Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart poured out more than eight hundred works in a life of only thirty-five years, and there is a fitting Aquarian genius in that: his Sun sits in the sign of the future, the outside-the-box visionary born to shine for the whole of humanity rather than a single court. Aquarius carries the genius, the karma and the strangeness, and few have changed the sound of Western music more, gifting the collective symphonies, concertos and operas that still belong to everyone. Yet that Sun falls in his sixth house, the house of daily work, craft and relentless service, and here is the prodigy who composed from the age of five, the tireless perfectionist for whom to stop working was almost to stop existing. His Moon in Sagittarius is the free-roaming, restless spirit that found peace only in movement and expansion, and it sat him early in the saddle of the grand tour across Europe, ever seeking a better horizon after he was dismissed from Salzburg. That Moon rests in his fourth house, the hearth, rooting his emotional life in home, mother and lineage, in the father who carried him before Europe's royalty. Virgo rose as his mask: the meticulous, elegant analyst who serves the world through sheer, exacting craft. He left his Requiem unfinished.