Johann Strauss II

They crowned him Johann Strauss II the Waltz King, and the title fits a man born to be seen. His Sun burns in Scorpio in the first house, the most uncensored throne there is, where the star shines simply by being himself. Scorpio gives that Sun its depth and magnetism, the eagle at the core, the artist forever dying and rising again; and set in the first house it made him a figure everyone in nineteenth-century Vienna turned to watch. He wrote more than five hundred waltzes, polkas and quadrilles, along with the operettas Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron, and gave the world The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods.

His Moon is in Aries in the sixth house, a masculine, Martian Moon that finds peace only through action, ambition and daily industry. That relentless drive, poured into the disciplined house of work and service, explains the sheer torrent of his output. Over it all rises Libra, Venus's mask of symmetry and grace, the aesthete who could weigh beauty and announce the winner. Power, fire and elegance turned into music that still lifts a ballroom into flight.