The English Civil War of 1642, between Parliamentarians and Royalists vying for the power to govern, ended in a short-lived republic under Oliver Cromwell until King Charles 11 was restored to the throne. Casualty estimates for military and disease deaths indicate England suffered a 3.7% loss of population, Scotland a loss of 6%, while Ireland suffered a loss of 41% of its population.
The devastation is clearest on the England 11 May 973 AD chart with the natal Sun Mars square Pluto having moved by Solar Arc to collide with the England Saturn; and both the Solar Arc Neptune and transiting Neptune were hitting on the England Pluto which also pulled in hard aspects to the England Sun Mars – a perfect storm of military brutality, extreme hardship and mass devastation and confusion.
The England 25 December 1066 chart had Solar Arc Mars opposition Pluto; with tr Uranus exactly square the 1066 Mars.
The traditional civil war signature is tr Pluto conjunct the Sun which was in place for the break up of the USSR, though it wasn’t exactly a war. Tr Pluto was also square the Russia Saturn then.
Syria in 2015 when the civil war erupted had a tr Pluto square tr Saturn which often accompanies a war; with tr Pluto heading to conjunct the Syria Capricorn Sun as it got fully underway; and Solar Arc Neptune hovering around the opposition to the midpoint between the Syria Saturn and the Syria Mars Uranus conjunction. Uranus had just moved into Aries preparing for the rebellious square to Pluto in the next few years.
British India 1 January 1877 12am Delhi, at the bloody partition with Pakistan in 1947 which led to 14 million being displaced and well over one million dead did have a tr Mars Uranus in place in August 47 though it’s a minor enough aspect. Tr Uranus was square the India Solar Arc midheaven for a sharp change of direction. The Solar Arc Pluto had been in the devastating/confused square to the India Neptune in the run up; and the Solar Arc North Node was exactly conjunct Pluto pulling on the Fixed Pluto opposition Mars square Uranus T Square.
Usually it takes more than one influence to catapult a country into civil breakdown. The USSR break up happened at the time of the triple conjunction in Capricorn. The 1848/1850s upheavals all over Europe and elsewhere also occurred on a triple conjunction of Uranus Pluto Saturn in Aries, then moving together into Taurus, so quite a whammy. Indian partition happened around the bleak Saturn Pluto in Leo; the Syrian Civil War on Uranus square Pluto.
The USA had tr Pluto conjunct its Cancer Sun in the early 1920s and showed no sign of fragmenting. The UK had tr Pluto conjunct the Capricorn Sun in the run up to the Scotland Independence Referendum so it was a possibility. The USA won’t get tr Uranus conjunct its Mars until 2030 – and those Uranian hard aspects occur roughly every twelve years, so it’s been through a few since 1776. The UK gets tr Uranus conjunct its Mars around 2021.
No real conclusions except that its much like individuals, you can never quite gauge from the swirling cycles of differing influences what will prove a tipping point or indeed how the reactions will manifest. Some stand steady in the eye of the hurricane; some don’t.
The English Civil War is a conflict that has variously been described as the Great Rebellion(Clarendon), the Puritan or English Revolution(Hill) or more recentlythe War of the Three Kingdoms. It really fits into the wider pattern of political religious wars fought across Europe in the first half of the 17th Century the most famous of which is the Thirty Years War. The latter conflict started under the influence of the Pluto Saturn Synod in Taurua in 1618 and was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 when the PLuto Saturn synod occurred in Gemini. The conclusion of the First English Civil War in 1649 saw Charles I tried by Parliament and then beheaded. Which ever way you approach this event it was a truly revolutionary act. Monarchs had been killed in the past but usually in battle or by murder. This was different. The English put their king on trail and then executed him for waging war on his own people. This was a full 140 years before the French Revolution. It was an action so radical that even now the British establishment have difficulty in coming to terms with it.
Charles I ascended the throne because his elder brother Henry died of typhoid at the age of 18. In this respect his unexpected elevation to kingship echoed that of Henry VIII who also only became monarch because his elder bother Arthur died at the age of 15 in 1502. While the death of royal princes, particularly in infancy, was not exactly uncommon in the 16th and 17th centuries there does seems something particulary fated about the death of these two young men who were on the brink of both adulthood and eventually kingship when they died. One can not help thinking that English history might have been very different if they had survived because both were succeeded by younger brothers whose different personalities helped trigger major religious and constitutional turning points.
Charles I was born on 29 November 1600 (Gregorian) at Dunfermline in Scotland with Sun Mercury Conjunct at 8-9 Sagittarius. He became King on 27 March 1625. His accession chart has Pluto at 15 Taurus and Venus at 18 Taurus opposing the Moon at 17 Scorpio squaring Uranus at 17 Leo. Mars is at 21 Capricorn is in an exact hard square aspect to Neptune at 21 Libra. Looking at that chart it is not hard to see that he was going to fall out with his people and that it would lead to confusion, rebellion and ultimately war. He was executed on 30 January 1649 at about 2.00 PM outside the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. At the time of his death the transit of Saturn Pluto were at 8-9 Gemini directly opposing his natal Sun Mercury and the transits of Uranus at 12 Sagittarius and Neptune at 15 Sagittarius were making hard aspects tothe transit of Mars at 15 Virgo.
In olden times when there were autocratic monarchs the king’s chart was taken as the country chart – his fate was his people’s fate. And Charles 1 was autocratic with an unbudgeable Saturn in Scorpio opposition Uranus; as well as an unyielding Mars trine Pluto. Couldn’t bend so he broke.
His execution chart is fairly shattering with Saturn Pluto Node in Gemini opposition Uranus Neptune (square Mars) – what bewildering times to live in, for everyone I mean, not just him.
Interesting that the 30 Years War started and finished on a Saturn Pluto. Thanks for pointing it out. What starts or rises on one finishes or falls on the next.
You must have a great time delving into historical astrology.
Yes, I agree on that we really can’t see where certain “Planetary Moods” lead. However, knowing what’s going on will at least give us a warning. For instance, Neptune in Pisces I mentioned before has a great artistic and humanitarian potential. However, it also muddies waters and potentially gives rise to all kinds of fanatics inciting base feelings of people. An example of this energy? Steve Bannon. He was a moderately successful Tea Party figure making documentaries on “Small Government” advocates during late Neptune in Aquarius, but he only found his Natural Voice and rose to prominence during Neptune in Pisces. And, from other end of the political spectrum, Jeremy Corbyn. It’s not astrologically clear how this happened, since neither have a particularly Neptunian chart, but obviously, we don’t have TOBs. There is, however, an undeniable Neptunian undertone to their success.
Solaia, I agree about Neptune in Pisces. I do find it an elusive combination. Many of the ISIS charts and indeed the Islamic Calendar have strong Piscean planets. Mohammed was born around the triple conjunction of Uranus Saturn Pluto in Pisces square Neptune.
Bannon has a focal point Neptune to a Uranus opposition North Node in Capricorn and tied into Mars. Vision harnessed to blood lust and aggression.
Corbyn hasn’t much notable Neptune but his chart is predominantly Air signs (6 planets). An overdose of Air can be invested in a strong ideology and emotionally cool – so it’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that in a slightly different way it has the same tilt as Neptune in Pisces.
Both Bannon and Corbyn rose to prominence just after tr Neptune had squared their Sun in Sagittarius and Gemini respectively.
Looking back over previous Neptune in Pisces, keeping in mind that planets never act in isolation, there are always other astrological factors in play: Great dynasties were begun and in historical times they never came without bloodshed. Suleiman the Magnificent, the zenith of Ottoman Empire. The Ming Dynasty started in China; and Genghis Khan was crowned the Great Khan, in whose wake came the largest land empire in history.
The previous Neptune in Pisces from 1848 (along with a triple conjunction) oversaw the Taiping rebellion which ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, with estimates of war dead ranging from 20 to 70 million.
The Crimean War of Russia versus France, UK, Ottoman Empire which was described as having a “great confusion of purpose” and a war noted for its incompetent international butchery, including the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Other Neptune in Pisces, occurring roughly every 165 years, saw two great famines in France on separate occasions. One of largest naval battles in history in China. The Sack of Rome – end of Italian renaissance. Henry V111 breaks with Rome. First Muslim Empire in India. Third crusade under way. Richard 1 of England defeats Saladin.
Just finished a multipart documentary about the decades between the two world wars. Fascinating. Was not bucolic at all.
In the US during the early 1920s, what is called “the Second KKK” held massive rallies in Washington DC and became very powerful. Their manifestos “The Menace of Modern Immigration” and “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” are eerily contemporary. Henry Ford and the KKK were rabid anti-Semites, and may have influenced America’s late entrance into WWII.
What’s scary is that”Second KKK” just didn’t appear out of the blue. The anti-immigration, racist rethoric used by authorities in the early 20th century US was quite something. This ultimately led to Tulsa Massacre right after WWI, where private planes were used to incendiate black neighborhoods. There really wasn’t any proper investigation to what happened, and certainly no consequencies to those committing what would now be seen as crimes against humanity. This definitely emboldened KKK.
What really scares and frightens me is that we are at the same level of dehumanizing parts of the population by the leadership of The US now.
Thank you, Marjorie.