The City over the Sands

Pisces Sun and Capricorn Moon

Here is the most grounded possible of the Pisces combinations. The interplay between a Neptune ruled Sun and Saturn ruled Moon makes for a person both fluid and wise. There is equal childishness and maturity at play here. Of course with the Pisces Sun the person has an openness, and an eagerness to listen and feel. There is that presence and willingness to be, and meld into, that every Pisces Sun possesses, the art of being in the here and now. Ironically, Pisces is just as likely to drift and be detached, as if blurred or unfocused to the moment. The talent for being exists in the person simultaneously with its antithesis or its opposite. The deeply tuned in Pisces is capable of great presence, but a Pisces whose heart is being pulled elsewhere, or whose thoughts lie with a reality that is old or not yet manifested, will feel wispy or insubstantial to encounter. The Capricorn Moon part of this person makes it so that people encounter them much more solidly than other Pisces combinations. The person may even fear transferring negative thoughts or complexes onto his or her loved ones. Anyone with Capricorn as Sun or Moon feels a grave sort of responsibility for themselves, and for this person it is in terms of energy. She or he will exert great control and effort to be energetically responsible, with profound boundaries—as much as he or she is capable—for such a strong active Neptune means that at times boundaries erode despite efforts to control. Capricorn, meanwhile, is ruled by Saturn, the planet of actuality and physicality—solid to the touch— the slow inevitable playing out of gears and potentialities; our bodies are not infinite, we carry scars, not all wounds heal—so Saturn whispers, and the heart sinks. This knowledge, this working with deep awareness of mortality and consequences, makes the Pisces-Cap very aware of their effect on other people, on the deep effect other people (and their own parents) have on themselves, and so they tread lightly and respectfully. The person is both grave and energized by a kaleidoscope of wishes. They are dear souls; you weep for them, weep with them. Their touch is very healing. They possess both the burden of knowingness and a penchant for renewal. A Capricorn Moon is considered in its detriment, which puts the Moon’s emotional responsibilities under duress. Through the Pisces Sun, through a kind of detached ethos or calling, the person is accessible, warm, and transporting. Personally he or she is locked up tight, and needs to be offered what he or she offers others in order to open. Kindness, an understanding that usurps knowledge, and blind hope—Pisces-Caps will gravitate to those capable of offering this, though such a longing portends a desire to learn how to embody this themselves. With fear and criticism and skepticism left behind… however, such states will always be accessible, to some degree. But there is a process to releasing these feelings that any Capricorn Moon must go through—delving into the recesses of childhood to heal places where spontaneity, glee, and belief were tampered with or relegated to places in the psyche that became hard to find. There is a penchant towards gloom and imaginings of a dark nature; fear and negative thoughts can literally repaint this person’s world as confining. Gently, through a calling the Pisces-Cap chooses that is not personal to their own demons or memories, they free themselves from these constraints of the mind. Loving a good laugh, and needing it, as all Capricorn ‘lights’ do, the person must make his or her own way in small pilgrimages toward places of release and mysticism. They do well visiting lands where dark histories have been grown over by cheerful moss and all is now at peace. The woman I know of with this combination heals with her hands, and is as warm as she is self-protected. There is a definite grace to her, both earthy and unearthly—the two poles, the groundwork of quantum psychics showing up in her facial expressions. The Moon in Capricorn with a Pisces Sun is waning toward the New, a waning crescent. The person is thoughtful and cautious; she or he carries old memories of other lives. The process of elimination and releasing is ecstatic. Visions painted over solid walls.