Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was the self-made architect of American finance, a man who climbed from nothing to the very summit of a new nation's government. Born out of wedlock on the island of Nevis and orphaned young, he had the perfect chart for such a relentless ascent, for both his Sun and his Moon sit in Saturn-ruled Capricorn. The Capricorn Sun is an old-soul climber whose whole identity organises around career, reputation and the slow, dependable rise to the highest rung of the ladder, all ambition, discipline and boss energy. Hamilton lived it: a pamphleteer, then an artillery officer and aide to Washington, then the first secretary of the treasury who funded the national debt, founded the Bank of New York and built the First Bank of the United States. His Moon, also in Capricorn, is the tender lunar nature dropped into cold, dutiful Saturn, the child who grew up fast, unspoiled and stoic, carrying the mothering wound but forged into iron work-ethic and patience. That doubled Capricorn drive wrote 51 of the Federalist Papers, laid the foundations of American government, and pressed the abolition of the slave trade. It also made him blunt to a fault. In 1804, Aaron Burr, whom he judged unprincipled, shot him in a duel at Weehawken, and he died the next day.