit of moving against their foresight. They do so direly, ironically, for the Sagittarius Moon is almost always aware of the consequences before the Aries Sun acts. But with the Sagittarius Moon too there is this love of spontaneity and just being that exemplifies the extreme blessing of a trine between the Sun and Moon, as the two signs completely understand one another. However, the Sagittarius insight is stronger, and sometimes, out of a dour fit of frustration that one’s ebb is low or timing off, out of impatience, this shrugging off the face of knowing that is almost a sacred act. Choosing to be—choosing flight—unconsciousness—an out of bodied ecstasy. They have a strangeness and a hint of tragedy about them. Ultimately they become their own dreams. This person is a wanderer of the heart; what they are here to do is to really learn something true, and that’s more important than creature comforts.