Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain made hunger into a way of seeing the world. A 1978 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of countless professional kitchens, he cooked for years as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan before his blistering, honest memoir Kitchen Confidential turned him into a household name in 2000. From there came A Cook's Tour, No Reservations, The Layover and finally Parts Unknown, shows in which food was always the doorway into culture, politics and the human condition.

His Sun in Cancer is the ego wearing the sign of the mother: here to nourish, a big-hearted, deeply feeling man guarding something tender behind the tough-guy shell. That Sun sits in the eleventh house of tribe and network, the born connector who could sit at any stranger's table and make it feel like family. His Capricorn Moon, though, carried the other note: the stoic, dutiful, hard-working psyche that grew up early and could tilt toward loneliness and melancholy. His Leo Ascendant gave him the magnetic presence and the signature charisma the camera adored. He died in France in 2018, and the loss was felt worldwide by everyone he had welcomed to the table.