Martin Luther

Martin Luther was born to shine through Scorpio, and the Sun in that sign shines through transformation, death and rebirth: the Eagle who reads what others miss and refuses to be underestimated. A German priest, theologian and Augustinian friar ordained in 1507, he turned that transformative fire on the Roman Catholic Church itself, disputing the sale of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517 and setting the Protestant Reformation in motion. His Scorpio Sun sat in the fourth house of home, lineage and roots, and the Reformation he sparked reshaped the very homeland and culture he came from.

His Moon in Aries was a masculine, Martian luminary that finds peace through action and confrontation, not softness. Seated in the ninth house of religion, philosophy and higher learning, it drove his defiance at the Diet of Worms in 1521 and his vernacular German Bible, which reshaped the language itself.

His Leo Ascendant gave the regal, magnetic mask of a leader who commanded attention. Yet this same conviction curdled: in later works Luther wrote viciously antisemitic tracts that historians hold contributed to German antisemitism. A natal signature describes temperament; it never excuses the harm a person chooses to do.