There is not another Virgo Sun as stable and earth-knowing as this one. First of all, this Virgo Sun is coupled with a fellow earth Moon making the Sun-Moon configuration double earth, a trine of earth. Sure, there’s another earth-trine moon possibility—that’s Capricorn, but in Capricorn the Moon is in its fall and here, in Taurus, it is exalted. The Virgo Sun make an exacting and principled personality, one that is shrewd and instantly deciphers much that is intense and nuanced. Virgo is Mercury’s power concentrated in specificities, over an interior range, deciphering, constantly moving. There’s a current of anxiety that runs with a Virgo Sun like the electricity that spikes up a cat’s fur down its back. But much of that electricity is smoothed and positively directed because of the secure connection that is a trine with the Taurus Moon. A trine occurs between signs of the same element, and here we have both signs in earth with the Moon as a cautious waning crescent. At the waning gibbous motive for action is more repressed and brooded over; the person is observant and burning with questions which keeps the Virgo-Taurus held-back a bit in the questioning shadows. But there is much activity of interpretation and experiment in the shadows. Their questions tend to breed more questions, and their scientific way of approaching life takes them strange and rewarding byways. They develop keen voices, watchful eyes, soft smiles. The waning gibbous has much to do with Scorpio’s realm of knowing. Thus the person is deep in their interior exploration and on another wavelength, one that’s connected to ancestral life and the pulse of the very earth. However, at the end of the day, the Virgo-Taurus wisely relies on their ritualistic communing with the hours—they can pick up instruments easily and strum out their thoughts and feelings that way. Though likely self-taught they also make excellent pupils. Whatever becomes their trade they use as a tool in contemplation and to vibrate upon eternity. They enjoy being exerted and tasked, they enjoy being tried and tested, and are more at peace in the midst of self-decided toil than total rest. They prefer to stay busy with their hands. But they adore the peace of the home too and generally were able to derive their own peace and quiet as children. The Taurus Moon makes for a flair for cooking and knowing how to combine what the earth provides so it’s most nourishing. This person is very gentle but keen with the mystery of their desire to know—and the Virgo sensibility, being so well supported and grounded by a Taurus Moon, has more free reign to contemplate and make hypotheses that bring revealing results than other Virgos who are beset by unsupportive Moons. Of course the person could be lethargic if answers come too easily, if everything, even mastery comes too easily, always a risk with the trine configuration, but this isn’t the kind of person to rest on his or her laurels. There’s a great sensual, rejuvenating kind of inner energy. Their nervous systems are strong and that counteracts the stress the Virgo Sun tends to pile on their own selves, as a result of the high standards and goals they keep. The Taurus Moon ensures also that at the end of the day there are strong emotional connections in life, too, for there’s a great love of being in the body and knowing someone else bodily and emotionally. The person is a loyal partner, dependable, and brilliant with finances. This is the combination of my neighbor and childhood friend who used to be my philosophical combatant and devil’s advocate as we rode home down winding suburban roads on the school bus.