Malala Yousafzai has returned to her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot there by the Taliban in 2012 for campaigning for female education. She sustained life-threatening injuries and had part of her skull removed to relieve swelling on her brain, but recovered and is now reading Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University. She is continuing to campaign, for which she won a joint Nobel Peace prize and plans to return to Pakistan permanently once she has completed her degree, though she remains a polarising figure there, with critics saying she is shaming the country and following what they see as a Western agenda.
[?? Educating girls is sinful? It’s one of the problems of a globalised world that you realise how retarded in their development several regions are – by several hundred years.]
Born 12 July 1997 at 8.30am? Mingaora, Pakistan, she has a friendly 11th house Sun Cancer sextile North Node in Virgo on the foot of a Yod inconjunct Jupiter in humanitarian Aquarius. Such a focal point Jupiter gives her the ability to shift social attitudes on a grand scale. She’s also got planets in all four Cardinal signs, giving her initiative in quantity – a forced-to-be-self-reliant Saturn in Aries in a self-disciplined opposition to Moon Mars in Libra square her Sun, with Neptune in late Capricorn. And planets in all three inspirational Fire signs.
Her ‘obsessive dream’ 11th Harmonic is strong; as is her get-it-together 5H. Strongest of all is her leaving-a-legacy-for-history 17th Harmonic which gives hope she will make a difference. She’s in a tough year with tr Pluto opposition her Sun and square her Saturn. But she may well come into her own with the shift into Aquarius of Saturn Jupiter in the early 2020s and then Pluto from 2024 which will connect with her Uranus and then Jupiter in Aquarius.
Her Midheaven, on this birth time, is conjunct Algol, of which Diana Rosenberg says: “You will not be able to ignore suffering and horror, or brush it aside… The Algol placement on a chart insists upon a confrontation and assimilation of these harsh aspects of human experience in this lifetime.….Algol, like other stars, confers tasks upon us which, if comprehended and accepted, offer great rewards of power and creativity.’ Her MC is conjunct the Pakistan Taurus North Node so her direction in life is intimately tied up with Pakistan’s development (if it wants to develop). And her Sun is conjunct the Pakistan 10th house Moon; with her weighted Jupiter opposition the Pakistan Leo Sun – so she is very hooked into her home country.