Bill Gates

Bill Gates is a study in transformation and quiet, relentless power. His Sun in Scorpio is the Eagle at the core, the strategist who wins through mind rather than fist, who reads the board and sees trouble coming from miles away. Born in Seattle on 28 October 1955, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975 and drove it to become the largest personal computer software company in the world, a Scorpionic reign of strategy, dominance and, at times, the ruthless business tactics courts later judged anti-competitive. That transformer's Sun sits in his fourth house of home and family, the sanctuary from which the young magnate first shone.

His Moon in Aries is the masculine, Martian, alpha moon that finds peace through action, drive and being the doer, the go-getter. Perched in the tenth house at the very throne of the chart, that fiery emotional nature was lived out in full public view, making him one of the most famous men alive, the richest person in the world for much of two decades. His Cancer Ascendant wore the nurturing matriarch's mask, and it is telling that the same man later poured his metamorphic energy into rebirth of a different kind: the Gates Foundation, the Giving Pledge, and campaigns against disease and poverty. The Phoenix always rises anew.