Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is the futurist who taught machines to read and to speak, pioneering optical character recognition, text-to-speech and speech recognition before becoming the world's most famous prophet of the technological singularity. Called "Edison's rightful heir," he holds the National Medal of Technology, twenty-one honorary doctorates and a place in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His chart reads as a hymn to exactly this kind of mind. His Sun sits in Aquarius, the sign of the visionary who is born to shine for the collective, the scientific, futuristic, outside-the-box thinker whose ideas can change the lives of millions. As Gaia says, without Aquarius we would still be in the Bronze Age. That Sun glows in the fourth house of home and lineage, where identity roots itself in family and foundation.

His Moon in Pisces is the sponge, the psychic empath with divine-level imagination, the intuitive right brain that receives downloads from beyond the practical, and it rests in the fifth house of creation, where every invention becomes his baby. Scorpio rising gives the piercing, all-or-nothing survivor's mask, fitting for a man who intends, quite literally, to outlive death itself.