Malcolm X rose to national prominence, from street pimp to power broker in less than 15 spectacular years. Nicknamed Red, Malcolm started out a lucky hustler with a natal Sun trine Jupiter; his criminal career flourished until at twenty, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years for burglary and gun possession.

Prison was actually a lucky break, too, he later admitted, he read voraciously to feed his restless and retentive Aries brain. What he learned, he lived with all his heart, with a fearless Aries Moon. He took on the entire white racist Jim Crow system. He repudiated Christianity and became a Muslim. He dropped his ‘slave name” for an X and joined the Nation of Islam. “Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I had never been so truly free in my life,” he later confided to Alex Haley.

When Malcolm was released from prison in 1952, he became the point man for the Black Muslims, and at 27 he had made a momentous decision for a double Taurus: to forsake wealth and its accumulation. Money and drugs no longer interested Malcolm. He saw a greater value in black people. He started “collecting” them as individual trophies of black empowerment—and his own makeover powers. His Uranus in Pisces gave him connection and compassion for the downtrodden.

In his autobiography he jokingly remembers “fishing” for men who were at the end of their rope—in order to give them lessons in black history. He created a uniformed militia—the Flower of Islam—with men he had rescued from drugs and self-destruction. He demanded economic and political equality from white politicians, but not with begging and non-violence. He advocated an eye-for-eye response to white lynch mobs. After years of frustration, many blacks agreed. His many followers included Muhammad Ali, and his X-brand of revolution caught on like wildfire. Malcolm meant black pride for blacks but race war to white bigots.

He was never late, hated delays (Mercury opposite Saturn); “didn’t trust anyone without a wristwatch.” His Gemini Mars made him a fierce opponent in debates. He turned the tables on white supremacists by asserting whites were inferior, and furthermore were biologically related to dogs, their “best friends.”

He built Elijah Mohammed’s crackpot cult into a vibrant organization with NOI mosques in every major American city. Malcolm thrived in a religious organization, with his Sun-Saturn leadership and made many friends with his Sun-Venus conviviality and love of socializing. His head butting Mercury in Aries helped him infuriate the black bourgeois, and most Christian preachers, both white and black, hated him. For the mostly white media, Malcolm’s charismatic Mars conjunct Pluto, with its resolute and passionate message was both frightening and confusing.

That militant Mars was expressed by Malcolm’s threats of black retaliation against white violence. Soon, Malcolm’s ideas began to eclipse Martin Luther King’s Gandhian principles of passive resistance, replacing it with a black uprising.

At the height of his power in the NOI, Malcolm (who had six daughters of his own) made a discovery that his mentor was having sex with underage girls. Like a raging bull, Malcolm publicly denounced Elijah Mohammed and the NOI, destroying it as a viable organization.

Furthermore, after having met “blue-eyed Muslims” during a mercury-retrograde trip to Mecca in 1964, Malcolm renounced his own racism and formed a new group, the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Malcolm met with Fidel Castro and called for an end to economic disparity and resistance to the war in Vietnam. Less than a year later he was fatally shot by NOI gunmen while giving a speech in uptown New York.