Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was a man who shone through words, and whose words steadied a nation in its darkest hour. Born on 30 November 1874 into an aristocratic Oxfordshire family of mixed English and American blood, he carried the Sun in Sagittarius, the jovial philosopher-explorer, born to shine in learning, history and the sweep of the big picture. Fittingly that Sun fell in the third house, the mercurial realm of communication and self-effort: he was the go-getter who made his name as a war correspondent, wrote books of his campaigns, and eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. The Sagittarian love of freedom and the third-house command of language fused into the greatest orator of his age. His Moon in Leo, the placement Gaia calls king and queen at once, gave him a great, dramatic, performing heart, the born actor who could make a people feel; and it sat in the eleventh house, the house of the collective, so his emotional life rose and fell with the masses he led. He soldiered in India and Sudan, held the Admiralty, the Exchequer and much else, then in May 1940 became Prime Minister and steered Britain to victory in 1945. With Virgo rising he met the world as a meticulous, critical craftsman. Imperialist and controversial, yet the wartime voice that would never surrender. He died in 1965.