Virgo Sun, Scorpio Moon

People tell you things they’ve never told anyone, because you don’t flinch and you know what to do next. Getting you to tell them something back is another project.

Depth with a method

This is among the most mentally and emotionally intense pairs of signs. A Scorpio Moon doesn’t look away from pain, and a Virgo Sun wants to do something useful about it. So you can sit with someone in their worst moment and also, gently, help them make a plan. You’ve got a magnetic quality that people feel without being able to explain.

Your feelings get kept on a tight rein, though. They’re stored for some time, and then they tend to emerge all at once, with a sharper bite than you intended.

A hard person to help

Once committed, you’re one of the most constant partners around, and you take your responsibilities to your family very seriously. You may be more passionate about your work than about your lovers, which can leave those lovers feeling they’ve come second to a project.

The real difficulty is your dislike of needing anyone. You don’t much like weakness in yourself, and it’s easy for that to become impatience with it in others, so you can seem stingy with affection. Corner you and you might hit back harder than the situation called for. You’re also likely to want a lot from physical intimacy, in a way that’s quite particular, and it’s worth finding a person you can actually talk to about that.

Scorpio’s jealousy and Virgo’s criticism can team up in an unkind way: you notice everything and you forget nothing. Used on the person you love, that’s a dangerous gift, and you know it.

Letting someone see the file

Choose carefully, as you would anyway, and then let your chosen person help you with something real, not something you’ve already solved. Tell them about it before it’s stored up for six weeks. When you notice you’re building a case in your head, stop and ask a question. You can apply all that clarity to yourself as well: what are you afraid would happen if they saw you not coping?

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