I have to say I have been somewhat reluctant to cover this topic, as it is such a thorny one. There’s heated accusations floating around regarding racism and other ugly things like that. Let me be clear: I myself don’t believe that anyone is superior or inferior because of ethnicity or skin colour. I just want to cover Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s synastry, because it’s so interesting!
I admit to only one prejudice and that is a prejudice against the wealthy and privileged. I know they are human beings like everyone else, but what I struggle with is the perspective that I have that they have not lived and suffered in the same way as we do. If they have mental illness, they have all the best help in the world at their disposal. They don’t have to choose between paying a counselor and paying for food and rent. So how dare they want to be treated the same as us?
However, maybe the problem here is that anyone who would want to help you when you are rich is usually only going to want to help you because of the megabucks that can be brought their way. And, when it comes down to it, no matter what you have there is nothing between you and your own mind and the choices that you and I choose to make.
Yet- is it even possible to understand these people and the choices that they have to make, the burdens that they have to bear? The full perspective is always going to be difficult to gain, and it is always going to be somewhat clouded if we have the news media in our ear on the subject telling us what we should or should not think. Yet, astrology can give us the biggest possible hope we have of ever uncovering the truth behind a situation. For you don’t have to be a genius to sense that there is something very deep at play here.
The first thing I would like to look at is Markle’s chart. Who is this person? What are her motives? Is she saint, sinner, victim or victimiser? Or- is she none of these things, which would be the obvious answer? Who is she, instead?
The first thing that’s immediately noticeable is that there’s quite a lot of rough stuff floating around her fourth house, and her Moon. This to me indicates a lot of complexity in her past and in her family of origin. Ancestrally, there is a strain of hidden power, but of turmoil and horror as well. I feel like this soul has come forth with the idea of balancing the scales.
She has the Moon in Libra, which is normally gracious, sociable and able to shed emotional burdens with relative ease. However, Markle’s Moon is conjunct a Saturn-Jupiter conjunction, and square Mars. There is a terrific burden of restriction on this person’s mind, that is not so much heavy like lead at rest- it more resembles a storm of lead, lead bullets. If anyone overthinks and wants to please everyone while at the same time being relentlessly certain that it is *impossible* to please everyone, it is this person. She stands the risk of defeating herself before she even takes her first breath of the day, because she cares too damn much about what everyone else thinks. This is further highlighted by her south node in the seventh house- she comes from an origin of people pleasing, bending to everyone else’s will.
Jupiter in there will be a mixed blessing. It will lighten the mental and emotional load somewhat, but it will also amplify things. She can be overly judgemental and critical, and much of this judgement and criticism will be leveled against herself. Her mother and her half-sister have obviously similiarly been a mixed blessing for her (the mother is represented by the Moon, siblings by the third house).
The next thing I notice is her Sun in Leo, in the first house. This is a very confident and self-focused (might be self-centrered) Sun. It sextiles the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter. Her inner and outer world are in harmony. She definitely suffers, but she does not usually struggle to open up about what’s going on inside her. That Leo Sun craves admiration and applause, but as it occupies the sign and house of the North Node, it might take time for it to be at peace with its Libra/Aquarius instincts to stand back and let someone else shine first. Mercury sextiles the same Libra planets but is conjunct the Sun- this person is smart as hell, but can get tripped up by their own ambition and desire to suceed.
She has a focussed yod to Chiron as well- which is definitely of extreme importance in the synastry. Chiron in the eleventh in Taurus can represent a social outcast, which further plays into a general lack of earth in this chart. Of course, the eleventh house is ruled by Aquarius, which corresponds to her South Node. Here she is fated to leave the commonality of humanity behind, and the sense of security that can give her. She is driven to create something new (Uranus in the 5th opposite Chiron in the 11th), something ordained by a higher spiritual destiny than that of which she may be consciously aware (Neptune sextile Uranus).
Lastly, she has Mars in the 12th house in Cancer. This is a deeply afflicted Mars, in my estimation at least. Mars does not function in a normal capacity in the 12th, and it does not function normally in Cancer as well. Men can be hidden enemies for her. In her childhood, it was not acceptable for her to express her angers or her desires in any normal kind of way. It has become crushed, it comes out sideways and eats her up from within. She certainly does still feel anger, and she’s quite an angry person with that heavy first house and that said Mars square to the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter. However, she will be more than likely passive-aggressive and covert in her expressions of anger. Anytime anything does not go her way, it would be associated in her mind with a thousand ancient wrongs going back to the beginning of time. This is the kind of person who, if you accidentally spill water on her- would be certain you did it on purpose and that you secretly hate her. She would know that because she has all the receipts on every other little thing that you did. With this Mars and her big ego, she would quite likely feel personally victimised if the toilet paper is the wrong way around on the holder- let alone when she has struggles with the British Royal Family. Did she bully staff? Quite likely. Is she a victim of a conspiracy? That goes deeper.
Why does she keep these receipts, why would she respond in this way? Growing up, that was the safest way for her to manage the environment she was living in. It is not her fault, but it is how she responds. And could this soul have similar receipts against the British Royal Family- receipts of dark and convoluted karma that we can only guess at? It might all look absurd on surface level, but on a deeper level this soul has something to speak up against.
So much for Meghan. Now let’s dig into Harry’s chart!
Harry is a triple Earth- Sun, Moon and ascendant are all in earth signs. With Saturn sextile his ascendant, this is someone with a keen sense of responsibility. He has low air- he finds it hard to stay detached and objective. His mind can struggle to find release from the overthinking characterised by his Virgo Sun and his Mercury square Uranus and sextile Pluto. Where he does find release, relief and perspective is in his love life- his Venus is in air (Libra), sextile to Uranus and Mars (both in Sagittarius). This Venus is, however, in the eighth house. He can tend towards becoming enmeshed, codependent, overly reliant on the other to provide emotional support. This is especially true with his South Node in Scorpio, in the tenth house. He needs to come down to earth and stop trying to keep such a tight grip on circumstances, to find his own bastion of comfort and security in emulating the mother in his own self (Moon in Taurus in the fourth house).
Moon in Taurus cannot forgive or forget easily, it is as stubborn as the Moon in Scorpio in this way- perhaps even more so. There are quite a lot of abandonment issues within this chart, with Jupiter and Neptune in their home turf (the 12th house) and Neptune square the Sun. With a T-square to Mercury in the eighth, this is someone with very serious and intense thought patterns. Underneath it all, however, this person does not know who they are underneath all of the responsibility.
This is not the chart of someone who would cheerfully abandon the comfort and security that comes with being a member of any royal family. That Sun is acutely conscious of power dynamics, and being threatened by both Neptune and Mars it will be happiest being top of the heap, in a role where its Virgo nature can feel it is doing some good. The Taurus Moon in the fourth house adores fine things and a comfortable home, and will not appreciate upheaval. This person doubts themselves and everyone else, and is terrified of enmeshment. This is a cynical person, who trusts noone and nothing.
What happens when the two come together? How did this brazen American with the twisted temper win the trust of this sly and cynical worry-warrior? Let’s check out the synastry:
All I can say is that I’m stunned!
This is no ordinary synastry. All my reader has to do is look at not only Harry’s Pluto squaring Meghan’s nodal axis, but also look at Harry’s Moon setting off the Yod to Meghan’s Chiron. I don’t see things like this often, but this is a marker of Fate that has been set in place via higher beings- many centuries ago. These two were destined to meet and Harry was destined to be the foundation for her outcast’s mission- a mission that will raise and elevate the both of them.
Chiron-Moon is not an easy aspect, but it is one that is often seen in the charts of married couples. Chiron will feel a responsibility towrads the mental and emotional wellbeing of the Moon. They will also see that the Moon has something to offer them that can relieve their innate suffering. This is something that wears thin over time… as the Moon tires of being conscious of Chiron’s hurt all the time. There is a potential for emotional growth and healing with this aspect, but it is not easy.
Worryingly, Meghan’s somewhat nasty Mars is exact on Harry’s descendant. He accepts any abuse with good grace, as her Mars trines his well-practiced Saturn. But as his Saturn squares her Sun and sextiles her Venus as well, I would counsel them both (were I their astrologer) that any steps taken backward by him are not because he doesn’t care for her, but because he’s concerned for their wellbeing. Harry would not be an assertive person at all- his own Sun square to Neptune gives him that weak sense of self that is quite happy to piggyback off Meghan’s stronger character. She definitely would wear the pants in this dynamic.
For of course, that is her Pluto conjunct his Venus. I did write earlier that her Pluto comes out of the depths of her family history, calling out to redress a wrong. This Pluto cozies up to his Venus, which is of course the dispositor of his Moon. She is interested in his wealth and his family background, make no mistake about that. However… when it comes to Pluto-Venus synastry, it is usually Pluto that enriches Venus, not the other way around.
Do they love one another? Absolutely. Pluto-Venus is a strong love bond that can be hellish at times, but is extremely hard to break. Venus finds intense validation in Pluto’s strong feelings and Harry is susceptible to this, as he finds a lot of relief in the expression of his Venus. Sun-Venus (Harry’s Sun, Meghan’s Venus) is a love bond, and Meghan’s Leo planets fall in Harry’s descendant- he sees her as a friend, someone he can relate to. His Mars trines her Sun- he is certainly attracted to her. But alas, I also see Mars square Venus- someone does not feel the physical attraction quite as much, and I think it would be her.
I find it interesting that Meghan’s Libra stellium squares Harry’s Capricorn Jupiter in the 12th. There is a subtle quality to him that amplifies her emotional intensity, but she is definitely interested in his wealth and status (again)- especially as so many of her planets fall in his eighth house, house of shared resources.
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So what is the future for these two? Will they stand together despite the controversy that is being thrown at them? What is the higher purpose behind this all?
I personally think that in time it will grow to be too much for Harry. His heart has been won by such a strong application to his eighth house energy, but there is nothing of enduring peace in this for him, which is what he craves most of all at a soul level. For him it is time to leave behind these high intensity dramas and rediscover his own value and his own foundations in his own way.
However, in order to do this he must first meet this woman and offer his Pluto- his regenerative, transformative power- to the wheels of her own fate. And she must offer her pain and her suffering to his roots and his family. There must be an exchange of power, wealth, resources. Harry will catapult Meghan to the fame and glory that it is hers to discover in this life, and she will bring him gently back to the earth he has been seeking with his whole being, his whole life.
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