The horoscope of Bill Gates, Jr., the founder of Microsoft Corporation is a very interesting read. His sidereal horoscope has a Gemini ascendant with Jupiter in the 3rd house (Leo), Mars and Mercury in the 4th house (Virgo); the Sun, Venus and Saturn in the 5th house (Libra). It is quite obvious that his horoscope has to have a tremendous wealth-generating and ruling combination. A quick glance at his horoscope shows that, if read from the ascendant, he will have to stretch his intellectual sinews to prove that this is the horoscope of an individual who happens to be a world-famous billionaire. You will find it difficult to do mental calisthenics to distinguish it from other horoscopes that you see a dime a dozen. I have seen the horoscope of a woman with the same ascendant with similarly placed Mercury and Venus and a better placed Mars, but she is not a billionaire, far from it, she is in bad shape, financially speaking.
Bill Gates’ exalted Saturn period ended very early when he was less than three years old. Thereafter, Mercury’s term lasted until he was 19 years old. After that, he began his 7-year Ketu (dragon tail) period. This period ended just after he had signed an agreement with IBM in 1981. For twenty years afterwards, that is, in 2002, he reigned supreme in the twenty-year period of Venus in the fifth house of Libra, a trinal house. While this explains his 20-year period of his phenomenal rise, it does not explain the incubation period, so to speak, of seven years preceding it. Unless, of course, you see it from the radical moon placed in the tenth house. Here, Ketu is sitting pretty in the third house, which represents her courage and hands, among other things. It is extremely good that a malefic is in the 3rd house. It is also important that the lords of 4 thin houses (ie 3, 6, 8 and 12) are weak. His Sun, the lord of the 3rd from the ascendant, is in his fall in Libra, therefore he is weak.
Seen from the Moon Sign, Pisces, we see that in addition to Ketu in the 3rd, the lords of the 4 houses bowed from the Moon viz. Venus (lord of the 3rd Taurus and 8th Libra), Sun (lord of the 6th, Leo) and 12th Saturn are together in the 8th, forming an extremely formidable Vipareeta Raja Yoga -literally means reverse ruling combination- when sometimes you win with others. failure. In his case, it resulted from Digital Research’s failure to deliver an operating system to IBM. Of course, here too the lords of two trine houses and the 2nd house (Moon and Mars) and two angles (Mercury-4 and 7) are in mutual aspect and conjunction, which gives tremendous weight to the overall horoscope.
It is this and the multiplier effect of so many rare combinations of the Ascendant and the Moon that has raised him to the top and kept him there for decades.