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

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      Whether it is Fire Sun – Earth Moon or Earth Sun – Fire Moon, this combination produces a powerful ego which can easily run the show in any relationship. When the urge to dominate meets with resistance, they can become baffled and frustrated until they begin to respect the rights and needs of others.

       Relationships

      Fire – Earth may find his own type atttractive, but can enter into very creative and complementary relationships with Air – Water types who can both fan the flames and water the garden! Often a benevolent dictator in relationships and in the home, this type nevertheless is usually a very committed mate, tending to show his romantic feelings through actions. His stubbornness can, however, sometimes block domestic harmony and get in the way of intimacy.

       Male v. Female

      This is a good combination for people in politics and managerial positions who must make high-powered decisions and push through policies and procedures. Indeed, these individuals can be quite pushy and competitive, qualities the Western world feels are more acceptable in males.

      The female of this type is authoritative and pragmatic and is unlikely to waste time over failures or adverse reactions to her independence. Both males and females tend to have substantial ambition and terrific stamina.

      Fire – Air Combinations (See nos. 3, 7, 11, 25, 29, 33, 51, 55, 59, 73, 77, 81, 99, 103, 107, 121, 125, 129)

      The Fire – Air type is a real ‘live-wire’, full of exciting ideas and able to communicate them with tremendous zeal which impresses and persuades everyone around them. If taken to the extreme, this makes this individual full of bluster and bombast, long-winded and prone to be carried away by his own rhetoric and eloquence. Others may also be carried away as he tends to have lots of joie de vivre, cleverness and charisma. Noel Coward (Sun Sagittarius, Moon Gemini) expresses the wit and impatience of this combination well:

       I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

      Indeed, boredom is something this type shuns and can usually avoid because they think and live at such a fast pace.

      If the Sun is in Air and the Moon in Fire, the effect is rather like that of a hot-air balloon – a beautiful way to travel that takes you way up into the giddy heights. So likewise this type tends to be a Utopian idealist, seeing ever more distant sunny shores to which the human race may travel, loftier vistas and wider horizons. Alternatively, if this type gets on a high horse, they can be very moralistic, ‘knowing exactly what is good for us’.

       Shadow

      This type is a potential visionary, but visionaries need earthiness in order to bring ideas to fruition. The Fire – Air individual can be impractical and may exhaust himself with his intense sociability and the generation of stimulating ideas and new risks. If he remains in the realm of impersonal possibilities, he becomes cut off from body and the more mundane but essential needs of human life. And without emotional vulnerability, he misses out on real intimacy.

       Relationships

      Fire – Air types are so mentally active and gregarious, so keen to understand and to share their understanding, that they rarely play the role of the loner in the crowd. Their interests drive them on, and when they get to their destination they meet and strike up conversations and relationships with other interesting mavericks. In a relationship they need intellectual rapport and plenty of freedom to pursue their own interests.

      They may often be out of touch with their feelings and emotional needs, and an Earth – Water type can help remind them that they are in fact human. There is a kind of restless, eternal youthfulness about the Fire – Air type which is very appealing, but without the challenges of a serious relationship they can remain somewhat emotionally immature and superficial.

       Male v. Female

      The extroverted, enthusiastic and argumentative qualities of this type are applauded in males, whilst females of this type tend to be seen as ‘masculine’ and intimidating. Female Fire – Air types tend not to settle for traditional roles that limit their potential, and are therefore often at the cutting edge of social change. Both males and females of this type lead pacey lives to some extent, and can often live by their wits and land themselves at opportunity’s doorstep with the greatest of ease.

      Fire – Water Combinations (See nos. 4, 8, 12, 37, 41, 45, 52, 56, 60, 85, 89, 93, 100, 104, 108, 133, 137, 141)

      Take fire power and water power and put them together and you get steam, the power which drove the great trains. Steam is used to cleanse and sterilize and can also scald. Emotionally, this combination has a reputation for being especially given to passionate emotional involvement. Volatile, romantic, moody, the Fire – Water person has the artistic temperament which can fluctuate wildly. It is a poetic, ardent temperament, courageous in its visions yet vulnerable in its need for love and inspiration.

      The poet Shelley (Sun Leo, Moon Pisces) exemplified this passionate, artistic nature very well and could equally be describing himself when he rejoices in the Skylark:

       Pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

      When the Sun is in Water and the Moon is in Fire, the result is a passionate crusader whose feelings fuel his purpose and art. But fire can make water evaporate, and water may extinguish fire. When this happens, this type can feel unstable, depressed, and disoriented.

       Shadow

      The Fire – Water individual often lacks the ability to take the impersonal view; that is, to step back and reason impartially about things. Their approach is intensely personal, urgent, passionate, and for them life lacks meaning and colour if that vital personal ingredient is taken away.

      Often a slave to the intense fluctuation of moods, this type’s volatility can reach fanatical proportions, especially if a cool, reasoned argument is called for. Instability and impracticality can play havoc with the smooth running of their lives.

       Relationships

      The Fire – Water type is a highly romantic, warm and emotional person, and to a large degree thrives on love and satisfying relationships. Whilst one part of the nature may want to merge and gain absolute security, however, another part wants excitement and challenge: one part may feel an infinite capacity to give whilst another part is impelled to devour. This mixture can be demanding to live with, but also exciting and rewarding in the way that it might stretch other, less emotional types.

      People with this combination tend to feel contained and grounded by Earth – Air types. Their moodiness and changeability is less problematic as they learn to direct some of their emotional energy into their own creative pursuits.

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