Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln carried an Aquarian Sun, the placement born to shine not on a solo throne but for the collective, the tribe, the whole mass of humanity. Aquarius is the visionary and the reformer, and few have changed a society more completely: from a log cabin in Kentucky, self-educated, he rose to become the sixteenth president and led the nation through the Civil War, preserving the Union and, through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery. His Sun sits at the very top of the chart, the tenth house, the Sun at noon, the most visible seat of all, so leadership and public destiny were written into his being; his life would be public whether he wished it or not. His Moon in Capricorn tells of the child who grew up fast, unspoiled, stoic and dutiful, forged into patient strength through hardship and loss. That Moon lies in the ninth house of philosophy and higher truth, and indeed his words, above all the Gettysburg Address, became lasting statements of national purpose. Gemini rising gave him the messenger's mask, the lean, quicksilver storyteller of the debates. Struck down by an assassin in 1865, he became a martyr, the Aquarian who bent history toward the many.