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In very simple terms the Sun in your chart describes the life theme that you actually want to experience.

The house it falls in would be the area that you most wish to focus on in this life, and it’s sign would describe the way you would go about it.

The rest of the chart, particularly the major aspect patterns will show how successful you are likely to be at actually being allowed to do that.

So if your Sun is part of a stellium (a group of 4 or more planets falling within one sign or house), the likelihood is that the other planets would generally concur and you will be allowed to do that.

Obviously not depends on which planets they are. If they involve Uranus or Pluto there is likely to be quite a bit of disruption along the way, but at least your life is being centred around your own themes.

If on the other hand the main direction of the aspects is away from your Sun, the Universe won’t allow you to stay in your particular box.

When it comes to it, most of us fit into this latter category to one degree or another.

So if we apply that principle to some of the charts we have already looked at, we can pick up on some very simple themes.

Peter Sutcliffe’s Sun was in the 7th house, so he wanted really just to be allowed to focus on his own marriage.

But he also had a horrendous stellium in the 8th house which forced him to be constantly leaving his wife at home and go out killing sex workers.

JFK on the other hand had his Sun as part of a stellium in the 8th house so he was allowed to spend his life mostly enjoying sex and inherited money with a bit of death thrown in as well.

The only aspect that actually impacted on his main theme was the square to the Moon in the 11th which meant he had to squeeze a little bit of politics in there as well.

Charles’ Sun was in the 4th house which meant he would ideally want to spend his life at home discussing architecture with his vegetables.

It was also in Scorpio so he would rather that no-one else knew anything about it.

He had 4 planets in the 4th house so for the most part the Universe allowed him to get on with that life.

This stellium included a Venus/Neptune conjunction so a secret affair would have been part of that story.

The outlier for him was the Moon in Taurus in the 10th house, so his mother was constantly dragging him kicking and screaming outside to shake people’s hands and cut their ribbons.

What about Diana?

Her Sun was in the 7th house in Cancer, so she just simply wanted to be someone’s wife (7th) and mother (Cancer).

Would she be allowed to simply do that? No chance.

You can see that the main thrust of her life goes anywhere but.

As indicated by the T square (the strong red triangle involving the 2nd, 8th and 5th houses).

The 8th house is particularly strong, so like Sutcliffe and JFK there were significant sex, death and money themes.

Unlike Sutcliffe, whose Moon was an important active participant in the stellium, Diana’s was opposite it.

Her Venus was also square that 8th house combo.

So she would have been engaged in other directions and the sex and death part would be something that other people are intent on doing to her.

Her 7th house Cancer Sun meant she just wanted to be Charles wife.

But as always a T square will dominate the person’s life whether it involves the Sun or not.

Her Aquarius Moon as part of the T square meant that she had to become the people’s princess.

Her apex Venus in Taurus in the 5th house meant that she was equally destined to be the most photographed woman in the world.

Her Mars/Pluto/Uranus in the 8th house meant that she had to suffer a particularly grim death in a car accident (Mars) in an underground tunnel (Pluto) being chased by the paparazzi (Uranus).

If you look at Diana’s synastry with Charles you can see his role in all of this.

Diana’s Sun at 10 Cancer’s only aspect to Charles’ chart is the square with his Venus/Neptune.

So she is obviously not his secret lover.

And therefore Charles’ Venus/Neptune destabilises Diana’s marriage (7th house Sun).

But much more powerfully than that, Charles Sun at 22.25 Scorpio forms a Grand Cross with Diana’s T square.

It’s opposite her Venus at 24.23 Taurus, square to her Moon at 25.02 Aquarius and square to her Uranus at 23.20 Leo.

All of these planets in Diana’s T square would drag Charles away from his 4th house Scorpio comfort zone. He could seriously not handle her celebrity and her exposure.

He would much prefer a wife who allowed him to stay relatively incognito.

For Diana, Charles would act as the trigger for all of the difficult challenges and problems in her life as depicted by tight T square.

And as his Sun formed the Grand Cross point, he would make all of them worse.

Note also that Diana’s T Square falls around the same degrees as the Elizabeth’s own.

But the thrust of these two T Squares goes in exactly the opposite directions.

Each one forms a Grand Cross with the other.

In fact Diana’s apex Venus at 24.23 Taurus is exactly opposite Liz’s Saturn at 24.26 Scorpio.

The chances of just that one connection occurring are over 20,000/1 against.

So Diana’s celebrity (apex Venus in Taurus in the 5th house) is the biggest threat to Elizabeth’s ultra serious rule (Saturn in Scorpio at the Midheaven).

The Queen’s remoteness and emotional repression would have jarred badly with Diana’s queen of hearts on the sleeve (Aquarius Moon).

So you can see how the astrology of all these placements around 20 – 25 of Fixed signs ( Elizabeth’s Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn – Diana’s Moon, Venus and Uranus – Charles Sun) were so tightly intertwined.

And all of these themes are very evident, even for relative astrology beginners if you make aspects the key thing.

What about transits then.

Well as you have no doubt guessed, such tight synastry means all these people will be massively triggered at the same time by the same transits.

Diana didn’t live nearly as long as the other two so she would have only had one Pluto transit to her T square.

Yes it was in 1992, when Pluto formed a Grand Cross with it opposing her Venus and squaring her Mars and Uranus.

But Pluto’s main connection in Diana’s natal chart is its conjunction with Mars in the 8th house, indicating her death in an underground car crash.

In 1997 when that actually happened, transit Pluto was making the only major aspect of her life to that Mars, a square.

If we include the fact that William has Venus at 24 Taurus, Harry has the Moon at 21 Taurus, Andrew has the Moon at 25 Scorpio, Anne has the Sun at 22 Leo, Philip had the Moon at 22 Leo, you can see how powerful the family synastry is.

Of course they would all be seriously impacted by Pluto’s transit through those degrees of Scorpio in 1992, when all those marriage separations were announced.

Saturn’s transited through those degrees of Aquarius in 2022 when the Queen died.

Also when you look at these patterns you can see how remarkably simple the astrology of family relationships is.

Philip for example has the Moon at 22.15 Leo.

Anne has her Sun at 22.02 Leo, it is also in the 10th house, giving her natural royal qualities.

Charles has his Sun at 22.25 Scorpio, exactly square his father’s Moon.

We all know that Anne was his favourite and that he thought Charles needed to be pushed and dragged out of his 4th house and bullied at Gordonstoun in order to become something that he could never be.

You can see from all this the importance of aspects both in natal charts but also in synastry (the comparisons of charts between people in relationships).

But the obsession in astrology, particularly at entry level is with signs.

The thinking is that you can build on this and once you have a thorough understanding of sign placements you go on to houses.

Then, and only then, can you look into aspects.

The trouble with this approach is everyone is led to believe that aspects are the least important area of astrology when in fact they are the most important.

This is not least because it is the transits to these aspects that make things happen, not the movements of the planets by signs or houses.

With all of these examples used, the actual signs these planets are in have very little impact.

They may account for differences in personalities but in terms of understanding life themes they are fairly poor indicators.

Family patterns are always fascinating.

It makes sense that members of the same family have to have strong synastry and close inter chart aspects.

This is because they will most likely all be affected by similar themes when the children are young at least.

The Windsors are a classic example. In many ways their synastry has to be acute because it would be played out on the front pages of the newspapers.

It is reasonable to ask if there is one seed placement, that more than any other dictates and dominates all the British royal family connections.

Is there one aspect pattern that drives all the other ones, and makes all of the transit experience that follows inevitable.

Yes there absolutely is. It is Queen Elizabeth’s T square apex Saturn at 24 Scorpio at the Midheaven.

All of the other interactions come from that.

Members of an older generation and watchers of the early series of The Crown will remember themes that occurred before 1992.

Elizabeth’s sister, Princess Margaret had an affair with Peter Townsend, a member of the royal household.

Because Townsend was a divorcee, the newly crowned Queen forced Margaret to give him up in 1955.

Margaret’s Sun was another one in the last 10 degrees of Fixed signs at 28.01 Leo.

We can see that Margaret has a stellium (including her Sun) on the right side of the chart, indicating that relationships would be the key sector for her.

But she also has a challenging Grand Cross pattern – this is where 4 planets are involved, 2 in opposition that are in square to another 2 also in opposition.

This can be seen from Margaret’s Venus in Libra in the 7th (powerful relationship focus and attraction) in opposition to Uranus in Aries in the 1st (unconventional personal expression) square to Jupiter in Cancer in the 4th (family with loads of money) in opposition to Saturn in the 10th (being denied what she really wants because of convention)

You can see how Saturn at the Midheaven plays such a powerful role in her life as well as her sister’s.

But it is her synastry with the Queen’s Saturn that dominates her life.

Margaret’s Sun at 28.01 Leo is square to Elizabeth’s Saturn at 24.26 Scorpio.

Peter Townsend’s chart has a left side emphasis with his Sun, Mars and Venus conjunct the Ascendant.

This is mostly in Sagittarius which totally fits with his military career and travel.

His 7th house, however has an exact extremely challenging Saturn/Pluto conjunction, so obviously marriage is going to be a problematic area of his life.

Note his Sun at 28.51 Scorpio exactly square to Margaret’s Sun at 28.01 Leo.

Also that means his Sun is conjunct the Queen’s apex Saturn.

Another factor to consider when looking at synastry is how important the exact placements are.

The planets are exactly where they are for a reason and this will become apparent when you look at transits.

Its interesting that all the other members of the Windsor family have the contacts between 20 and 25 of the Fixed signs (mostly Leo and Scorpio).

Yet Margaret and Peter have them at 28.

Why is that?

Its very simple and because of Pluto.

Pluto was in Elizabeth’s T Square and particularly square to her Saturn when her father died (1952) and she was crowned (1953).

Margaret and Peter’s relationship had been happening even before that point, but once Elizabeth unexpectedly became Queen, the powers that be decided that the affair was inappropriate and her request to marry him was denied.

In October 1955, when Margaret was finally forced to give up Peter, Pluto had moved on to 28 Leo, exactly conjunct her Sun and square to his.

This was the most powerful transit that they would experience in their entire lives and was obviously for both of them a turning point.

So you can see why these two had their Suns at 28 whereas everyone else had their placements a few degrees earlier.

If your astrology is aspect driven, it is powerfully exact and on point.

It’s interesting on the Princess Margaret theme because the next guy on the list was Anthony Armstrong Jones and they were married for 18 years, although there were many issues around Tony’s infidelity and the possibility of him being bisexual.

These experiences still fit well into Margaret’s Venus in the 7th opposite Uranus theme.

However the Queen was happy with this match and didn’t object to it in the way she did with Townsend.

Why? Because of the synastry.

Armstrong Jones, like Townsend had a left side emphasis, in fact his was even stronger.

So despite marrying into the royal family, Jones would be very much his own man and his themes would be likely to dominate the marriage.

Whereas much of Townsend’s was focused around the military Mars rising in Sagittarius, Jones was the more creative Aquarius/Pisces combo and he was a renowned photographer.

Like Townsend he had a challenging outer planet in the 7th. Neptune on the Descendant would give a fluid view of marriage to say the least.

But why was the Queen’s response so different to Jones than it was to Townsend?

Because of the synastry.

If you remember, Peter Townsend’s Sun at 28 Scorpio was conjunct Elizabeth’s apex Saturn at the Midheaven.

As that Saturn dictated everyone’s lives, this synastry would be a big “computer says no”.

Armstrong Jones Sun at 15 Pisces would have been in wide trine to that Saturn so no trouble there.

In fact his Mars at 22.11 Aquarius is conjunct Elizabeth’s own Mars at 20.51 Aquarius and her Jupiter at 22.30 Aquarius.

So this is a big yes by royal decree.

In fact it’s not only a yes, you can marry my sister, it’s a you could come round and do me later as well if you like.

To Be Continued

Posted 17 Jul 2024

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