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The preceding eclipse of March 9th 1997 at 02h24 BST was exactly square her 18º Sag. Ascendant. Diana’s Quotidian or Q-chart - ie her natal chart re-set for that eclipse time, ‘Diana Q eclipse’ - puts the Midheaven on Saturn, cancelling the future ... and the corresponding Descendant conjoins her dwad Moon/Saturn.
In the small hours of August 31st 1997 as Diana’s daily progessed MC in Paris came to Saturn and her daily progressed Ascendant exactly to Ceres, her dwad daily progressed Descendant joined the Cancer stellium, as the dwad daily progressed Midheaven (DPMC) in sweet Libra met her natal Dwad Sun; and in that final separation of the 20th century’s most famous mother from her royal children an icon was born. |
When we composite the eclipse at London with the Princess’ radix chart, we find MC conjunct Pluto, Moon with Saturn again, and Mars in the Moon’s N. Node squaring Ascendant and Neptune, a picture of the Force Majeure that took her life at speed.
Diana began life with her fame glittering at not only her dwad Libra Sun on her tropical Midheaven but especially the conjunction in Cancer of her tropical Sun and the combined dwads of Ascendant, N.Node and Midheaven. |
Of course the same eclipse must have impacted on Prince Charles. But how does 18º Pisces relate to his nativity, apart from a trine to his Sun? In my book that is insufficient to presage the drama that unfolded. And in answering this question we return to a most important point (and the central point of this article) that is still far too often over-looked: the public persona is sidereal.
That March eclipse hit his sidereal Midheaven head-on just as it collided directly with 1066 England’s sidereal Pisces Moon - and, fitting the story of loss, England’s tropical S. Node. In addition as you can see, the eclipse’s Saturn/IC casts its dark shadow over Charles’ sidereal Moon/North Node, and his sidereal 5th/11th Jupiter-Uranus is impacted by the risen Pluto. |
His private life has suddenly gone into a very, very public crisis. Does the impact need to be any more graphic? Added trauma comes from the composite of Charles with the eclipse - Sun, Jupiter and the S. Node conjoin to square Uranus (a coalescence of bereavement and freedom) as the Moon ‘sets’ with the eclipse Saturn (conjunct his sidereal Moon/N.Node!), opposite Ascendant/Pluto - the latter only 2º from his tropical IC.
A final point: Charles and Diana were married as the sidereal Sun crowned the tropical Moon/MC - on the same axis as the England/UK tropical Capricorn Sun and the Queen’s Draconic Sun. Both Jupiter and Saturn rose; by the 1997 eclipse, Saturn was transiting the wedding Descendant, and the composite of wedding and eclipse Neptune had reached the mission-critical wedding IC. That most high-profile of marriages, in serious melt-down through1988/89 during the in coelo transit of Neptune to the ‘national axis’, was now utterly dissolved.
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To make the sidereal point even clearer, take a look now at the Abdication of King Edward VIII. The preceding Solar eclipse at 06h14m25s on June 19th 1936 fell in 27º Gemini, yes on England’s Uranus, but that’s not enough. Move to the sidereal, and now we have an intelligible pattern - the tropical eclipse, conjunct Mars and Venus in 12th-house Gemini, falls right at England’s sidereal IC, a public sexual scandal rocking the monarchy to its roots. (Significantly the eclipse at London has Chiron and Neptune on its own IC - painful dissolution again.)
Where it gets personal, therefore tropical, is this same eclipse falling conjunct Wallis Simpson’s Gemini Sun, tying her destiny with England’s ; and where it brings her smack into the public eye is through her own natal Fame pattern, sidereal Sun right on her tropical IC in 5º Gemini, which is hit by the sidereal eclipse.
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That year was destined to bring glamour and high drama into Wallis’ relationships - sidereal Neptune was schmoozing her tropical 7th cusp; tropical Pluto beguiling her from her sidereal 7th.
What about Edward? The South Node was transiting his Sun as the only major conjunction (though a crucial one and very threatening), but look again more closely. |
Although his sidereal chart is still barely affected, his Tropical, significantly personal, pattern matched to the sidereal Eclipse brings that Sun and Moon, Mars and Venus to his IC exactly squaring his Moon, and Pluto to his Sun!
Where history is in the making, one way or the other, the sidereal encounters the tropical.
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DATA:
Diana, Princess of Wales: 1/7/61, 19h45 BST, Sandringham, UK 52N50, 00E30. (Clifford)
Charles, Prince of Wales: 14/11/48, 21h14 GMT, London UK 51N30, 00W10. (Clifford)
Wedding, Charles & Diana: 29/7/81, 11h17m30s BST, London UK 51N30, 00W10.(Clifford)
England: 25/12/1066, 12h00 (+0:05:16), Westminster 51N30, 00W09. (Campion)
Wallis Simpson: 19/6/1896, 22h30 EST, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 39N43, 77W28 (Rodden)
Edward, Duke of Windsor: 23/6/1894, 21h55 GMT, Richmond, Surrey UK 51N27, 00W18 (Rodden)
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NOTES:
The ‘Q-chart’ is short for ‘Quotidian chart’. This is a chart of a person or event re-set for the natal or inceptional time of another person or event, synchronising the zone standard but normally leaving the locality unchanged. It provides a unique insight into the nature and viablity of the relationship between the two.
There is a short account of Q-charts in Sign Language 07 (last item) which you can find among Talks and Articles on my website, www.theholytwelve.co.uk.
The Dwad - the dwadashamsha - is the natural fractal of astrology. Similar to the 12th harmonic of which it is a variant, it compresses a complete ‘mini-zodiac’ within each radix sign, each mini-sign taking up 2½ radix degrees. But whereas the 12th harmonic sequence runs each time from Aries to Pisces, the Dwad sequence begins with the sign in which it is generated, finishing with the sign before. In this way the dwads map precisely onto the decanates. Example: in Leo the dwad sequence starts with Leo and ends with Cancer. My own use of the dwad is precise to its degrees and minutes, made easy now with the Vedic module of Solar Fire.
The daily progressions ‘DP’ (and daily converse progressions ‘DC’) are a refinement of direct and converse secondaries. We are used to setting up an annual progressed or converse chart that advances the MC and ASC by a degree or so, but may not go so far as to consider that in fact that MC has travelled not 1º but approximately 361º over the course of the previous year, with each passing day marked by an extra degree of MC and Ascendant. To facilitate this in Solar Fire, choose ‘Mean Quotidian’ for your Angle Progressions setting. I find the most accurate daily results come from using the natal longitude in combination with the current latitude.
Ceres, largest body in the asteroid belt, is now officially a dwarf planet, on a par with Pluto. The Great Mother and her shady son-in-law are now equals! Experience so far shows her to be prominent in charts concerning the mother-child relationship, especially where the bond is ruptured; therefore also where there is collective grief; also in matters of industry, cultivation, ecology and general provision for need. As she was first discovered by Piazzi on January 1st 1801, the same day that the United Kingdom was ‘born’, she often represents the UK in charts covering international events.
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Where history is in the making, one way or the other, the sidereal encounters the tropical.
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DATA:
Diana, Princess of Wales: 1/7/61, 19h45 BST, Sandringham, UK 52N50, 00E30. (Clifford)
Charles, Prince of Wales: 14/11/48, 21h14 GMT, London UK 51N30, 00W10. (Clifford)
Wedding, Charles & Diana: 29/7/81, 11h17m30s BST, London UK 51N30, 00W10.(Clifford)
England: 25/12/1066, 12h00 (+0:05:16), Westminster 51N30, 00W09. (Campion)
Wallis Simpson: 19/6/1896, 22h30 EST, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 39N43, 77W28 (Rodden)
Edward, Duke of Windsor: 23/6/1894, 21h55 GMT, Richmond, Surrey UK 51N27, 00W18 (Rodden)
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NOTES:
The ‘Q-chart’ is short for ‘Quotidian chart’. This is a chart of a person or event re-set for the natal or inceptional time of another person or event, synchronising the zone standard but normally leaving the locality unchanged. It provides a unique insight into the nature and viablity of the relationship between the two.
There is a short account of Q-charts in Sign Language 07 (last item) which you can find among Talks and Articles on my website, www.theholytwelve.co.uk.
The Dwad - the dwadashamsha - is the natural fractal of astrology. Similar to the 12th harmonic of which it is a variant, it compresses a complete ‘mini-zodiac’ within each radix sign, each mini-sign taking up 2½ radix degrees. But whereas the 12th harmonic sequence runs each time from Aries to Pisces, the Dwad sequence begins with the sign in which it is generated, finishing with the sign before. In this way the dwads map precisely onto the decanates. Example: in Leo the dwad sequence starts with Leo and ends with Cancer. My own use of the dwad is precise to its degrees and minutes, made easy now with the Vedic module of Solar Fire.
The daily progressions ‘DP’ (and daily converse progressions ‘DC’) are a refinement of direct and converse secondaries. We are used to setting up an annual progressed or converse chart that advances the MC and ASC by a degree or so, but may not go so far as to consider that in fact that MC has travelled not 1º but approximately 361º over the course of the previous year, with each passing day marked by an extra degree of MC and Ascendant. To facilitate this in Solar Fire, choose ‘Mean Quotidian’ for your Angle Progressions setting. I find the most accurate daily results come from using the natal longitude in combination with the current latitude.
Ceres, largest body in the asteroid belt, is now officially a dwarf planet, on a par with Pluto. The Great Mother and her shady son-in-law are now equals! Experience so far shows her to be prominent in charts concerning the mother-child relationship, especially where the bond is ruptured; therefore also where there is collective grief; also in matters of industry, cultivation, ecology and general provision for need. As she was first discovered by Piazzi on January 1st 1801, the same day that the United Kingdom was ‘born’, she often represents the UK in charts covering international events.
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