City of Tokyo

Tokyo is a place with the soul of a pioneer, and its chart reads like the story of a city that keeps being reborn. Its Sun sits in Aries, the pioneer among pioneers, the self-starter who gets back on the saddle no matter what the universe throws down; and it sits in the eighth house, the Scorpionic realm of death and rebirth, the phoenix rising from the ashes. There is no better description of this city. Once a fishing village called Edo, it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, swelled past a million souls, was renamed Eastern Capital after the Meiji Restoration, then flattened by the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 and by wartime bombing, only to rise again into the economic miracle that made it a titan. An Aries Sun in the house of survival casts light and leaves a lasting mark wherever it goes.

Its Moon in Leo, in the eleventh house of the masses, gives it that dramatic, big-hearted, performing spirit: king and queen at once, a stage for over 14 million residents and the world's busiest station at Shinjuku. And its Virgo Ascendant is the immaculate mask, the clean, precise, detail-obsessed face of Shinkansen punctuality and Ginza polish. Warrior heart, showman soul, perfectionist surface: forever new, forever itself.