Orson Welles

Orson Welles was a builder of worlds, and his Sun in Taurus gave him the foundational, connoisseur's eye for what a thing was truly worth. Taurus is the pillar of the chart, earthy and unshakeable in its opinions, and Welles held his artistic values against the whole studio system rather than bend them. That Sun sits in the twelfth house of the unknowable, the dreaming, oceanic realm, and there is the secret of a man who conjured invisible worlds: the radio magician whose 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast convinced listeners Martians had truly landed, and who at twenty-five made Citizen Kane, still ranked among the greatest films ever conceived.

His Moon in Aquarius was a crazy-genius Moon, a psyche fused with the collective and wired to the revolution, forever the nonconformist and the outsider. Placed in the ninth house of the far horizons, it fed on the big questions and drew him across Europe to make Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight and F for Fake on his own terms. A Gemini Ascendant crowned it all: the quicksilver messenger, actor, writer, director and literal magician in one restless body. He dissolved boundaries between the real and the imagined, and cinema was never the same.