Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai carries the warmth of a mother's heart into the fiercest of causes, and that is the essence of a Cancer Sun: here to shine as a nurturer, protector and defender of the vulnerable, regardless of gender. Named after an Afghan folk heroine and raised in Swat by an education-activist father, she began writing at eleven under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban's ban on girls' schooling. The Cancer soul fights hardest for home, for children, for the tender things worth sheltering.

That Sun sits in the eleventh house, the realm of tribe, movement and the collective, where a natural leader gathers a network around a cause. From it grew the Malala Fund and a worldwide movement for girls' education.

Her Moon in Libra is a beautiful, Venusian moon that finds peace through fairness, harmony and justice, the built-in radar for what is right; placed in the second house, it ties self-worth to enduring values rather than any price tag. Her Leo Ascendant gave her a regal, magnetic presence, the torch-bearer who lights the path for those behind her.

Shot at fifteen and surviving, she became at seventeen the youngest Nobel Peace laureate, then read PPE at Oxford.