Moon Signs
Sagittarius Sun aims to see enough of the world to form your own view of it; Aquarius Moon needs room, and not to have your feelings interpreted for you. The two signs are two signs apart, which is what decides whether those two agree, and it also tells you the lunar phase you were born under.
The Sun is the aim. Not what you are like, which is a different question, but what you are consciously oriented toward and what you would be proud of being. With the Sun in Sagittarius that is to see enough of the world to form your own view of it.
What Sagittarius quietly takes pride in is honesty. At its best this placement becomes somebody who widens the room they are in. Sagittarius is Fire and Mutable, ruled by Jupiter, and the recognised weak spot is that it says the true thing at the wrong moment.
The Moon is the private half, and it is usually the placement people recognise most sharply once it is described. It covers what you need in order to feel alright and what you do before you have thought about it. With the Moon in Aquarius you need room, and not to have your feelings interpreted for you.
What settles you: distance, a problem to think about, friends who do not fuss. And the giveaway, the thing people close to you would recognise: becomes very reasonable, which is the sign it is bad. Aquarius is Air and Fixed, ruled by Uranus and Saturn.
Sagittarius and Aquarius are two signs apart, which is a sextile, 60 degrees. Compatible elements, fire with air or earth with water. The aim and the need get along without being the same, which gives you range: you can want one thing and be soothed by another without it tearing.
Fire and Air are different elements, which is the part that actually produces the mismatch people notice: you are aiming with one kind of energy and recovering with another.
| Sagittarius Sun | Aquarius Moon | |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | What you are aiming at | What you need privately |
| Element and mode | Fire, Mutable | Air, Fixed |
| Ruled by | Jupiter | Uranus and Saturn |
| In one line | To see enough of the world to form your own view of it | Room, and not to have your feelings interpreted for you |
| Who sees it | You, and anybody who asks what you want | People who live with you |
Because the two agree, you are more consistent than most people: what you chase and what restores you point the same way, so you recover from effort rather than being drained by it. The cost is that nothing in you argues, and a person with no internal argument can go a long way in a direction nobody checked.
The useful move is not to pick a side. It is to notice which one you default to when you are tired, because that is almost always the Moon, and to notice what you have been postponing, because that is almost always the Sun.
There is a second thing these two placements tell you, and almost nobody mentions it. The distance from the Sun to the Moon, counted forwards, is the lunar phase you were born under. Aquarius is 2 signs ahead of Sagittarius, which puts you in the waxing crescent moon band.
That is a band rather than a verdict: the exact phase needs the degrees, not just the signs, so somebody at the edge of a sign could land either side of it. What a waxing crescent moon birth is read as is here, along with the arithmetic to check your own properly.
Your rising sign, which is what people meet first and which needs a birth time. On any given day, twelve different people share this Sun and Moon and have twelve different rising signs, and they do not come across remotely alike.
If you do not know your birth time, this covers how to find it, including which record to ask your state for. And the Big Three together are covered here.
The Sun in Sagittarius in full and the Moon in Aquarius in full. Sun sextile Moon covers the aspect itself, for anybody whose Sun and Moon are close enough in degree for it to count properly.
You aim to see enough of the world to form your own view of it while needing room, and not to have your feelings interpreted for you. The two signs are two signs apart, so those work with each other.
It is a comfortable one. The aim and the need point the same way, which makes for consistency and gives you nothing to balance against.
Not for the Sun. For the Moon, often yes: the Moon changes sign every two and a half days, so anybody born on a day it moved needs a time to be sure.
Aquarius is 2 ahead of Sagittarius, which puts you in the waxing crescent moon band. The exact phase needs degrees rather than signs.
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