Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

In the spring of 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was working shifts as a bartender at a taqueria near Union Square in Manhattan while running a long-shot primary campaign against Joe Crowley, one of the most powerful Democrats in the House of Representatives. She had almost no money and little establishment support. In June she won by fifteen points, one of the biggest political upsets of the decade, and that November, at twenty-nine, she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the time.

She was born on October 13, 1989, in the Bronx, New York, at 11:50 in the morning, a time her office supplied and Astro-Databank rates A. Her Sun is in Libra, with Mars also in Libra, both in the tenth house, which governs a public career. Libra is the sign of justice, fairness and balance, and Mars there turns that sense of fairness into a fight. A Libra Sun with Mars in the tenth describes someone whose public career is built on campaigning for what she sees as just.

Sagittarius is her rising sign, and the first house holds Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, all in Capricorn, a rare grouping that belongs to people born around 1989. Capricorn concerns established institutions and power structures, and Uranus and Neptune there describe a generation inclined to challenge and reimagine them. In her first house, those energies become personal: a self-presentation built on taking on the establishment.

Her Moon is in Aries in the third house, the house of communication, everyday speech and media. An Aries Moon is quick, combative and direct, and in the third it describes someone who expresses emotion fast and in public. Ocasio-Cortez became famous for her sharp questioning in congressional hearings and for her mastery of social media, livestreaming from her kitchen and answering critics in real time.

Her father, Sergio, an architect, died of lung cancer in 2008 while she was a student at Boston University, and her mother, Blanca, who is from Puerto Rico, cleaned houses and drove a school bus to keep the family afloat. As a high school student she won a prize at an international science fair for microbiology research, and a small asteroid was later named after her. She worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign.

Pluto in Scorpio sits in her eleventh house, which governs movements, groups and collective causes. Pluto there describes the power to transform through organized collective action. In 2019 she introduced the Green New Deal resolution with Senator Ed Markey, and she became a leading face of the progressive movement.

Jupiter in Cancer falls in her seventh house of partnership, and Venus in Sagittarius lies in her twelfth house. She became engaged to Riley Roberts in 2022. In 2025 she toured the country with Bernie Sanders on the "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, drawing some of the largest political crowds of the year. The Libra Sun gave her the cause; the Aries Moon gave her the voice to fight for it.