Bill Gates

Not one of his ten planets sits in an earth sign and not one sits in a mutable sign, and nothing in the chart was retrograde at his birth. Fire takes four, air and water three each, and six of the ten are fixed. The record says Gates co-founded Microsoft at nineteen and later put the bulk of his fortune into a foundation working on disease and vaccination.

Nine of the ten planets sit in three groups. The Sun, Venus and Saturn fill seventeen degrees of Scorpio, Mercury, Mars and Neptune eighteen degrees of Libra, and Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto twenty six degrees of Leo. Only the Moon stands outside them, and its sign is uncertain without a birth time, so it is left out here. For somebody whose record is a company and then a foundation, a Scorpio Sun that commits totally to whatever it has chosen is the placement to start from.

Jupiter is in both of the two closest individual contacts. It sits conjunct Pluto at three fifths of a degree, which is concentrated ambition: a capacity for large undertakings, influence, and an appetite for control over the thing being built. It also sits sixty degrees from Neptune at half a degree, generous imagination, vision and a real ability to inspire other people. A record with two halves and a chart whose scale is wired two separate ways is a coincidence worth naming and not an explanation of anything. Venus sits conjunct Saturn at just under two degrees, affection under discipline.

Jupiter came back to its Leo birth degree on 31 July 2015, at fifty nine, and four laps precede it. Leo expects to be looked at, and what a return there asks is what the attention was actually for. No earth, no mutable planets and nothing retrograde is what this chart comes down to: there is no hedging in it anywhere and nothing in it that adapts.