Astrology of Today’s News

Greensill Capital, a UK financial services house involved in supply-chain financing has filed for bankruptcy sending out waves of collateral damage to banks such as Credit Suisse, the UK taxpayer and German town councils. Eye-watering sums are involved, Credit Suisse having frozen $1 billion in assets for a hard-to-estimate hit. The FT has calculated there is roughly £1bn exposure for UK taxpayers via Sanjeev Gupta’s steel/hydro-power and smelter group and Greensill, including a Scottish government guarantee. And German town councils are out circa half a million euros.

  Greensill lent money to corporate customers to pay their suppliers. These loans were packaged into funds run by Credit Suisse and sold to investors. The insurance covering the underlying credit allowed investors to treat the funds as almost risk-free. Gupta’s sprawling empire GFG Alliance is now in a precarious position following the collapse of Greensill its main lender, which helped propel GFG’s aggressive international expansion spree that began in 2013.

  David Cameron, the former UK PM, promoted Greensill’s “supply chain finance” initiative, which was used by the NHS in its supply of chemists. However, after the government outsourcing company Carillion collapsed with liabilities of £7 billion, an inquiry report found the scheme allowed it to “prop up its failing business model”, and was “a story of recklessness, hubris and greed, its business model was a relentless dash for cash”.

  Lex Greensill, the Australian who started Greensill in 2011 with his brother, used to boast how he rose from being a sweet potato farmer to become a billionaire banker travelling the globe by private jet, and employing powerful former politicians including Cameron and the former Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop. He is remembered from his Morgan Stanley and Citibank days for his extravagance. Only last year he had hoped to float on the stock market with a $7bn (£5.8bn) valuation. In 2017 he was awarded a CBE for services to the economy in the Queen’s birthday honours. After leaving office, Cameron was signed up as a senior adviser to Greensill and flew around the world promoting the business.

  Lex Greensill, according to an old Companies House document was born 29 December 1976 in Bundaberg, Australia. [Date to be treated with some caution since it depends on the accuracy of the filing. Sanjeev Gupta’s birth date varies between 27 July and 27 September 1971 on different company documents.)

  If this date is accurate and it looks feasible. He has a Capricorn Sun, possibly on the focal point of a Cardinal T Square to an Aries Moon opposition Pluto – ego-centric, controlling, power-hungry. Even more significantly he has a focal point Jupiter in indulgent Taurus in a Fixed T Square to a Venus opposition Saturn in wannabe-important Leo. Fixed signs are acquisitive and more so with Jupiter involved –  immoderate, excessive in expectations, grandiose. Bil Tierney remarks: “ This apex Jupiter seeks expansion and extended control in financial areas or investments, and is prone towards having much faith in its wheeling-and-dealing potential” – with a tendency to over commit.

  His 9^th Harmonic – what gives him pleasure – and often notable amongst the financially greedy, is stratospherically ambitious and ruthlessly determined.   

  If anything 2023 looks even more of a car-crash year than this one, if his birth date is sound.

  His Greensill Capital Management, incorporated 19 April 2012 in London, also has Jupiter in Taurus with a final degree Aries Sun opposition Saturn in Libra. The Saturn is catching the depressing, deprived tr Pluto square this year, the midpoints thereafter and then the Sun. Intriguingly it has echoes of Lex Greensill’s 9^th Harmonic since there is a Grand Trine of Mars trine Pluto trine Sun, with Mars opposition Neptune.

  David Cameron was almost certainly in thrall to Greensill’s power since LG’s Pluto is conjunct Cameron’s Libra Sun.  The relationship chart (dates being sound) hints the fallout may be worse in 2022/23.

  This year Cameron has a morale-denting Solar Arc Neptune square his Sun; with tr Neptune continuing to undermine his Uranus Pluto opposition Saturn making for uncertainty and mounting panic in 2022/23 as tr Neptune is conjunct his Saturn.

  The Tories and money!!  Perhaps this is part of Pluto’s final sting-in-the-tail as it exits Capricorn, pulling down one more column in the temple of greed

Add On: From FT March 19th: David Cameron lobbied for Greensill access to Covid-19 loan schemes.
Former UK prime minister urged bigger role for group but Treasury remained reluctant

‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, who has just died at 66, will be remembered as one of the greatest boxing middleweight fighters and one the finest at any weight in any era. He was a tough boxer, described as having a chip of both shoulders and a hard hitter.

 Born on 23 May 1954 5.17am Newark, New Jersey, he grew up fatherless in the ghettoes of Newark, relating more to the wounded birds he helped and his pet turtle. “They were the only friends I could relate to” he once said. “Maybe the only friends I really liked. I was always by myself.”  He dropped out of school at 14, worked in construction and after a beating in a street fight found a boxing gym where he trained.

 He won all but one of his 56 amateur fights and was unbeaten for the first three years of his professional career. He faced racism, notably when he won the World Middleweight title in London in front of a bottle-throwing Brit audience; and faced the dark side of the boxing business. His last fight in 1987 against Sugar Ray Leonard went against him on a judge’s decision that he and many others disputed. He never boxed again and retired fourteen months later with a record of 62 wins, three losses and three draws and moved to Italy to embark on an acting career.

  He had a Taurus Ascendant giving him a weighty persona but his Sun was in airy Gemini in the 1st; and his Mercury, Venus, Jupiter were also in Gemini. Like many overwhelmingly physical individuals he lacked Earth signs with only his Mars in Capricorn. Not what you’d expect. His Mars was in an edgy sextile to an obsessive Saturn in Scorpio. But it isn’t really as brutal or ruthless a chart as his lifestyle and public image suggested. He did have a pivotal Pluto in his 4^th house on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine to Jupiter Venus trine Neptune, so he would be controlling, determined and ambitious.

  But Sugar Ray Leonard, 17 May 1956 7.58pm Wilmington, North Carolina, has a much more typical chart for a boxer. He had a Taurus Sun opposition Saturn in Scorpio square a super-confident Jupiter Pluto in Leo opposition Mars in Aquarius – Fixed and stubborn to the nth degree, gutsy, used to punishment, taking and giving it.  

Lara Trump has been flirting with the possibility of running for senate in 2022 in North Carolina. Though she’s facing a couple of hurdles before then. One is her father-in-law deflating like a punctured balloon and the Trump family facing myriad image-damaging lawsuits as well as financial woes. The other is her connection with a dog rescue charity that has spent nearly 2 million dollars at various Trump properties over the last several years. IRS filings for the non-profit list Lara Trump as a chairwoman for charity events starting in 2018.

  Esquire writes: “Mixing politics and charity is risky business —- Lara Trump is funneling money into companies that she has a vested interest in. That kind of self-dealing is reflective of the practices of the former Trump Foundation which was forced to shut down after an investigation into the charity by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood discovered it was engaging in “a shocking pattern of illegality” including “unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.”

  Born 12 October 1982, a former TV producer, she has been married to Eric Trump since 2014 and they have two children. She’s a sociable Sun Venus in Libra in a lively sextile to a publicity-attracting Mars Neptune in Sagittarius. With an unbudgeable Saturn Pluto in Libra and a money-magnet Jupiter in Scorpio maybe square a flamboyant Moon in Leo.

   Her life is stalling altogether over the next two years as her Solar Arc Mars makes a discouraging square to her Saturn Pluto this year for a car-crash setback and worse in 2023 with Solar Arc Mars square her Pluto – trapped and scary. On top of that she has tr Pluto in a depressing square to her Saturn and deeply frustrating conjunction to her Solar Arc Mars this year; and tr Pluto is also in a challenging square to her Pluto in 2021/22. Life is changing and not as she wants.  Tr Uranus will provide the odd ray of sunshine as it opposes her Jupiter mid this year but there again tr Saturn squares her Jupiter which will do the reverse. Methinks her political aspirations will have to wait, perhaps for another lifetime.

  Eric Trump, 6 January 1984, is equally completely road-blocked from early 2022 through to late 2023 and beyond with tr Pluto square his Mars, then his Mars/Pluto midpoint and finally his Pluto in 2024.

 Pic: Gage Skidmore.

Heavy-handed police arrests at a London violence-against-women vigil in memory of Sarah Everard, killed while walking home, have sent images of a small woman being cuffed face down on the ground round the world. In the event only four were arrested for public order offences and breach of Covid laws but the furore has seen widespread calls for the resignation of the Met Police Chief Cressida Dick. A Met police constable and firearms officer assigned to parliamentary and diplomatic protection has been charged with Sarah Everard’s kidnap and murder.

  Cressida Dick, 16 October 1960, has tap danced through a fair number of missteps in her career. She was in charge of the 2005 operation which saw an innocent Brazilian De Menezes shot, having been mistaken for a terrorist after the London 7/7 bombings. More recently she sanctioned the disastrous and damaging botched Operation Midland investigation into paedophiles at Westminster, relying on fantasist Carl Beech’s testimony. She was also criticised for the light-touch policing of Extinction Rebellion demos in 2019.

  Born into a distinguished academic family, she’s a Sun Libra with a talented but hard-edged and ultra-determined Half Grand Sextile from Saturn in Capricorn opposition Mars in Cancer sextile trine Neptune and Pluto; with a charming though outspoken Venus Mercury in Scorpio square Uranus and an adventurous/lucky Uranus trine Jupiter. Her Moon is in Leo or Virgo. She looks more than devastated at the moment with her Solar Arc Pluto conjunct her Neptune and worse in 2023 with a panicky-failure Solar Arc Neptune opposition Mars.

  Her Term chart, 10 April 2017, always pointed to this year as being one of disruption and upheaval as tr Pluto squares the Uranus, which often coincides with a fall-off-perch moment. It returns for a final direct aspect mid August to the year end; and if that doesn’t do it, then 2022 has Solar Arc Pluto square the Uranus. Not that she’ll be short of a lucrative bolt hole with her CV and background when she moves on.

   The Metropolitan Police was formed by Robert Peel on 29 September 1829, which oddly enough also has a Libra Sun and Moon. The scales of justice make sense, even if more in the aspiration than practice. It has an entrepreneurial, super-confident, arrogant Fire Grand Trine of Jupiter trine Saturn in Leo trine Pluto, which forms into a Kite with Pluto opposition the Sun – certainly controlling, at times overly forceful, stubborn, resistant to change.

  It is an accurate chart since the recent Operation Midland screw up (2016) showed up clearly with tr Pluto conjunct the Met Neptune and tr Uranus square.

  The earlier catastrophic hit for the Met’s reputation from the conclusions of the 1999 inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence which found the investigation had been incompetent with a failure of leadership; and that the Met were institutionally racist – coincided with a nerve-stretched tr Neptune conjunct the Met Uranus, tr Uranus opposition the Met Saturn and tr Pluto conjunct one leg of the Met Grand Trine exerting pressure for change. Though the fall out continued for years with further allegations of police corruption in helping to hide the killers of Lawrence; with pressure internally to smear the credibility of the Lawrence who were campaigning for further investigations into his death.

  At the moment the Met chart has tr Neptune opposition the Mars picking up from mid this April, running on and off throughout 2022 to January 2023. That usually coincides with damage to reputation and unsuccessful plans as well as stalled progress. And it will face more damage in two and three years as the Solar Arc Mars opposes the Sun and is conjunct the Pluto. That could be a significant setback of collision proportions or a particularly risky patch with major accidents or terrorist attacks.  

  The Daily Mail now dominates the UK market in print and globally online. Rubbished by the prime minister of the day after it launched in 1896 as a “a newspaper produced by office boys for office boys,” it became hugely popular and by the end of the Boer Wars in 1902 it had a circulation of over a million, a world record. Right-wing, imperialist and patriotic, it also set out to entertain and was the first to recognize the potential market of the female reader. Alongside its commercial success went critical brickbats with one commentator remarking: “ by confusing gewgaws with pearls, by selecting the paltry at the expense of the significant, by confirming atavistic prejudices, by oversimplifying the complex, by dramatizing the humdrum, by presenting stories as entertainment and by blurring the difference between news and views, Northcliffe (the owner) titillated, if he did not debouch, the public mind; he polluted, if he did not poison, the wells of knowledge.”

  Northcliffe’s brother Lord Rothermere took over when he died and was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. The paper’s support ended after violence at a BUF rally in 1934 though the paper editorially continued to oppose the arrival of Jewish refugees escaping Germany.

 The MailOnline had a soft launch in May 2004, well after other papers, the internet having been written off by the DM powers-that-be as a passing fantasy that wouldn’t work. It is now the most visited English language newspaper in the world.

   The paper was launched on 4 May 1896 with a Taurus Sun opposition Saturn and Uranus in Scorpio – tenacious, materialistic, conventional, autocratic. Significantly it has the Neptune Pluto in Gemini of its day which is astro-associated with scandal and megalomaniac ambitions; and that squares Mars in Pisces. Mars square Pluto is ruthless; Mars square Neptune keen on publicity, glamour and showbusiness.

   It hardly looks likely that it will be toppled off its pedestal though not everything looks plain sailing ahead.  Tr Uranus will conjunct the Sun and oppose the Saturn through from mid this year into 2022 with tr Saturn in square to the Sun and Saturn – it will be tossed around perhaps by economic stress as well as other factors. There will be a major setback in eighteen months when the Solar Arc Saturn is conjunct Mars and square the Neptune. With much heightened emotion (and financial pressures) from tr Pluto square the Venus in Aries in 2021/22.

  The MailOnline, without an accurate start date, was kicked off around May 14th 2004 with again a stubborn, materialistic and enduring Taurus Sun square Neptune inconjunct Pluto. It has been accused of failing to uphold the integrity of its journalism and criticised for its accuracy.  That fits with a stressed Pluto quincunx Sun – not knowing where to draw the line between forceful and dominating.

  The relationship chart between Prince Harry and the Mail is resentful and chained-together. But it is the connection between Meghan and the DM that is really hostile with a composite Mars square Pluto.  There will be continuing and discouraging pressure this year between them with tr Pluto square the composite Saturn; with jolts, jangles and outbursts from this July and worsening through 2022 as tr Uranus and then tr Saturn collide with the composite Mars Pluto; and sagging badly in 2023/24 with tr Neptune square the composite Sun. So the unholy battle of wills will drag on.  

Actor Matthew McConaughey, fresh from his NY Times list-topping memoir success, is seriously considering a run for Texas governor in late 2022. His book ‘Greenlights’ was filled with homespun wisdom and maxims, which were praised by Jordan Peterson and described by the Washington Post reviewer as “vaporous, circular proverbs for would-be McConaugheys.”

  He said he felt the next stage of his life would be about leadership since he had ‘things to teach and share’ and that politics was a “broken business”. It’s not clear which side of the aisle he’d be sitting on and said he preferred compromise. In the past he has spoken up for “rightful, just and responsible gun ownership – but against assault rifles, against unlimited magazines”.

   He’s still undecided and may choose another route to sharing his thoughts and with Pluto about to move out of his 8^th house in two years into his spreading-the-word 9^th for many years thereafter he will want to make his voice heard. Saturn through his 9^th at the moment until late 2022 will see him in preparation stage for a career peak of serious responsibility from early 2023 onwards until the turn of the decade. Jupiter is moving through his 10^th now till early 2023 which is usually successful, bringing recognition and praise.

  But it won’t be remotely easy going. Tr Pluto will conjunct his Mars in 2023/24 which will be blocked and intensely frustrating before moving to oppose his Saturn in 2025/26 – and that will be a seriously uphill slog.

  He doesn’t look exactly delirious in late 2022 so either he’ll fail in his bid or have decided on another course of action.

  Details about his life below from an earlier November 14 2020 post:

Matthew MConaughey, maverick and versatile actor – True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club – has written a kind-of memoir, “Greenlights”, replete with bumper-sticker musings and aphorisms, and tales from his up and down, boom and bust life story, from a drama-filled childhood onwards.

  Born 4 November 1969 7.34 pm, Uvalde, Texas, he was the third son of parents who married three times and divorced twice. His father a former professional football player turned pipe salesman had an explosive relationship with his mother. The book relates a scene where the five year old McConaughey watched them fight ferociously — his mother having broken his father’s nose with a telephone while he brandished a ketchup bottle — before his parents had sex on the kitchen floor. And tells how his father fulfilled his dream of dying while having sex.

   After becoming known for making rom-coms in his 30s, he married, and took a gamble by refusing similar roles through a bleak, unemployed two years before meatier roles started to come in, The Wolf of Wall Street amongst them and the TV series True Detective.  

  He has an intense, hard-working 6^th house Scorpio Sun; with Mercury in Scorpio as well as a frivolous Jupiter Venus in Libra in his performing 5^th along with Uranus. No surprise that he can do light and shade, superficial rom-coms along with darker roles.

  His Mercury opposes Saturn in Taurus squaring Mars in Aquarius with Mars trine Uranus hinting at frustrations and hardships in a volatile childhood and after; and a hard, angry father.

  He has a 4^th house Virgo Moon and Pluto – so home would be both a source of comfort and scary.

  As his book is published and he does the round of interviews tr Jupiter Pluto is exactly square his Jupiter Venus conjunction for a confident high. And his Solar Arc Jupiter is square his Moon for another warm glow.

  Saturn and Jupiter are about to move into his 9^th which may give rise to more gnomic musings in the coming months. Though not all of 2021 will be smooth flowing with the tr Saturn square tr Uranus hitting on his Scorpio Sun.  His next period of significant change will be 2023 onwards as tr Pluto is conjunct his Mars and moves in hard aspect round his Fixed T Square. That’s when his ‘Alright, alright’ and respond-to-the-hints-of-the-universe philosophy may come in handy as he transitions through another challenging few years.

  His strongest harmonic is his creative and ‘seeking soul’ 7H and his actors’ 15H. 

Some Greenlights stickers to consider:

‘The value of denial depends on one’s level of commitment.’

‘To lose the power of confrontation is to lose the power of unity.’

‘Form good habits and become their slave.’

‘When you can, ask yourself if you want to.’

‘When you’re up to nothin’, no good’s usually next.’

‘Truth’s like a jalapeño. The closer to the root, the hotter it gets.’

Pic: By All-Pro Reels from District of Columbia, USA – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0,

Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony in eastern Africa, is undergoing yet another spasm of violence and mayhem in the north (perhaps not surprising for a country that features an AK-47 on its national flag.) Remnants of ISIS fostering a global jihadist ideal have joined forces with local marginalised groups exploiting local grievances and offering an alternative path for unemployed youths frustrated by a corrupt and neglectful state. More than half a million people in the region have been driven from their homes in the past 12 months by roving gangs of machete-wielding Islamist fighters who operate a slashed-earth policy of beheadings and killings.

  Mozambique shares the same tragic history of many ex-colonial countries, having lived for centuries under repression, they then step into decades of civil wars and corrupt gangster governments – in this case, a Marxist-Leninist one-party outfit, in power since independence in 1975, though under pressure it morphed into multi-party democratic socialism in the 1990s – with the same party staying in power throughout with claims of rigged elections. Despite being resource-rich – coal, titanium, hydroelectricity, gas and a huge ruby deposit – Mozambique has staggering levels of poverty and inequality, which have worsened under the present president.

  It gained independence after a bitterly fought war with Portugal on 22 June 1975, which gives a final degree Gemini Sun square Pluto; with an explosive Uranus opposition Mars Jupiter square Saturn in Cancer in the 4^th.  An afflicted Saturn in the 4^th is certainly a description of a deprived domestic population, unfairly treated with Saturn square Mars; and destined to live through disruptions with Uranus square Saturn. The sadness is that Mars Jupiter has courage and resourcefulness, which is reflected in the vast agricultural and mineral wealth available which could lift the country out of poverty. There’s nothing much that looks cheerful in the next few years with the possibility of a revolution or rebellion in 2022/23 as Pluto squares the Uranus and there are dips and troughs from Solar Arc thereafter for several years.

  Almost two decades ago, Tony Blair infamously described Africa as a ‘scar on the conscience of the world’ in line with a characterisation of the continent as one damaged by cycles of poverty, conflict, and disease. There are some steps in the right direction with poverty reduced by almost a third since the 1960s and political accountability and transparency improving in certain countries. But it does seem unconscionable for all its natural riches that it can’t be a prosperous region for its people.  

   What has been striking me recently – and I step gingerly into a fraught subject – is that the history of Africa we see reflected in movies focuses on the slave trade with nothing about what went on before. Whereas we know that Mali, for instance in west Africa, had a golden age when it was a significant learning and cultural centre between the 13^th and 16th century with a major Islamic university in Timbuktu, attracting scholars from throughout the Muslim world. Zimbabwe still has remnants of elaborate stone buildings erected anywhere between 600Ad and the Middle Ages. In a way it was what Marvel’s ’Black Panther’ was aiming to do and there should be more of it – portraying a different face of Africa that is not just slavery and present day mismanagement.

‘Many have wondered why Black Panther means so much to the black community and why schools, churches and organizations have come to the theaters with so much excitement. The answer is that the movie brings a moment of positivity to a group of people often not the centerpiece of Hollywood movies… [Racial and ethnic socialization] helps to strengthen identity and helps reduce the likelihood on internalizing negative stereotypes about one’s ethnic group.’ Erlanger Turner. 

  There were high points in Africa especially on the trade routes and while the cycle of history shows that no civilization lasts for ever, there should be a greater understanding in the west, especially the racist USA, of Africa’s contribution in the past to learning and culture.

“Frasier” is set to return to screens after a nearly twenty years absence, with Kelsey Grammer reprising his role as the radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane on ViacomCBS’s new streaming service Paramount+. There is no word about whether the supporting cast members will join him though it’s tricky to see how it would work without them since it was such an ensemble show and the actor who played his father is now dead.

 Kelsey Grammer was born 21 February 1955 in the US Virgin Islands, regrettably no birth time, and has had a disaster-strewn life with his father whom he barely knew murdered, his sister raped and murdered and his half twin brothers were killed by a shark. He’s been married four times and has seven children.

  He has a Pisces Sun opposition Pluto; and his Moon and Mercury in Aquarius also oppose Pluto and square Saturn in Scorpio which would fit with his multiple family tragedies. While the Sun Pluto father is generally thought of as the controlling or dominating father, it also appears regularly in the charts of individuals whose fathers were not in their lives – the literally out-of-their-control father.

He also has a showbizzy Mars in Aries opposition Neptune squaring onto an adventurous and lucky Jupiter Uranus opposition Venus in Capricorn. That Cardinal Grand Cross would give him endless initiative and energy as well as a tendency to have a life full of revolving crises. Without a birth time it’s tricky to say but a frustratingly blocked tr Pluto square his Mars in 2021/22 and square his Neptune in 2022/23 don’t look too encouraging for a new project.  Plus his Solar Arc Saturn will also square his Mars opposition Neptune this year and next – so ditto and ditto.

  David Hyde Pierce, who played brother Niles, 3 April 1959, is a Sun Aries square Saturn with an Aquarius Moon and Venus in Taurus. Jane Leeves who played Daphne, 18 April 1961, is also a Sun Aries with Venus, Mercury in Aries as well. Though her Sun does square onto an edgy Mars opposition Saturn, so she wouldn’t always be too good a fit with Kelsey.

  All of them have gone on to other work, some highly praised but none that caught the public imagination to the same extent as Frasier.

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The damage inflicted by the Oprah Sussex interview on the Monarchy felt devastating in the immediate aftermath. But as the Meg-Haz litany of mistreatment by the Family is put under scrutiny and increasingly questioned, the pressure is slowly dropping. On top of which the Monarchy has been through spasms of acutely negative publicity in the past and recovered its balance. The brief response put out by the Palace was a masterpiece of barbed under-statement – ‘recollections may vary’ being the one likely to stick in mind.

 Given the Queen’s age and Prince Philip’s state of health it’s difficult to say what the planetary influences on her chart will refer to. Her own chart has her 7^th house partnership Leo Sun under strain this year from tr Saturn on opposition and tr Uranus in square from this April onwards, on and off into early 2022. Tr Saturn and tr Pluto both moving through the early stages of her First House will have a sombre effect on her image, pulling down her energy levels and work motivation. Without all this confected nonsense she might have been opting to retreat further into the shadows but will almost certainly feel she has to soldier on. Tr Pluto will start to square her Taurus Sun from 2023 for two years which will be challenging.

  Her Coronation chart, 2 June 1953 11am London does have a lacklustre, panicky-failure feel from late this April onwards for two years with tr Neptune square the Mars Mercury in Gemini. It has a 12 degree Taurus Midheaven (which will be a later degree if the oath-taking which I can’t find is used). That certainly suggests a sudden change of direction, bumpy ride etc. As does the Moon around 11 degrees Aquarius which is catching the same jolting influences.

  Neither Meghan nor Harry are looking upbeat in the aftermath. Meghan has her Leo Sun catching the discouraging tr Saturn opposition from late this month and tr Uranus pitching in with jolts and jangles in square from early May – and those repeat through the year. Harry has a lacklustre and undermining tr Neptune opposing his Virgo Sun through 2021/22 – so ditto and ditto.

  An astrologer pointed out that Prince William was born on the day of a Solar Eclipse in a Saros cycle that started in 792AD and ends in 2036, leading to speculation that he would be the last king. How much that theory holds water is questionable. The Eclipse in question on 21 August 2036 has a final degree Leo New Moon conjunct Saturn widely opposition Pluto. Uranus at that point is in Cancer moving through the UK 10^th house, conjunct the Cancer Moon, which is associated with the Ruler, but that is the only hint of any shift and that influence comes round every 84 years so is hardly a gamechanger.

   Prince George, 22 July 2013 4.24pm does not have his grandmother’s rigorous sense of duty, having his Saturn in the 12^th in a Water Grand Trine to an 8^th house Mars Mercury Jupiter trine Neptune. His 9^th house Cancer Sun might prefer to travel or bury himself in learning and he’ll certainly live in his own self-contained bubble.

  Both the Queen and Princess Margaret have/had the same dutiful Saturn in the 10^th, a legacy from their disciplinarian and none-too-warm Queen Mother. Unfortunately there’s no confirmed birth date for the QM since it wasn’t registered until six weeks after. Though she was almost certainly a Sun Leo with a ferociously tricky collection of Pluto, Mars, Neptune in Gemini opposition Saturn in Sagittarius. Underneath the saccharine sweetness there was a deeply unpleasant streak.

  On the whole the Royal females tend to be a stalwart bunch. The Queen’s Saturn in Scorpio on the MC square Mars Jupiter opposition Neptune Moon is unbudgeable. And much of her early Royal tutoring came from her grandmother, Mary of Teck, an equally rock-solid Gemini with Saturn in Scorpio opposition Pluto square Mars in Leo. Before that, Queen Victoria another Gemini, had Saturn Pluto in Pisces square Uranus Neptune so had that equally unyielding quality. Victoria had a successful Jupiter in the 10th which William does also.

   See previous post February 10 2021 and below 5 March 2021.