Capricorn
It hurts now because you've done the arithmetic
You can bear present discomfort for a distant goal, and that capacity for delayed gratification is hard currency — most people only have it in speech. Your estimate of reality is cool and you don't daydream, which is why the targets you set are usually reachable. The problem is that you've turned your life into a to-do list: finish one, set the next immediately, never stop to acknowledge that you did it. You also find it very hard to ask for help, because in your bookkeeping asking counts as debt.
Where you move easily
- You can carry a load for a long time without coming apart; in a hard fight you're the one still standing.
- Your estimates of resource and time are accurate; you rarely overrate yourself.
- You do what you said, so people can hand you what matters.
What it tends to cost
- You never celebrate, so every achievement registers only as 'what was required'.
- You treat rest as slacking, until your body decides for you.
- You measure everything by usefulness — relationships included, and yourself.
If this is your Moon
Feeling gets pushed down before it gets processed, so you're usually the last to know you're not all right.
If this is your Ascendant
You look restrained, mature and slightly distant, and get taken for older than you are.