By the year 1964 I had become aware the decade I was living in was different to ones that had gone before.

I was brought up in a strict but loving Christian family, living in a tiny village in North Wales. I was head chorister in the local church and had weekly piano lessons with an ancient Methodist woman who lived down the road.

I can clearly remember begging to be allowed to play the latest Beatles single, I Want To Hold Your Hand but being forced to learn Russ Conway’s stuff instead.

At home we had to listen to the soundtrack from My Fair Lady and the “hits” from this musical still jar in some remote corner of my brain.

Wouldn’t it Be Loverly, With A Little Bit Of Luck, I Could Have Danced All Night, On The Street Where You Live, were all classics of their genre, even if I found them cringeworthy to say the least.

But absolutely the worst one was “Get Me To The Church On Time”.

No self respecting nine year old boy would want to get married but what I wasn’t aware of at the time was that the guy singing it, Alfred Doolittle didn’t want to either.

As the father of Eliza he had been happily living “in sin” with her mother all these years but now he’d been dragged unwillingly into the middle classes and bound by bourgeois morality, he felt obliged to marry her.

It’s interesting how my parents managed to not mention this part of the story.

I like to think it’s there in the chart for the film’s release though.

The chart ruler Venus in Virgo conjunct Uranus and Pluto in the 5th house suggests someone who is working class but quite happy living in an unconventional relationship.

Neptune in the 7th might indicate a reluctance to get married as well as the tendency to imbibe a skinful the night before, hence the call “for Pete’s sake get me to the church on time”.

Weddings in films and TV are often fraught affairs. What percentage of ceremonies leave the groom stranded while wife to be runs off with Dustin Hoffman?

Can’t be that often but on screen the chances seem to be about 50/50.

But the worst of the lot has to be that red one.

Some people might scoff at the idea that the time that a TV show is first screened can describe the plot.

I’m not saying every single episode of Coronation Street will have a chart that reveals all, but stand out ones like the Red Wedding certainly will.

Not only that, but it will be powerfully linked to the chart of Game Of Thrones itself with its Mars at 12 Aries.

The chart ruler, Jupiter would symbolise Robb Stark, the King in the North.

“In order to replace his losses, Robb tries to regain the support of Walder Frey, who withdrew his support for the North’s cause when Robb reneged on his promise to marry one of Walder’s daughters. As compensation for violating the agreement, Lord Frey demands that Edmure Tully wed one of his daughters. Edmure selflessly agrees to the terms, and the wedding is held at the Twins.”

Note that Jupiter is in Gemini, the sign of the Twins. It is in detriment here and opposite the Ascendant, so Robb is clearly in enemy territory.

How do we know that Jupiter is Robb Stark? Because Richard Madden who plays him has the Sun at 26 Gemini.

The bride’s father, Walder Frey would be 10th house ruler (4th from 7th), Venus.

Venus is in the final minutes of Gemini in the 7th and separating from the conjunction with Jupiter, so the arrangement that he has made with Stark can seriously not be trusted.

Edmure is Robb’s uncle, so the 6th house ruler (3rd from the 4th) which is Mercury in Cancer, also in the 7th house.

Mercury opposite Pluto is a tough one, focused by T square onto an apex Moon/Uranus conjunction at 9-11 Aries, shows the nasty shock and even the colour of the event.

The Moon being the 8th house ruler and the tightness of its Uranus/Pluto aspects means they are all going to die.

Robb’s mother Catelyn would be Mars as 4th house ruler. Mars applies to a square with Neptune in Pisces so she gets her throat cut and thrown in the river.

While everyone watching is naturally horrified, I always have this little voice in the back of my mind that says serves Robb Stark right for not having an astrologer go over the chart first.

Why not invent some excuse and postpone it for a week or so?

No T square here, and the Sun conjunct Jupiter in the 7th in trine with the Moon would mean everyone would live happily ever after.

But of course it could never happen.

Apart from anything else, Jupiter was conjunct Richard Madden’s Sun so being stabbed by Roose Bolton was probably the best thing that could have happened for his acting career.

It was also conjunct David John Bradley’s (Walder Frey) Mars so he instantly went from being typecast as a weird looking caretaker to someone who could also play a great villain.

And if the Red Wedding really had been a Pink one after all, Game of Thrones would be more like House Of The Dragon which basically drags on forever with cast members having conversations that suggest something ominous might happen in the next season.

I was reading about a real life wedding from earlier in the year which the groom cancelled when he found his wife to be in flagrante delecto just before the ceremony with his own uncle.

I don’t have a time for this one, but since most weddings happen in mid afternoon, I’m going for this one.

For any wedding chart you obviously have to consider the 1st and 7th house rulers.

A conjunction would be good, but not a separating one, particularly not in slippery Pisces.

The Moon is obviously the bride, Saturn the groom.

The Moon is heading away from Saturn and exactly sextile Mars in Capricorn on the cusp of the 7th house, which certainly looks like having sex with some older bloke just before the wedding.

They could have held it the following day

The Moon makes no aspect to that Mars now and makes a sextile a 7th house Sun which is much nicer.

But the problem is these things would always have to take into account the nativities of the people involved.

Unfortunately I don’t have those details but given what actually happened, it’s a fair bet that the following day would have seen the bride get drunk and have a fling with her boss as the Moon is applying to conjunct Neptune, the 10th house ruler.

Is there a point to all this?

Indeed there is, it is all about the importance of electing your nuptials.

In terms of using astrology to positively change your life, this is the most powerful thing you can do.

You were born with a birthchart, you can make the most of it and accept the more challenging bits but you can’t change it.

Your marriage will have its own birthchart and it will affect you for the rest of your life. Even if you divorce, you may well have kids together, so this wedding nativity will continue to impact you all.

And you are choosing the time and date, so it really makes sense to get it right.

In many wedding election cases, the astrologer is presented with a date range that might not be ideal, but a good one can always navigate a path round those difficulties.

My own was a case in point.

I met my soulmate on astrotwitter, travelled to Australia to meet her in person and proposed a week later at a time that was tightly elected (obviously).

Visa issues meant that either one of us could spend up to 6 months in each other’s country but I could only do it in two lots of 3 in Australia.

Given that we had waited 63 years to find each other this time round we were determined not to be apart and arranged for me to be there for the first 3, her to come to the UK for the next 6 and me to be back in Australia for the last 3 of the year.

Once in Australia for the final time, we would get married and I would file my application for permanent residency which had to be done by February 2020, or I would be out of the country again.

So we had no choice but to hold the wedding in January 2020.

Some readers will remember this as the month of the Saturn/Pluto conjunction at 22 Capricorn. We were all worried about this one, thinking anything up to World War 3 might break out. I read an astrologer that I respect saying no-one in their right mind would choose to get married that month.

On top of that, my 65th birthday on Boxing Day 2019 fell on a solar eclipse.

But I wasn’t concerned. The eclipse also contained an exact conjunction with Jupiter, the planet that is on my own Descendant so I knew this meant my own wedding.

The Saturn/Pluto conjunction was sextile my Venus and also sextile Karen’s.

Neptune was conjunct my Mars and her Venus.

Uranus was trine my Sun and conjunct her Mars, so all of the major background transits were taken care of.

It had to be on a weekend in January and the earlier the better, so I went for a time that gave us Jupiter on the Midheaven in trine with a Taurus Moon (which was exactly trine my own Sun and conjunct her Mars).

It was a beautiful day with a ceremony in a friend’s garden. I got my residency application in and was given permission to stay in Australia until it had been granted (2.5 years later).

Which was just as well because otherwise I would have been kicked out just as Covid (the real meaning of the Saturn/Pluto conjunction) kicked in, and given Australia’s understandable decision to close it’s borders to stop it coming, would have been stranded on my own in the UK.

My wedding chart was elected with all these conditions in mind, I wanted to use the conditions of the moment to maximise my chances of staying.

I’m often being asked to elect weddings or other events at astrologically challenging times.

One client who had significant health problems wanted to schedule her wedding on a Saturday in a particular month. Two of the four possible dates had eclipses that impacted on her own chart.

I suggested postponing to a later date, but she was adamant, so I picked the Saturday in between at an auspicious time.

In the run up to the first eclipse, she had a medical emergency and was hospitalised. It was touch and go whether the doctors would let her out in time for the wedding, but they did two days beforehand.

The wedding went perfectly, but a couple of days later on her honeymoon she took ill again as the second eclipse arrived.

She is much recovered now and happily married, but has admitted that if I hadn’t elected the date, she would have gone for the first one and it would have had to be cancelled.

Timing is one of the most important things in life.

A while back I asked my Facebook followers to provide examples of wedding dates of difficult marriages that they had been in. I received lots of examples of terrible, obviously unelected charts.

One from a couple who thought it would be cool to get married on an eclipse about thirty years ago. They are long divorced now but the wife is still repenting that decision to this day.

There are some people for whom it doesn’t really matter when you elect their weddings, the patterns in their own nativity will overrule them.

The lead actor from My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison was a case in point. He was married six times.

Jupiter in Leo in the 7th house in square to Mars might give you an idea of the kind of husband he would make.

The T square of Uranus opposite Neptune focused onto an apex Moon/Venus conjunction in Aries has similar qualities to the Red Wedding chart itself.

But most of us don’t have these multiple marriage natal patterns, so it would make sense to get it right on the day.

I have been electing favourable moments for clients for the best part of half a century and am very experienced at picking the best ones available. – https://astrologyresearch.co.uk/5-how-to-change-your-fate-using-elections-to-ensure-the-best-possible-outcome-for-every-venture/

So if you want to ensure that your own fair lady (or gent) will be around for your golden wedding rather than getting viciously murdered by Roose Bolton in a red one, just drop me a line at capricornastrologyresearch@yahoo.com and I’ll make sure to get you to the church at the right time.

Posted on Oct 15th 2024

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