George Soros

George Soros was born György Schwartz in Budapest in 1930, a Jewish boy who survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary before the world ever knew his name. That is a Leo Sun learning early what it means to be the last lion standing. Leo is the Sun in its own castle, born to lead and blaze at full strength, and Soros carried that solar confidence out of the ruins, to the London School of Economics, into merchant banking, and finally into the founding of the Quantum Fund. He became the man who broke the Bank of England in 1992, a billion-dollar bet on Black Wednesday that only a Leo would dare place so publicly. Speculation, risk, the drama of the market: this is Leo's playground.

Yet his Moon swims in Pisces, the sponge, the ultimate empath, the psyche tuned to compassion and the collective. That is the other half of the man. Having given more than thirty billion dollars to his Open Society Foundations, he ranks among the most generous givers alive, funnelling a Leo fortune through a Piscean heart. A lion who conquered the markets, and a mystic who gave the winnings away.