Sarah, Duchess of York, has been opening up in public prints about her mental health struggles stemming in part from her mother abandoning the family to run off with an Argentinian polo player when she was 12, leaving “profound scars” that “led to feelings of unworthiness and her subsequent eating disorders.” What slightly undermines sympathy is her cri de coeur comes in context of a puff for a Zurich clinic for billionaires which causes a breezy $109,000 PER WEEK with a probable two month stay coming in at a snip of $1m or thereabouts. The staff ratio is 20 to 1.
Overplayed diagnoses of PTSD being thrown around don’t help either.
She was born 15 October 1959 9.03am London, giving her a Libra Sun conjunct Mars on the cusp of her 12th house in an excitable sextile to Uranus. Her upfront Aries Moon in her 5th house of children and entertainment is square a 2nd house Saturn in Capricorn. She will look to her own children for nurturing in the face of a chilly maternal upbringing. Her charming, seductive (and manipulative) Pluto Venus conjunction sits on her Midheaven giving her a tendency to hang on for control. It is intriguing how often Pluto turns up when there is an absent parent – Sun Pluto etc – which should intuitively suggest a dominating, controlling parent but as often points to a parent who is outwith the control of the individual i.e. absent.
Her Moon is also on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Pluto sextile Neptune Mercury – which hints at a degree of emotional disorganization and a tendency to act in a self-defeating way. Given that her Moon is also tied into a 2nd house Saturn and into her need-to-be-grand Pluto Venus on her Midheaven, her confusion also extends to her financial mismanagement.
The oddity of her live-in arrangement with her divorced husband Prince Andrew has never been satisfactorily explained. His Scorpio Moon falls in her 1st giving her a sense of a safe environment. His ‘generous’ Jupiter falls in her financial 2nd house which would help. And his controlling Pluto, like hers, sits on her Midheaven so there is a possessiveness.
Their relationship chart has a ‘seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time’, impulsive Mars Jupiter conjunction; with an intense, power-struggling, chained-together Pluto square Mars and trine Saturn. Plus a needs-space Venus square Uranus and ditto Sun trine Uranus; and a confused composite Moon square Neptune. A hotch potch but it obviously fills a need (or different needs) in both. Both have their Sun/Moon midpoints at almost the same degree 12/13 Capricorn – not sure exactly what it means but it could indicate an underlying link.
She is recovering from cancer and with tr Uranus opposition her Jupiter from this August onwards looks upbeat and go ahead. Though tr Neptune Saturn conjunct her Moon and square her Saturn may give her cause for concerns with money and her emotional connections.
Her mother Susan Barrantes, 9 June 1937, was a New Moon in Gemini square Neptune. It was a deep and difficult relationship since Susan’s Gemini Sun Moon fell in Sarah’s 8th; and Susan’s pushily confident Pluto opposition Jupiter was square Sarah’s Sun Mars for an underlying current of bad feelings; Susan’s Saturn in Aries was conjunct Sarah’s Moon for a defensive barrier and coolness.
The relationship chart was exceptionally tough with a composite Sun Mercury Pluto opposition Saturn square Moon; with the composite Pluto square Mars. A lot of anguish and hostility wrapped up in there.
Susan Barrantes died in a car crash when she was 61 a year after Princess Diana.
See: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/23/one-billionaire-at-a-time-swiss-clinics-super-rich-rehab-therapy-paracelsus-kusnacht
Sorry Marjory, no astrology, but wondering who paid for this Zurich clinic, Prince Andrew is reportedly’ broke’.