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Prince William, 21 June , 9. We may speculate about the personal issues described by the Saturn-MC-Moon contact across the two charts, and surmise that the emotional relationship between the Queen and her father was chilly but indestructible, and that a strong sense of responsibility and powerful but unspoken bonds of duty and social obligation replaced simple affection and spontaneous emotional exchange.
But here we also have two outer planets in square across the charts. This is more difficult to understand, let alone summarise in a few words. The spirit of progress, for those born with Uranus in Scorpio, seeks expression through compulsive destruction and rebuilding, through the mobilisation of survival instincts in the face of that which threatens life, and through courage in the throes of battle. Where a battle is not found, one will be created; in the King's case, there was sufficient battle going on in the world outside to satisfy any Uranus in Scorpio vision of evolution through crisis.
In stark contrast, the dream of redemption, for those born with Neptune in Leo, is expressed through a fantasy-world where all is bright and beautiful, and where one's own life is both an act of sacrifice and a symbol of divine authority for others, similarly Neptune-bound, who seek release from their own dreary lives. The Queen both shares and embodies perfectly the mythic longings of her own generation group. It is not surprising that she is unwilling to let go of them. Here, two generations collide: Such a square between parent and child, unless reinforced by personal planets, might not necessarily erupt in personal conflict.
Here there is reinforcement: He must have seemed emotionally erratic and compulsively depressed to her.
She, in turn, must have seemed incomprehensible to him - and perhaps to her mother as well, who also has the Moon in Scorpio - because the Queen is the vessel for the grandiose, chivalric dreams of a whole generation. That generation is certain of its special spiritual role, in love with a code of honour and excellence which, while noble and beautiful, may be too disconnected from the trials and tribulations of ordinary life and the egalitarian propensities of the present Uranus and Neptune transits through Aquarius. When Neptune transited through Leo, the world longed for glamour and magnificence, and needed shining models; this was the era of the great Hollywood film stars.
King George VI may have found his daughter strangely arrogant and unworldly, not because of a specific failing in her individual character, but because something else, something pervasive and powerful and universal, peeped through the personal realism and tenacity of her Taurus Sun and Capricorn Ascendant. Something profoundly intelligent appears to be at work in family patterns involving outer planet contacts. The close conjunction between his Sun and his grandmother's Moon reflects their emotional closeness.
The conjunction between his Sun and his mother's Saturn reflects the great weight of expectation he feels from her, and the degree to which it both limits and shapes his destiny. But Prince Charles also has a powerful outer planet link with the grandfather whom he knew only in childhood; Charles' Sun is exactly conjunct King George's Uranus. Charles, as an individual, embodies that search for the hidden truth which the King's Uranus generation group pursued as a collective vision of progress.
He is, in a way, the culmination in personal terms of the strivings of his grandfather's generation.
It is not in the least surprising that Charles has sought to pursue his own development, intellectually, emotionally, and sexually, in ways which must seem directly threatening to his mother's Neptunian dream. Charles, in turn, must feel bewildered, let down, and perhaps subtly manipulated by his mother, and profoundly irritated by her insistence on clinging to an ideal which, for him, is no longer valid in the world he perceives around him.
The Queen belongs to a generation group wedded to a glorious redemptive vision of grandeur and nobility. This is not in close conjunction with the Queen's Neptune, but it is a conjunction nevertheless. There is something in Charles which he shares with his Pluto generation: In this respect he instinctively feels what his mother feels, not as a romantic ideal, but as a necessity - although the square between his Pluto and his natal Sun suggests that he is in conflict with his own generation group as well as with hers.
He has more in common with his grandfather than with those of his own age. Perhaps, on some deep and inaccessible level, Charles did not feel he had the power to stand up to that Neptune in Leo vision of noblesse oblige. His natal Pluto pulls him into collusion with it. So he chose or had chosen for him, but nevertheless accepted a partner whose planetary pattern added enough fuel to his own to challenge the generational dream described by his mother's natal Neptune. There is a certain inevitability in the way in which these two women polarised as the voices of their respective generations, and in the determination with which they perceived each other as enemies.
Neptune in Leo dreams of redemption through a heart-fuelled vision of a higher, nobler world; Uranus in Leo perceives human progress in terms of the individual's capacity to break down existing authority structures to release the potential of creativity for the group. But when one puts together the explosive combination of Charles' Scorpio planets and her natal T-cross, all challenging the Queen's natal Neptune, the annus horribilis takes on an altogether different cast.
For the Queen, this marriage must have seemed to herald the disintegration of her most cherished fantasies of redemption, and Diana's generation group must seem like a guerilla army determined to spoil the party and destroy the last vestiges of royal privilege and dignity. Inevitably, Prince William will carry on this generational pattern, which hints at a long, slow evolutionary process working its way through the centuries.
William's outer planets are closely linked with personal planets in both his parents' charts: It would seem that his parents embody, on a personal level, that longing for spiritual enlightenment and hunger for meaning which is essential to the Neptune in Sagittarius generation's dream of redemption.
The "New Age" activities of both Charles and Diana will undoubtedly sit well with their son's generation group. William's Neptune in Sagittarius is trine the Queen's Neptune in Leo, and both share the fire signs' dream of a better, grander, nobler world. But for William, that world can be found only through a moral and spiritual quest, and not through an affirmation of personal specialness.
In the old days, astrologers used to talk about the outer planets as "dumb notes" in a birth chart; they were "unimportant" and not considered especially relevant to the individual's life. Now we know better, and those astrologers who study collective trends know how very powerful is the voice of the collective psyche in terms of individual destiny. When the outer planets are powerfully linked with personal planets in the birth chart, the individual is, more than others of his or her generation, a mouthpiece for the collective. Such a person needs to be able to create appropriate vehicles for that collective vision, while still maintaining individual integrity and an ego strong enough to process collective energies through personal values, aptitudes, and experience.
The child whose ego cannot contain these things may be swept along by the forces which reflect the zeitgeist under which he or she was born, sometimes achieving great creative expression and sometimes disintegrating into psychosis - or both. The child who fights against his or her generation group, and attempts to suppress the larger entity to which he or she belongs, may suffer equally.
A sense of profound isolation may be one by-product.
Another may be powerful internal and external eruptions which leave the individual feeling utterly powerless in the face of the forces of change. Links between parent and child involving the outer planets suggest that each can help the other to recognise and develop the gifts and perceptions of their different generational groups, perhaps contributing more positively to an evolutionary process in which both are required, willingly or unwillingly, to participate.
Sadly, such links often result in a furious battle which may be blamed on personal factors. Perhaps it was highly inappropriate for the Queen to blame Diana personally for her rebellion against the royal status quo; Diana was a mouthpiece for her generation, and those born with Uranus in Leo are not lightly predisposed to believe in Neptunian dreams. Leonine creative vision may be common to both, but these two outer planets are opposite in meaning and reflect, respectively, intellectual and emotional perceptions of the same dimension of life. Neptune seeks fusion with a higher unity through idealisation and self-sacrifice; Uranus seeks progress through the creation of new idealogies.
If a parent wishes to be helpful to a child when such contacts exist between the two charts, it may be important to recognise not only the child's individuality, but also what that child stands for as the representative of an entire generation. The wise parent will encourage the child to find appropriate vehicles through which collective needs and dreams may be individually expressed, rather than reacting blindly to what is perceived as a threat, or identifying blindly with what is perceived as the apotheosis of one's own generational dreams. A good example of the latter dynamic is the link between Joseph P.
The result was, inevitably, that John F. Kennedy never had a chance to become John F. Kennedy, except in the context of his father's ambitions - not personal ambitions, but those of an entire generation. A great deal of further research is needed to comprehensively map out these great collective daimones which flow down through the generations, described by outer planet links between family charts. And the natal picture is not the end of the story.
Generation significators not only link up across the natal charts of parents and children; they are also mobilised at specific times by individual outer planet transits, and during those periods when the conjoined cycles of two or three outer planets reach a critical juncture. Challenges to the dream of the globe as a fun playground also feature. In , psychic Nancy Ann Tappe claimed to see indigo-coloured auras in 97 per cent of children under 10 and in 60 per cent of older children.
Astrologically speaking, the Scorpio theme carried by Uranus from and renewed by Pluto from to accords with the indigo themes and suggests danger from drugs and patterns of habituation taken up at a young age. If you were born November to November , you have hidden reserves of sexual power and lessons to be learned from the misuse of this universal energy. It was the rare alignment of Uranus and Neptune through the early s that introduced an unpredictable, radically different version of Capricorn Earth energy to your group. A materialistic earthy impetus arose. Wild child Uranus got practical, endowing wisdom and aspiration well beyond your years, as well as the likelihood of coming of age in a time of radical social change.
Generation Z or the We Generation: Sagittarius rules beliefs and inspires crusading action. Pluto entered Sagittarius in stages through and the theme of a global community with fewer boundaries between cultures and beliefs emerged. Yet Pluto digs deep, revealing the shadows of martyrdom and intolerance that can come with strong beliefs. Adventurous Sagittarian Fire was quickly fanned into a collective spirit and greater independence by the uprising of the Air element. First, Uranus in and then Neptune in entered Aquarius and the We Generation of inclusiveness, tribal consciousness, community focus and rebellion against old authorities took its shape.
Focused ambition and community consciousness are themes flowering in maturity.
After March , Uranus in Pisces brings new dreams forward and fosters a freedom urge that plays out in the realms of science, art and altruistic pursuits when Pisces finds its feet. Pluto has finally settled into Capricorn, where it will remain until Right now, babies are being born who carry the practical passions of Pluto in Capricorn, the lofty hopes for community of Neptune in Aquarius and a sense of emotional flux via Uranus in Pisces. Astrologically, there is already a sub group: The outer planets represent a transpersonal journey and the cycles of inspiration that change our course in life.
They link individuals into age groups, with a theme unfolding over time. Thus Pluto in Capricorn empowers utilitarian values in the now, which gain status, while ambitions are more hidden. The shadow side is greed and ruthless power, while a deep, earthy spirituality lies in waiting.
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This plays out historically, but those Pluto babies must mature to find their own unique version. When the slow planets make aspects to themselves, events unfold. Born during a particular generation, we carry the energy of those planetary patterns. These patterns also stamp the history of their times with the indelible blend of the planet dance. Christine Broadbent loves her work.
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Discover the good fortune waiting for you in the 11th House. Jupiter is traveling through Scorpio until November 8, At first glance of the charts there were a few patterns that stood out immediately with a preponderance of four signs that appeared in Ascendant, Sun and Moon positions: Aquarius, Scorpio, Cancer and Leo.
I could see that none of these charts boasted five planets in a single house or sign. Clearly that type of stellium would not be a defining pattern in my family tree. However a quick analysis of the Sun, Moon and rising signs revealed results that would be difficult to ascribe to random coincidence.
In the natal charts of my eleven siblings and myself there is not one earth Sun sign. Since there are three earth signs out a total of twelve, one should expect to see an average of about a quarter of the charts boasting earth signs in any large sample. Admittedly, twelve is not a large sample, but this anomaly remains significant. This one statistic taken by itself could indeed be attributed to chance, however when I looked at the twelve rising signs in these charts, again there was not a single Earth rising sign among them.
This brought to mind a comment my Dad would make from time to time about how other men in his circle had children who were accountants, dentists and even plumbers: My Dad was a writer in his youth and very involved in community work and volunteering later in life.
Her chart ruler falls in Earth along with Jupiter in the sign of Capricorn. Thus, both parents have what most astrologers would consider a good dose of Earth one has a Moon- the other the ruler in Earth though it is not the dominant element by any means. As a couple they managed to raise twelve of us and provide a stable home where my mother lives today at the age of ninety. Next, I tallied the Moon signs by element. Here I found three Earth sign Moons, a number more like one would expect in a random universe.
Even with this sudden appearance of Earth, this finding also reinforced the theory of family patterns since my Dad had the Moon in Taurus. Neither parent had an Earth Sun or Ascendant and none of their children had either of these two Earth features.