Richard Branson

Some people build a company; Richard Branson built a whole universe of them, and stamped his own name-brand across land, air, sea and space. Born in Britain in 1950, he was an entrepreneur before he could vote: a student magazine at sixteen, a mail-order record business at twenty, then the Virgin Records shops that grew into the sprawling Virgin Group of more than 400 companies, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Trains, and finally Virgin Galactic. Knighted in 2000 for services to entrepreneurship, he flew to the edge of space himself in 2021 at the age of seventy.

His Leo Ascendant is pure showman-king: the magnetic, camera-loving lion with signature hair who holds the torch and dares the crowd to follow. His Sun in Cancer in the twelfth house is a softer, more intuitive engine beneath the swagger, an emotional, protective, almost dreamlike self that shines through vision more than ego. And his Moon in Virgo in the first house wears its feelings on the skin while quietly serving, organising and refining, the practical humanist behind the spectacle. Adventurer, brand-builder and philanthropist, Branson turned playfulness into an empire and pointed it, literally, at the stars.