This is a very bright combination for the waning Moon. Yet a waning crescent it is for a Gemini Moon paired with a Leo Sun. This masculine combination, meaning that of the positive forces of Fire and Air, creates a smoldering ego flanked in the vibrancy of flamboyancy. The mischievousness and the devil-may-care potential of the Moon in Gemini is given full rein to manifest itself when the Sun is in Leo. There is great self-respect, yet just as much self-abandon here so the person comes off as both contained and like a ticking time bomb. The Sun represents our central identity, the core out of which long-term goals and general desires resonate and are enacted. With Leo, the very sign that the Sun rules, this is so easily felt and implemented. There are no grips of self-consciousness, dogged regrets—the Leo Sun turns back toward itself for reassurance and as the bottom line. It also resonates and the power of this resonance creates the person’s era and draws attention to the person so that he or she collects certain people, worshippers even. The Moon, however, the much subtler body, is that which imbues the person with depth, and to some degree aura—what you get when you get close. How deep the person is willing to go in relationships, even in simple conversations—and what the person can or cannot tolerate are determined by the sign and aspect of the Moon sign, what in the chart signifies how the person both self-nurtures and invites nurturing. Their own private selves will be more associated with the Moon as well. Paradoxically, Gemini is the least private of all the signs in the zodiac which makes this an electrifying, drawing in kind of Moon sign—one which sacrifices privacy, even safety, for all kinds of attractions. The chameleon, the poison dart frog, the fairy, the two-faced statue, the twins, these are some of the symbols of the Gemini that can give you an idea as to how this person sends out signals even in stillness, an echo which tends to alter other people, bring out their true natures, and stimulate change in their environments. Known for being mischievous because their morality is more personal, subjective, and colloquial than is politically correct, the Gemini, especially when it is a Moon sign, will do whatever he or she decides in the moment so as to justify the chaotic nature of the universe with largeness of spirit. Offering is life. And the whirlwind that follows from this offering, the madness that follows, completely justifies them because this is what they need, crave, what ends up defining them. In the end, it is what we need that defines us and shapes our world as much as what we think we desire. So the Leo is an apex predator of desire—the heart center is open and fired up, the magnificence of being is worked at, captured, and honed, and the desires, placations, delusions, and grand delusions of the ego create the plans. But essentially it is the noncommittal, wild nature of the Gemini Moon that frees this person’s steps from the usual wide flagstone road of the Leo. This person is very large in aura, large in sound, large in symbol. The Leo-Gemini I knew, and I was not terribly close to him, though he did try to kiss me once in a hallway when I was dating his friend, was very masculine, with tough, brazen hands but could pull off wrapping feathered scarves around his neck and hanging with the gays. His whole life was a kowtowing to the unfettered nature, to breaking bonds on every level of society, from law, to work-life, to financial security, straight down to the deeply personal. I do not know what he was like in his deepest intimate places, others would know and not me. But, that there were no rules there for him, and that he might follow you into the trenches of your psyche, the dark alleys of the city, or out onto the white-walled stage of the gallery, in honor of your friendship and in honor of seeing something through and through, beyond where there is an end, toward the moments that are life—is what made his own star blaze. He becomes the most noticed, yet it was always in honor of the invisible, the beyond. Always for that. The more willing we are to go to those unknown heights and depths, the more visible we are here on earth—in body, in soul. So this person is Visible, though the waning Moon indicates he or she deconstructs, disintegrates, that his or her acts are powerfully deep responses out of time, out of place…