The way your Moon interacts with the Sun sign makes a huge difference in terms of your personality. While the Sun is how we act, the Moon is how we react. I’m continuing this Sun-Moon combo series with SCORPIO :)

If you’re an Scorpio, look up your Moon sign in your natal chart and use the guide below to find out more about how your needs intersect with your wants. Take everything with a grain of salt, as always. Your other placements will affect your Sun-Moon pairing, distinguishing you further.

Scorpio Sun, Aries Moon: Top

In any situation, you strive to be dominant. You are capable of orchestrating a tremendous force of will that absolutely pulverizes any competition within your viewport. In fact, rare are those willing to compete with you because they are well aware of your willingness to use absolute force in order to take them out. You win any game that you play with this concentrated willpower without anyone taking note because your general superficial attitude is that of a relaxed nature. However, there is so much that you set your mind towards that you can wipe yourself out easily and require days to recuperate. When faced against you, others are wise to keep in the mind the old adage of “if you can’t beat them, join them.” This, you allow quite easily because you are more than happy to swallow your competitors to consolidate all the forces into your control.

Scorpio Sun, Taurus Moon: Vice President

You work best in partnerships and may seem to require another person to work behind, since you do not like everyone being aware of your business. People who see you as a dull person are not looking hard enough. You present outwardly as an unnoteworthy person because you are so sensitive to all the unspoken social dynamics of the room. You seem to have common interests only because you do not reveal your true thoughts to anyone. In your partnerships, you hold more sway than you let on. You are interested in money and are able to approach financial issues from a position of power. Because everyone, in the end, can sense your intensity, it may be surprising that your goals are not as calibrated as your methods. You value a good life, not a luxurious one, with trusted people and objects to fill your spaces. However, your chaotic nature may mean that you resist such stability instinctively, working against yourself without meaning to.

Scorpio Sun, Gemini Moon: Edgelord

Not only are you prepared to say what everyone else is thinking, but you are able to observe the fears and desires that those around you do not want to become aware of. You have an interesting way of speaking so that people will listen to you, even if they do not understand the totality of your message. You are a revealer of secrets and bring out what is hidden for the public good, but often speak in an esoteric manner that makes your message less direct and easily projected upon in order to hide your self. Others may judge you for only speaking on taboo subjects to receive attention, but your message is actually always carefully chosen and calibrated. You just have an intense attraction towards whatever is the most forbidden. Even when speaking affirmatively, you prefer to use words that tick other people off, or arouse their subconscious anxieties.

Scorpio Sun, Cancer Moon: Ghost

Your softness is an illusion that never breaks. There is a melancholic air about you that endlessly seduces those who desire to be your savior. There are not many who remember your face, because you try your hardest to blend into your surroundings, but those who do know you can never forget you. You have an innate stickiness that makes it so no one can quite get you out of their life once you are in it. Despite this, you are perpetually afraid of overstaying your welcome. Though your edges seem soft, your actions are purposefully obfuscating what is there or creating a superimposed image on top of what is happening. You encourage others to see you as a little pathetic, because you love it when people do things for you without being asked to.

Scorpio Sun, Leo Moon: Logo

You stand for yourself. It is not that you are emblematic of any social trend but that your sheer force of persona is so strong and original that you become the symbol of your own person. It is impossible to emulate you and get away with it because there is something about you that is just so intensely you. You control the propagation of yourself through extravagant work. There is no length to which you will not go to prove yourself superior. When you walk into a room, everyone’s attention instantly gravitates towards you and you command a crowd quite easily. You do not like to share your favorite toys and would prefer to destroy something you hold dear rather than see it in another person’s hands.

Scorpio Sun, Virgo Moon: Big Data

In every situation, you are assessing and investigating. You are a natural researcher who can describe everything that you have an interest in from the inside and out. Your keen sense may make you extraordinarily picky when it comes to who you allow into your life and what you allow yourself to spend time around. Because you react to small things that others do without meaning harm, others may call you petty. However, you treat yourself with the same exacting criticality, which is why you prefer to hide out and be in your own space. People may not take you seriously because they view you as a helper without being aware that your sharp intellect is scrutinizing them in their dress, body language, behavior, and speech pattern at every turn.

Scorpio Sun, Libra Moon: Self Aware

Not only do you know exactly how you come across to others, you demonstrate apt control over your own image in the minds of the vast majority. Your self monitoring makes you a social chameleon. You are less concerned with small forms of dissent because you know that you are able to get what you need with the support of the many. Social conventions can feel severely limiting to you, but no one who interacts with you will even begin to guess at the huge amount of work you put into maintaining an acceptable persona. In fact, you are aware of the hidden dynamics in any social situation and the degree in which others are attracted to you makes you feel incredibly powerful. However, you are careful to hide your own awareness of your power in order to not set off envy or contempt.

Scorpio Sun, Scorpio Moon: Vampire

In any social scene, you are either dominant or well hidden. There is a timeless quality about you that makes it so it is hard to place you within any stereotype about any generation or social niche. Instead, you seem to command socially potent forces without appealing to the ephemeral interests of the masses. You have real influence and you do not have the need to show it off because your followers do the flexing for you. You gain power through collaborations and are a person most are vocal about having the opportunity to rub shoulders with, because being in your presence makes them seem more important to their peer group. Others may have no idea just how much you require from those actually in your life, because you seem too powerful to be affected by anyone but yourself, but, actually, your influence comes from your control of how people desire you and how you desire others.

Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon: Alchemist

The elements of the world seem to be at your disposal because you’re super aware of not only their symbolic meaning, but also their capacity to spark transcendence. You’re a mad scientist with the formula for power. You mix and match elements, not only in theory but also through life itself. Whatever you create has the ability to become meaningful on several levels and, even when performing for an institution, you retain a spirit that makes it seem that no institution can quite contain you. When successful, you become your own institution and the originator or standard upon which others are judged. Your mind is metaphysical and every interest is a quest to find the truths of a matter. You are able to preach without becoming didactic because you’re immensely better at creating abstract questions than any answer to a problem.

Scorpio Sun, Capricorn Moon: Classified

You have more control than most people not only on yourself but on your surroundings. The issue of where you find yourself on the social strata is of concern for you but you may not desire to climb if it means exposing your true nature any more than necessary. There are things about yourself that you prefer to keep private, whether you do this by creating a flashier personality for others to know you by or by hiding behind a more aesthetically powerful figure. Everyone knows that you are the man behind the stage, the one who pulls the strings, and those who want to appeal to you must submit to your control while proving themselves to be useful. You have a talent for attracting powerful people without making them feel like you are using them and convincing them of the authenticity of your attachment to them, even as they raise you in social esteem.

Scorpio Sun, Aquarius Moon: Cult Leader

You are incredibly charismatic. You are able to observe large social trends, distill them in their meanings, and use them for your own benefit. Your observations of society do not make you a slave to them because you retain the power to influence and inform those same trends by aligning yourself with the nonnormative. No matter how strange your positions, others can feel shocked to discover that you keep a loyal support network who is willing to back you no matter what you do. Your power is the group that you are able to attract to yourself and the eccentric decisions you are able to influence others to make, making those who know you feel that they are aligned with you against the rest of the world. Those in your company are excited to flaunt it, because your presence in their lives make them appear more exciting and subversive.

Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon: Soft Power

Your strategy is that of permeation. At all costs, you avoid showing all of your tools or the totality of your power. Instead, the more of an underdog you’re able to read as, the more you’re able to get done. You carefully design situations that make a mockery of your own persona but encourage others to underestimate you so that the element of surprise is always within your grasp. Your obvious intellect, combined with your knack for playing dumb, can make others feel unsettled. Without meaning to, others project their own issues onto you but there is evidence that your allowance of such projections is your own way of testing others. Everything you‘re known for seems to be an illusion created for the sole purpose of unnerving others, or stirring in them uncontrollable urges.