Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan danced barefoot into the twentieth century and rewrote what a body was allowed to say. Her Sun blazes in Gemini, the sign of communication and versatility, and it sits in the tenth house, the very top of the chart, the Sun at noon on its throne where fame is a karmic given. This is a placement that makes a life public whether one wishes it or not, and hers was: born in San Francisco in 1877, she carried her new art of free, expressive movement to great acclaim across Europe, the United States, and Soviet Russia, the pioneer of modern contemporary dance. Gemini shines through the eloquent, restless, always-two body that could speak a thousand things without a word. Yet her Moon lives in Sagittarius, the freedom-loving philosopher, and it rests in the fourth house, the Moon's own happiest home. Here is the paradox of her: a soul who needed the open road, foreign lands, and constant expansion, yet whose deepest peace was rooted in the maternal and the intimate. Leo rises as her mask, the regal, magnetic performer with unmistakable presence, born to hold the torch. She died in 1927 in Nice, her scarf caught in a car wheel, theatrical to the last.