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The Kamala Harris Donald Trump debate is scheduled for 10 September 2024 in Philadelphia at 9pm. That puts a fight-for-control Pluto in the 10^th and an argumentative, heated Mars in the communication 3^rd; with the Virgo Mercury and Sun in the attention-seeking 5^th house. Although the Sun opposition Saturn will put a damper on proceedings – and in line with everything else about this contradictory, star-crossed election has the Sun also square Jupiter opposition a Sagittarius Moon. A Mutable Grand Square will have a tendency to go off like a windmill in a storm, scattering in all directions – nervy, indecisive, not conducive to rational debate. Indeed, now that I look, there is an out of element yod onto Mercury inconjunct Neptune and Pluto, and square Uranus.   Mercury on the point of a yod will tend to make for intellectual and mental disorganization.  I pity the poor moderator.

  The relationship chart between DT and Kamala is horrific with a bitterly hostile composite Venus, Mars, Sun, Pluto opposition Moon. It is being rattled every which ways right through the election with tr Uranus square the Sun through November and square the Mars and Moon late November through December. With a disruptive tr Pluto opposition the Uranus late November to the end of December. It will be an ill-tempered brawl right up to the wire.

  Kamala Harris, 20 October 1964 9.28 pm Oakland, California, has tr Saturn exactly opposition her 4^th house Pluto at the debate. She comes from a split parental marriage when she was six and her 4^th house Pluto points to a concern about emotional undercurrents especially with a controlling father – so a face to face with DT may activate a few sensitive issues for her.  She will have moved from a muddled tr Neptune square her Mercury/Saturn midpoint in action at the moment though not too visible – except she has done few if any interviews or her speeches would be written for her.

  By the debate she has tr Neptune square her Sun/Saturn midpoint – from September 3^rd to mid October – which may make her uncertainty more visible with lack of energy, bringing an undermining feeling. At the same time tr Neptune is also square her Solar Arc Sun for a minor amount of droop. None of these are hugely major but her joyous wave may be sagging slightly. Her Jupiter in Taurus is probably what has kept her afloat and given her the recent boost. But as it comes round to the next exact aspect in late November to late December it also catches her Mars/Saturn midpoint which is accident prone and subject to setbacks.

 Trump, like Harris, has two of his Mercury midpoints being undercut by Neptune right through. At the debate, he’ll be more muddled and nervy than usual. His Solar Arc Neptune will be exactly conjunct his South Node (close to his Moon) – perhaps bringing his mother/women issues into focus.  Nothing too dramatic. Through October he has tr Uranus square his Mars – a rerun of the influence over his shooting, not that it is likely to repeat, but he will be shaken and insecure, likely to be over-reacting as a result.

  Who knows? Even more of a mish mash than most elections.

Saturn Neptune conjunctions come round roughly three times a century – in 1989 in Capricorn, in 1953 in Libra and in 1917/18 in Leo. The next one nearly comes together in Aries in June 2025 and comes exact briefly in February 2026.

  Historically they have been associated with the fight for womens’ and workers’ rights, epidemics, religious events and collapsing empires.

 Below is a pull together from previous posts and from The Astrological History of the World.

WOMEN:   All countries have their own specific arc of history but looking at the UK, the first key change towards the emancipation of women came with the Married Women’s Property Act of 1882, with Saturn Neptune together in Taurus, which gave wives for the first time the right of separate ownership. Then on the next conjunction in 1917–18 in Leo, the campaign for women’s suffrage succeeded in getting the vote for women over the age of 30.

  Both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne to exert feminine influence over matters of state on Saturn–Neptune conjunctions — in 1558 in Taurus, and 1953 in Libra. Both of them were enduring monarchs in typical Saturnine fashion, Elizabeth I ruling for 45 years, Elizabeth 11 for 70 years.  Benazir Bhutto became the first woman prime minister of Pakistan on the conjunction in Capricorn in 1988, though it proved a short-lived triumph.

  Literature also rose to the challenge and produced memorable novels by or about women – Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer and Laclos’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Molière’s The Misanthrope and The Dumb Lady. More recently Pedro Almodovar, the Spanish film-maker, produced his cult movie Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown.

  Not that anything happens without a backlash and Saturn Neptune also has associations with the persecution of witches – arising from the masculine Saturnine fear of the mysterious, less rational feminine in Neptune.

  The two previous Saturn Neptune in Aries were in 1702/1703 and 1379. In line with Saturn Neptune’s proclivity towards the feminine, Queen Anne took over in 1702 as monarch from her brother-in-law William of Orange to reign for five years. The 2018 Olivia Coleman movie ‘The Favourite’ related court intrigues as she sank into depressed middle age after 17 pregnancies with no issue. She was born on 6 February 1665 when Saturn and Neptune were both in Capricorn, so she followed the pattern. When she took over the throne Saturn was in the final degree of Pisces about to join Neptune in Aries.

EPIDEMICS: When the Spanish flu struck around January 1918 the Saturn Neptune conjunction in Leo was in place.  Saturn Neptune is the classic astrological signature for epidemics and illnesses. Spanish flu killed off, on rough estimates, anywhere between 1 and 6 per cent of the global population – perhaps 25 to 50 million people.  It was exacerbated and spread by troop movements at the end of World War 1 and killed more in 24 weeks than HIV/AIDS did in 24 years. Curiously it mostly killed young adults it is thought because the older population had built up immunity from a previous flu exposure. It came in three waves – over early 1918, receded through the summer, built up again in the autumn and killed most in the USA over the winter of that year.

But it doesn’t mean it always shows for every epidemic since the early 1950s Saturn Neptune in Libra, while it coincided with one minor flu outbreak, was more notable for the setting up of The Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) by WHO to monitor the evolution of influenza viruses.

HEALTH AND MEDICINE:

The dual face of Saturn–Neptune in providing practical care for the suffering and in the insidious undermining of the body’s health both find a place in world history. An epidemic of St Vitus Dance (chorea) broke out in Europe in 1021 when Saturn and Neptune were together in Aquarius; the disease causes involuntary jerky movements and leads to brain deterioration, and was so called because victims prayed to St Vitus, the patron saint of dance.

   The plague that devastated Europe and Asia during the 1340s was marked by the Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aquarius of 1344, and the Uranus–Pluto conjunction at the same time. The outbreak of bubonic plague in London in 1665 and the Great Fire of London a year later both took place when Saturn and Neptune were together in Capricorn.

  In 1846 in Aquarius, widespread famine in Ireland followed the failure of the potato crop. During the 1917 and 1918 conjunction in Leo, there were massive casualties from the Spanish ‘flu epidemic. By the conjunction of the late 1980s in Capricorn, the AIDS virus was running amok, causing countless deaths in Africa, Europe and the United States.

   Medical advances are also highlighted under Saturn–Neptune, with the physicians’ meeting place in Rome, the Schola Medicorum, being set up in AD 17 in Sagittarius; in 1739 in Cancer, the London Foundling Hospital was established; and by 1881 in Taurus, Louis Pasteur had discovered the anthrax vaccine.

WORKERS’ RIGHTS: Neptune’s compassion for the victim meets Saturn’s ability to organize in a constructive way. If the balance is wrong, however, then Saturn’s authoritarian need to exert order and maintain the status quo can completely crush the Neptunian dream.

   The English Peasants’ Revolt during the Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aries in 1381, demanding an end to serfdom was suppressed and its leader, Wat Tyler, beheaded. Two conjunctions later, in Virgo, Irish rebel Jack Cade leading the Kent and Essex peasants’ revolt, was also killed. Another two conjunctions further on, in Pisces in 1524, there were extensive peasants’ revolts in Germany.

   By 1845 with Saturn–Neptune in tolerant Aquarius, Engels was writing The Condition of the Working Class in England. Still under the same influence, the Irish potato-crop failure of the following year drew attention to the plight of the starving and the suffering. By the next conjunction in Taurus in 1881, British prime minister William Gladstone had passed the Irish Land Act to prevent excessively high rents, although the outrages of 1882, when 10,500 Irish farming families were evicted, gave every indication that Saturnine rigidity and greed still held sway. In the United States, the American Federation of Labor was founded in Pittsburgh in 1881. One conjunction on, in 1917 in Leo, striking Russian workers rose up, and were joined by soldiers to overthrow the last feudal tsardom.

   During the last Saturn–Neptune conjunction of the 20th century, in Capricorn in 1989, Solidarity, the Polish workers’ party, came to power in democratic elections. The fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe freed workers to control their own lives and government. There was also mass rehabilitation of Russian citizens who were victims of Stalin’s brutal purges, Stalin himself having succumbed on the Saturn–Neptune conjunction of 1953. Also in 1989, the Tiananmen Square demonstration in China, staged by students and workers, was brutally suppressed, resulting in 2000 deaths. In Britain just a year later there were the violent Poll Tax Riots, the first serious mass revolt against the government in decades.’

  Although Saturn Neptune doesn’t sound rebellious it tends to bring the state and the status quo (Saturn) into conflict with spiritual movements or the underdogs (Neptune). The flower power, hippie movement was very much a Saturn Neptune in Libra phenomenon in the 1950s. 

Michel Guerard, the celebrity chef who committed sacrilege in France by pioneering the nouvelle cuisine movement with low-fat, low-calorie and no-sugar food, has died.  Time magazine in a cover issue recognizing his talent wrote: “No longer need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork.”

  He wanted to be a doctor but with a family background in food, heading for the kitchen became his chosen route to health. He started by championing a Japanese style of cooking, focused on freshness, lightness and flavour and moving away from traditional Escoffier-style butter and cream heavy recipes. Despite early resistance he was feted and awarded prestigious Michelin and Presidential awards.

 Born 27 March 1933 5pm Vetheuil, France, he had a go-ahead and charming Sun, Venus in Aries; with Mars, Neptune, Jupiter in Virgo, a stellium that has produced many notable celebrities. Those Virgo planets plus his Saturn in scientific Aquarius on the cusp of his 6^th house of health would give him an interest in physical well-being. But it was his 8^th house Moon Uranus square Pluto which would propel his inventive, convention-breaking ambitions.

  Unsurprisingly he started to experiment with cuisine minceur at the start of the 1960s when the revolutionary Uranus Pluto in Virgo was upending tradition and moving across his Virgo planets. He had two wide-ish yods – one onto disciplined Saturn from a confident Jupiter sextile Pluto, and the other onto creative Neptune from Saturn sextile Sun.

  A trailblazer.

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Uranus, the catalyst for change, marked Yoko Ono’s life and career and especially her role in the Beatles breakup. Surviving the war in Tokyo she said gave her an understanding of ‘outsider’ status and she went on to become an avant-garde artist and peace activist.

 Born 18 February 1933 8.30 pm Tokyo, Japan, her Uranus in her 7^th house of relationships squared an influential and controlling 10^th house Pluto – she was born into a time of turmoil and disruptions and that set a pattern for her life. Her 5^th house Sun, Venus and Saturn in Aquarius channeled her energy into attention-seeking, creative and humanitarian activities.

 What is intriguing is that her Uranus fell in the 10^th house of John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s relationship chart – splitting them apart; with her Sun opposing their competitive composite Mars Mercury conjunction – so she widened what was already a fault line. Her Pluto fell close to their composite Ascendant, changing their joint image.

  On the relationship chart with Lennon/Harrison her Uranus fell close to their composite IC opposition their composite Midheaven irrevocably shifting the direction of their lives together. Or in this case not together.

 With the Lennon/Ringo Starr relationship chart Yoko’s Uranus fell in their composite First House with her Sun opposition their argumentative composite Sun Mars.

  In each case her Uranus detonated the axis of their relationship charts sending their togetherness off in disparate directions.

  Wallis Simpson who precipitated Edward V11’s abdication also had a prominent Uranus on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Mars sextile Neptune Venus with her Mars opposition an 8^th house Moon.

  Her effect on his close family was devastating – and with her Midheaven falling conjunct the Ascendant of George V1, his younger brother, forcing him to take on the throne, she (deliberately or not) changed his image dramatically.  The situation was different from the Beatles since the Royal Family and the country held together. But the rift shows up clearly in the Duke’s relationship chart with the UK which had an astonishingly bitter and ambivalent Mars Pluto opposition Uranus –  he was already massively resistant to taking on the burden and when she came along with her Uranus-yod-connected Mars opposition Moon sitting exactly on top of the Duke/UK’s composite Mars Pluto opposition Uranus, an explosion was bound to follow.

 Meghan has hints of Yoko’s Uranus Pluto temperament with her Pluto in her family 4^th and Uranus in her romantic/emotional 5th opposition Chiron in Taurus which is inconjunct Pluto sextile Neptune. Her Uranus which has a compulsion towards freedom since it opposes Chiron, sits in the 10^th house of Harry’s relationship chart with Queen Elizabeth 11 – causing Harry to turn his back on his upbringing and the monarchy to which Elizabeth sacrificed her life. Meghan’s Pluto squared the Harry/QE11composite Mars; her Neptune was conjunct the composite South Node; her Saturn was square the composite Moon and her Mars was conjunct the composite Sun. Meghan’s Uranus also fell in the Queen’s rigorously dutiful 10^th house.

  In Harry’s relationship chart with his father, Meghan’s Uranus sits close to the Descendant, rupturing togetherness, with Meghan’s Pluto conjunct the composite Sun as her 4^th house Pluto (need for control of family environment) wielded its influence.

   The divisive quality of Uranus comes into play as a catalyst for liberation and a new direction – or as an upsetter, chaos-creator. It need not be conscious. If there are already undercurrents in a relationship where resentment is mounting but there is not enough courage to make a break, then fate (or free will) hooks in a partner who will upset the apple cart. 

  Though that equally works the other way – an individual with a compulsion to be a family/relationship wrecker because of their own temperament and background will as if by magic alight on a partner who is vulnerable and seduced into playing out their obsession – for a while. 

Interesting way to look at relationship charts. Not just triggered by influences but also by people.

Add On: Uranus was also in evidence in Camilla’s part in the Charles-Diana triangle. Not that Camilla ever wanted to be anything other than a standard aristo mistress as far as friends said, and certainly had no intention of breaking up her own marriage let alone the Charles/Diana marriage. But her Uranus fell in Charles/Diana relationship chart 10^th house and her Cancer Sun was conjunct the composite Uranus. So the celestial dance was on with trickster Uranus leaning in on splits wanting to happen.

  Faye Dunaway, superstar of yesteryear, notorious for being difficult, has a documentary out. Made with her approval it is a ‘misty-eyed homage’ according to one reviewer, though it does admit to her alcoholism and bi-polar disorder. According to Bette Davis she was one of the worst people in Hollywood. Jack Nicholson referred to her as “the Dreaded Dunaway”. Steve McQueen was unflattering and Roman Polanski after Chinatown described her as ‘a gigantic pain.’ Though others talk with praise about her devotion to detail and serious approach.

 No one doubted she was talented with top notch performances in Bonnie and Clyde, The Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, the Network and Mommie Dearest. Her beauty and sheer will-driven ambition brought her success as did her infamously high standards though they did not make her popular. Most recently she was fired from a Broadway production because of crew complaints.

Born 14 January 1941 8.15pm Bascom, Florida with a distant military father she was brought up by a single mother, started first on Broadway and then graduated to movies. She has had several liaisons – with Lenny Bruce, Marcello Mastroianni, married a musician, then married Terry O’Neill the photographer – all short lived.

  She has an ambitious and upfront, attention-demanding Sun, Mercury in Capricorn in her performing 5^th house in an Earth Grand Trine to Neptune in Virgo in a creative trine to Uranus in Taurus – a hard worker, goal-oriented and a builder in life. Her Pluto is prominent being trine an argumentative 4^th house Mars, making her home life heated; and her Pluto is also square Jupiter Saturn in Taurus which is extremely Fixed, stubborn and inflexible. Her Leo Moon in her hidden 12^th house squares Uranus and trines Mars – emotionally excitable and irritable. She says her first passion was always work and her emotional life would be unsettled with her Sun/Moon midpoint being square her controlling Pluto; her Moon in aspect to her needs-space Uranus and her 4^th house Mars making her home life argumentative. Her Venus in Capricorn was also inconjunct Pluto for additional strain and intensity.

Bette Davis, 5 April 1908 9pm Lowell, MA, was no slouch in the difficult personality stakes with her attention-demanding 5^th house Aries Sun square a can-be-fanatical/excitable Uranus opposition Neptune. With a controlling, stubborn Moon Pluto in her 8^th square her Mercury.  Their relationship chart had a hostile and competitive  Sun Mars trine Pluto; a needs-space Venus Uranus square Pluto and a beyond chilly Moon Pluto square Saturn.

 Jack Nicolson, 22 April 1937 11am Neptune, NJ, has a Taurus Sun conjunct Uranus in his 10^th house which collides with Faye’s Jupiter Saturn, equally would not find her an easy colleague on set. His forcefully confident Pluto in Cancer opposition Jupiter in Capricorn clashed with Faye’s Capricorn Sun Mercury. Two Titans.

  Steve McQueen, 24 March 1930 12.15pm Indianapolis, IN, had his Aries Sun exactly conjunct Faye’s South Node testing her ability to cooperate; with his North Node square her Pluto and conjunct her Jupiter Saturn – quite a fated match.

  How directors and producers ever managed to get movies made with the giant egos and volatile creative temperaments clashing on set is astonishing.   

Prince William is coping with a great deal, stepping up to be heir, with Catherine still undergoing cancer treatment as is his father, and minus his ‘wingman’ brother.

 Born 21 June 1982 9.03pm London, he has a New Moon in Cancer in his 7^th house of relationships which is an odd mix of needing a partner while being self-sufficient at the same time. His short-tempered 9^th house Mars Saturn conjunction in Libra in his opinionated 9^th is boosted by an influential and stubborn Pluto. A lucky Jupiter in Scorpio on his Midheaven, legacy of a drama-queen mother, will make him highly respected the older he gets and it forms an easy trine to his Moon Sun in Cancer. He has a yod of Pluto sextile Neptune on his Ascendant inconjunct a 5^th house Venus in Taurus Chiron conjunction. A Venus yod focal point would have made him socially awkward initially, finding it difficult to be spontaneous.  With maturity, Venus brings social goals into focus, allowing him to make a difference out in society and also to form more meaningful relationships. Having children will have made a considerable difference in softening down his defences.

  His Venus Chiron conjunction will make him sensitive to conflict and disharmony in relationships around him with feelings of guilt when peacemaking initiatives fail. He would be affected by having warring parents and now a brother at odds.  One result can be to back off and steer clear of the field of battle.  Both his Venus and Chiron are affected by tr Uranus conjunct this year, once already in late June/July, again this November and next April 2025. It will have an emotionally unsettling impact but also, given, the yod, potentially set him off on a different track in life.

 Tr Pluto is square his Jupiter this year (and last) giving him a confidence boost and moves on to square his Jupiter/MC midpoint and Midheaven till late 2025 – both challenging and successful. Though the celestial transition of the outer planets will have a significant effect on him with tr Neptune Saturn in Aries square his Sun and then Moon from May 2025 through till 2027 which could be undermining or softening or indecisive. He is just emerging from a lower-profile few years since 2017 when he wanted to spend more time on his personal life and family. He’ll gradually step up his outer world ambitions and activities but it will be 2028 before he is moving up onto the next level as tr Saturn moves across his IC.

  Tr Uranus will bring his midlife crisis as it opposes his natal Uranus from mid 2025 through 2026 which will be restless.

  His relationship with both King Charles and Camilla has always been subject to fluctuations and there will be ripples and moments of froideur but nothing like as aggravated as Harry with Charles and Camilla.

  With Harry relations give no sign of tensions easing with neither side willing to give way or let go – and that extends right through into the early 2030s as the composite, argumentative Sun square Mars has tr Pluto hard aspects. If anything the early 2030s are likely to exacerbate bad feelings.

 What is intriguing is how Meghan’s birth chart impacts the composite chart between Harry and Will. Her Leo Sun is exactly conjunct their composite Sun; her Uranus falls in their composite 10^th; her Pluto is square their composite Mercury; and her Neptune is conjunct their composite South Node. Whatever fault lines there were in their togetherness which was never as matey as the media would believe, she magnified.

  The relationship charts between William and Catherine with Meghan if anything look to be exploding into more fireworks as tr Uranus squares the composite Mars on both relationship charts – at the same time as William’s Venus is being shaken up.  With more disruptions through 2025 and on. There did seem to be an inbuilt tussle for the upper hand between Meghan and both William and Catherine with a composite Jupiter Pluto in both relationship charts. Meghan appeared not to have grasped that she could not upstage higher rankers in the hierarchy. Pulling together it could have been the fab four but pulling apart it became rancorous.  

The tragic sinking of entrepreneur Mike Lynch’s yacht in a freak typhoon off Sicily with several deaths and others still missing has given rise to unconvincing  conspiracy theories. But there are still a raft of coincidences arguably putting it into the category which Carl Jung called syncronicity – events that coincide in time and appear meaningfully related, yet lack a discoverable causal connection.

In brief: Mike Lynch sold Autonomy, a software maker he founded to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion in 2011 and was then accused of cooking the books to make the sale. A decade-long legal battle followed and latterly he was extradited to the US, facing criminal charges of engineering a massive fraud. Found not guilty a few weeks ago, he indicated it was his wealth and ability to pay significant legal fees which helped him win.

  He was celebrating his win on his super-yacht, the Bayesian, which had the tallest aluminium mast in the world at 246ft. Eerily his co-defendant in the fraud trial, Stephen Chamberlain, VP Finance, was killed a few days back after being hit by a car as he was running.

  The yacht was anchored as the unexpected tornado hit in the early morning which probably caused it to capsize. The boat was named Bayesian after a probability theory and was built in 2008 as Pluto moved into Capricorn.

 Mike Lynch, 16 June 1965, was a Sun in Gemini square Mars in Virgo opposition Chiron and Saturn; with his Jupiter and North Node in Gemini square a Saturn in Pisces opposition Uranus Pluto. He was exactly on his Second Saturn Return when the accident happened; with tr Saturn opposition his accident-prone Mars/Pluto midpoint; and his Solar Arc Mars/Saturn midpoint in hard aspect to his Neptune.

  At the risk of sounding heartless/tasteless in dragging the tragedy into an astrological context – it could be seen as a swansong event for Pluto in Capricorn, the era of moneyed excess, in which Gemini did appear to play an outsize part. As well as being the high profile event occurring on a day which was expected to throw up momentous events.

Others missing include Jonathan Bloomer, Morgan Stanley Bank International chairman.  And Chris Morvillo, Mike Lynch’s lawyer.

 The sinking happened in the early hours of Monday 19^th around 4am off Palermo, hours before the Full Moon squared Uranus.

Add On: The Bayesian was launched under the name Salute on 13 February 2008, according to reports, near Pisa. That hooks into yesterday’s Uranian Full Moon with the 2008 North Node at 27 degrees Aquarius getting triggered exactly. The launch Uranus at 17 Pisces was also conjunct Mike Lynch’s Saturn at 17 Pisces undergoing his Second Saturn Return exactly at the moment. The launch chart also has a high-jeopardy Mars opposition Pluto. With its Mars in Gemini exactly conjunct Mike Lynch’s Sun. It also has a yod of Mars sextile South Node inconjunct Venus which is being jolted now by the tr Uranus square the South Node.

  All very entangled and oddly unsettling even for astrologers.

  The absurdly handsome French film star Alain Delon, known as the male Brigitte Bardot has died, with Bardot, his elder by a year and many others, singing his praises. He emerged from unlikely beginnings, abandoned in childhood, kicked out of school, with Mafia gangster friends he kept throughout his life. A gilded star, with a colourful and scandalous romantic life, constantly catching the headlines, he became reclusive in his older years and embroiled in a family dispute. See previous post 5 January 2024.

  What intrigues me about these megastars of old is the super-charged Plutos and 8^th house planets.

 Delon, 8 November 1935 3.25am Sceaux, France, had a prominent 10^th house Pluto trine Jupiter in Scorpio, sextile Venus – giving him the ability to turn on devastating and persuasive charm. He also had a wayward Uranus on the cusp of the 8^th inconjunct Venus and Jupiter.

 Bardot, 28 September 1934 1.15pm Paris, had an 8^th house Pluto in a confident square to a 10^th house Jupiter opposition Uranus; in a yod sextile Venus inconjunct Saturn. With her Moon Chiron in Gemini in her 6^th house of small animals which no doubt prompted her to her later charitable work.

 Gerard Depardieu, 27 December 1948 8am Chateauroux, France, who also grew up as a street kid before hitting the movie heights, though his icon status has been tarnished by allegations in the days of #metoo, also has Pluto in his 8^th trine a 12^th house Venus. His Uranus on his Descendant is on the focal point of a yod inconjunct a Scorpio Moon and Mars in Capricorn.

 No great conclusions but Pluto, Uranus and yods are a common theme.

 Family aggravations are dogging King Charles as he fends off ill-health all in the midst of finding his footing as monarch barely two years into his reign. The 8^th September sees the anniversary of his accession, a moment both sad and celebratory. His Accession chart for 3.10 pm has the 3^rd house of siblings inhabited by a cool, critical, realistic Saturn conjunct Moon and a confused, slippery Neptune; while the 5^th house ruling children has a Taurus North Node demanding effort, and a wayward Uranus.

  His 10^th house zero degrees Taurus Moon suits him for a public role but the Moon also rules family and body, so tr Pluto in square over last year and exactly now till early September and finally late November to end of December was always going to bring immense challenges in various arenas of his life. On top of that his Progressed Moon will exactly oppose his 1^st house Pluto by mid this September so will add another layer of potential family angst.  

  Reports are that Prince Andrew’s security, a ten man operation funded by King Charles, will end in October, suggesting the forced move from the Royal Lodge will take place against Andrew’s resistance. Prince Harry is also causing irritation with the quasi-Royal tours he is taking and his constant bickering about UK security etc etc etc.

  King Charles does look weighed down with his Solar Arc Saturn conjunct his 4^th house Sun at the moment and exact in two months. Tr Neptune is also squaring his adventurous Uranus opposition Jupiter now on and off till early 2026, joined early in 2025 by tr Saturn also square. Given that his Mars Jupiter in in his natal 5^th house that might suggest more chills on the Harry front.

  Charles is also on alert exactly now with the Full Moon square Uranus hitting his Mars/North Node midpoint at 27 degrees Aquarius so is more likely to be embroiled in upsets and arguments. That repeats on and off till early 2026.

Prince Andrew, 19 February 1960 3.38pm London, always did look to be on the move this year with tr Uranus opposition his 4^th house Scorpio Moon. It repeats again this November and next April. Scorpio Moons hate letting go so it may be a lengthy tussle.  Though Charles is equally stubborn and his relationship chart with Andrew has the composite Pluto also at 25 degrees Fixed so the Royal tug of war may soon be over as Andrew is forced to throw in the towel.

Andrew’s 4^th house Neptune has Solar Arc Pluto sitting exactly on top of it over coming months which will be domestically devastating, pulling away illusions and delusions about his ideal (entitled) home.  Plus he has a yod onto a defiant, wayward 1st house Uranus inconjunct Saturn sextile and 8^th house financial Mercury. One leg of the yod will be battered as Progressed Mars is conjunct the Mercury over coming months which will move his life onto a different track. By early 2026 his Solar Arc Neptune will conjunct Saturn on the other leg of the yod for uncertainty and more change.

 Harry, 15 September 1984 4.20 pm London, wanders on in exile looking increasingly miserable and directionless, murmuring philanthropic inanities, and seemingly incapable of understanding why his behaviour has tripped him into the sinkhole in which he is trapped.

 Tr Saturn has another 18 months moving through the nadir of his First Quadrant, which can bring financial shortages but is also a time that unresolved psychological issues surface and need to be addressed. And is not a time of spectacular success on the career front. Staying low profile is usually a help. At the moment he has his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his 11^th house Uranus so something is trying to propel him into changing his long term plans and goals. Tr Uranus conjunct his 4^th house Taurus Moon earlier this year which might have indicated a domestic move may also have been soaked up in the jangled and mishandled relationship with his father. A downbeat Solar Arc Saturn will square his Sun in 9 months and his SA Midheaven will conjunct his Neptune in 2026 for more indecision and dither about what comes next.

  His relationship with his father was always fraught from the start with a composite Mars square Pluto Uranus – and that is being buffeted by tr Saturn hard aspects this year until March 2025. Not much sunshine breaking out there. And the tr Saturn Neptune in Aries will square the composite 8^th house Jupiter mid 2025 through 2026 further dampening confidence and enthusiasm.

 Harry’s relationship with Meghan is showing panic and disappointment this year, 2025 and through into 2026 with tr Neptune opposing the composite Mars and then Venus – which could hint that business ventures do not produce the required results. And then moves into a Uranian patch in 2026/27 as tr Uranus in Gemini squares the composite Sun and opposes Uranus – at the very least they could decide to pursue separate career ambitions but it will surely be disruptive.

 One tends to forget that Queen Elizabeth 11 had years of coping with her errant sister Margaret as well as the Wallis Simpson tensions, Prince Philip’s high-octane social life and her mother’s wild overspending etc etc.  Twas ever thus.