This one is really a tour de force—the intense slowly driven expression of Pluto married to the just as slowly driven, just as deep-rooted purposes of Saturn. Together these two create immense determination and usually, slowly, receive what it is they want. And when that happens there is a revelation and they can be healed of what it was that they wanted, which tied them so mercilessly to materialism and desire. So, the Sun is spiritual purpose, totality, consciousness—drawing in and beaming out all energy. In Capricorn, we have the Sun captured and dragged down to earth; we have the earth’s laws as what is most obvious, not spiritual ascension or the invisible. This person very much asks to have everything proved to them. Saturn is the planet which seeks opportunity because of lack of sight, because of an acute perception of the limitations of time, the shortcomings of society, and deficiencies of mind or body. There is instinct to scale and supersede with Saturn, to overcome. But this instinct is typically fired up by repression, as Saturn represses everything until the right time or the right amount of pressure has been applied. Patience, a certain ruthlessness, too, goes with Saturn, for the person lives for a certain period of life not believing in themselves or higher powers and facing this world of appearances with a scrutinizing, self-pitying eye. The person is marked by the great ‘malefic’ and so typically not so forthcoming with exchanging love, however, the presence of Moon in Scorpio transforms that. Sun in the sign of Capricorn is when the hours of daylight in the Northern hemisphere are the shortest of the year. So everything must be concise, organized, have its purpose, to make the most of what remains. However, in comes the Moon in Scorpio, and it becomes evident that the purposes have an unconscious fulcrum—a deep desire for love. Pluto is the higher octave of the Moon, and so beneath the hard shell of this Capricorn we have an overlarge, though deeply buried, beating heart. Someone with Moon in Scorpio is very much Scorpionic and does not say what she or he directly means; it would be too much a risk. This person has great vulnerability, so their needs are conveyed through the eyes, body language, even unconsciously through fixed boundaries. This person smolders. He or she wants very deeply—on the Capricorn level the wanting is egocentric and about domination, and being worthwhile. On the Scorpio level the wanting is voracious, wound-activated, and dangerous in its intensity. From both Sun and Moon in this person comes activation of the wound space. This person seems to have been fashioned by God so as to represent like an emblem what it is to desperately want while never speaking the words of wanting. With Moon in Scorpio, this person is less demonstrative and more repressed than as paired with other signs, which is of course the Sun in Capricorn’s doing. Unevolved, the person may not say they love you, even though in all other respects—through the giving of gifts, caretaking, and fucking, of course, this is obvious. A Moon in Scorpio person does not live well until he or she hits bottom and begins to release pain and trauma, and activate the heart center, and above all release fears. A Capricorn person must be working like a dog toward living well so this person very likely overcomes an immense amount of inhibition and repressed fear down the road of his or her life, working through some purposeful medium or a life of action. Evolved, this is the combination of the silent ruler, a person who serves his or her own vision through others without tiring, as Saturn and Pluto furnish a soul with unbelievable grounding and staying power. When he or she chooses to release the ego-desires that are so knotted up with old wounds and insecurity, then the person is on the path of evolution and opening the heart. But it may be a long road. I have met a woman of this combination; she had certain dark tales of herself, certain doors that were opened for her apparently without her lifting a finger though she had been striving in secret behind the scenes. She is a devoted mother, a voracious partner, but she does not speak of the depth of her dreams. She keeps those for pouring out alone to the altar.