Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia (1475 to 1507) was a Spanish-Italian cardinal turned mercenary warlord, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, and one of the most ruthless power-seekers of the Italian Renaissance. His campaigns of conquest, betrayal and political murder across Central Italy so impressed Niccolo Machiavelli that Borgia became a primary model for "The Prince," the handbook of amoral statecraft. His chart should be read only analytically, for a natal signature describes temperament and never excuses the harm a person chooses to do. He carried a heavy stack of Virgo: Sun and Ascendant both in the sign, with the Sun in the first house. Virgo shines through intellect, precision and mastery, the analyst who plans meticulously and finishes what he starts, and in the first house the Sun made him a figure who dominated any room simply by entering it, born to be seen. Turned toward ambition rather than service, that perfectionist calculation became cold strategic machinery. His Moon in Aquarius, in the sixth house of daily work and conflict, gave a detached, revolutionary psyche fused more with grand designs than with individual human lives, capable of sweeping away the existing order like a wave flattening a sandcastle. He resigned his cardinalate in 1498, fought for Louis XII, carved out his own state, and lost it swiftly once his father died, killed in a minor skirmish at thirty-one.