Paul Alexander (Polio Paul)

Paul Alexander, known to millions as Polio Paul, lived one of the most extraordinary lives of endurance in the modern age, and his Aquarius Sun helps us understand why his story belonged to the whole tribe of humanity. Aquarius shines not on a solo throne but among the collective, the humanitarian visionary whose life becomes a lesson for the masses. Struck by paralytic polio in Dallas in 1952 at the age of six, he spent over seventy years inside an iron lung, yet he refused to disappear. He graduated near the top of his class without ever attending in person, earned a law degree from the University of Texas, practised law for three decades, wrote a memoir tapped out with a stick held in his mouth, and late in life reached hundreds of thousands on TikTok. That is the Aquarian gift: shining for and through the tribe.

His Capricorn Moon is the deep spine of that resilience, the Saturnian moon of the child who grew up fast, stoic, dutiful, patient, unspoiled by circumstance. Where the body was still, this moon supplied the discipline and quiet fortitude. He died in 2024 at seventy-eight, a lasting emblem of the human will to endure.