Image: Aries/Scorpio Timothy Dalton meeting Princess Diana at the charity premiere of The Living Daylights at the Odeon Leicester Square June 1987 DBase; Contributor: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix /Alamy Stock Photo

Combine the aggressive, hard charging identity of an Aries Sun with the intensely clandestine instincts of an Scorpio Moon and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that can be ruthless and resourceful, passionate and aggressive, dark and dangerous, magnetic and more than a bit Machiavellian. As astrologer Linda Goodman explains, Aries and Scorpio are the zodiac’s two warrior signs:

Aries is the reckless crusader, stirred emotionally by dedication to a cause, and the excitement of a dangerous mission. Scorpio is the seasoned veteran, possessing a deep sense of realities and the strength to endure hardships, with no illusions about the glamour of marching bands, uniforms, and decorations for bravery. Their strategies are very different. Aries defends fiercely, in the front lines. Scorpio attacks suddenly, unexpectedly, from the rear. (Source)

Aries is ruled by Mars, the Lord of War. Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld. The Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon pairing thus excels at warfare (Aries) in the underworld (Scorpio). Francis Ford Coppola is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) He’s best known for directing films such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now — each of which dealt with surveillance, warfare, death, covert operations, assassinations, jealousy and other themes pertaining to the sort of dangerous, subterranean underworlds that Aries/Scorpio considers home. Using its premier date as its date of birth, Coppola’s film The Conversation is also an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) Considered one of the best films of the 1970s, it’s an espionage thriller that includes a unsettling Twilight Zone like twist at the end:

According to astrologer Jefferson Anderson, this pairing’s defiant, militant approach to life can land it in deep trouble with the authorities:

An extremist in thought and spirit, you never do anything halfway. When you succeed it’s total triumph, and when you are defeated, it’s total tragedy. No matter how much trouble you may get into or how many times you land in court, you will always bounce back ready to tackle new challenges. (Source)

This pairing’s willingness to go to extremes makes it a great deep cover agent, one capable of completing missions that would scare the living daylights out of less daring souls — or an actor adept at bringing a sense of authenticity to such roles. To illustrate: Timothy Dalton, the fourth actor to portray iconic MI5 agent James Bond, is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) Sean Connery played Bond as a charming, hairy chested semi-misogynist. Roger Moore brought a light touch and breezy humor to the role while Pierce Brosnan came off more as a professional wine taster than somebody who made a living from spilling blood. Current Bond Daniel Craig brings the thuggish intensity a former bare knuckle boxer or special forces soldier to the role. That’s a step in the right direction but, truth be told, the only actor who portrayed 007 as the smoldering, defiant, malevolent special agent that Ian Fleming envisioned in the original James Bond novels is the criminally underrated Dalton.

In true Aries/Scorpio Dalton’s screen tested so much darker and more dangerous than his predecessors that that producers took the series in a much more realistic direction, at least during his brief tenure as Bond. For instance, in The Living Daylights Bond finds himself in Afghanistan where he’s rescued by an American allied heroin trafficker that’s a dead ringer for Osama Bin Laden, a man who was actually an ally of the CIA at the time. (No joke) The OBL character is at odds with an arms dealer that’s a dead ringer for Colonel Oliver North, a man who was then masterminding the Iran-Contra scandal. There’s no way a debonair playboy version of Bond ala Libra/Gemini Roger Moore could have pulled off such a darkly realistic plot like but for an Aries/Scorpio like Dalton it was a natural.

Speaking of the nexus between narcotics trafficking, intelligence agencies, and other malevolent matters, the 1992 crime thriller Deep Cover is an Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) The film includes an array of themes close to the heart of any Aries/Scorpio: shadowy underworlds, double crossing double agents, an atmosphere of diffuse paranoia, and plenty of dramatic physical action. It also takes a pioneeringly (Aries), intense (Scorpio) approach to race relations. The film’s lead role — an undercover police detective — was originally written for a white actor but director Bill Duke sought to usurp business as usual in regards to who is depicted in what ways on the big screen. The result was a post-Furious styles, pre-Morpheus Laurence Fishburne portraying a character “thrown into the middle of moral dilemmas that torture him and then left to figure his own way out” according to a review by Roger Ebert. (Source)

Deep Cover is best remembered for its haunting theme song “187 on an Undercover Cop”, which set off rapper Snoop Dogg’s musical career. The song is considered an all-time hip hop classic but the real life environment in which Dre and Snoop laid it down was filled with as much drama (Aries/Scorpio) and as much drama as the fictional plot of the film. At the time, Snoop was recently released from prison while soon-to-be Death Row Records impresario Suge Knight had secured Dre’s producing services via mafioso style tactics. The profoundly unsettling events surrounding the production of the Deep Cover theme were recently depicted in the 2015 film Straight Outta’ Compton and the 2001 documentary The Rise and Fall of Death Row.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is another Aries/Scorpio whose political career has been marked by as many moral dilemmas and manifest dramas as any good film noir plot or gangster rap video. (Chart) Pelosi is a politician, not a mafia hitwoman or undercover detective. However, it’s highly unlikely she got that high up in the viper’s pit that is Washington D.C. without “doing some shit deep cover on the incognito tip” to quote a line from the Deep Cover theme.

For instance, in the above video Pelosi tells a reporter she “knows something” about Newt Gingrich that makes it impossible for him to ever be president. In true Aries/Scorpio fashion she won’t say what it is she knows because, as her demeanor makes quite clear, what she knows is none of your business.

In addition to double agents, exorcists, and mafia hitmen you’ll find a disproportionate number of Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon natives involved in extremely innovative forms of science or intensely pioneering scholarly pursuits. Anthropologist Jane Goodall is an Aries/Scorpio who invested this pairing’s pioneering (Aries) psychological capabilities (Scorpio) into studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. (Chart)

Pioneering astrologer Linda Goodman is an Aries/Scorpio who did for the world of astrologers what Jane Goodall did for the world of wild chimpanzees. (Chart) Goodall went “Deep Cover” into the jungle of primate life while Goodman went “Deep Cover” into the equally tumultuous world of astro-psychology. The author of the widely acclaimed best seller Love Signs: A New Approach to the Human Heart, Goodman would likely agree with fellow Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon native Thornton Wilder who once said, “The best part of married life is the fights.”

Goodman is best known for her astrological writings. At first glance it would seem she has little in common with murder-mystery films like The Conversation and Deep Cover. Unfortunately, Goodman’s life was marred by the exact sort of extreme drama (Aries/Scorpio) in real life that Timothy Dalton so effectively projected into the imaginal realms as Agent 007: According to her Wikipedia entry:

Goodman’s books also reference what she referred to as the “disappearance” of her eldest daughter, Sally Snyder in the 1970s, and the mystery around her reported death. Linda Goodman spent much money and many years trying to find Sally, long after police closed the case as a suicide or accidental suicide. Goodman never accepted the official police report and continued to search for Sally for the rest of her own life.

Despite the differences in their respective career paths, one thing is for sure. Put Aries/Scorpio natives in a room for a few hours and they’d like have conversations that would scare the living daylights out of the rest of us.

About the Author: Matthew David Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults via Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud, LibSyn or this site’s contact page.

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