To get married once on an eclipse might be considered unfortunate, to do it twice looks like carelessness.
And yet the current King of the UK did exactly that.
King Sally 111 is always banging on about service, which might seem odd given that he has absolutely everything done for him by a succession of flunkeys.
But this service to the nation is not cutting ribbons, asking people “and what do you do?” and being spotted walking to church three times a year.
His true contribution to the life of his subjects is the sacrificial offering of his absurd love life on the very public altar of reality TV.
And since his subjects love nothing better than voraciously hoovering up shows like Married At First Sight, while taking bets on how long the attention seeking junkies being paraded in front of them will last before they start screaming obscenities and throwing the furniture.
Episode one was the Cancer wedding.
Royal astrologers of the day watching this one were betting heavily on happy ever after, offering the fact that the Sun being conjunct Charles Ascendant (5 Leo) and the Moon being conjunct Diana’s Sun (10 Cancer) with Jupiter rising as evidence that this was a match made in heaven.
Well all matches are made in heaven, even the hellish ones.
And a lot of royal astrologers had obviously never heard of eclipses, because less than 48 hours later…
And the simple fact that this one together with the Ascendant at the time fell in Leo, suggested that this match would be an absolute disaster for the royal family, a humiliating defeat for the overconfident favourites.
It was only a matter of time.
Not immediately of course because Diana had to perform that important Cancerian function of providing an heir to keep the show on the road.
The same royal astrologers (miraculously they were still in a job) picked Jupiter on the Midheaven as evidence that William would be a great king, and the Sun and Moon in Cancer in the 7th, a caring and happily married one.
Despite the fact that he was born a few hours after another solar eclipse.
A Solar Eclipse on the Midheaven right on the solstice point opposing Neptune on the IC looks much more like the break up of a dynasty, which would be likely to occur when transit Neptune formed a Grand Cross with that T square, which would be anytime around now.
Miraculously, given the above, Chas and Di lasted a decade. Their separation was announced the day before… yes you’ve guessed it, another eclipse.
This one was very similar to the one that occurred at William’s birth.
Another T square involving the lights and the Ascendant, all in the same signs and exactly the same house positions.
It goes without saying that Diana died just a couple of days before an eclipse.
Again the 4th house is involved with the Sun and Moon falling in exactly the same place.
This eclipse in tight square to an Ascendant that is exactly on Diana’s Sun again was another total disaster for the family.
So you would think that Old Sal would have learnt from this but apparently not.
Charles married Camilla the day after another solar eclipse. He would have even done it on the day, but it had to be postponed 24 hours because the Pope was ill.
With the Sun and Moon on the 6th house cusp in square to Saturn, this chart seems to be forecasting health problems for the happy couple.
Even more bizarrely, after waiting three quarters of a century for his mother to hang up her boots, Charles was happy to wait to be crowned until another eclipse came along.
Not content with a mere lunar eclipse conjunct Uranus, Charles chose a chart with a Grand Cross and a tight Venus/Neptune square.
This is probably the worst coronation chart in English history, even outperforming his namesake, Sally the 1st, who was executed due to his abysmal understanding of astrology.
There is something with eclipses called the Saros cycle. Every 19 years the eclipse will return to the same degree of the Zodiac.
Ordinarily Charles’ marriages don’t last that long, but in April he and Camilla will be celebrating the 19th anniversary.
Given that they married with an eclipsed 6th house Sun square to Saturn, it’s interesting that the return comes just as the threat in that chart becomes apparent to all and sundry.
I wonder if Camilla will have come back from her holidays by then. Or even if anyone will.
Kate is nowhere to be seen and her Mum has forced her sister to wear a wig and a frown to impersonate her on the school run.
Edward is off skiing with his beard.
William is trying desperately to avoid any connection with funerals and deaths.
There’s only Andrew who is equally desperately hoping for more of them so he can lead smiling from the front.
Who knows, with a couple of eclipses to come in the next month, the Grand Old Duke of Pork might be marching them all up to the top of the hill again.
Posted on 7 Mar 2024
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