Anna Sorokin – a guilt and shame-free hustler

The grifter who fooled Manhattan has been let out of prison early because of Covid. Anna Sorokin pretended she was a German heiress worth billions, convinced banks to give her loans and overdrafts, stayed for months in five star Manhattan hotels without paying and stole money from friends by stiffing them with the bill for expensive trips and meals. She pleaded not guilty and maintained her innocence throughout trial, insisting it was all a misunderstanding. The judge remarked she was “stunned by the depth of the defendant’s deception.” On her release she promptly set up a new Twitter, which she used to troll the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and to ask for money.

 She was born in Russia on 23 January 1991, with a truck driver father and the family moved to Germany when she was in her teens.

  She has an Aquarius Sun conjunct Saturn North Node in Capricorn with her Sun trine Mars and opposition Jupiter in flamboyant Leo – a curious mix of Saturnine low self-esteem with Jupiterian aspirations. She has her Venus in Aquarius square Pluto in Scorpio which can turn on the charm to order and can have a deeply manipulative streak. She also has the highly strung Uranus Neptune in Capricorn conjunct Mercury and an Aries/Taurus Moon.

Aquarius leaning heavily towards its Saturnine co-ruler – I’ve known several Aquarians who were out and out hustlers, belying the humanitarian-saint image of old style astrology.

  Her 9th harmonic chart which seeks pleasure is the strongest – same as Ponzi-scheme crook Bernie Madoff. In her case it has a ruthless and innovative connection between Mars, Pluto and Uranus. Next strongest is her 11th harmonic – ‘a so called Master Number, which means that it is difficult to live up to. The positive aspect is idealistic and inspired imagination. The negative aspects are fanaticism and unreasonableness, also dishonesty, greed, self-indulgence.’

 The future isn’t as bleak for her as she deserves with a lucky-break tr Pluto square her Jupiter/Uranus midpoint on and off through this year; plus another lucky-break tr Uranus square her Jupiter next month; though she’s also got a couple of Neptune dips to negotiate as well in 2021. 2022/23 will be discouraging and deprived with tr Pluto conjunct her Saturn and then her Sun/Saturn midpoint into 2024. Though 2023/24 will have their confident moments at the same time.

  It is truly astonishing how far brass neck and zero sense of shame can get you. Her story is now being turned into a Netflix series produced by Shonda Rhimes, of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and Bridgerton fame.  Sorokin evidently used most of the $320,000 fee she was paid for the show to pay restitution to banks and other fines.  

UK Brexit – a different reality

Down the rabbit hole into the government’s never-never land fantasy, all will be spiffing in ten years’ time according to the Dominic Raab, the UK Foreign Secretary. Which is scant comfort, if not outrageously insulting, to businesses facing bankruptcy or having to relocate part of their operations inside the EU to survive. The right-wing media lie at the behest of their masters in No 10, unwilling to inform their readers they might just have made a glaring mistake; and Opposition leader Keir Starmer appears to be struck dumb, as the ‘teething troubles’ morph into permanent problems.  It’s a touch like the Republicans in the US who are terrified of upsetting their base with few seemingly capable of telling the electorate that – a) they were lied to; and b) they credulously swallowed it.

  However it is what it is. The question becomes – whither the UK this coming decade.

  There are two significant planets and houses on the UK 1801 chart being spotlighted in the near future.

   One is the financial 8th house Mars in Taurus, ruling international and business finance – it is being battered by the tr Saturn square tr Uranus this year on and off till March 2022 with setbacks, shocks and high insecurity, plus perhaps a few disastrous accidents since that UK Mars is a crisis/disaster-magnet. Tr Uranus will move through the UK 8th until 2026, making for an unstable, inconsistent financial phase – not necessarily all negative, but an exceptionally bumpy ride. It’ll be made more stressful on the money front because tr Uranus will square the 5th house speculative Venus in 2022 along with tr Saturn conjunct; and moving on to hard aspect the 2nd house Neptune thereafter.

   The other highlighted astro-area is the 5th house Venus in Aquarius which picks up the Solar Arc Sun in opposition by late 2021 and the Solar Arc Midheaven conjunction in late 2022. Both of these sound superficially good news but I wonder whether Venus like Jupiter carries an undertow of negative energy?  Especially in the UK’s case since the Venus is badly aspected being square Mars on one side and square Neptune on the other as well as opposition Saturn.

Venus in mundane astrology is connected with national resources and finances through bankers, financial institutions and farming; and is associated with both peace and with war and negotiations leading to peace. More generally it rules recreational events, sporting events and celebratory gatherings, fashion, entertainment, cultural areas and children. Negative indicators are emotional upsets for the country and setbacks to the financial markets.

  2023 looks road-blocked with Solar Arc Pluto square the UK Sun though at the same time tr Pluto will square the UK 10th house Jupiter for a confident push and tr Jupiter also moves through the 8th in 2023 for an easing of financial problems.

  2025 has a fairly cataclysmic Solar Arc conjunct the Mars for a major financial upset (and other disasters). But thereafter tr Uranus moves out of the 8th in 2026 which should also help to stabilise the economy. At that point Jupiter is moving through the 10th for a year which will help to boost prospects and national reputation.

  Tr Neptune moves out of the employment 6th house in 2027 and tr Pluto moves into the ambitious 5th from 2029.  It may be marginally less than a decade for better results to come through but it will be an exceedingly painful transition.

  Looking back on previous Solar Arc midheavens to the UK Venus in 1927 and 1836:

1836 – the Solar Arc Midheaven in Leo was opposition the UK Venus. After 1840, Britain committed its economy to free trade, with few barriers or tariffs, prompted by the view that the economy if left unfettered was poised to dominate world trade which it did by the 1850s. Though it failed in its broader goal of ‘regenerating’ societies and as an ideal it owed much to the misplaced optimism of British policy-makers and their partial views of the world than to an understanding of the realities of the globe.

 1927 – the Solar Arc Midheaven in Scorpio was square the UK Venus, moving on two years later to conjunct the UK Neptune over the Crash. The late 1920s in the UK, following the General Strike of 1926, saw growth become erratic, with brief periods of stagnation and then sinking with the Wall Street crash in 1929. In the US market returns on the stock market shot up in 1927/28 before collapsing.

  Stock market charts are often unreliable as indicators – and the markets anyway often bear no relation to the economy itself as it affects ordinary people. But for what its worth and since the UK Venus sits in the chart area of speculation – the FTSE First Trade 3 January 1984 10am London chart, is trapped and scary (presumably with losses) through 2021/22; with further jolts and jangles from this July onwards; with late 2022/early 2023 looking the most discouraging time with two downbeat Solar Arcs and a ‘financial bubble bursting’ or at least high-hopes-dashed tr Neptune square the FTSE Jupiter.

Mario Draghi pulls the warring tribes together – for now

Mario Draghi has been sworn in as Italy’s 30th prime minister since 1946 to head the 67th government as the country struggles to emerge from the pandemic. He is tasked with rescuing the economy from the worst recession since the second world war. He won the backing of almost every large political party and will lead a mixed government of technocrats and politicians. The main priority will be to work out how to spend over €200bn (£175bn; $240bn) of EU recovery funds to rebuild from the pandemic. He is being welcomed as a miracle worker and saviour though it’s not clear how long his “Super Mario” nickname will hold given the considerable challenges facing Italy until mid decade.  See previous posts: Draghi – 7 February 2021; and Italy January 27 2021.

  His Administration chart is set for today at approximately 12 noon (anyone with an accurate oath-taking time do please say).

  The stellium of planets in Aquarius are 9th and 10th house which suits a technocratic government, charming, good PR, strong opinions, intellectual and keen to communicate – or reach out internationally, being 9th house. Most of the Aquarius planets are either square a 12th house Mars or Uranus – which also suggests a fairly explosive term, with a refusal to compromise, which may be internal argy-bargy between the warring parties. There’s a lacklustre, indecisive Moon Neptune square the Nodes which will foster illusions, delusions and won’t always produce practical results. Plus a stuck by circumstances-beyond-control Pluto in the financial 8th – and that can also point to dirty dealings behinds the scenes.

  Quite a mixed bag.

Trump Impeachment – the hear no evil lobby

The Trump impeachment proceedings are almost certain to end with a not guilty verdict despite horrifying video footage of the Capital invasion. But there is nothing indicating cheer on his chart ahead, quite the reverse.

   Last December’s Sagittarius Solar Eclipse knocked him for six as it hit his Full Moon amidships; and will repeat the process come June of this year with the Gemini Solar Eclipse conjunct his Sun, North Node, Uranus and opposition his Moon. He also has two nerve-shaking Solar Arcs, exact in six months’ time but in effect in the months before and after then. One is the financially undermining and panicked Solar Arc Saturn conjunct his 2nd house Neptune; and Solar Arc Neptune opposition his 10th house Uranus. Money and career direction will both go off track. These may well trigger late April into early May when he has a catastrophic tr Uranus square his Mars/Saturn midpoint and that last influence repeats this coming New Year and through January 2022.

   Plus he has tr Neptune square his Moon and Sun from March this year onwards running on and off till January 2023: and various swampy, disappointing additional Neptune transits to midpoints from late this month throughout the year and a trapped, enraged pair of Pluto assaults on midpoints this August through November. 2023 will be his nadir with totally blocked, scary and angry Solar Arc Mars square his Pluto and discouragingly stuck Solar Arc Pluto square his Saturn.

  Of his enablers: Ted Cruz, 22 December 1970, will have his moments of cheer this year interspersed with nerve-stretching drama. Even more so in 2022 when his Saturn in Taurus opposition Venus will be knocked sideways by tr Uranus square tr Saturn which may hit him financially; but he’ll be in a mood of bullish confidence all the same in 2022/2023 in patches with tr Pluto square his Jupiter/Pluto midpoint.

  Mike Lee, 4 June 1971, a Sun Gemini in an ideologue’s Air Grand Trine is questioning his path with the Eclipses, Lunar and Solar, stirring up his Sun and Jupiter Neptune this coming year; and has a shock/dose of high insecurity in July onwards, with likely over reactions on his part as tr Uranus squares his Mars. Like Cruz he’s in for a hard push in 2022/23 but it’ll be an uphill struggle with tr Pluto square his Jupiter/Pluto and opposition his Saturn/Pluto midpoints.

  Lindsey Graham, 9 July 1955, looks confused if not devastated now and in turmoil in 2022/23 with tr Pluto square his Neptune this year and then moving on to oppose his Uranus Mars. He’ll get some uplift later this month and through March but from late March he’ll slide back down the ladder into a disaster he won’t have the motivation to tackle.  In general this year is logjammed for him with Solar Arc Pluto square his Mars; with tense jolts from July onwards.

Josh Hawley, 31 December 1979, is having ups and downs this year with some light relief and a few successes spread out through just as many disasters and failures. Late February to late March this year and mid October to mid January 2022 look especially dire.

Markle family saga – a sad reality show

Meghan has won her preliminary privacy battle with the Daily Mail over publication of part of a letter to her father (so far, pending an appeal which may or may not happen.) This judicial decision saves a trial in which Meghan, her friends, her biographer, former Royal aides and her father would have been expected to appear – not a prospect the Palace would have viewed with enthusiasm. It was an unexpected ruling with some legal experts unhappy. Mark Stephens, a libel lawyer, described it as “a good day for PR men”. “You are putting manacles on the media.” he said. He pointed to a future scenario in which advantage falls to rich and powerful people who can afford sophisticated PR companies.

  The timeline as I understand it was: – Meghan’s friends, allegedly without her knowledge, gave an interview to a US news magazine in support of her and referring to a letter she wrote to her father. Her father, Thomas Markle did not accept the letter was as positive as described and wanted to balance his side by handing over the letter to the Daily Mail to publish.  The Mail’s case was in part based on the argument that Meghan knowingly supplied information to the media via friends; and had written the letter with the assistance of Palace aides, indicating she knew it would be published.

  Thomas Markle looks unsettled and pressured at the moment with tr Uranus square his Pluto and tr Saturn in opposition to his Pluto this month, in addition to the start of a two year haul of tr Pluto opposition his Cancer Sun.

  His relationship chart with Meghan also looks agitated, aggravated and tense this month with the tr Uranus square tr Saturn hitting on the composite Mars and then the composite Mercury in March and April, so there could be a kick back. And their connection continues to be mired in suspicion and disappointment as the year wears on.

   Meghan’s own chart looks mainly challenging this year with the odd stroke of luck and money rolling in. Tr Pluto will oppose her Sun/Mars midpoint from later this month, one and off till late 2022; with confusion and tensions mid year onwards. Tr Uranus square tr Saturn will be battering her Leo Sun all this year from late March onwards into 2022 for setbacks and disruptions. And into 2022 Saturn moves through her 8th tightening the money supply.

  Her relationship with the Queen is in a state of upheaval from late this month onwards and hitting more disappointment during the year with first tr Pluto conjunct the composite Uranus and then tr Neptune square the composite Sun. It’s not much better between herself and Prince Charles .

   Harry is having a sinking year with tr Neptune moving to oppose his Virgo Sun from late April onwards, on and off till January 2023. The tr Uranus square tr Saturn will hit his Saturn from mid this year and more pointedly his Midheaven in 2022, knocking him this way and that in terms of career and life’s direction. From mid 2022 tr Uranus moves across his IC and into his 4th house of family which usually coincides with a house move or relocation and it can also bring upsets in the family. And poor soul, he has a raft of difficult and blocked Solar Arcs between 2023 and 2025.

  His relationship with Meghan has that truly difficult composite Saturn Pluto square Moon which is under pressure now but will amplify with tr Pluto opposition the composite Moon in 2022/23. His relationship with his brother William will worsen this year from April onwards so there’ll be no rapprochement any time soon.

  All very sad. More so if her father dies before she sees him again. The whole scenario was hideously badly handled pre the wedding, even given the obviously tricky family relationships.

  It’s not that the tabloids can’t be rancid – the Daily Mail online gets more like a Victorian freak and horror show by the day. But picking a fight with them is usually unwise especially if you want to use them for your own ends for ‘good’ publicity. You sign a pact with the devil and the devil will have his due.   

   Meghan does appear to have added clean-up-the-media to her mission statement of do-goodery causes. It remains to be seen how much that blows back on her.

PS Additional thought. Part of the offending letter was published in the judge’s ruling and it did read as ‘manufactured’, not the kind of private letter you’d dash off to a parent. And her thoughts on her recent miscarriage read oddly as well. Despite the sad nature of the event she was describing, her language was almost novelesque.

Brandenburg Airport – fated to fail

  The jinxed Berlin Brandenburg Airport has continued its run of bad luck with the pandemic cutting passenger numbers to a tenth of the expected. Originally planned for opening in 2011, it was set to become one of Germany’s busiest, but became a national embarrassment with delays caused by poor construction planning, execution, management, and corruption. It finally opened for commercial traffic on 31 October 2020 and has now announced the closure of one of the terminals and runways.

  Construction started on 5 September 2006 when the Virgo Sun was in an exact opposition to Uranus; and it welcomed its first plane on 31 October 2020 when the Scorpio Sun was in an exact opposition to Uranus. So disruption is written into its destiny.

   The start chart also has a wannabe-grand Saturn in Leo in an undermining opposition to Neptune and square an overly- hopeful Jupiter.  The Mars in Virgo is conjunct a South Node and both are in a ruthless and frustratingly stuck square to Pluto. Mars will be rattled in 2023 by the Solar Arc Sun opposition Uranus; with more ructions in 2022 from tr Uranus square the Saturn and Neptune.

   The opening chart apart from the Sun Uranus, has the Jupiter Saturn Pluto conjunction with Mars in Aries in square – not a great time to kick start a new project into gear. There’s also a focal point Neptune squaring onto the North/South Node access for dither, delay and dashed hopes.   

Larry Flynt – sleaze merchant and provocateur

The pornographer Larry Flynt, a self-confessed smut peddler, who made gzillions out of adult entertainment and became an unlikely champion for free speech, has died. He launched Hustler magazine in the 1970s initially as advertising for his strip club businesses and it grew into a more explicit and hardcore magazine than Playboy and Penthouse, with often violent imagery or illusions involving women and children and immigrants.

  The Times described him as having an almost pathological need to cause offence. He spent his life fending off lawsuits and fought one freedom-of-speech issue up to the Supreme Court and won – turned into a movie starring Woody Harrelson.

   Flynt was shot and left paralysed in his mid-thirties by a white supremacist, angry at an interracial shoot for Hustler. By this time Flynt had been through three wives had four children, found and then lost God, and was on his fourth marriage to a 17 year old dancer described as ‘a promiscuous bisexual, [in whom] he found his perfect soulmate’. She helped him build up the Hustler empire and stood by him when he was condemned to a wheelchair. Though tragically she died a decade later, a drug addict with Aids, from a heroin overdose and drowned in the bath.

  He was born 1 November 1942 9.10 om Salyersville, Kentucky, into a dirt poor family with a sister dying of leukaemia young, his father’s drinking out of control which caused his mother to split.

  He had a Sun, Venus, Mars in Scorpio in his performing/entertainment 5th house – intense, focussed on sex, attention-demanding. His Scorpio planets all squared Pluto in the financial 2nd – immensely controlling and obsessed with money. His Pluto was further emphasised being on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine to a 12th house Saturn Uranus in Gemini trine Neptune, sextile Pluto. He grabbed for money and held on to it. His lucky Jupiter in the 2nd also helped. And he had a flamboyant Leo Moon in the 3rd.

  When he was shot in 1978 tr Saturn was square his Progressed Mars just on the cusp of his 6th house of health; with his Solar Arc Neptune approaching the devastating square to his Pluto and conjunct his Sun in the aftermath – he became dependent on powerful sedatives after a long six month recuperation in hospital.

  His fourth wife Althea, 6 November 1953 5.45 pm Marietta, Ohio, was a New Moon in Scorpio which certainly chimed with his Scorpio Sun, but her Saturn in Scorpio was oddly conjunct his Mars Venus for a fairly blocked and warped connection. Her Uranus was conjunct his 2nd house Jupiter, so she’d bring luck and innovative ideas to his money-making schemes. Her Jupiter was also conjunct his Ascendant so she’d definitely be a motivator.

  The relationship chart was oriented towards work and entertainment with a 6th and 5th house focus. With a trapped, chained-together Saturn Pluto on the IC so their domestic life wouldn’t be a ball of light hearted fun.

  Interesting to note his Venus Mars conjunction which is also found in the charts of Jeffrey Epstein, Tom Jones, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, the Thai king. Jimmy Savile had a Scorpio Sun Venus opposition Mars in Taurus. It does clearly have one manifestation which prompts excessive sexual behaviour. Though clearly will have other ways of operating since Janet Yellen also has it.

Princess Eugenie baby – an Aquarius stellium

Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank welcomed a baby son on 9 February 2021 at 8.55am London.

   He has a stellium of five planets including his Sun in Aquarius in the friendly 11th house and only missed having the Moon there as well by a few hours. His Sun, Mercury and Jupiter square a 2nd house Mars in stalwart Taurus for drive, assertiveness and a risk-taking streak, aimed in part at making and accumulating money. He has a cool Venus Saturn Jupiter in Aquarius square Uranus – so a curious mix of stubborn and rebellious. His Capricorn Moon in the late 10th house is conjunct Pluto trine Mars and sextile a 12th house Neptune – adding up to a public career, a possessive mother, an edgy approach to women and a tendency towards escapism or addiction.

  He’ll resonate with his mother who has an Aquarius Moon, Venus, Mars alongside her Aries Sun square Uranus. Their relationship chart has a cool Moon Saturn, a blissed-out Venus Neptune; a needs-space Sun Uranus; an upbeat Pluto Jupiter aspect; and the signature Royal Mars square Pluto – indicating the rigid pecking order which even filters down to children.

   His father’s Sun Taurus is conjunct his Mars for an argumentative chemistry but their relationship chart has an affectionate composite Sun Venus and an adventurous Jupiter Uranus – as well as a defensive Venus square Saturn and a power-struggling Mars square Pluto.

He’s an Air Earth type – detached and practical; and incredibly Fixed so will have endurance aplenty.

Marilyn Manson – stage depravity gets real

Marilyn Manson, the singer with a deliberately cultivated weirdo-creepy image, now sinking under a deluge of abuse allegations, has been described by Le Monde as the American nightmare. He chose his stage name to resonate with the infamous Manson killing cult, and hasn’t deviated from flaunting depravity in decades. He’s been accused by actress Evan Rachel Wood of Westworld fame of grooming her as a teenager and then going on to abuse her for years. “I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission,” she wrote on Instagram. Manson has denied the claims, but has been dropped by his manager, record label and talent agency. His two wives (one former) have refused to be drawn into commenting.

  He was born 5 January 1969 8.05pm Canton, Ohio, and has a Capricorn Sun in the performing 5th house. His Moon in Leo hidden in the 10th is not well-aspected being opposition Mercury and square a vengeful walk-on-the-dark-side Mars in Scorpio. He will have problems with women, for sure – a reservoir of dark anger in there.

  Evan Rachel Wood, 7 September 1987 1.24am Raleigh, NC, also has a tricky Moon – in her case in Pisces trine Pluto and opposition Mars; with her Mars conjunct her Sun and both square Saturn (Uranus) so she would be used to difficult relationships in childhood which would have blunted her antennae for danger and risk.  Manson’s Mars in Scorpio is conjunct her 5th house Pluto, which explains a good deal and she may initially have been attracted by his celebrity as well as the frisson of excitement he brought.  Their relationship chart has a high-tension, cold and erratic composite Moon opposition Uranus Sun square Saturn; plus a power-struggling Jupiter square Pluto.

  His first wife burlesque dancer and actress Dita von Teese, who has appeared in adult as well as mainstream films, some fetish soft-pornography, was born 28 September 1972 in Michigan. She left the marriage after seven years claiming drugs and infidelity were the cause of the split. She has a Libra Sun which is conjunct Manson’s Jupiter Uranus for a spark of adventure. More pointedly she has a volcanic Mars Pluto Sun conjunction hinting at a dominating father who was reportedly the raison d’etre for her fascination for lingerie, having seen it in his Playboy magazines when she was young. That volcanic collection are conjunct Manson’s South Node and Pluto, so she would hook into his shadowy streak.

  His present wife Lindsay Usich, a photographer, 2 October 1984, like Dita is a Sun Libra and her sensual and passionate Pluto Venus in Scorpio are conjunct Manson’s Mars for another intense connection. Her Mars Neptune in Sagittarius also squares his Pluto, so it will be a high-octane and controlling combo.  Both wives’ relationship charts with him have composite Sun Jupiters for largesse and good feelings and no indications of major aggravation. So either they didn’t/don’t care about his behaviour since it fits their pattern and preferences, or he treats them differently.

  His career looks like taking a sharp change of direction with tr Uranus conjunct his Taurus Midheaven with tr Saturn square within weeks and running throughout this year. And there’ll be serious emotional disruptions or agitated women as well with his Leo Moon also in the line of fire of tr Uranus and tr Saturn this year.  Plus a car-crash setback from tr Pluto conjunct his Mars/Saturn midpoint from late this month, on and off for two years. So the avalanche may continue to bury him.   

Royal interference or no big deal?

The shock-horror Guardian story that the Queen has interfered in parliamentary legislation where it affects her personal interests is difficult to gauge. Royal consent has been a formality for centuries and may just be a historical anachronism which has had little tangible effect. A constitutional expert said: ‘it is misleading to describe it as a veto. If consent were refused, parliament would be free to carry on legislating without it, if it chose to.’ Though it clearly adds fuel to the Republican  fire.

   Given the Queen’s age it’s difficult to extrapolate which astro-influences refer to this specific issue. She does have tr Saturn now well into her First House and lower-profile First Quadrant, so she will be either volunteering (or be forced) to do less in coming years. Three of her Midheaven midpoints will be undermined or jangled this year so she will be contemplating changes of direction anyway.  The tr Uranus square tr Saturn will hard aspect her Leo Moon from next month onwards till early 2021, which may be family upsets or concern about Prince Phillip, given her Moon is in the 7th house of partnerships.

  What may be relevant is her Coronation chart of 2 June 1953, which kicked off at 11am though the oath would come later than that. What is notable is that the Aquarius Moon on this is at the same degree as her Moon, so some upsets are to be expected this year.  More significantly there’s an undermining tr Neptune square the Mars Mercury from late this April, on and off till January 2023.

  The last time tr Neptune was in hard aspect to the Coronation Mars Mercury was in 1980 over the engagement and marriage of Prince Charles and Diana – maybe panicky premonitions of a disaster to come?  Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, last surviving granddaughter of Victoria also died.  Oddly enough tr Uranus square the Coronation Mars in 1986 oversaw the engagement and marriage of Prince Andrew to Fergie, and the death of the Duchess of Windsor.  So it has definitely mixed effects.

  Prince Charles isn’t looking too confident or upbeat this year with tr Neptune square his 5th house (of children) Mars, though that could in part be the increasingly odd behaviour of the wayward Prince Harry. 2022 will be a year of considerable setbacks with his Solar Arc Mars opposition his 2nd house Saturn, which could come with significant financial implications. Tr Uranus moving through his career 10th house will square his Pluto in 2022 as well for an upheaval or a distinct life change. One wouldn’t wish anyone away but he may find his outlook changes when his father dies. The Queen cheered up enormously though no one ever admitted it after the Queen Mother ambled off to boss the angels.