Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc was a peasant girl from Domrémy who heard the voices of Saint Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine, and answered them with a courage that changed the fate of a nation. Around seventeen, she persuaded the future Charles VII to send her to the siege of Orléans; within nine days in April 1429 the English withdrew, and her banner carried the French through victory at Patay to the coronation at Reims. Captured by the Burgundians, tried for heresy, she was burned at the stake in 1431, aged about nineteen. Centuries later she was canonised and made a patron saint of France.

Her Sun shines in Capricorn, the old-soul climber with boss energy and iron discipline, and it sits in the sixth house of duty and service, the worker who shines through the mission itself. Her Moon lies in gentle, Venusian Libra in the fourth house, its own happiest ground, rooting her peace in home, mother and homeland, the very France she fought to free. Cancer rises as her mask, the nurturing matriarch, protective and deeply attuned. Discipline, devotion and love of country: the chart of a saint.