Jessica Watson

Jessica Watson is what happens when a steady heart and a warrior's spirit set sail together. Born on the Gold Coast on 18 May 1993 into a New Zealand family who lived aboard a cabin cruiser and home-schooled their four children between the waves, she absorbed the ocean early. Her Sun in Taurus is the pillar Gaia describes as the foundation of the chart: grounded, patient, immovable in its opinions, the bull who builds something solid and simply will not be talked out of it. God could beg a Taurus to change course, Gaia says, and they would refuse; that stubborn foundation is exactly what carries a sixteen-year-old alone across oceans for months. But it was her Moon in Aries that lit the fire. This is the masculine, Martian Moon that finds peace not in softness but in action, the one who feels most at home being the soldier, the athlete, the hero, the survivor you would want beside you if stranded on an island. Inspired at twelve by Jesse Martin's Lionheart, she attempted her solo circumnavigation at sixteen, was named Young Australian of the Year in 2011, and received the Order of Australia Medal. Netflix told her story in True Spirit. A bull's resolve, an Aries flame.