Sun Sign, Moon Sign: Discover the personality secrets of the 144 sun-moon combinations. Charles Harvey

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      Air is compatible with Earth and they make a good team, for they both approach life logically and practically. Fire and Air stimulate each other in the realm of ideas and possibilities, but this relationship could lack stability and burn itself out. Air is fascinated by the watery individual whose predominant feeling mode will help the airy person to get in touch with his mysterious emotions and to develop his imagination. Airy thinking and watery feeling are opposites, and yet because of that very fact they are intensely drawn to one another.

       Male v. Female

      Traditionally we expect to see the objective, witty, thinking characteristics of the double-Air type in men whose intellects make them leaders of thought and action. Women of this type are just as independent, inquisitive and extroverted, and rebel when others try to peg them into more traditional female roles. Adaptability, ingenuity and handling people with cunning insight and skill are double-Air virtues, and the female of this type can employ these qualities in both the home and the marketplace. Both sexes are often drawn towards learning and communication, as well as professional activities that allow for maximum freedom of movement and travel.

      Water-Water Combinations (See nos. 40, 44, 48, 88, 92, 96, 136, 140, 144)

      Water is the element of feelings and imagination, and the English language is full of Water imagery which is descriptive of this type. The strongly Water type is able to get into the mainstream and go with the flow. They drink in life’s experiences, and nothing washes over them. They can gush with feelings, quickly go misty with emotions and dissolve into tears. Sentimental and nostalgic about the past, this type can wax lyrical about his longings for times gone by, as does the Anglo-Irish dramatist Oliver Goldsmith (Sun Scorpio, Moon Cancer):

       I love everything old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

      This type can also at times be a wet blanket, especially to more boisterous Fire types and restless Air types. In politics their compassionate natures incline them to be the caring and compassionate ‘wets’, rather than the airy ‘dries’ with their doctrinal purity. Heartier types may consider Water individuals to be ‘drips’ and ‘still wet behind the ears’. But ‘still waters run deep’, and the feeling strengths of the double-Water type give the capacity to empathize with others and to show caring concern for everyone in need.

      This individual also has a rich imagination and often the ability to ‘get inside the skin’ of another; hence the poetic, artistic and theatrical talents often come easily. A confusion of personal boundaries is, however, an occupational hazard of the strongly watery type. They can be so sensitive that they become psychic sponges, picking up moods and emotional undercurrents in the environment, and unable to differentiate their own feelings and needs from those of others.

      This type wants emotional security and emotional food, and because the two do not always come together in equal doses, they easily get hurt. If wounded he can withdraw into an icy silence, but once his feelings are recognized and addressed, his heart quickly melts and thaws out and he is soon back in the flow of things.

       Shadow

      Swimming in the seas of subjectivity does not make it easy for double-Water types to engage in clearly reasoned arguments and objective judgements. They know how they personally feel about people or situations, and that is their reality – rather than a collection of objective facts which lead indubitably to a logical conclusion. Hence the strongly watery individual tends to remain irrational when he thinks he is being rational. This type needs to learn how to think things through with more detachment. Yes, he may have had a bad experience with a Malaysian taxi driver, but does that really make all the Malaysian race bad?

      The double-Water type is also prone to cling in relationships, because they provide the arena for the emotional exchange, containment and security that is so vital for this individual’s wellbeing. This type often needs to learn that letting go just a little, and allowing loved ones more room for manoeuvre, usually strengthens rather than jeopardizes a relationship.

       Male v. Female

      Water is undoubtedly a feminine-oriented element, and hence generally much easier in our society for females to handle than males. Whilst men can be sympathetic, caring and compassionate, it is still not easy for men in the West to show their feelings or to allow themselves to be seen dissolving into tears. In consequence, strongly watery men may actually swing into the opposite pole and become ultra-rational, detached, and unemotional to a degree that some would see as almost pathological. This can lead to men of this type, and some women, taking pride in showing no emotions and acting only through reason.

      When this does happen, however, this type of polarized individual will almost always be found surrounded with highly emotional people and situations that ‘act out’ the inner emotional life they find themselves unable to handle. This can be seen in the super-rational husband with the hysterical wife, and the calm, reasonable psychologist who is deeply concerned in a supremely rational way to help those who have become ‘confused’ and ‘emotionally disturbed’.

      Fire – Earth Combinations (See nos. 2, 6, 10, 13, 17, 21, 50, 54, 58, 61, 65, 69, 98, 102, 106, 109, 113, 117)

      The Fire Sun – Earth Moon type is a strong, compelling personality. We can see this as the volcano pouring forth lava which will eventually become new, fertile lands. This individual can deal with molten metal like the blacksmith or the engineer shaping raw material into serviceable tools. Here is the practical enthusiast, the doer who can also enthuse others to action.

      This combination has been called the bull-dozer, for he has tremendous weight and drive to push ahead in exactly the direction he wants. J. Pierrpoint Morgan (Sun Aries, Moon Virgo), the American industrialist, typified this combination well when he said:

       I don’t want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

      Likewise, the Earth Sun – Fire Moon combination is also the practical visionary who consciously keeps his feet on the ground but has the instinct to go for the main chance, to know when to risk, and to pull rabbits out of hats when least expected. This individual could be the hard-headed pragmatic entrepreneur who sees future opportunities and can seize them with confidence and know-how, turning them into solid and often lucrative realities in the present.

      Earth – Fire types may possess a raucous sense of humour, a pronounced sensuality and a real penchant for the good life, as can be seen in the life of Alexander Woollcott (Sun Capricorn, Moon Sagittarius), the American drama critic and wit, who said, whilst surveying an elegant country estate:

       Just what God would have done if he had the money.

      Either way, with this Fire – Earth combination there is a strong practical, rational bias coupled with a powerful intuition and a compelling need for freedom and power. When the positive interaction between Fire and Earth is not working, this person can become very tense, swinging between a burning, intuitive faith and a down-in-the-dumps inertia and Doubting Thomas scepticism.

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      People with Fire – Earth combinations tend СКАЧАТЬ