Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, born in 1949, is the absolute ruler of Dubai and the vice president, prime minister and defence minister of the United Arab Emirates, a role he assumed on his brother's death in 2006. A billionaire whose wealth flows largely from real estate, he oversaw Dubai's transformation into a global city and the building of the Burj Khalifa, the Palm Islands and Emirates Airline. He governs, however, without democratic institutions; scholars describe his rule as authoritarian, and internal dissent is prohibited. In 2020 a British court found, on the balance of probabilities, that he had abducted two of his daughters, Shamsa and Latifa, holding them in enforced detention and forced medication, and had threatened his former wife, Princess Haya. These are grave harms against his own children, and no chart absolves them. His birth time is unknown, so only the Sun and Moon signs can be read, and read analytically. The Cancer Sun is the sign of home, family and protection, its shadow a possessive inability to release what one considers one's own. The Pisces Moon is the empath's water Moon whose low expression slides into boundary collapse, self-deception and manipulation. A natal signature describes temperament; it never excuses a person's choices, least of all the imprisonment of one's daughters.