This is a remarkably serious combination, difficult to connect with, but very sensitive. The Moon is at a waning square, meaning it has come into the crisis of its disintegration, when a half Moon in the sky is visible before it all fades away. A latent paranoia lies in the waning signs which gets transfigured into an eventual grace with rolling with life’s natural pitfalls and upswings. Here the signs are square, within the Cardinal Cross (signs are typically square within their own modalities—Cardinal, Fixed, or Mutable) and so they are directly in each other’s way. This means the person deeply personalizes a split personality, and suffers from having very different feeling-states at his or her disposal. Usually, the person who has the Sun-Moon square has little control over which side is the more prominent at which time; he or she is at the mercy of instincts antagonist to one another. The result is a restless uncomfortableness; neither state allows the person to be at peace, but he or she never stops trying or moving, even if depression or a blankness take them, which arises typically in the lull between two variant states. Then the person gets shuttled into unexpected leaps of consciousness. It is always so with the square. Understanding of self begins as a reactionary state to the crisis of the split personality, but gradually grows to encompass contradictory thoughts and feelings. As far as the particularities of these two signs, the Capricorn Sun is ensconced in its own self-derived principles, and hard-pressed to make something visibly impressive of his or herself. The square tends to belie a deep self-doubt as a result of having to integrate an unsupportive Moon, and the Capricorn is especially sensitive to criticism and already prone to self-doubt. He or she is naturally relaxed and put at ease by the presence of likeminded people, and a few spare words of support, even though it’s also stimulating for the person to learn from those who think differently. The person doesn’t actually expect peace in his or her nervous systems and functions very well in strife. For deep inside the person is always internalizing conflict, and embodying his or her own worst enemy. Saturn, who sees over Capricorn, makes sure that the person never begins anything he or she might not succeed in, and so there are long dry-spells of living without joy rather than memories of participation. They are old when they are young. They might miss out on much, but the ache of that missing becomes their memory. A Libra Moon makes bloom in them a real longing for peace and calm. The Libra Moon above all has faith and strives for the joy of participation. You see the variance? The person holds themselves aloof from the acts he or she most loves. A Libra Moon person loves to be enmeshed with friends, and finds peace in bringing people together, and interacting with them. The Moon is ruled by Venus, the planet of congenial feeling and receptivity. On a solitary level, a Libra Moon tries to soothe internal hard-edges, and feels well when there is abundant, even incessant self-care. The person trusts that image and intention speak the truth, and feel they can hide their own selves that way too. But their Sun sign undercuts the naivete of this Libra Moon, as Capricorn is more distrustful than not, and gets a secret kind of satisfaction from seeing through others. The person may not realize that he or she is actually the root of the trouble, acting as an instigator or a stick in the mud. Meanwhile, the Libra Moon smooths every natural alarm system in the psyche so that the person might never be tipped off to how he or she undermines his or her own desires by the presence of wayward, reactionary ethics. Thus the Capricorn-Libra is potentially at the mercy of a long road of self-sowed mines, humorously and darkly walked in a spirit of forgetfulness. Eventually, however, the person matures into an older age whose joy is its own form of wisdom. Self-scrutiny and outward scrutiny diminish as the indulgences of self-soothing cease to satisfy. In the lashings of a lull, like the eye of a storm, this person eventually feels that being respectful and offering his or her best is all that can be done, and that all the extra effort to uncover what lies beneath or dig out some secret pearl, message, or passageway only upsets an inner balance and ricochets them away from principled intentions. At a higher level the Capricorn part of the person chooses a professional and emotional life of dignity, while the Libra part rolls over in joyousness in relationships that have stood the test of time and trial, and places that have been built up lovingly despite the winds of change. It is a very attached Moon, to people and atmospheres and objects. To be free of that, the highest manifestation of the Libra Moon would hold onto nothing but the natural shifts in joy and pensiveness belonging to a single day. The person should be doggedly self-ritualized; it helps them. They are naturally self-effacing, sacrificial, and do well with discipline. The person may have a craft which requires much focus. Always, the Capricorn-Libra melts at a word or gesture of kindness, especially when he or she has not actually given space or offered an invitation for it. The Capricorn’s Libra Moon is desirous of affection even if every facet of the person’s face and body language speaks otherwise. This is the sign of many people who have come in and out of my life; all of them intense, forbidding, soft beneath a brittle exterior, and uniquely genius. One of them is my son.