Pope Francis

Pope Francis carried the soul of a wandering sage, and his Sun in Sagittarius tells the story: the Jupiter-ruled philosopher-explorer, born to shine through faith, learning, and big-picture wisdom, the pilgrim who gathers truth and teaches it with jovial warmth. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936, the son of Italian immigrants, he first trained as a chemical technician before a calling drew him to the Jesuits in 1958. That Sun sat in his sixth house of humble service and daily duty, and there was the whole man: an archbishop who took the bus, lived in a modest apartment, and later, as pope, refused the Apostolic Palace for a simple guesthouse.

His Moon in Aquarius was the selfless collective psyche fused with the tribe of humanity, the reformer wired to the wave that topples the old sandcastle so a new one can rise. Placed in the seventh house of others and partnership, this Moon poured his whole heart into the poor, the refugee, and the marginalised. Elected in 2013 as the first Jesuit, first pope from the Americas, and first non-European pope in over 1,200 years, he chose the name of Saint Francis and gave the Church Laudato Si and a plea for our common home. A Cancer Ascendant lent him that gentle, nurturing, matriarchal face. He served, and he mothered a world.