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This book grew from our study of peoples’ lives. You will find that one of the most fruitful ways of finding out more about the subtleties, dilemmas and creative possibilities of a specific Sun – Moon combination is to study the biographies and autobiographies of famous individuals who have that combination. The list of celebrities that are given at the end of each entry is a selection of some of the better-known contemporary and historical individuals whom we have recorded as being born with that particular Sun – Moon pairing.

We have made every effort to check on the accuracy of the charts we have used for these individuals, but inevitably some errors may have crept in. If you have reason to suppose that any of the people given under a combination are there under false pretences, we would be pleased to hear from you.

While the Sun – Moon combination can give some clues and indications as to career choice, it will be found more useful to consider the famous people listed in terms of the kind of approach they had to their particular work, the ideas and themes which have engaged them, and the general flavour of their lives. So, for example, to understand the acute paradox of the combination of clinical detachment and intense passion of those born with Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Scorpio, one can learn volumes by looking at the output of the writer Alex Comfort. The very titles of Comfort’s best sellers – Sex in Society and The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet’s Guide to Love Making – encapsulate a creative synthesis of these very different approaches to life. His many other books, plays, poetry, essays and novels draw upon similar themes, with the clash between freedom and possessiveness, between intellect and emotions, between personal liberty and social obligations. His work is often expressed in a pungent blend of Aquarian-Scorpio humour as in Come out to Play, his satirical fantasy about a biologist deeply learned in the knowledge of human mating habits.

It would be wrong to conclude from this example that all Aquarius-Scorpios will be writers, or that they will all be preoccupied with understanding their relationship to sex (though many will be!). But what we can conclude from Comfort’s life, and many other cases, it that the creative pivot around which this Sun – Moon combination revolves is the conflict between mind and emotion. By attempting to reconcile the fundamental tension between a need to see the world through a strongly developed rational intellect and the irrational intensity of their emotional life, this type finds their own unique creativity.

If you take some time out to study the lives, accomplishments and aspirations of those people we have listed, you can gradually build up a picture of how other people have used your own particular combination creatively, how they have reconciled conflicting pressures, and indeed where their dilemmas have tripped them up. To illustrate this further, let us take a brief look at the different lives of all the people listed under Sun Scorpio – Moon Pisces.

Scorpio and Pisces are both Water signs. Water is the element (here) that emphasizes the feelings and emotions and a general sensitivity to, and understanding of, other people’s needs and experience. Hence such types often have a strong attraction towards the caring professions and other occupations that demand emotional sensitivity, such as the theatre and creative writing. Even though all Water signs are theoretically highly compatible, the intense, self-controlled, purposeful and ambitious Scorpio is a very different kettle of crustaceans from the free-flowing, adaptable, often self-sacrificing and addictive sign of the fishes, and this combination of signs can experience as much inner conflict as any other. A consideration of our list reveals the wide variations of expression possible from this one combination, yet the common themes they tend to share.