This is the combination of my father as well as someone who turned a corkscrew in my heart, devotedly, but without mercy. This combination is remarkably stable, and intrinsic. They are here to participate in the sacred relationship of give and take. Like the earth, for this is a double earth sign, they are absorbent and sensitive, and they do a lot of taking in. They experience many slow years of shaping before they begin to kick in as a strong personality and give back. When they do give back, it’s altruistically, yes, but also because they understand the mechanics of investment and return, and know what’s coming to them; they feel abundance is their right and they are methodical, very methodical. This combination is trine, the Sun and Moon being on the same wavelength, same element. The trine is probably the deepest of blessings, and essentially this combination never falls too off kilter, even at the very edge of disaster. There’s a holy sort of composure, a deep and aligned rootedness in the body, and a sympathy for the self that overrides the Capricorn tendency to cut one down to the deepest. The Capricorn Sun totes along a father-figure in the psyche throughout life, and the Taurus Moon widens the mirage of the field, the proximity of the hills, and the dreaminess of the vastest of achievements. Life is met both bodily and intentionally: there’s power in this combination that’s very compelling for others to fall under, and they tend to be the most charming of leaders. Women come weepingly, laughingly, up behind them. They are one of the most skilled lovers, for earth revels in touch, and the three quarters to the Full position of the waxing moon, as they possess, provides them with the most anticipatory of skillsets. Mechanically they’re geniuses. They are very good at reading atmospheres, characters, relationships, and market conditions. They can be dense about themselves, not because they don’t understand themselves, but because they are extremely protective, just as the earth is. Of course the earth can be broken into, and hurt, but not without vengeance enacted. This person may never entertain such a thought; the Taurus Moon is exalted here—meaning the Moon sign gets to indulge in the loftiest, gentlest, and most sensitive emotion, but they understand the nature of the earth’s ways. They understand that what you put in returns to you, that what you harm sets off chain reactions. They know ultimately how brutal nature is and it is a heart-wrenching, unspoken aspect of them, that they know. They are too deeply pragmatic not to know; the returns they’ve received from the structured nature of this world are too real. But the knowing creates this deep melancholy and potentially depressive nature that is unique to the double-earths. Inwardly they suffer very much. They get into cycles of work as a way of compensating for this ruthless instinct and awareness they possess, which they use to exalt themselves while observing coolly how someone else or other must fall. Making money is important; their self-worth thrives on that material return. The trine Sun-Moon presents a problem since the feeling nature is so supportive and cushioning of the Sun. The people of a trine nature, or double elemental signs, in this case that of earth, thrives so spectacularly, can make things work without a single hitch, finding that the response they expect is seamless with what they project, so that they tend to live in expanded comfort zones in which very little challenge presents itself, where stagnancy mucks up the wheels of pleasure and expectation turning. They will do best, as any double elemental sign will, with holding off on their holier-than-thou knack for informing and instead listen to the strange and dangerous tales of others, and support those voices, for they have been blessed with a capacity to be able to provide sanctuaries on this earth.