What your astrology sign reveals about your giving back style



20 January – 18 February

You value human life, animal welfare, and saving the environment – a true humanitarian, philanthropist and at times a visionary. Due to your strong beliefs, you dedicate a great deal of your time and money to many different causes. Not only does it give you great pleasure to work for a good cause but you also enjoy making new friends along the way and you are a natural in inspiring others to get involved. You tend to give back to your local community and are focused on having a small carbon footprint by choosing food that is locally sourced.

Best philanthropic action for you: 

Volunteering or donating locally, improving your carbon footprint


Famous philanthropists: 

Oprah Winfrey, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Michael Bloomberg 


18 February – 20 March

You are extremely generous and would do whatever it takes to help someone even if they don’t deserve it. You are especially good at using your many talents for good and are extremely resourceful. Most likely you are a very creative person who uses this to give back such as making crafts with children at an orphanage or using your musical talents at a fundraising concert. You may even activate your network of powerful contacts to help charities meet their fundraising goals. 

Best philanthropic action for you: 
Use your talent to make someone’s day better, use your network to make an introduction that opens the door for someone in need 


Famous philanthropists:
Michael S. Dell, Priscilla Chan, Jon Bon Jovi


20 March - 20 April

Your strength is your courage, energy to initiate, and your determination. You find yourself often in a leadership role to get new projects off the ground. You tend to set up charities from scratch or implement very ambitious charitable projects such as to end world hunger or a highly complex charity event with near to impossible targets. Your leadership style is most impressive and to no surprise you are able to rally the troops against all odds with your personal magnetism. However, you may not be able to be around to see the end of an initiative as you have already moved on to the next even more ambitious project. 

Best philanthropic action for you: 
Ask a charity foundation if there is a project that needs to get off the ground, put on a fundraising event, get involved to fight injustice


Famous philanthropists:
Celine Dion, Rosie O’Donnell, Elton John


20 April - 21 May

You like to be surrounded by nice things and you work very hard to obtain this. You may be lazy at times but you have a huge heart and your friends and family can always rely on you. Most of the time your giving style is passive and involves sharing your material wealth. You tend to focus on charities that are established and that have a track record to show. When you do get involved with a cause you think about it very carefully before you start as you are in it for the long-haul. You are often perceived as stable, loyal and very determined once you commit to a cause.

Best philanthropic action for you:
Sponsorship of an endangered animal or a child going to school, offset your carbon footprint, donation towards art and culture such as a museum


Famous philanthropist:
Johns Hopkins, Chuck Feeney, Bono


21 May – 21 June

You have your heart set at the right place, are very generous and have a huge social conscience. If you have the means, you will donate a large portion of your salary to good causes ranging from politics, animals, and the environment, or anything else you feel needs your support. But your giving doesn't just involve money; you will also march for social justice, take part in protests, and volunteer at soup kitchens and free health clinics. You can tackle many things at once but be careful that you follow through on what you set your goal to. You may change your opinion a lot of times which may seem a bit wishy-washy to people, but this also allows you to see both sides to an issue. 

Best philanthropic action for you: 
Get involved in politics, teaching, rescue worker.


Famous philanthropists:

Angelina Jolie, Li Ka-shing, Paul McCartney


21 June – 23 July

You have a very strong sense of responsibility to give back to this world and you wouldn’t be able to forgive yourself if you didn’t do this. You recognise that life is hard therefore you try to help wherever you can. You would give your coat off your back to help someone in need even if you didn’t have much yourself. Overall you are more concerned with the well-being of others than your own well-being. People are drawn to your extreme nurturing nature.

Best philanthropic action for you:
Working at a soup kitchen, collecting much needed items for victims of natural disaster, volunteering locally


Famous philanthropists:
Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana, Carlos Santana


23 July - 23 August

You are a natural leader and like to be the centre of attention. Other people are drawn to you as you are very hard to miss. You are very ambitious which allows you to accomplish a great deal and you are admired for this by other people. Even though you are opinionated and set in your ways you are able to inspire others with your enthusiasm. Your organisational skills allows you to follow through on what you say which is very powerful. You are very good at giving back when you find yourself in a situation where a good cause needs to get off the ground such as setting up a charity, organise a rally or initiating a big fundraising initiative. 

Best philanthropic action for you: 
Organising big scale giving back initiatives, inspire others to get involved, organise a rally or a fundraising event


Famous philanthropists:
Melinda Gates, George Soros, Roger Federer


23 August – 23 September

You constantly want to help and you are especially gifted at fixing things for others for the greater good. You are the one to step in last minute and save the day such as when an organisation has problems fundraising the required money or there is a shortage of staff at a charitable function. You are drawn to animals and you are likely to have a pet from a shelter. As you are very smart you often are involved in mentoring and tutoring children facing adversity or illiterate adults.

Best philanthropic action for you: 
Volunteer at an animal shelter, mentoring, tutoring


Famous philanthropist:
Warren Buffett, Milton S. Hershey, Avicii


23 September – 23 October

One thing that you can’t stand is injustice and you want to do what’s best for everyone which can be hard at times. You generally volunteer your time by helping to organise and participate in protest, marches, and anything else to change the system that you deem unfair.

Your great strength is your quest for fairness, peace and harmony which people are drawn to and therefore you are able to organise large groups to fight for your causes. In addition, to drawing a large crowd you also like parties therefore you tend to combine this and host successful fundraising events for causes that are closest to your heart.  

Best philanthropic action for you: 

Organise rallies, put on fundraising events


Famous philanthropists:

Bruno Mars, Ralph Lauren, Reed Hastings


23 October – 22 November

You are very interested to learn about other people and becoming a subject matter expert. You are a pro in digging deep under the surface by asking the critical questions to get to the secrets that lie within. You see the world as black or white and your keen sense of intuition makes you a great investigator. Your strength is your determination, passion and motivation and you apply your skills in giving back by investigating and brings to light areas where injustice has been done to humans, animals and the environment. Once you set your site on injustice you are keen to educate to raise awareness to these issues. 

Best philanthropic action for you:
Investigative reporting, teaching, documentary film making, writing


Famous philanthropist:
Bill Gates, Charles Koch, Laurene Powell Jobs


22 November – 22 December

You are very generous, adventurous and seek continuous knowledge. You are blessed to be able to connect with strangers instantly so you are good to get people to donate to causes that you are passionate about. It is very likely for you to volunteer abroad to quench your thirst for knowledge and to see first-hand what help is needed. You are a born leader and you are a natural in inspiring others to get involved with causes that are close to your heart.

Best philanthropic action for you: 
Fundraising, volunteering in another country


Famous philanthropists:
Taylor Swift, Mel Gibson, Andrew Carnegie


22 December – 20 January

The great strengths of the Capricorn-born are their willingness to work hard and their determination to succeed. Life is one big project for you, and you have adopted a business-like approach to most everything you do to ensure you succeed by taking one step at a time in a pragmatic and realistic approach. You want toget to the top of your chosen field so that you can reap the benefits of success; namely fame, prestige and money. Your style of giving back is through applying your skills such as a lawyer providing free legal advice or a translator providing free translation services to charities. You may also be in the field of science or medicine such as providing free medical treatment to the poor in Africa.

Best philanthropic action for you:
One-on-one free consultancy by applying your skillset to give back


Famous philanthropists:
Dolly Parton, Muhammad Ali, Stephen Hawking

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