Amelia Earhart

Some souls arrive with a torch already lit, and Amelia Earhart was one of them. With her Sun in Leo rising over a Leo Ascendant, she carried the sign of the lion twice over: born to be regal, magnetic, a leader who lit the path for everyone flying behind her. When a Leo enters a room, people simply turn, and she turned the whole world's gaze upward. Yet that Sun sat in the twelfth house, the unknowable house of spirit and the far horizon, so her shining was never merely for herself; there was something oceanic and fated in how she vanished, at last, into the Pacific she loved.

Her Moon in Gemini gave her the restless, quick-thinking heart of a communicator, always on the move, curious, hungry for the next fact and the next flight. Placed in the eleventh house of community, that Moon found its comfort among the people: she helped found the Ninety-Nines for women pilots and mentored young women at Purdue.

First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, holder of records, a golden-hearted courage. A lion who chose the sky.