I lived with a man once who made a living playing the guitar and singing on the street. He was this combination. Of course, there were other factors in his chart having to do with control and running like a pursued deer, but the Taurus Sun and Aries Moon alone is that of the rebel loner. The person of this type is rich with rebounding energy, an outlandish gaiety that rolls through any upset, and so stalwart he or she can weather all the cold temperatures, lonely nights, or train hops the person has an impulse for. The Taurus Sun is very strong in body, almost always, and the Aries Moon being so near Taurus diurnally, has a stark departure from its ethics, rippling the sturdy body awareness with irrepressible desires and impulses, a kind of fervor. There’s joy in just being. The Taurus-Aries won’t move unless their deeper impulses are activated, but once activated they can kick it all night long, and are down to plunge into all kinds of situations, within reason. There’s got to be some deeper kind of reason—or a chance for good pleasure in return, that’s the Taurean secret. They can dig their heels in close to home, as Taurus Suns are known for doing, or they can detach—the Aries Moon is extremely detached from place, and the purest of all the fiery hearts. The man I knew, at twenty-five years old, had lived in a van and been on the constant move—he wanted to be on an adventure, test his own strength, and not be beholden to any kind of norm. The Aries Moon generally prevents complete conformity as there is a literal cycle of implosion and indigestion and then a release of anger and heat. They need a lot of deeply moving expression to sleep at night. They also tend to be fiercely attached to the birth family. The Aries Moon with a Taurus Sun is a Dark Moon, waning to the oblivion of a New Moon, and this configuration not only shoves the Sun and Moon very close together in the chart, contained with one house or adjacent houses, but keeps the whole character in the shade of a single mood. So this person lives in his or her moods until they pass and explores the depths of internal worlds to great creative lengths. Interestingly, Taurus can hold out on pleasures for very long before finally indulging, which keeps the Aries Moon in a state of smoldering which actually gives them secret pleasure. One night you might find this person laughing like a hyena and the center of hijinks, another night he or she’ll be almost invisible, all their features clouded, and refusing to eat. There’s actually a deep desperate need for security, as the Taurus Sun underlines, but it must be gotten at through route of the soul, or the Fire Moon, and so long years of the life are taken up in this barren desert-like roving for the soul. They’re not very sensitive to other people’s reasoning, they have their own ways of doing things, and cannot be pushed. They’ll literally jump out the window and climb down the side of an ivy-strewn building, and then, all gaily, stroll on down the street to a different spot, if they feel too cornered or unappreciated. Taurus Suns are generally conservative romantically, not expending a great amount of energy on many people, but conserving it for whoever makes their heart beat soundly. Aries is the lonely moon, creating energetic boundaries out of its own sheer force. I’ve read that psychologists say anger is necessary, it creates the space a person needs to protect themselves, to feel what they might feel. At heart it’s a defense mechanism, a fire that creates edges and distance—and the Taurus Sun and Aries Moon exists by these elemental truths. Life is exciting, prone to change and whirlwinds, even as the Taurus Sun casts a long-term rope that, some way or other, must be fulfilled. The person is charismatic, brash and electrified in expression; he or she keeps the wild flicker of the child-self in their eyes always.