Elizabeth Taylor

Few faces have held the world the way Elizabeth Taylor's did, and there is a fitting mystery in it, for her Sun sits in Pisces, the twelfth and most unknowable of signs, the old soul who shines in the mystical and the compassionate. Pisces is the empath and the giver, and though she reigned as the world's highest-paid film star of the 1960s, from National Velvet as a child to two Academy Awards for BUtterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, her deepest shine came late, in her fearless HIV/AIDS activism and the foundations she built when few others would speak. Her Pisces Sun falls in the second house, the house of value and resources, so wealth, quality and one of the world's great jewellery collections became extensions of self.

Her Moon in Scorpio was the emotional volcano beneath the calm: love and loss taken to the extreme, the phoenix forever rising, eight marriages and endless rebirths. Placed in the eleventh house, that psyche rose and fell with the masses who adored her. Her Sagittarian Ascendant, larger than life and warmly Jupiterian, was the glowing mask the camera never tired of.