Carl Jung

Few minds have mapped the inner cosmos as boldly as Carl Jung. The Swiss psychiatrist, born in 1875, founded analytical psychology and gave us a vocabulary for the soul: the collective unconscious, the archetypes, synchronicity, introversion and extraversion, and individuation, that lifelong labour of becoming whole. He began as a research scientist at the Burgholzli hospital in Zurich, forged and then broke a famous friendship with Sigmund Freud, and built a system entirely his own.

His Aquarius Ascendant is the perfect mask for such a man: the eccentric, the fringe genius, the alien on Earth who beats to his own drum and belongs to no orthodoxy. Yet his Sun blazes in Leo in the seventh house, the house of the other, so this proud lion-heart shone most fully through relationship and through the partners and rivals who lit up his identity, Freud chief among them. Grounding it all was a Moon exalted in Taurus in the third house, an earthy, sensory psyche that could bring raw human emotion down onto paper, patient and devoted, taking its sweet time and trusting the gut. Rebel, king and craftsman, Jung dug into the human depths and came back with maps we still read.