The marriage between Princess Martha Louise of Norway and Californian shaman Durek Verrett, which no one thought would happen (me included), took place in Norway yesterday with her family in attendance.
Full details on both from previous post below. In brief, he has a Scorpio stellium with Sun Venus in his 10th and Mars Mercury in his 9th all trine Saturn in Cancer – charming, good at public relations and unbudgeable. His Capricorn Moon is widely opposition Saturn and square Pluto – so not soft and cuddly at an emotional level.
She has a packed 8th house with a Sun Pluto conjunction in Virgo close to Venus in Libra which in turn is conjunct Uranus plus a Scorpio Moon. Her Sun/Moon midpoint, the marriage significator is conjunct her Uranus which will not make for long term stability in relationships.
Their relationship chart has a needs-space composite Sun Uranus which is trapped in the composite 8th – and a harsh composite Mars opposition Saturn which usually points to a one sided relationship where one partner has to give up their identity/assertiveness to make it work. That element is being undermined by transiting Neptune in square from early this month on and off through till early 2026.
Which is echoed on the wedding chart – 31 August 2024 2.15pm Geiranger, Norway, which has Mars trine Neptune also being undercut till early 2026. The relationship chart also has tr Neptune Saturn opposition the composite Pluto by 2026 – confused, disappointed and stuck.
This one is a wait-watch-and-see.
Previous post: October 4 2023
Princess Martha Louise of Norway, whose alternative therapy school taught clairvoyance and communication with angels seems determined to marry her shaman fiance Durek Verrett. This despite the hair-raising stories of his life – imprisoned, bisexual, conspiracy theorist, multiple factual claims about his life that don’t check out as well as comments from previous relationships which describe him as controlling and manipulative. See his wiki page.
She was born 22 September 1971 5.07 pm Oslo, Norway and has a difficult and challenging chart with a packed 8th house containing a Virgo Sun, Pluto conjunction conjunct Venus in Libra which in turn is conjunct Uranus with her Scorpio Moon also in her 8th.
Her clairvoyant and occult interests will stem from her 8th house and she will be driven by unconscious forces she does not understand and will not have control over.
Martin Sebastian Moritz in his book Pandora’s Box, The Mysterious 8th House, points to entanglement as being an 8th house phenomenon – as well as it being a gateway to another world.
Her previous husband Ari Behn, 30 September 1972, father of her three children, who committed suicide in 2019, had his Mars in Virgo conjunct Pluto falling in her 8th as well as his Libra Sun, Mercury, Uranus.
Durek Verrett, 17 November 1974 11.25 am Sacramento, California, a 10th house Sun, Venus in Scorpio with his ambitious Mars in Scorpio conjunct his Midheaven from the 9th, has his Pluto, Uranus, Mercury, Mars all falling in her 8th. Such subterranean connections will feel fated and meant but can also be trapping, conflict-ridden and obsessive.
Her relationship chart with Durek echoes the 8th house theme with the composite Pluto, Mercury, Uranus and Sun as well as Venus all deeply buried there. There is a 10th house Moon Neptune which will be soaked up by their spiritual therapy interests. But what is damaging and destructive is a composite Mars opposition Saturn square Pluto. Mars Saturn is unkind, can be cruel and suggests a relationship where one partner has to grit their teeth and suppress their identity and needs to make it work. And that is before it locks onto the 8th house Pluto. Tr Neptune will be chiselling away at the Mars opposition Saturn in 2023/24 and opposing the Pluto in 2025/26.
I never thought it was workable though 8th house individuals can be exceedingly stubborn and impervious to advice, argument or evidence.
Hi Chris
I agree with you. Martha Louise no.1, not a good judge of character. M.L. No.2, M.L. Has stated in public that she has conversations with angels. I wonder if the princess is using this man to get revenge on her family & the Norway government. When Martha L. Was born the government & royals were in the process of changing the rules to include females in the line of succession, because younger brother Haakon was born they decided that after Prince Haakon would be heir to the throne. Now Prince H. 1st born child Princess Ingrid Alexandra gets the throne & she has a younger brother. Maybe Martha Louise thinks she was robbed of being queen. On the bright side cannot have children.
I’m not sure a full 8th is making her impervious to advice or stubborn, I do not feel that the houses in a personal natal chart relate directly to someone’s personality as with signs and planets, with the 8th house though there are strong undercurrents of ‘karma’. It’s a compulsion in dealing with a certain scenario or person that would be considered detrimental. I think the 8th doesn’t allow as much fee will compared to other houses which could be perceived by others as not willing to listen to advice.
It’s her Pluto in the 8th and Scorpio moon that’s making her stubborn about it, plus the Uranus Venus wanting to show a middle finger to family reputation whilst exposing family dirty laundrey from 8th house. She thinks she is doing this out of free will but she is not, 8th house natives are the scape goats and outlet for generational family issues.
Marie…
your comments about the 8th house and Pluto in the 8th ring very true for me.
(Pluto in 8th at 0 Virgo… plus Merc conj Uranus early Leo in the 8th).
Most certainly I have experienced this “compulsion”… in my day to day life, in dealing with multigenerational legacies, and in “exposing family dirty laundry”.
A “scapegoat and outlet for generational issues”….. Oh my.. the list goes on! 🙂
And I, too… like this princess… had to work through one ridiculous relationship with a “dark” person that forced me to go through, and not around, the 8th house portal. It becomes VERY real at some point… Who Do You Want to Be? What Will You Align With? The seduction of the darker 8th house issues is always there for an 8th house chart…. which path will you take?
mind you… it’s all been good in the end, and incredibly, deeply rewarding.
thank-you for this succinct astro insight!
I’m horrified. How could Princess Martha Louise go from being married to an accomplished, educated author, playwright, and visual artist like Ari Behn (of blessed memory) to marrying a trashy, misogynistic, conspiracy theorist, high school dropout, and convicted felon like Durek Verrett?
Derek Verrett has a long history of using and abusing people….and it’s obvious he’s only in a relationship with Princess Martha Louise for the clout, money, and the opulence.
Princess Martha Louise must either have an extremely low self-esteem or she’s very delusional and living with some form of mental illness.
Verrett is an apex narcissist, and there’s no astrology to explain that, I don’t think.
It’s the result of a traumatized brain – you never know how emotions and pain are changing your mind. In her case I suppose it’s about the guilt of the survivour after her husband’s suicide mixed with a deeply wounded ego – the Sun, Pluto conjunction might tell she didn’t want to be here in the first place. It is possible she felt dissociated emotionally from a very early age. Lilith and Moon in Via Combusta might hint there’s not much free will after all and if we take into consideration Sapolsky’s theories, none of us has much of it anyway. I’m so sorry for her.
I have mars in libra in 8th house. How can clairvoyance help me? Sun leo in 6th house. I’d like to be clairvoyant myself. Lol.