Scorpio Sun, Taurus Moon

Most Scorpios ride out big waves of feeling. You’ve got solid ground under yours. You’re calm, you’re patient, and it would take a crane to shift your opinion.

A full moon with a fixed address

Scorpio and Taurus are opposites, so this is usually a birth around a full moon, but they’re both fixed signs and they share a great deal of willpower. Taurus steadies Scorpio’s emotional swings and makes you one of the most even-tempered Scorpios. It’s slow, practical and unbothered. You tend to like being in control, and others are often glad to let you, particularly as you get older and your views have been tried in real life.

You often have a feel for money and how the world actually works. The thing to watch is rigidity, since you might miss a good thing because it wasn’t part of the plan.

Devoted, physical and possessive

You care very deeply about the people closest to you, and you can read a situation almost immediately. Putting what you sense into words is harder. People may think you’re remote, when in fact you’ve noticed everything and you’ve simply got no sentence for it. Your love tends to come through touch, comfort and presence. Both of these signs enjoy the physical side of life, and you can give a partner a lot of pleasure.

The risk is what you may do with that strength when you’re frightened. Taurus holds on to what it has, and Scorpio can get jealous, and together those feelings can quietly tighten around someone. You may not raise your voice. You’d just like to know where they were, and who else was there, and it’s a rare partner who’ll enjoy that for long.

Words, and a looser hold

Practice saying what you notice, however brief: “You seem off today, and I’m here.” When jealousy comes up, treat it as your own fear to look into, not as something your partner has to prove wrong. It can help to get some of that immense staying power into a garden, a business or a long project, so that one person doesn’t have to carry all of it. And once a year, change your mind about something on purpose, to check that you still can.

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