Serena Williams

Serena Williams rewrote what power and excellence look like on a tennis court, and her chart is a study in devotion to the craft. Born in Michigan on 26 September 1981, she carries the Sun in Libra, the Venus-ruled sign of the Scale, the hero who shines through balance, symmetry and an unerring eye for beauty in motion. Coached alongside her sister Venus by their parents, she turned professional in 1995 and went on to win a record 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most of the Open Era, holding the world number-one ranking for 319 weeks. There is something Libran even in the poetry of it: so many of those finals contested against her own sister, the self-versus-other axis played out at the highest stage.

Her Sun and Moon both sit in the sixth house of work, health and daily discipline, a double emphasis on labour and mastery. With the Moon in Virgo, her peace of mind is found through being useful, through meticulous, relentless self-improvement; not having something to perfect can feel like not existing. That is the engine of a champion who returned again and again from injury. Taurus rises, the steady Venus-ruled bull, earthy, regal, immovably strong. Beauty, discipline and a will that would not bend: simply one of the greatest ever.