Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem was born to lead a movement, and her Sun in Aries is the astrology of exactly that: the pioneer among pioneers, the double leader of the zodiac's first sign, a Sun blended with Mars that gets back on the saddle no matter what and casts light wherever it goes. That Sun sits in the fifth house, the house of the Sun's own charisma and creative self-expression, so her fire came out as voice and vision: the 1969 article that made her a national feminist leader, the co-founding of Ms. magazine, the National Women's Political Caucus, the Women's Media Center. Her Moon in Leo, king and queen in one, gave her the born performer's heart, the magnetic pull that lets a speaker give a room goosebumps; and set in the ninth house of philosophy, higher learning and faraway horizons, it fed her mind on the big questions and carried her across the world, even walking the Korean demilitarised zone for peace in 2015. A Scorpio Ascendant lent the piercing, all-seeing mask that filters out phonies at hello, the survivor who sheds her skin and rises again. A warrior who made her whole life a stage for equality.