Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny was a communicator to his marrow, and that is the gift of a Sun in Gemini, the marriage of Helios and Mercury, the messenger who moves truth from A to B. This is the Sun of the journalist and the anchor, and he wielded it superbly: the viral investigations, the phrase "party of crooks and thieves", the six million subscribers who watched him lay corruption bare. Placed in the ninth house, his vitality shone as a philosopher and true global citizen, a man on a hero's journey through the big questions of justice, ethics and how a nation ought to govern itself.

His Moon in Virgo gave him an emotional life nourished by usefulness, meticulous, exacting, service-minded, and set in the eleventh house it bound his psyche to the people, the masses, the community he organised. He was the shoulder a movement could lean on. His Virgo Ascendant showed the clean, analytical mask of the anti-corruption lawyer.

Founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, poisoned with Novichok, imprisoned, awarded the Sakharov Prize, he returned to Russia knowing the cost. He died in an Arctic penal colony in 2024, aged forty-seven.