Scorpio Sun Aries Moon: An Awkward Angle

Scorpio Sun: what you are trying to become

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 Scorpio that is to understand what is really going on, including the parts nobody says.

What Scorpio quietly takes pride in is honesty about hard things. At its best this placement becomes somebody who can be told anything. Scorpio is Water and Fixed, ruled by Pluto and Mars, and the recognised weak spot is that it tests people before trusting them.

Aries Moon: what you need

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 Aries you need to act on a feeling immediately, and to not be managed.

What settles you: movement, and being allowed to be annoyed without a conversation about it. And the giveaway, the thing people close to you would recognise: goes from fine to furious with nothing in between, and is over it an hour later. Aries is Fire and Cardinal, ruled by Mars.

What happens when you put the two together

Scorpio and Aries are five signs apart, which is a quincunx, 150 degrees. Two signs with nothing in common: different element, different mode, no shared ground. The aim and the need never quite line up, and the adjustment is permanent rather than something that resolves.

Water and Fire 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.

The practical version

Because the two disagree, you will recognise this: the thing you are working toward keeps costing you the thing you need. To understand what is really going on, including the parts nobody says does not sit comfortably with needing to act on a feeling immediately, and to not be managed, and most people with this combination have arranged their life around the tension without ever naming it.

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.

The phase you were born under

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. Aries is 5 signs ahead of Scorpio, which puts you in the waxing gibbous 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 gibbous moon birth is read as is here, along with the arithmetic to check your own properly.

What this page is missing

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.

Where to read next

The Sun in Scorpio in full and the Moon in Aries in full. Sun quincunx Moon covers the aspect itself, for anybody whose Sun and Moon are close enough in degree for it to count properly.