Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a pioneer among pioneers, and her chart wears that word like a crown. Her Sun sits in Aries, the warrior-explorer at their peak, a double leader who gets up and gets on the saddle no matter what the universe throws down. This is the woman who, with no degree and no map for a woman in a man's field, telephoned Louis Leakey, went to Gombe in 1960, and simply sat with wild chimpanzees until they let her into their world, rewriting what we thought it meant to be human. That Aries Sun falls in the fourth house of home, family and lineage, which is fitting: her mother travelled to Gombe with her, and Jane credits that maternal encouragement for the whole adventure.

Her Moon and her Ascendant both burn in Sagittarius, so her peace of mind and her mask are one and the same: the jolly Marco Polo, the wandering philosopher whose emotional security lives on the open road and in the wild. With that Moon in the twelfth house, she became a cosmic mother of sorts, pouring her soul into service and healing the living world. Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots and Shoots, she remains a knight for every creature that cannot speak.