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Magic of Seven Septiles
Lady Di’s birth chart just tingled with septile
aspects. I found that this aspect – made by dividing a circle
into sevenths (51°26') – has something rather inspirational about it.[1]
Diana had seven of these aspects, linking all but two of the
planets in her chart. In fact, hers is the best septile chart you
will ever see – just as Marilyn
Monroe has the best quintile chart you’ll ever see. Queen
of Diamonds, Queen of Hearts… The fate of both of these
ladies was measured out by three cycles of Jupiter. In Di’s
chart, the septiles are pointing towards the separating Jupiter-
Saturn conjunction, an aspect traditionally very much
associated with royalty.
Diana's birth chart (Placidus cusps)
A ‘Finger of God’ configuration is also present in
this chart, also pointing towards Jupiter, the royal star. As
we shall see, this is very much the planet which made things
happen in her life. Her Mercury-Mars sextile forms 150°
aspects (quincunx) towards Jupiter. The stress, struggle and
strife of her life appears in the T-square which her Venus
makes to the Moon-Uranus opposition. Also, it was a starry chart:
Regulus, Heart of the Lion, was conjunct her North Node,
relevant to her producing royal offspring, and the star Spica,
associated with plenty, abundance and good fortune, was
conjunct her M.C., both within a degree, but Algol the
terrible ‘Medusa’s head’ was conjunct her Venus to a degree
and a half: she had two of the best stars, and one of the
worst. Her antenatal eclipse (the last prior to her birth) fell
on the degree of her Moon, 25° of Aquarius: a total solar
eclipse six months before her birth, whose path swept across
Europe, starting in France.
Golden Gifts
At the age of twenty, Diana married during a triple
Jupiter-Saturn conjunction,[2] trining that at her birth. On the
day of the wedding the Sun stood at 6° of Leo. Astrologically
this was an image of brilliance but also of folly, because a
total solar eclipse was due two days later. A total solar eclipse
is a Bad Thing for a royal wedding. The full horror-scope
of the situation started to dawn upon Diana some days before
the wedding, when she insisted on unpacking a present to
be given to Camilla, and found a gold bracelet inscribed
with the questionable initials ‘G.F.’ What did they stand for?
The account by Andrew Morton has Charles going to Camilla three
days before the wedding to give this present to his old flame:
"He took the bracelet lunchtime on Monday, we got married
on the Wednesday",[3] (p.38). Diana believed that he spent
the night with her just before the wedding.[4] Camilla’s
ascendant was at 3° Leo, so the Sun was transiting her
ascendant during this visit. Charles’s ascendant at 6° of Leo,
opposed Diana’s Jupiter at 5° of Aquarius.
Diana asked if she could pull out of the wedding,
as the truth dawned upon her, but her friends replied, "Bad
luck, Dutch, your face is on the tea-towels" (p.124) so she
had to go through with it. She later remarked, "The night
before the wedding I was very, very calm, deathly calm. I
felt I was a lamb to the slaughter. I knew it and couldn’t do
anything about it" (p.125). Neptune, the ‘Divine Dreamer’
had just passed over Diana’s Ascendant, and she suddenly
came to realise the awful illusion in which she was
enmeshed, which she had believed to be love. But Neptune
here signifies more than mere illusion, for the 'Queen of
Hearts Show' was now up and running: the image of The
Princess was to be manifested for a complete Jupiter-cycle
– with her inner anguish as the driving force.
Amidst the great pomp and splendour of the royal
wedding, on July 29th, 1981, at 1 pm as the royal couple
walked down the aisle, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, exact
within arc-minutes - i.e., to that very day - rose. The Jupiter theme
of Gustav Holst’s planet-suite, ‘I vow to thee my
country’ resounded in St Paul’s Cathedral. Diana’s natal
Jupiter (spot on Charles’ descendent) was then harmoniously
in trine to Jupiter within a degree (at 6° Libra), and opposing
the Sun. In view of the later doom of her life, let’s quote the
stirring words of this wedding-song:
‘… the love that asks
no questions,
the love that pays
the price,
and lays upon the
altar,
the final sacrifice.’
Two days later, as the newlyweds spent their
honeymoon at Balmoral in Scotland, Di was distraught to
notice her new husband wearing gold cufflinks with ‘C &
C’ inscribed upon them, a present from Camilla. This would
have been more or less the day of the total solar eclipse at
9° of Leo - conjunct Camilla’ natal Saturn! This eclipse configuration
over the wedding well displays the ‘eternal
triangle’ in which they were enmeshed. Charles’ ascendant
is locked in-between Camilla’s Saturn rising, and her
Ascendant. Saturn is related to old age, as may help us to
appreciate how Charles betrayed his wife for an older woman, as well as being relevant to a long-term relationship.
The Sun moving over those key degrees of Leo, involving
the three players at that doomed wedding, still today seems
a staggering proof of how astrology really works: no
evidence has appeared that the wedding date was chosen to
accord with these heavenly configurations.
Camilla became the regular, every-night subject of
Diana’s nightmares – with Camilla’s Moon right on Diana’s
Sun, for a total eclipse of the heart, plus Camilla’s Venus
spot-on Di’s Moon, for a dire female struggle. This woman
could make her prince happy in ways that she never could.
The compassion she radiated to others and for which we
remember her required this domestic angst. But Charles’s
Sun did oppose Diana’s Venus, completing the T-square in
her chart;[5]
and Charles’ Mars was conjunct her Ascendant,
helpful for their smart public image. Her Pluto was within a
degree of his Saturn, described by Penny Thornton as a
‘karmic link’ between them.
Princess for a Jupiter Cycle
Prince William
was born on 21 June 1982
at 9.03 pm, with the Sun
within arc-minutes of zero
Cancer, i.e. at the Summer
solstice; there had been a
solar eclipse that noon, as
fell within three degrees of
his Descendent. His chart
had ‘royal’ qualities,
astrologers found, in terms
of its Jupiter and Sun
positions, but also
Neptune was rising as
could add a visionary or
‘New Age’ quality.
Astrologers had been
quietly murmuring for
years that Charles should
not expect to become the
monarch, because his
chart lacked any solar
aspects.[6] The eclipse at
William’s birth was
partial, and belonged to a
Saros-family just petering
out. Saros families are
chains of eclipses that
occur at 18-year, 10-day
intervals. Bernadette
Brady commented: "just a
few more tiny partial
eclipses around the South
Pole are yet to occur,"[7] so
that it would end in William’s lifetime.
The radiant princess-image endured over one orbit
of Jupiter. Diana ‘resigned’ from her function as the princess,
after the royal wedding had come unraveled, as was formally
announced in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister
on December 9th, 1992. Jupiter at 10° Libra had completed
its cycle. That very night, Britons saw a total lunar eclipse
high overhead. As Geoffrey Cornelius commented, this
"visually impressive phenomenon of the Heavens" was
offering "a striking parallel to human events".[8] It was at 18° of Gemini, on her descendent within a quarter of a degree.
Thus, the brilliant Jupiter-cycle of her manifesting ‘the
Princess’ commenced with a solar eclipse conjunct Charles’
Ascendant and concluded with a lunar eclipse having the
Sun conjunct her Ascendant.
As the ‘fairy tale princess,’ a trine to Neptune was
Diana’s strongest solar aspect, whereby she could appear
as fulfilling dreams: "The public side, they wanted a fairy
princess to come and touch them and everything will turn to
gold and all their worries would be forgotten. Little did they
realise that the individual was crucifying herself inside"
(p.57) – as Di said to Andrew Morton. She would often
seek psychic guidance and believed her deceased
grandmother communicated with her (p.65) She liked water:
"I always sit by water when contemplating" (p.64) She was
herself psychic, and uttered
premonitions which came
true.
Diana decided to do
something about the way she
was being treated by the Palace,
and so she collaborated with
Andrew Morton in producing a
series of tapes. He published
Diana, Her True Story on June
16th 1992, without
acknowledging her as the
source. Jupiter at 7° Virgo was
then crossing over Diana’s
Pluto: "As the publishing date
approached, the tension at
Kensington Palace became
palpable. Her newly appointed
private secretary, Patrick
Jephsen described the
atmosphere as ‘like watching
a slowly spreading pool of
blood seeping from under a
locked door.’" (p.17), as would
befit a Pluto-transit. In the
months before the publication,
as tension built up, Jupiter was also transiting her Uranus,
North node and Mars. That was the nearest Diana came to
an act of deception.
The Uranus-Neptune conjunction of 1992/3 fell on
the Queen’s Capricorn Ascendant where it acted quite
negatively. 1993 was a disastrous year for the monarchy, as
Pluto transited Charles’ Saturn and the Queen’s Sun, the
year the Queen called her ‘annus horribilis’. These are
conjunct within two degrees, which is why Charles always
seems to do what the Queen tells him. Charles has a Venus-
Neptune conjunction within two degrees, and Jupiter stood
on the degree of his Neptune on January 12th, 1993, the
day ‘Camillagate’ hit the headlines. If Venus-Neptune
signified his dreams of love and romance, then Jupiter was
here making them public. Intimate details of his liaison with
Camilla Parker-Bowles ended up on the front pages of at
least fifty national newspapers. The British press showed
commendable restraint, only going public after the press
Down Under released the story. Later that year Windsor
castle went up in flames, by which time the marriages of the
Queen’s children had all disintegrated.
The Panorama Interview
On November 20th, 1995, Lady Diana Spencer gave
her only public interview. It was on the BBC program
‘Panorama’ and two hundred million people watched it. A
single, divorced woman talked
quietly for an hour. Down under
in Australia, it drew an audience
larger than any previous TV
program. On that day three
planets in the sky had just
crossed over Lady Di’s
Ascendant: Venus at 22°, Mars
at 23° and Jupiter at 20°
Sagittarius. Astrologically these
planets were appropriate for
Diana revealing the secrets of
her love-life (Mars-Venus) and
commenting on the royal
succession (Jupiter): she
announced that Charles would
not inherit the crown but that it
would pass straight to William.
The memorable phrases "a
crowded marriage" and "Queen
of Hearts" there appeared.
Prince Charles was
devastated by the program, not
least because Di had told none
of the Royal Family she was
making it. With his Mars (21°
Sag.) on Diana’s Ascendant, he found himself needing
psychotherapy within a week after the program. Di too was
having psychotherapy, from an American feminist, so the
royal ex-couple were both receiving treatment in the
aftermath of this triple conjunction - the Prince’s Mars-return.
The whole nation discussed the program, but I
heard no hint anywhere that a close, three-planet conjunction
had just crossed over Di’s Ascendant. For comparison, a
triple conjunction to eight degrees of orb in 6 B.C. was
supposed to have heralded the birth of Christ (Saturn, Jupiter and Mars). Then in 1603 there was a three-planet
conjunction in Ophiuchus, together with a new star, and
Kepler wrote a book about it (400 years ago, in 1606).[9] Di’s
ascendant lay in that Ophiuchus region, where the Serpentbearer
steps onto the Scorpion.
Landmines: Diana's Nemesis?
In January of 1997 Diana took the most courageous
step of her life, walking through a prepared corridor of
landmine-infested territory in Angola, as Jupiter transited
her Saturn. Landmines are a chronic problem (Chronos-
Saturn). Mother Earth had become severely infested with
one landmine in place per sixty inhabitants of Earth. It was
a situation one could only view with leaden, saturnine
despair, until Di came along. On the fifteenth of January
she made front-page headlines by calling for a total ban on
landmines, causing a storm of controversy over her entry
into politics. Diana arrived in Angola on the 13th, when her
Jupiter-transit was within a degree, as too was a malevolent
Mars-Saturn opposition in the sky, expressing the nature of
the beast. This opposition was linked by trine and sextile to
Jupiter, and Uranus was within a degree of her natal Jupiter.
Thus the heavens were empowering her to grapple with the
issue. On the 15th she walked through the field of landmines.
The right-wing military and conservatives became
annoyed with her on account of this cause, and she started
to receive warnings. In February 1997 she received an
ominous phone call from a ‘senior politician’ at Westminster,
warning her "Don’t meddle in things you don’t know about.
Accidents can happen". The therapist who worked with Lady
Di revealed this to Scotland Yard experts, and added: "Diana
believed she was going to be murdered. She always said
she would die young in unnatural circumstances".[10]
Her bodyguard Sergeant Barry Mannakee became
too close to her, and did what a bodyguard isn’t meant to
do, soon after which he ended up decapitated from a motorbike
accident on May 14th, 1987.[11] Prince Charles informed
her about this tragic event in a brutally casual manner a day
or so later as she was getting out of a car to meet some
photographers – close to or maybe on the day of Sun
conjunct Algol! Di was distraught and was convinced that
Mannakee had been bumped off by MI5. This was the time
in her life when mortal fear entered her soul: with Pluto
transiting her Neptune, Saturn on her Ascendant and the
Sun crossing her Venus-Algol.[12] Her longest-lasting affair
was with James Hewitt, and ended - he revealed to the BBC
- after he received several warnings to discontinue his
relationship with the Princess, lest a similar fate befall him.[13]
An MI5 agent visited his London flat and warned him, "If
you do not stop seeing Diana you will suffer the same fate
as Barry Mannakee and die in a road accident".[14] He took
the advice.
Hitting the 13th Column
Like Mozart, Raphael and Marilyn Monroe; like
Van Gogh and Bob Marley, Diana brilliantly fulfilled her
life in six and thirty years, three cycles of Jupiter. In March
of 1997 a conjunction of Uranus and Jupiter took place over
Di’s natal Jupiter: her three Jupiter cycles were up! The last
Full Moon she saw, on August 18th of that year, fell right
on her natal Moon. Then, the separating Uranus-Neptune
conjunction, seven degrees apart, was overshadowing the
natal position of her Jupiter-Saturn. All of these natal transits
were within half a degree.
Diana felt close to death, read books about it, had
attempted suicide on at least four occasions, and appreciated
talking to people who knew they were dying (Her Sun-trine-Neptune). The car crash while she was being driven under
‘Pons d’Alma’ in Paris, the ‘Bridge of Souls’, just after
midnight on September 1st 1997, had her 18° Sagittarius
Ascendant on the descendent. (See chart below)[15]
A solar eclipse the next day
fell on the midpoint of her Sun-trine-Neptune to half a
degree, conjoining her Pluto within three degrees (her Pluto
was in sextile to both her Sun and Neptune). The event’s
Neptunian quality ensured that the internet was soon heaving
with conspiracy theories. Brady had perceptively described
this Saros eclipse-series as having an ‘essence of brutality,’
a ‘case of death’ and ‘obsessiveness about news,’ adding
"the astrologer can expect the expression of this eclipse to
be heavy".[16]
Flowers had to be imported, as there were not
enough in England, for Britons to mourn. Jupiter in the
month after the death moved retrograde, coming back into
its third conjunction with Uranus, returning near to her natal
Jupiter. The song by Elton John about Diana beat all previous
records (even Bing Crosby’s White Christmas). Following
on from the eclipse on her Pluto at death, the next Full Moon
two weeks later became totally eclipsed soon after it rose. A
crowd of us (on Hampstead Heath) watched it reappear, with
grief in our hearts, with a sense of mystery amongst the
mists, as if Diana’s image were becoming merged with that
of the Roman Moon-goddess, her namesake. Her hopes of
finding love in marriage were eclipsed at the wedding, her
hopes of becoming queen faded at the lunar eclipse of 1992,
then her life ended with a final solar eclipse. Eclipses
glittered around the Jupiter-cycles that structured her life,
somehow precisely located, in time and space.
Her biographer Andrew Morton alluded to Diana’s
sense that her life was deeply fated. The drama of Diana’s
life is worth re-telling, but that does require an apprehension
of its astrological structure. The synchronies involved
suggest to us that her life was empowered by the macrocosm-microcosm
concordance, which made her do things at the
astrologically-correct times, only partially accounted for by her having an astrological advisor, whereby her individual
life acquired a wider significance.
In November/December 2005, Jupiter transited her
natal Neptune, the planet of conspiracy theories. That
November, the French government received a mandate from
the European Court of Human Rights, instructing it to reply
to a series of questions, such as why Di’s body was
embalmed on the very night of her death (because they had
removed a foetus?), and why the CCTV film of the crash
site had never been made available.
[17] Then in December
new revelations emerged as to how the driver Henri Paul
had not been intoxicated as had been claimed, with the blood
sample evidence being discredited; and the above-quoted
story about the death-threat made to Di also emerged. Prince
Charles was interviewed by Lord Stevens of the Paget
commission, and asked if he had murdered his wife. With
some 94% of the British people now believing she was
killed, this police commission can hardly afford to dismiss
the ‘conspiracy theories.’
Diana represented something of such deep and lasting
significance to us all. Something to do with hope. [18]
Notes & References:
Birth chart: Princess Diana’s birth information is courtesy
of AstroDatabank. Source information is from the Nov/Dec
1997 Astrological Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5, Nick Campion
writes:
“When Diana’s engagement to Charles was
announced her birth time was given as 2.00 pm on 1 July
1961, Sandringham. The time was then corrected to 7.45
pm and confirmed in a letter to Charles Harvey from the
Queen’s assistant press secretary as being from Diana’s
mother (note 15, p 168). Debbie Frank (Diana’s astrologer)
told me that in the eighteen months before Diana died she
raised the question of Diana’s birth time with her, and Diana
was insistent that she “was born in the evening.” I would
recommend that it remain the Princess’s officially recognized
birth time.”
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N.Kollerstrom and Mike O’Neill, The Eureka Effect.
Urania 1996.
The seven sertiles, indicated on Diana's chart are:
Sun-Mars and Mercury-Uranus, monoseptile
Venus-Pluto, biseptile,
Saturn-Uranus, Saturn-Mercury, Jupiter-Uranus and Jupiter-Sun, triseptiles.
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One in seven of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions are triple,
however these do not recur at regular intervals: there were
two in the 20th century.
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Page numbers are from Andrew Morton, Diana-Her
True story In Her own Words, 1997.
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Penny Thornton, From Diana with Love US 1993, not
published in UK.
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Penny Thornton’s 1982 Synastry found their Sun-opposition-Venus synastry ‘incredibly powerful,’ though
it could lead to ‘block-busting rows’: p.142. Geoffrey
Cornelius’ The Moment of Astrology, 1994, found her Tsquare
‘tremendously disruptive’, p.248.
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Charles may have some deep intelligence, seen in the Jupiter-Saturn
trine in his chart, and moreover this is in trine to his Moon, enabling him
to discern (now and then) the mood of the people, ideal for the business enterprise
schemes he gets involved with; but, he can’t have ‘the glory’
because his chart has no solar aspects; Prince William in contrast does
have royal-type qualities in his chart, e.g. Jupiter conjunct MC.
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Bernadette Brady, The Eagle and the Lark, a textbook
of predictive astrology 1992, pp.234, 307.
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Cornelius ref (5), p.253.
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Johannes Kepler, De Stella Nova, 1606, described
Saturn, Jupiter & Mars converging in Ophiuchus
(Sagittarius) in 1603.
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The Daily Express 5 Dec 2005, ‘Diana’s death Threat’.
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http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/65743/index.php
No UK newspaper breathed a whisper of this
event, until years later: I first saw this date in the Daily
Express 9.12.2004.
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Kitty Kelley The Royals NY 1997, p.347: this
happened ‘on the way to the Cannes film festival,’ on
May 7th-19th that year.
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The Times 3.6.98, on the interview with Hewitt in that
evening’s Panorama program, ‘Diana-Secrets of The
Crash.’
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The Daily Express 9.12.2000
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To obtain the 18° Sag descendent, use the 48N52, 2E20
position at 22.25 GMT.
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Brady, ref. (6), p.232 (Saros series 18 North).
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The Daily Express ‘Diana’s Baby Secret: French in
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Jon King & J. Beveridge, Diana The Hidden Evidence
2002 NY, viii.
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 Nick Kollerstrom has a Cambridge science degree and has worked as a physics schoolteacher. He is recognised throughout the astrological community for his pioneering studies that have brough his scientific background into exciting fields of research on planets, plants and metals. He has been actively involved in the study of planet-metal associations and other matters of a Hermatic nature for 30 years, and has lectured on these subjects since 1975. His work in medical research resulted in his book Lead on the Brain - a plain guide to Britain's No 1 pollutant. His investigation of lunar effects upon plant growth led in the 1980s to his gardener's guide Planting by the Moon and the popular annuals Gardening and Planting by the Moon. Nick Kollerstrom's latest title, Crop Circles: The Hidden Form, published by Wessex books, offers a new way of experiencing the crop circle mystery, through the geometry of the forms revealed in crops.
You can contact Nick by email at nk(at)astro3.demon.co.uk
© Nick Kollerstom, 2006.
Originally published in ISAR 'International Astrologer' Winter/Spring 2006
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