Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin carries the Sun in Leo, and there is no stronger placement for it: the Sun in its own domicile, blazing at full strength, the born innovator and king of his own castle whose whole being is wired for creative self-expression and leadership. Born in Moscow in 1973 to Jewish parents, he came to America at six when his family fled Soviet anti-Semitism, settling in Maryland where his father became a mathematics professor and his mother a researcher at NASA. That solar drive to build something dazzling and central found its stage at Stanford, where he met Larry Page. Together they analysed the deep structure of the web, produced the PageRank algorithm, and in 1998 founded Google, later shaping Gmail, Maps, Android and the whole Alphabet conglomerate over which he presided until 2019.

His Moon is exalted in Taurus, one of the healthiest seats a Moon can have: earthy, practical, devoted, security-loving, with an almost innate scale for knowing the quality and lasting value of a thing. It is the steadying ballast beneath the Leo fire, the patience to build something durable rather than merely brilliant. That grounded, loyal Taurean heart also shows in his philanthropy, notably his sustained funding of Parkinson's research, giving quietly and for the long haul.