Astrologically New Zealand was always in for a rough ride through the pandemic and in the aftermath. And recent indications are of a ‘stalled economy’ with diminishing activity in the manufacturing industry. The economy is shrinking, with speculation a recession may be approaching though GDP is rising, and unemployment remains close to record lows, at about 3.3%. Compared to elsewhere the statistics don’t look too alarming but local pain and panic are real.

  The New Zealand country chart, 17 January 1853, has a surprisingly tricky Sun Mars in Capricorn square Pluto and Uranus. That is being put under massive pressure not only by tr Pluto conjunct the Mars and square the Pluto this year and next bringing considerable frustration and panic but by Solar Arc Saturn square the Mars this year for a significant setback and opposition the Pluto in 2024, into 2025 which suggests deprivation and hardship.

  Tough times ahead all of which will lead to a disruptive tr Pluto square the Uranus in 2026/27 which in other countries might suggest a coup or a revolt but is more likely to be radical changes, either volunteered or forced by circumstances.

  This is the decade to test New Zealand’s resilience and it will be a different country when it emerges into the next decade.

  The Bank of New Zealand, 1 August 1934, will be forced/prompted to make sweeping changes when tr Uranus squares their Leo Sun within a few days and running on and off into early 2024; with further tensions and upheavals in 2024 with tr Uranus square the Saturn. At the same time in 2024/25 tr Pluto square the NZ Bank Uranus will demand a reversal of previous policies in an effort to cope with a rapidly changing and turbulent situation.

  Chris Hipkins’ government, 25 January 2023, is facing a testing three years ahead with tr Pluto moving to close the conjunction to the Aquarius Sun.  His own chart indicates a confident push this year and next; but he’s also running into a major setback by late 2024.

Be nice to think of one spot in paradise that is happy, contented and thriving. I’m open to suggestions.

Henry Kissinger one of the most influential, controversial and polarizing diplomats of the 20th century, is 100 this week. With his own philosophical take on history, he insisted on portraying himself as a realist, while burnishing his celebrity as a world figure.  Seymour Hersh portrayed him as an unhinged paranoiac; Christopher Hitchens thought he should be prosecuted as a war criminal.

  He was National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to two American presidents in an era when great powers were masters. He was prominent in US foreign policy between 1969 and 1977, pioneering the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, opening relations with China, engaging in shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War; and negotiating the end of US involvement in the Vietnam War.

   He won the Nobel Prize in 1973 four years after he and Nixon began a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia, dropping more bombs on Cambodia than it had in the entire Pacific theatre during the Second World War, killing an estimated hundred thousand civilians. It hastened the rise of Pol Pot, and irrevocably ravaged large tracts of countryside.

  He was also associated with U.S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a “green light” to Argentina’s military junta for their Dirty War and offered U.S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War despite a genocide being perpetrated by Pakistan. All under the banner of realpolitik.

  He was born 27 May 1923 5.30am Furth, Germany and escaped Nazi Germany with his family in 1938. What is surprising about his chart is firstly a 12^th house Sun Mercury in Gemini – the Gemini is understandable and I suppose the 12^th house power-behind-the-throne works, but he gives an impression of being attention-seeking. Mind you so does Tony Blair, another 12^th house Sun. In Kissinger’s case his Sun, Mercury are not well integrated with his other planets giving him an independent bent with considerable self-pride.

  The other is a prominent Uranus in his career 10^th. He certainly trod an unconventional path in his working life but he lacks the revolutionary, radical zeal of a true Uranian. His Uranus is in a Water Grand Trine to Pluto trine Jupiter in Scorpio – which can be healing and creative but tends also to wrap the individual within his own bubble of reality which can be divorced from what is going on outside.  His Uranus is also on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Saturn sextile Neptune which would make him rebellious, wilful, disruptive and a catalyst for change, for good or for ill.

  His 10^th house Uranus is also conjunct his South Node, which might suggest an unhealthy need to become an authority figure, achieve great things and put on a display, rather than attend to what is going on inside him emotionally.

  His Mars in Gemini is also not heavily aspected bar a trine to his Libra Moon and a wide square to Uranus – it would make him uncompromising and constantly on the go.

  An interesting chart even if his legacy is more than questionable.

 His global-influencer 22^nd harmonic reflects the brutality of his involvements with a Saturn opposition Mars square Pluto.  His leaving-a-legacy-for-history 17H is also marked by violence/military leanings.

Sinn Féin has further established itself as Northern Ireland’s largest party, beating projections to take 144 of the 462 council seats in local elections and securing control of six of the 11 councils. The DUP was beaten into second place though is reckoned not to be down and out. It has been boycotting the  power-sharing government and assembly at Stormont for more than a year with  objections to the Brexit customs border in the Irish Sea and says the Windsor framework, agreed earlier this year to streamline trading rules, does not go far enough.

  The election results do not indicate backing for a referendum on a united Ireland within a decade. Candidates backing Irish reunification won 40.5 per cent of the vote versus 53.1 per cent for those wanting to remain British.

  Sinn Fein, 28 November 1905, has the upbeat and successful tr Pluto trine its Jupiter exactly now and returning next year, though tr Saturn square the Jupiter opposition Sun will damp enthusiasm slightly this year.  2024 looks high tension and unsettled, with discouraging progress in 2025 then a lucky break for positive change by 2026.

  Michelle O’Neill, the leader, 10 January 1977, is on a fortunate roll from this late June on and off into 2024 with tr Uranus conjunct her Jupiter – and in for a considerable challenge in 2024/25 with high confidence and difficulties.

  The DUP, 30 September 1971, is in a minor shambles with a disappointing tr Saturn square its Neptune Jupiter and Saturn this year as well as a stubbornly argumentative tr Pluto tr Mercury; with a disempowering tr Neptune opposition its Pluto in 2024, and a confused Neptune Saturn opposition Mercury in 2025, with an undermining tr Neptune square its Sun by 2027.  Not in a good run.

Their leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, 7 December 1962, is gloomy and jangled this year, confused and devastated in 2024, and jolted in 2025 – so none too happy either.

  The Northern Ireland chart, 7 December 1922 3.28pm, if the start time is accurate, is facing the heavily pressured tr Pluto conjunct its Midheaven this year and next. This suggests a slow grinding change of direction and the realisation of a change of status as well, sometimes with a loss of reputation and prestige. Tr Uranus has already been square the 18 degree Neptune in Leo at the start of this month which did hint at momentous changes ahead.  There will be emotional eruptions and arguments, maybe shocks, in 2024 with tr Uranus opposition the Venus and square the Mars into 2025. Even more than the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland will be a country searching for a direction.  

Rock star with drug habit isn’t news but Matt Willis of Busted has exposed the toll addiction takes on family life in a heart-wrenching documentary with his wife Emma Willis, presenter of The Voice.

 Surviving a messy childhood with parents divorcing when he was three, a ‘heated’ stepfather, separation from his elder brother, he smoked weed and drank from 13, was hyperactive and generally a problem child. He formed the band and by 18 was signing a six-figure contract. By 22, he was a cocaine and alcohol addict. He had several stints at rehab, joined the Church of Scientology and left when they deemed his partner of three years Emma a “Suppressive Person”. He married her in 2008 three days after he left yet another rehab, stayed sober, had three children and then relapsed after eight years as the band got back together.

  Born 8 May 1983, no birth time, he has a Sun in Taurus conjunct Mercury Mars which are conjunct Algol; with the tough-conditions, unyielding and can-be-prone-to-depression Pluto Saturn conjunction in Libra. Plus Venus North Node in Gemini opposition Neptune square a Pisces Moon.  It all adds up – with an indulgent collection of Taurus which is prone to the temptations of the flesh, never mind Algol. Plus a touch of the glooms from Saturn Pluto. And his only Water sign being a super-sensitive focal point Moon tied into Neptune.

  Emma was born 18 March 1976, a former model, presenter of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother and latterly The Voice. Her Pisces Sun will chime with his Pisces Moon though it squares with his evasive Neptune. Her Sun is in a pro-active square Mars in Gemini which also hooks into his central T Square – so she will chivvy him along. Her Sun is also trine a workmanlike and conscientious Saturn. Her upbeat Jupiter in Aries opposes his Saturn Pluto so she will boost his morale when he sags. Her Moon is either late Libra or Scorpio.

  Their relationship chart has a possessive, tied-together composite Sun Mercury opposition Pluto, which is the driving rod of a Kite from Pluto trine Jupiter trine Mars  – so a complicated but advantageous relationship – Jupiter Pluto gives them influence and maybe money, Jupiter Mars exuberance and energy, Mars Pluto the capacity to stay the course in the face of risk and anger. There is also a composite Mars square Saturn which suggests one partner in the duo has to sacrifice part of themselves to make it work. There is an unfairness written into the bond which may well fit Emma’s pattern with her Sun square Mars, trine Saturn. It also pops up in their Wedding chart from 2008 with a Mars Saturn conjunction – as well as a rolling-crises Uranus square Pluto hinting at the constantly changing scenario ahead.

  There is some trepidation about him rejoining the band again soon for another tour.  She looks confident enough this year but is facing disappointment and some panic in 2024 with tr Neptune conjunct her Sun and square her Mars.  He looks jolted and jangled with tr Uranus conjunct his Mars Mercury from this August and the ongoing slog of tr Pluto square his Saturn Pluto runs on till late 2024.

Addiction not easy to crack especially going back into the same environment.

Martin Amis, the novelist wunderkind of the 1970s/80s – ‘the Mick Jagger of fiction’ – son of the equally celebrated Kingsley Amis has died aged 73, ironically at the same age as his father and of the same cancer that carried off his best friend Christopher Hitchens a decade ago. He was above all else a wordsmith with a supreme talent for illuminating the underbelly of society in bleak, black comedy.

  He was born 25 August 1949, no birth time, and had a fractured upbringing with his parents divorcing, school hopping round 14 establishments before his stepmother Elizabeth Jane Howard got him into a crammer and thence to success at Oxford, into literary journalism and an award winning first novel when he was 24.  He became a writer-celebrity with multiple romantic liaisons like his father, vast advances for his novels which were rarely earned and a glitzy lifestyle. But the darkness was always there underneath. A reviewer wrote: ” He may have been rich and famous but his mental address remained Desolation Row.”

 In the 1990s he discovered a cousin, whom he had grown up with, had been one of serial rapist and killer Fred West’s victims 20 years before which seemed to confirm his unquiet view of life.  He discovered a daughter he never knew he had, whose mother had suicided years before; and his sister drank herself to death.

  He had a serious Virgo Sun conjunct Saturn with Mercury and Moon also in Virgo – a Virgo emphasis is often seen in writers’ charts, giving attention to words, detail and often having a critical view of life. He also had an adventurous Mars in Cancer opposition Jupiter in money-magnet Capricorn squaring onto a North Node in Aries.

His writer’s 21^st harmonic is strong and revolutionary, as if he wanted to change society. His two creative harmonics the 5^th and 7^th are also heavily aspected and tied into the Node (and the zeitgeist).

 His father Kingsley Amis, 16 October 1922 was a bird of a different feather, with a Libra Sun Mercury and Jupiter square Mars in Capricorn. He was equally skilled with words but had a lighter outlook on life.

The ongoing stalemate between Hungary and the EU shows no signs of abating with Viktor Orban voting to block EU aid to Ukraine and arguing against Russian sanctions while the EU since 2022 has withheld billions of euros in recovery funds because of government interference in judicial independence and lax anti-corruption safeguards.

 At present 78 percent of Hungary’s exports go to EU countries, and 71 percent of imports come from EU member states. Landlocked Hungary is dependent on Russian gas and oil supplies, though that is decreasing and despite their pro-Putin stance they have been paying some of the highest prices for Russian gas. Hungary has the highest inflation rate in the EU and recently their credit rating was downgraded to just one level above junk status.

 Viktor Orban in place as prime minister continually since 2010 is popular at home despite his stance on ‘illiberal democracy’. He is ‘the lodestar for the American and global alt-right. He helped to create Donald Trump, and counts Vladimir Putin if not as a friend, then as a useful ally. He loathes everything about the European Union, while soaking up its money.’

  ‘His greatest success has been in controlling the message. Huge amounts of state money are thrown at Facebook. All but a few mainstream newspapers and TV stations are in the hands of the government. “He is a world leader in informational autocracy – an ideological vote-winning machine.” He’s Gemini.

A commentator says: ‘If the continued cancelation of EU funds proves untenable, Hungary’s voting rights could potentially be withdrawn. Many in Hungary fear that this will push the country into a situation where the government has no choice but to leave the Union, which would likely lead to its ouster and possibly an uprising.’

  Hungary joined the EU on 1 May 2004, along with Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, when there was a Mars in Gemini opposition Pluto in place, hinting that some might find the ties irksomely controlling. The Hungary 23 October 1989 12pm Budapest chart for modern Hungary has a control-freak Pluto in the 10^th which suggests it will always attract dictatorial rulers and the ‘enlargement’ Sun opposes the 10^th house Pluto setting up an inevitable struggle for the upper hand. Tr Saturn was also conjunct the Hungary 7^th house Jupiter dampening its normally upbeat approach to neighbours. And bountiful Jupiter in the 8^th hinted that money was a clear motive.

  The EU chart itself plotted against the Hungary chart puts the EU Pluto in Hungary’s 8^th so it would always feel like a one-sided arrangement with too few choices open to Hungary.  The EU Neptune is conjunct the Hungary Midheaven inducing confusion about direction.  The relationship chart with the EU describes an over-hopeful, evasive connection, with a love-hate, push pull feel. This year enthusiasm will be at a low ebb but it will be 2026/27 before there is a risk of a terminal separation.

  The Hungary chart itself has tr Pluto square the zero degree Scorpio Sun this year and next; and won’t appreciate the entry of Neptune into Aries in 2025 alongside Saturn which will square the Hungary Uranus and in following years the Hungary Saturn and Neptune. So the latter part of this decade will be confused and uncertain.

Viktor Orban, 31 May 1963,  a controlling chaotic and constantly changing Sun square Pluto Uranus with a hard-edged Mars in loud-mouthed Leo opposition Saturn, will be rattled from this August onwards as tr Uranus squares his Saturn – but his troubles mount exponentially in 2024 as tr Uranus rattles his accident-prone, disastrous-setback Mars/Saturn midpoint and tr Saturn blocks his Sun square Pluto.

  2024 also looks more than unsettled on his recent 16 May 2022 Term chart and his initial PM chart for the start of this run on 29 May 2010.  Both of these charts will be jangled and disrupted by transiting Uranus hard aspects. So political upsets form him first in 2024 before possibilities of a major rift with the EU after Uranus moves into Gemini from 2026 onwards.

Is San Francisco a bellwether for the USA? The Deep South and Midwest would wince at the notion that the city which fostered the Free Speech Movement, the Black Panthers, the fight for gay liberation was in any way representative of their great country. But astrologically they are pretty much twinned, San Francisco having been founded 29 June 1776 just before the USA.

  There is concern at the moment about the ‘doom loop’ San Francisco finds itself in with a crisis of homelessness, drug abuse and sensationalised crime. Drug cartels have flooded in fentanyl which has killed twice as many as Covid-19 in recent times.  The raging epidemic has seen a distribution of reversal kits to libraries, entertainment venues, churches and schools.

  The Bay Area is home to four of the 10 most valuable companies in the world — Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Meta — who co-exist with staggeringly high levels of homelessness, five times greater than the national average. There is stark racial inequality with more than 40 per cent of the homeless being black or mixed race, with the financial gulf between white and black having expanded to the largest in the country.

  San Francisco has always been a boom and bust town – first with the gold rush, then silver, earthquakes in 1906 and 1989, plus the AIDS epidemic to the dotcom collapse.

  San Francisco like the USA is undergoing its Pluto Return and while the obvious signs of urban decay are more stark in the Bay area, the wealth gap and racial wealth gap are widening across the nation as a whole.   

  San Fran has the same fervent Mercury in Cancer opposition Pluto which will at times have led it into extremes. Its ultra-progressive streak possibly comes from its uncompromising and disruptive Uranus Mars conjunction in Gemini  – which is not as marked in the USA chart.  San Fran also has a laid-back Sagittarius Moon.

  The SF 29 June 1776 chart works well since the devastating 1906 earthquake occurred when tr Uranus in Capricorn opposition Neptune in Cancer was sitting exactly on top of its Cancer Sun. Equally the 1989 earthquake had tr Saturn Neptune in Capricorn opposition the SF Sun. The Dotcom collapse of 2000 saw tr Neptune opposition SF’s leadership North Node undermining its position – with tr Uranus conjunct and tr Saturn square the Solar Arc Sun.

  What comes next? There will be a resurgent and confident push in 2025 from Solar Arc Pluto square the SF Jupiter but 2026 to 2028 will be unhappy, slipping and sliding years with SA Saturn square Neptune and tr Saturn and then tr Neptune in Aries squaring Jupiter and the Sun. It’ll take a few years for the Golden Gate City to regain its mojo after a few more hitches and glitches to be overcome.

  The situation may be more extreme in San Francisco but to some extent the USA will follow suit with its Venus Jupiter in early Cancer catching the financial bubble-busting tr Neptune squares in 2025 to 2027 – after the Pluto Return subsides. Pluto deconstructs and usually agonisingly slowly starts to reconstruct on the far side,  No phoenix without ashes first.  

Never say never in film land as Johnny Depp makes a comeback from three years in the wilderness after his ugly legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard damaged his reputation. After her allegations of abuse – which he denies – he was dropped from the lucrative Fantastic Beasts franchise and shunned by the major US studios. But France is France and the director and co-star of his latest venture Jeanne du Barry launched at Cannes is Maiwenn. She is the ex-wife of Luc Bresson whom she started dating when she was 15 and he 32, and is fervently anti-#METoo. Critics have been less than rapturous about the movie. But Depp is still smiling having just signed a new $20 million three year deal to be the face of the fragrance Dior Sauvage. Sales evidently skyrocketed after his gruesome libel trials.   

  Born 9 June 1963 8.44am Owensboro, Kentucky, he is a Sun Gemini with a Capricorn Moon and an inflammatory collection of Uranus, Mars, Pluto in Virgo. He has a charming Venus Mercury in Taurus in his 10^th which squares a 7^th house Saturn (= relationships always involve effort). Most notably he has a Yod onto Jupiter inconjunct Neptune sextile Pluto  –  so blessed with luck though his good fortune can be undone by arrogance and over confidence.

 Over the past year plus his Progressed Moon has been moving through his 8^th house as the long run of court cases and counter suits came to an end – leaving him surveying the wreckage of his reputation. That has another ten months to run at the end of which he should/may have acquired a different set of values.

   Jupiter is moving across his 10th from the end of this month to August 2024 for an upbeat career phase, so something will be going right for him. Though there’ll be a few disruptions from tr Uranus square his Saturn from this August onwards and conjunct his 10^th house Venus Mercury in 2024 – so it won’t all be plain sailing.

  Saturn through his 8^th from early 2024 for two plus years will throw him back on his own resources but he will continue to get work for years ahead.

  Maiwenn, 17 April 1976 1.23am Les Lilas, France, is no stranger to emotional drama with her 4^th house Cancer Sun square an 8^th house Saturn and more significantly her Venus in Aries opposition Pluto square Mars in Cancer on the cusp of her 8^th. She claimed both parents physically abused her as a child.

  However her Jupiter is conjunct Depp’s Midheaven with her Sun close by – so she will be good for his career and their shared experiences of difficult childhoods would give them a fellow feeling.

A soul-searching look at the Nelson and Winnie Mandela marriage comes in a new biography by Johnny Steinberg which seeks to humanise the couple who were leaders and symbols of the barbaric tragedy of an apartheid South Africa and its eventual fall. The author said: ‘I want both to demythologise Winnie and Nelson and to preserve their myths, if that makes sense. To show that they were real, flawed human beings but that the myths they lived and embodied were necessary. They both strived, quite self-consciously, for greatness, but one cannot be both great and happy.’

 Mandela spent 27 years in prison and was described by a close aide as the saddest human being she’d ever met. He was delighted to be the most famous living person in the world because it was politically useful. But he never believed that fame would bring him happiness or compensate for what had been lost. Winnie after years of torture and abuse from the South African police became brutalised and corrupt, with Nelson racked with guilt over his shortcomings as a father and a husband.     

  When they married in 1958, Nelson was a celebrity freedom-fighter. After he was jailed and disappeared from view, Winnie became a star in her own right, dubbed “mother of the nation” for her defiance, before she became embroiled in gangsterism in the final years of the “struggle”. They divorced after he was released because of her infidelity and he remarried but at the end it was Winnie he wanted at his side on his deathbed.

  Nelson Mandela was born 18 July 1918 2.54 pm Umtata, South Africa and had an 8^th house Cancer Sun trine a Scorpio Moon and inconjunct Uranus in Aquarius. His Sun was on the focal point of a Yod to Uranus sextile  a Sagittarius Ascendant marking him out for a singular path, dramatic, transformational and challenging. His knowledgeable and communicative Saturn Mercury in Leo in his 9^th with idealistic Neptune nearby in the late 8^th squared his Moon – good at spreading the word and less good at finding emotional nurturing.  He had a lucky and powerfully influential Jupiter Pluto in Cancer in his 7^th house giving him the gift of connecting one-to-one with the public at large. His Pluto was square Mars in his 10^th which would make for a lifetime of major frustrations – and that Astro-signature is writ large in his victim/healer 12^th harmonic.

  His breakthrough 13H is strong as is his global influencer 22H.

  Winnie, 26 September 1934, no birth time, was a Sun Libra inconjunct the rebel planet Uranus; with a super-confident Jupiter Mercury in Libra square Pluto ; and a cruel-treatment Mars in Leo opposition Saturn in Aquarius. She had a Yod of Pluto sextile Venus inconjunct Saturn, which would give her a heavy burden to bear especially with her Saturn opposition her Mars.

 Her Pluto was conjunct Nelson’s 8^th house Sun for a deep and enduring connection. Her Mars was conjunct his Saturn, perhaps a hint of the ill-treatment she bore in his absence and the anger it aroused in her.

  Their relationship chart had a composite Sun, Neptune, Jupiter inconjunct Uranus  – descriptive of the visionary idealism which tied them together, not always realistic or in step but a powerful dream to follow and ultimately make real. With a tough composite Saturn trine Mars sextile Pluto.

  A marriage of hope and tears.  

Oliver Hoare, a blast from the past, one of Princess Diana’s revolving affairs, is being dragged into Prince Harry’s court action, which alleges that pager texts between the lovers were found in a media executive’s office.  It hardly seems wise to turn the spotlight back on to Hoare which only serves to dredge up the unedifying tale of his saintly mother bombarding Hoare’s marital home with nuisance phone calls after he broke off their four year liaison. Scotland Yard traced more than 300 calls to the private line of Princess Diana at Kensington Palace and her mobile phone.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/princess-diana-taunted-lover-oliver-13229537

 Hoare was an art dealer, married into money and was romantically involved with Diana, 1992 to 1996, following the four year liaison with James Hewitt and before heart surgeon Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed.

  Hoare, 18 July 1945, was a Sun Saturn in Cancer with his Sun opposition her Saturn in Capricorn and his Saturn conjunct her Sun – Saturn often crops up in relationships that face barriers to life-long commitment which can’t be overcome. In milder form it does give endurance to a bond.

  His Mars in Taurus was conjunct her Venus which would bring  a passionate connection as did her Venus square her Pluto, but his Mars was also square her Moon and Uranus – a roller coaster of tempestuous togetherness and then separation – a turbulent relationship.

  The relationship chart is even more eye-curling with a volatile, combustible composite Sun Mars Uranus square a Saturn opposition Neptune – a volcano waiting to erupt. Plus a power-couple but also power-struggling Pluto square Jupiter – which meant when the split came she couldn’t bear to let him have the last word.

  It was always said that Hasnat Khan, the heart surgeon, 1 April 1958, was the love of her life but that bond was no easier. He is an Aries Sun with his Venus in Aquarius conjunct her Moon and opposition her Uranus; his Mars square her Neptune; and his Pluto (Moon) conjunct her Mars Pluto. Fraught, not mutually supportive, some good moments and more not.  The relationship chart is sparky, adventurous but also argumentative and blocked.

  Prince Harry understandably enough would not be overly comfortable with either of his mother’s main lovers. In both cases their respective Pluto fell in Harry’s 8^th making him feel he had no choice.

  Hoare’s Mars in Harry’s 4^th close to his Harry’s Moon made him an irritant to the teenager. Hoare’s Uranus opposition Harry’s combustible Mars in Sagittarius would be another flare up point. With Hoare’s Scorpio Moon probably around Harry’s Pluto and Saturn in Scorpio which would see young Harry put up blockers. And in turn Hoare’s Saturn blocked out Harry’s Venus.  The relationship chart is heavily aggravated with a composite Mars opposition Uranus Saturn.

  Khan was not much better with his Saturn conjunct Harry’s 12^th house Neptune and square his Virgo Sun; and Khan’s Mars in Aquarius square Harry’s Saturn.

  How much Harry knew at the time given he’d be away at school is not clear but he must have heard the stories. It would be difficult for a young boy from a tricky family with split parents. But it is mystifying how he ended up seeing Charles and Camilla as the only transgressors when his mother was hardly perfect. Indeed Diana had a vengeful streak, veering towards a serious mental imbalance, that was ultimately her undoing.