When it comes to synastry, it can be amazingly illustrative to peek into the lives of famous people. Yet we must always remember to listen to what the charts are telling us, and not what we think we know about these individuals. Nothing lies to us more than the mainstream news media, except perhaps gutter tabloids and history lessons. So now, let’s have some fun with Big Ears and his own fairytale ending! The synastry of King Charles and Queen Camilla has a lot of interesting things to show us!
To get a good grip on synastry between two individuals, it’s best to study the individual charts first. Here’s King Charles’ chart:
The first thing I was drawn to here was the Ceres-Pluto conjunction in the first house, in Leo. Leo Rising can be needy and narcissistic at its worst, and with Pluto in there as well this can manifest itself as the ultimate boomer mentality. Ceres is the nurturer, the Earth Goddess, the Mother Divine- which explains Charles’ fascination with organic farming and drive to promote that brand of living to others. But when we see that the Moon is also at a critical degree in its sign of exaltation (Taurus) and that packed fourth house including the south node, the comfort zone- we see someone who has been strongly influenced by the mother and perhaps overly coddled and suppressed by them as well. Interestingly that 0 degree Taurus moon is in conjunction to the North Node and trines Saturn in the second house, so emotional maturity and self-worth would have been a work in progress for this man for quite some time. Maybe an especially long time, given how long Taurus can take to do anything.
It is interesting to note that Queen Elizabeth was a Taurus Sun, Leo Moon. You can really see her influence all over this chart. Prince Philip was also a Leo Moon- but a Gemini Sun. Looking at Mercury in this chart, you see that it is in trine to Uranus in Gemini and in conjunction to the South Node. Charles is undoubtedly a highly intelligent man, maybe even brilliant- he would owe much of this to his father, who otherwise shows up as somewhat absent and repressive. I will also mention that the South Node in Scorpio/ Cancer as shown here is highly psychic and intuitive, so Charles would definitely have an interest in astrology and the occult.
As for the Sun, I am seeing a square to Pluto and a conjunction to Chiron here. This is not good news for Charles’ sense of self. Charles’ fifth house also contains his Sag Mars and Jupiter. You can see the playboy prince here, but a Scorpio/Leo Chiron on the Sun screams that there are terrible blocks and restrictions on this person’s ability to assert their own individuality. That first house Leo Pluto squaring a fourth house Scorpio Sun reveals someone whose drive to succeed in gaining the things they want is at odds with their own sensitive, emotional, rather introverted nature. Struggles against a dominant father and the restrictive nature of this person’s ancestry (the fourth house is all about where we come from in that regard) can make Charles his own worst enemy at times. Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is in the 8th house as well, this man strongly disavows any sort of dependency on others- but this is a fact of his life that he can’t ignore.
Obviously there is more, but it will not serve us to go into too detailed of a reading of this chart.
Now to get into Camilla’s chart!
As you can see, she has both the Sun and Moon in Cancer. This is bound to feel deeply familiar and reassuring to someone who has the South Node in Cancer, Pluto conjunct Ceres, Moon at 0 degrees Taurus- etc etc. She has so much in the 12th house as well and trines, squares and sextiles to her Neptune on the 4th house. There is something quite complex about Camilla’s upbringing as well, and I would not hesistate to say that she can be quite vulnerable, moody and prone to depression. The Moon in the 12th House loves to brood, but in domicile and in conjunction to Venus and square to Neptune as well, this person can take it to a bit of an extreme. Her Chiron is in the 4th house as well, along with Jupiter. This is a person who holds absolutely worlds inside her, but in a very secretive manner and close to her heart. I would not be fooled by the cheery public horse-riding persona, that’s her Gemini Mars and Leo Rising (with Saturn-Pluto) putting quite the spin on things. The way for such a person to cope would be to have that privacy and seclusion they need, and to dedicate themselves to a cause or practice that gives them the opportunity to express their deep feelings. Camilla would be more than happy to be a domestic goddess, in fact, she’s born to be one.
I don’t have as much to say about Camilla’s chart. My attention is called to Black Moon Lilith in the 6th house in Capricorn opposite her 12th house Cancer Sun, and that Saturn-Pluto conjunction in the ascendant. The latterly mentioned conjunction is not a very close one, but it speaks to me of those crises in self in youth that would have matured into a force to be reckoned with. Especially with a sextile to Mars in the 11th house and Pluto squaring Jupiter in the 4th house, this person may feel the odds conspire against them at times but they are able to turn all of this to their advantage- into prosperity! with patient regeneration through seas of pain and insecurity.
Black Moon Lilith here will winkle Camilla out of hiding and into public service roles, as deadly as she will find them. She has Ceres in Taurus in the 10th house, and Saturn on the ascendant. As much as she wants to be in her comfort zone, she must leave it in order to acheive the higher octave of the woman that she is. The Goddess demands she be in the public eye.
The first thing that is very striking about this is that the two have their rising sign conjunct in Leo. This will definitely help a couple overcome struggles that they face together, because their lifes’ path is the same. I would expect to see this in fated couples, or people in general who are destined to bump into each other time and time again. I see a lot of charts with the descendant on the ascendant, but that is more indicative of a relationship that is binding but not necessarily harmonious.
There is a lot of harmony here. And, also, a distinct lack of it. If you go looking for problems, you immediately see that their Venuses are square, and Camilla’s sensitive Moon is squared by Charles’ Venus. This couple has different needs when it comes to romance and feeling loved and secure. Charles has Neptune on his Libra Venus as well, so he might be as fantastical, idealistic and perfectionistic in his love relationships as Camilla is with her Moon-Venus in Cancer in the 12th. Libra is more intellectual and Cancer more emotional- Cancer will want to feel their way through things whereas Libra will want to analyse and Taurus will want to feel grounded. However, the couple share some excellent Mercury aspects and their Mercuries are compatible generally- which will help them talk out any difficulties.
I do find it interesting that Camilla has so much in Charles’ 12th house. This explains to me why it took so long for this couple to come together. 12th house overlays are absolutely not for sissies and can come with a lot of trouble, the house person will feel insecure about the planet person and the planet person can tend to see what they want to see.
I do also note that Charles’ Mars isn’t very held down in this chart, although it falls in Camilla’s 5th house. He definitely would have seen her as someone exciting to have sex with, but he would have struggled to commit to her- indeed, he married someone else! It does however conjunct with her Juno RX, which can be a marriage indicator- or it can indicate how their affair disrupted her earlier marriage in particular.
Charles’ NN/SN axis is of particular interest in this synastry. As we all know, the North and South nodes being activated can indicate the path of our karma being worked out in this relationship.
We see Camilla’s Chiron on Charles’ South Node- this couple has experienced pain and wounding together. Most definitely in other lifetimes, not just in this one. Looking to the North Node, however, we see a blessing- we see Ceres.
I have already gone into detail about Charles’ complex relationship with his more feminine side and with the Sacred Feminine in General. This coincides with Camilla’s calling out of solitude and gracious seclusion into a more public role, where she may bring benediction to a larger amount of people through acts of service and devotion, that certainly frighten and challenge her. I believe here we are called to witness a fine karmic balancing of scales of something that we may never know the full details of, that will have gone down in some of the bloodier pages of ancient royal history. Camilla undoubtedly loves Charles- her Pluto in sextile to his Venus grows stronger and sweeter and more protective over time. They are both strongly intutive, and no doubt have a strong sense about the importance of their relationship together.
In many ways this strongly lunar, emotional, secretive relationship may call too much to the comfort zones of both people (especially Charles) to be overly healthy- his South Node is in the Fourth House, and he would have loved to have kept it a secret affair (Scorpio) in order to keep the sweetness of it hidden. Yet his North Node in Taurus and Camilla’s Ceres in conjunction on it calls him to address his self worth and make something more lasting of himself in a *true* committed union with another- Hierophant styles, to the core, not like that empty lie with Diana. In this life, he need not have so much fear of opening his heart to another, the bad old days are been and done.
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