Orville Wright

Orville Wright was one of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio who taught humanity to fly, the man at the controls of the world's first powered aeroplane. His Sun blazes in Leo, the lion's own sign and the Sun at full strength, the born innovator and king of the castle whom others orbit; placed in the tenth house, the very throne and noon-point of the chart, it is a karmic blessing of natural fame and leadership. When he and Wilbur lifted the Wright Flyer off the sand at Kitty Hawk in December 1903, covering 120 feet in twelve seconds, that tenth-house Leo Sun did exactly what it was made for: it shone at the top of the world for all history to see.

His Moon rests in Libra, the beautiful Venusian Moon of balance and fine judgement, tucked in the twelfth house, the quiet Neptunian realm behind the scenes, so the showman's fame concealed a private, contemplative soul. A Libra Ascendant gave him the polished, fair-minded mask of the engineer and diplomat. Wilbur died in 1912, yet Orville flew on in spirit, guiding aviation and its policy until his death in 1948, his name forever aloft.