Queen Elizabeth – not destined for an easy retirement

Sixty six years after taking up the crown the Queen might be forgiven for thinking she deserves a peaceful time as she gradually exits her arduous role as monarch. But in recent years she’s lurched from the Scottish Referendum to Brexit, seeing her kingdom at risk of fragmenting. And her favourite child, Prince Andrew, is now mired in the Epstein cesspit from which there seems no sensible escape bar disappearing down a foxhole and staying there. He’s too arrogant to volunteer but as invitations dry up for events he was supposed to attend, he may have no option.

This period is not quite as punishing as her ‘annis horribilis’ of 1992 with family divorces and the Windsor Castle fire – when tr Pluto in Scorpio square tr Saturn in Aquarius battered her midheaven and Fixed T Square of Mars Jupiter Moon Neptune to Saturn.

What is around at the moment is the July Cancer Solar Eclipse conjunct her 6^th house Pluto, creating crises and putting more pressure on her work load (and health) in coming months. Tr Saturn is also moving to cross her Ascendant from this New Year into her lower profile First Quadrant. This can take a year or so to bite and she’ll be buoyed up as tr Jupiter joins Saturn there from March 2020. But what can happen, if workaholic individuals keep pushing ahead as before, is that health issues force them to take it easier. Her Progressed Moon is moving through her 12^th house – from a few months back until October 2020 – which can be depressing, inward looking, a time of endings and clearing out.

She is known not to place too much trust in Prince Charles’s ability to take on her mantle and especially at this fraught time. Their relationship chart is under considerable strain with tr Pluto conjunct the composite Mercury Mars in 2018 to late 2019; and won’t ease up in the next few years with tr Pluto hitting on the composite Mercury Mars and Jupiter Pluto midpoints. 2021 looks like a time of real change between them with tr Uranus square the composite Sun and then conjunct the composite Uranus. At that point tr Uranus will be square her Moon, perhaps for an emotional upset.

Her Coronation chart of 2 June 1953 11 am is discouraged and confused with tr Pluto square the Saturn Neptune till late this year; and sagging badly in 2022 with tr Neptune square the Mars. It’ll be a dragged-out phase of emotional angst until late 2023 as tr Pluto clears the square to the Coronation Venus.

Her relationship with Andrew – a very Neptunian one with the composite Sun opposition Moon Neptune – will hit the skids in 2020 as tr Uranus is square the Mars opposition Pluto from May onwards.  Though she’s used enough to family skeletons and scandals having survived through Princess Margaret and the Mountbattens, Wallis Simpson and the pro-Nazi Duke of Windsor, never mind Uncle George, Duke of Kent who was definitely something else.