Caroline Herschel

Caroline Herschel spent much of her early life expected to keep house, and rose to become the first woman ever paid as a scientist, the first to hold a government post in England, and the discoverer of comets that still carry her name. Her Sun in Pisces tells you where she truly shone: in the mystical, patient, boundless realm of the night sky. Pisces is the old soul, the culmination of all the signs, and its Sun gives itself over completely to something larger than the self. For years she served as her brother William's tireless assistant, recording, calculating, sweeping the heavens, dissolving her own ambitions into the shared work until her own genius surfaced in comet after comet, eight in all.