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This combination produces a productive, rational personality which can be both innovative and efficient. The challenge of being up-in-the-air and down-to-earth at the same time is that of bringing together abstract thought with the nitty-gritty issues of getting on in the world. These two elements combine easily and make for a clear-headed, objective and scientific approach. This is the temperament of the practical idealist who observes, thinks, plans a course of action and then acts. American president John F. Kennedy (Sun Gemini, Moon Virgo) is an example of this combination, and expresses the lunar instinct to give service to a rational, well-considered ideal in his famous injunction:

Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

When the Sun is in Earth and the Moon is in Air, the conscious, rational impulse is to get to grips with reality, to build, consolidate and organize with the logical instinct to make one’s efforts as humane and far-reaching as possible. There is often a dry sense of humour and capacity to use language with adroit accuracy. The late American poet Carl Sandburg (Sun Capricorn, Moon Aquarius) had a talent for using colloquialisms, which is characteristic of this combination, and his view of slang expresses this down-to-earth communicative ability:

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.