This is the combination of a serendipitous friendship in my life, and I’m grateful for the sounding board role she plays for me, both incredibly fluid with ideas as well as responsive to mine, as Dark Moon people are so good at doing. For the Taurus Moon and a Gemini Sun marks the coming of the New Moon, when we’re in the nebulous arena of the Dark Moon. Here there is much minutiae absorbed, and the person filters this material, interprets, and then lets it go so it can transform into a new state. Essentially the Dark Moon is analogous to the 12th house in astrology, the Piscean house, in which ego is transformed, the body withers, and we pass into the ‘beyond’ before being grounded again in the body of the 1st house. This is a process akin to detoxification or purification, which the person is always in the process of doing. After dissolution, something like a prayer is released in the universe; the Gemini Sun and Dark Taurus Moon thrives on standing in as that function for his or herself and for others. There’s a rippling effect with the Dark Moon, too, in which the person temporarily seals themselves—as the cocoon stage is very intimate to them. In Taurus, the Moon is exalted, meaning that the emotional nature is extremely even with lovely earthy outlets, and a deep and safe inner center. They are capable of nurturing themselves, and a gentleness pervades them even while they visibly struggle with much. Most Geminis do experience struggle; the nervous system is extremely activated in the sign of Gemini. They are brimming with thoughts, verbal expressions, and a taut knowingness that manifests most intense in their hands. They are very heart-centered though, because of the Moon in Taurus, and there’s more gentle caring than other Geminis would deem to express. The eternal child flits behind their facial expressions at all ages, having both Sun and Moon so early in the zodiac, both signs having to do with nascent spring. So they are nascent with themselves, each day can be a sweet beginning, and the void of the underneath, what lurks behind their curious steps, seems to innocently dog them. They tend to grow much in other people’s shadows and in places one would not expect. They are extremely sensitive to atmospheres and people’s moods, and need time alone or with gentle children or in nature to come back to their own centers, which acts as a portal for them, since they are aurally so sensitive to other times and planes of the universe. Time does have a strange quality—the Taurus Moon experiences such visceral sensations so regularly that each day makes its effect very strong on the body. The Gemini Sun, however, scintillates over the day, and has a harder time differentiating, as on a mental-emotional level, the contents of decades or eons are being considered. The person is somehow both an open book and extremely nuanced. You may get to know this person in an instant, and yet they unfold slowly, especially to themselves, as the sign of the carefully considering Bull rules their emotional body. They delight in the sudden twists and turns of the universe and in laughter; it is a thrill to them, especially as they can later take back all their spontaneous encounters, whims, sensations, and sudden intentions for mulling over while in private ritual. Curiously while they are mentally very active and verbally genius, they integrate the material they hear and feel on the body-level, in the physical affects of their nervous systems, and on an astral plane in meditative acts. The Gemini Sun is a great stimulator and absorber, like a tonic, but the Taurus Moon is a digestive of the highest quality. Emotionally and romantically they are sensitive to many different connections but the Taurus Moon prefers pragmatic ones and is deeply loyal. Dark Moon types may also stay for too long in less than ideal situations, simply because they are attuned to it, and on a constant level integrating what others refuse to acknowledge or integrate themselves. They are not the types to always begin new endeavors, but are incredible at fine-tuning and making efficient when given the right material. They were born in an attitude akin to the last stages of grief, and it is on that level of processing and dissolving in which they ache and bend through their days like the reed.