Barack Obama

Barack Obama carries a Sun in Leo, and there is no better place for it: the lion-king at full strength, the born leader whom others naturally orbit, radiating that warm, magnetic, golden-hearted charisma so central to his rise. Yet this Sun shines from the sixth house, the realm of work, service, and dutiful labour, so his was not a throne handed over but one earned through patient effort. Born in Honolulu in 1961, he organised communities in Chicago, became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, taught constitutional law, and climbed from the Illinois Senate to the United States Senate before making history in 2009 as the forty-fourth president and the first African-American to hold the office.

His Moon in Gemini gave him the gift that defined his public life: an emotional core wired for words, agility, and quicksilver communication, the orator whose keynote in 2004 announced him to the nation. That Moon sits in the fourth house of home and roots, at the very bottom of the sky where the Moon is happiest, a mother to humanity whose heart is anchored in belonging. An Aquarius Ascendant made him the unmistakable outsider who reshaped the establishment. He led, and he left the room changed.