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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.