As a child I remember boredom taken out of long car journeys by a game called pub cricket.

Each member of the family would get an innings, the name of every pub spotted would be counted and the number of limbs would be added to your score. 

If there were no arms or legs you would be out ( accompanied by many complaints and accusations of cheating ) and replaced by the next eagle eyed protuberance collector.

If you were fortunate enough to nab the Queen Victoria and the Prince Albert in succession you would be up and running with a score of eight.

Sixty years later, I’m still playing something similar sifting through endless numbers of charts searching for intertwining limbs that offer up an interesting angle for progressed soulmate synastry.

And these two still score highly.

When we think of Queen Victoria we come up with a picture of buttoned up 19th century Britain, where we ruled the world but were exceptionally repressed and miserable while doing it. 

But this image comes mainly from after Prince Albert died and she hid away from the world at Balmoral as ” the woman in black “

Before that day Victoria was all arms and legs.

Gemini rules the arms so with the Sun and Moon rising in the sign and the Sun being ruler of the 5th house it makes sense that she had 9 kids.

A Mars / Venus conjunction in Aries would have been constantly on heat.

And Albert might have been a Virgo, but that Scorpio Moon with Mars in Gemini suggests he would have been fairly adept at horizontal jogging as well.

I have always felt that the tighter the aspect the more powerful the connection and this definitely applies to this couple’s synastry.

Victoria’s Sun at 2.07 Gemini and Albert’s at 2.06 Virgo are in the tightest of square aspects.

They were both born in the same year which pitches them right in the middle of a very powerful Saturn / Pluto conjunction in square to a Uranus / Neptune one. 

Both charts feature this as related to their 7th house experience. 

Albert has it as part of a Mutable Grand Cross including Mercury and Mars.

When we look into progressed soulmate synastry, we can quickly see that every single degree position in a person’s chart is absolutely vital to their life experience.

Both Victoria and Albert have their Suns 20 odd degrees before this heavyweight pattern.

They first met in May 1836, Victoria ascended to the throne in June 1837 and they married in February 1840. 

The progressed Sun moves approximately one degree for a year so 

Victoria had no progressions to speak of during the first 14 years of her life.

Between 1834 and 36 when she met Albert, she had progressed Sun trine Jupiter and sextile Mars.

She was crowned with the Progressed Sun trine and sextile her Nodes.

She married Albert with her Progressed Sun opposite her 7th house Uranus.

Albert had his progressed Venus conjunct his Ascendant when he met Victoria. 

His progressed Sun was square to Uranus when she was crowned.

Albert has Mars in Gemini in the 10th house so its obvious that placement refers to Victoria and her role in his life, this was confirmed when his progressed Sun was square to that Mars when they married and he became Prince Consort.

Victoria has Mars and Venus conjunct the North Node in Aries so it makes sense that Mars also indicates Albert in her life.

She met him when her progressed Sun was sextile Mars, the only time in her life when it would aspect the red planet.

Victoria’s only other progression to Mars was Mercury’s square which occurred when Albert died in December 1861.

Is that it then ?

Well not quite because there was that fling with Billy Connolly.

John Brown has an interesting noon chart. 

A Sagittarius Sun closely sextile Mars in Aquarius and trine an Aries Moon would cover his love of the outdoors but his personal life is full of intrigue as figured by his Grand Cross.

Venus in Capricorn is conjunct Neptune which immediately suggests some kind of secret affair with a powerful person.

This combo in square to that Aries Moon / Pluto and Jupiter would add considerably more drama and the opposition with Saturn would bring some trouble with it.

We know that our Vicky likes Aries type men from her own Venus and Mars placements.

And her Jupiter is conjunct Johnny’s Mars, sextile his Sun and Aries Moon.

He first met the Queen when she moved to Balmoral in 1848 and he became Albert’s gillie ( a fishing and hunting servant ).

John Brown’s progressed Sun was conjunct his Venus, the clearest indication possible that his Queen was also his soulmate.

I guess we should have expected that.

But the really fascinating thing is that it was reciprocated.

Between 1848 and 1850, Queen Victoria’s progressed Venus was conjunct her natal Sun and Moon.

There was only one other progression to her lights during her lifetime.

This was the progressed Mars conjunction between 1879 and 84 which was exactly on Victoria’s Moon in March 1883 when John Brown died.

Brown’s Venus / Neptune in Capricorn might have have wanted this relationship covered up much in the way that Prince Charles’ Venus / Neptune conjunction in Libra wanted his with Camilla Parker Bowles kept quiet.

The 19th century media were not as obsessive or underhand as they are today or else there would have been a massive royal scandal that would have dwarfed anything that Victoria’s great great great grandson could come up with.

But astrology has long arms and can reach the parts of any story that are denied to ordinary folk.

Gemini are twins so each placement would score eight runs each, Virgo gets four and Scorpio eight, Sagittarius, Aries and Aquarius four each so on my soulmate synastry pub cricket score, Victoria, Albert and John get 52 runs.

But there’s plenty more articles to come so as long as I avoid any Libra stelliums, we’re looking at a Don Bradman type score here.

Posted on 15th May 2023

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