This combination has a definite watchful vibe. Virgo and Scorpio are in sextile and they really understand one another, up to a point—as sextiles go—almost as if on the peripheral all is in sync but on a deeper level these signs have different ethos, are interested in different things. The Virgo Sun must have a methodic, calculated and very conscious life—one that is freely chosen, full of enterprise, and gives opportunity to become the master of a certain craft. The Scorpio Moon lies like a deep well beneath the rolling hills of this Virgo intention—it is the pulp, the life water, the very substance of what would be communicated on an intricate and very skilled level. This deep, even unconscious, pulp of emotion which must have some kind of a release shall have a charged and very concise one through the sieve of the Virgo Sun. Scorpio is the most haywire and expansive, the deepest and darkest of the Moons—in Scorpio the Moon is in its fall and what a spectacular, Lucifer-like fall it is. There’s a delight in the dark, any rhythm of the underworld, and circumspect situations. The person is drawn to much in their life by instinct, or an intuitive sense that there’s an experience to be had through which the person will enter the catharsis he or she so sorely needs to feel well, for a Scorpio Moon rarely feels just ‘good,’ or chill. The Virgo-Scorpio seethes with energetic heaves that seem almost like outside infections, but they interpret it very much as their own; it is as if they are driven out of control by tectonic and infernal forces of the human species itself. It’s a real joy—it feels like the meaning of life—to weave this deep and potent internal energy into something extremely communicable and exact. The Virgo Sun will obsessively make its interpretation of a huge breadth of the unknown within its own self. Virgo is ruled by Mercury after all, and so there will be effort to make the dark communicable and relational. The person relates on many, many levels—can be through music, the written word, through glances, through dreams, through sex—but translation and cognition are paramount to life. The person knows his or her self well, as all Scorpio Moons do—there is much in themselves however they choose not to tell to others. Both signs tend to hype up secrecy, Scorpio and Virgo both tending towards paranoia. There will be illnesses whose origin is always the mind. The love life is generally serendipitous, rocky, and profound. Here the Moon is at a waxing crescent, indicative of working actively with impulse, a mode of coping and reaction that was developed by early childhood. These people trust themselves. They love representing the nuances of their time, communicating the truths which make their heads ache, but there is much that they do represent that is beyond even their own comprehension, that is unconscious, and leads them where a Virgo Sun would not have singularly chosen. This unchosen representation, the unexpected twists and turns of their heart, brings them so much pain that they then creep inward, pick up their tools of the trade, and stew in some of the most melancholy and contemplative situations imaginable. I knew a memorable woman, intense and stylish, who was of this sign as well as a man, some years younger than me, an experimental saxophonist, with whom I had a brief but heart-pumping affair.