Historical Events and Least-aspected Planets:Mundane Astrology

Pluto = 000
Venus = 120
Mercury = 130
Neptune = 210
Jupiter = 220
Sun = 242
Moon = 312
Saturn = 321
Uranus = 400
Mars = 431

Node = non-Transcendental Node (530)

[Least-aspected Pluto]

Augustus

Primary Transcendental Pluto
Sep. 23, -62
5:35 AM LMT (+00)
Rome, Italy
12E15’00”; 41N45’00”
Asc: 24VI17; Mc: 23GE19

Source: Rodden, Astro Data II, “Fagan ... [quoting] Suetonius, Lives of a Dozen Caesars.”

Additional information: Augustus (Gaius Octavius) was the adopted son of Julius Caesar. Following the “assassination” (Pluto) of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., Augustus gradually came to rule Roman Africa, Sardinia, and Sicily. After consolidating his power in the western empire he went to war with Anthony and Cleopatra.
Following his victory, Augustus became the first emperor of Rome. His “purging” (Pluto) of the Senate; “restoration / of values” (Pluto / Venus) deemed crucial to Rome; “ruthless quest for power,” “unscrupulous methods,” “dictatorial machinations” (Primary Pluto); and domestic campaign to “beautify” Rome and patronize the “arts” (Secondary Transcendental, Venus) and “belles / lettres” (Secondary Venus / Tertiary Mercury (notably, Virgil, Ovid, Livy, Horace, Propertius and Tibullus) are keynote qualities of his Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Transcendentals.

Neptune = 021
Uranus = 031
Venus = 120
Saturn = 120
Mercury = 210
Mars = 220
Jupiter = 221
Sun = 232
Pluto = 310
Moon = 322

Node = non-Transcendental Node (230)

[Least-aspected Neptune] [Uranus]

Lewis Carroll

Primary Transcendental Neptune, Secondary Transcendental Uranus.

Jan. 27 1832
3:45 AM LMT (+00)
Daresbury, England
2W38’00; 53N21’00”
Asc: 03Sa04; Mc: 01Li51

Source: Rodden, Astro Data II, p. 278, citing: “B. Arthur Blackwell quotes Parisot, Lewis Carroll, pub. 1952.”

Jupiter = 100
Venus = 121
Pluto = 220
Uranus = 221
Moon = 231
Mars = 302
Mercury = 331
Neptune = 331
Sun = 332
Saturn = 421

Node = non-Transcendental (401)

[Least-aspected Jupiter] [Venus]

Salvador Dali

Primary Transcendental Jupiter, Secondary Transcendental Venus.

May 11, 1904
8.45.00 AM GMT (+00)
Figueras
2E58’00”; 42N16’00”
Asc: 22Cn15; Mc: 03Ar11

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data IV, p. 47, citing: “B.C. in hand, Juan Trigo.”

Jupiter = 111
Saturn = 112
Mars = 211
Uranus = 212
Moon = 221
Mercury = 300
Neptune = 301
Venus = 311
Sun = 340
Pluto = 411

Node = Transcendental Node (120)

[Least-aspected Jupiter] [Saturn]

You were a Cinderella [Saturn] at the Ball [Jupiter] and now you are a sleeping beauty.
— Note inscribed on a ballet shoe found tied to the railing at Kensington Palace.

Princess Diana

Primary Transcendental Jupiter, Secondary Transcendental Saturn.

Jul. 1, 1961
7.45.00 PM GMD (-01)
Sandringham
0E30’00”; 52N50’00”
Asc: 18Sa24; Mc: 23Li03

Source: The official birth time announced by Buckingham Palace, cited by Nicholas Campion in The Astrological Journal, Nov./Dec. 1997, vol. 39, no.5, noting: “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 (p. 168, note 15). This is the time used by Debbie Frank, Diana’s astrologer for the last eight years ...” Campion goes on to explain that another time has been used for Diana: 2:15 pm; after discussing several possibilities he concludes: “It [7.45 pm] was also the time which formed the basis of the astrological advice she received throughout the nineties. Debbie Frank 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.”

Neptune = 020
Mercury = 110
Venus = 110
Saturn = 110
Uranus = 110
Moon = 132
Sun = 210
Mars = 221
Jupiter = 221
Pluto = 322

Node = non-Transcendental (330)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

Albert Einstein

Primary Transcendental Neptune.

Mar. 14, 1879
11:30 AM LMT
Ulm, Germany
10E00’00”; 48N24’00”
Asc: 11Cn39; Mc: 12Pi50

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data II, citing: “AA: Ebertin from a copy of the birth registration.”

Uranus = 000
Mercury = 030
Neptune = 121
Moon = 131
Mars = 150
Venus = 211
Sun,
Jupiter = 221
Pluto = 231
Saturn = 331

Node = Transcendental (100)

[Least-aspected Uranus]

Jane Fonda

Primary Transcendental Uranus.

Dec. 21, 1937
9:14 AM EST
Manhattan
73W59’00”; 40N46’00”
Asc: 28Cp20; Mc: 21Sc40

Source: Rodden, AstroDatabank (CD): “B.C. in hand, LMR (Formerly, Carol Tebbs quoted Peter's wife, Becky, for 7:57 PM from her.) Christopher Anderson, Citizen Jane: The Turbulent Life of Jane Fonda. Bill Davidson, Jane Fonda, An Intimate Portrait.”

Neptune = 010
Mars = 110
Jupiter = 210
Uranus = 211
Venus = 220
Saturn = 310
Pluto = 310
Mercury = 401
Sun = 421
Moon = 521

Node = non-Transcendental Node (222)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

Jerry Garcia

Primary Transcendental Neptune.

Aug. 1, 1942
12:05 PM PWT (+00)
San Francisco
122W25’00”; 37N47’00”
Asc: 19Li12; Mc: 21Cn50

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data IV, p. 74, citing: “AA: B.C. in hand, Aaron Fischer.”

Venus = 020
Mercury = 030
Mars = 041
Moon = 110
Pluto = 121
Uranus = 122
Sun = 220
Jupiter = 312
Saturn = 312
Neptune = 320

Node = Transcendental (220)

[Least-aspected Venus]

Hugh Hefner

Primary Transcendental Venus, Secondary Mercury, Tertiary Transcendental Mars.

Apr. 9, 1926
16:20 PM CST (+00)
Chicago, IL
87W39’00”; 41N51’00”
Asc: 25Vi53; Mc: 25Ge11

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data IV, p. 91, citing: “AA: B.C. in hand, Symth and Wilson. (Hugh Marston Hefner).”

Commentary: “The journalism / of Eros / and male sexuality” (Secondary Mercury / Primary Venus / Tertiary Transcendental Mars).

Mars = 010
Jupiter = 132
Moon = 302
Uranus = 310
Saturn = 311
Pluto = 400
Neptune = 410
Venus = 411
Mercury = 600
Sun = 601

Node = non-Transcendental Node (311)

[Least-aspected Mars] [Jupiter]

Jimi Hendrix

Primary Transcendental Mars, Secondary Transcendental Jupiter.

Nov. 27 1942
10:15 AM PDT (+07)
Seattle
122W20’00”; 47N36’00”
Asc: 24Sa41; Mc: 24Li12

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data II, citing: “AA: CSH” [Contemporary Sidereal Horoscopes, Clark, et al].

Mercury = 011
Mars = 100
Jupiter = 110
Uranus = 111
Sun = 211
Venus = 301
Saturn = 301
Pluto = 311
Neptune = 312
Moon = 321

Node = non-Transcendental (221)

[Least-aspected Mercury]

Washington Irving

Primary Transcendental Mercury, Secondary Mars, Tertiary Transcendental Jupiter.

Apr. 3, 1783
8.30.00 PM LMT (+00)
New York, NY
73W57’00”; 40N45’00”
Asc: 09Sc12; Mc: 17Le17

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data II, citing: “AA: R.H. Oliver, family Bible quoted by Memorial Museum.”

Sun,
Uranus,
Neptune = 111
Pluto = 120
Venus,
Mars = 210
Jupiter = 211
Mercury = 221
Saturn = 310
Moon = 311

Node = non-Transcendental (201)

[Least-aspected Sun-Uranus-Neptune]

Carl Jung

Equally aspected Primary Transcendentals Sun, Uranus, Neptune.

Jul. 26, 1875
7:32 PM GMT
Kesswil, Switzerland
9E20’00”; 47N36’00”
Asc: 15Aq20; Mc: 08Sa11

Source: Rodden, AstroDatabank (CD): “Time given by his daughter Gret Baumann in […] ‘Carl Gustav Jung: Leben, Werk, Wirkung,’ by Gerhard Wehr, 1985, Kosel-Verlag and Co, Munich, translated 1987 by Shambhala Publications. AJA 9/1962, ‘He told a member of the association that he was born when the last rays of the setting sun lit the room.’ From then on, the definition of sunset became the issue. Jim Eshelman calculated sunset for the moment that the upper limb of the sun crossed the astronomical horizon, corrected for refraction but neglecting parallax as 7:41 PM LMT. (Twilight at that date and latitude ended at 9:38 PM LMT.) In AQ 6/1964, Delphia gave 7:37 PM, Thurgen, Switzerland ‘from him.’ AQ Summer/1951 gives 8:45 PM, Kesswil ‘from him.’ AQ Fall/1954, Dr. Unger gives 7:24 PM, near Zurich. AQ Fall/1961 gives 7:30 PM, Bale, Switzerland. R.H. Oliver quotes M. Morrell of the AA staff for 7:20 PM, Berne time, Zurich ‘from New York Jungian analysts, quoting his daughter.’”

Commentary: Jung’s Primary Sun sets precisely over his birthplace in Kesswil, Switzerland.

Neptune = 102
Moon = 140
Venus = 210
Saturn = 210
Uranus = 221
Pluto = 222
Mercury = 231
Sun = 300
Mars = 301
Jupiter = 410

Node = Transcendental (110)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

Johannes Kepler

Primary Transcendental Neptune, Secondary Transcendental Moon.

Jan. 6, 1572 NS
2:37 PM LMT
Weil Der Stadt, Germany
8E52’00”; 48N45’00”
Asc: 24Ge25; Mc: 22Aq01

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data II, citing: “A: From him in his book Harmonics, Bk IV (Dec. 27, 1571 OS).”

Neptune = 002
Saturn = 110
Mars = 121
Pluto = 121
Jupiter = 121
Venus = 211
Sun = 222
Mercury = 230
Uranus = 400
Moon = 401

Node = non-Transcendental (210)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

He found himself staring into a bowl of ugly, foul-smelling moldy black mushrooms. Reluctantly, he chewed on one, washed back its terrible taste with some beer and waited for the much-touted visions to come. They came, hard [Saturn] and beautiful [Neptune] — and in the next few hours, Leary’s life changed powerfully and irrevocably. “I gave way to delight, as mystics [Neptune] have for centuries,” he wrote in Flashbacks. “Mystics come back raving about higher levels of perception, where one sees realities a hundred times more beautiful and meaningful than the reassuringly familiar scripts of normal life.... we discover abruptly that everything we accept as reality [Saturn] is just social fabrication.
— “Timothy Leary 1920-1996,” by Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, July 11-25, 1996.

Timothy Leary

Primary Transcendental Neptune, Secondary Transcendental Saturn.

Oct. 22, 1920
10.45.00 AM EDT (+04)
Springfield, MA
72W35’00”; 42N06’00”
Asc: 09Sa44; Mc: 29Vi20

Source: Lois M. Rodden, “Astro-Data II,” pp. 326-327, citing: “Steinbrecher from Springfield medical records.”

Additional information: Notably, Leary’s Transcendental Neptune tenants his Eighth House (the horoscope sector symbolizing death, transformation, metamorphosis, and rebirth). Author of The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Leary was interviewed on the subject of death shortly before his own recent demise:

Timothy Leary was fond of pointing out that the probable date of his conception was Jan. 17, 1920, the day after the start of Prohibition, the official beginning of America’s troubled attempts to regulate intoxicants and mind-altering substances in this century [Neptune] ... Nothing he has done in the years since [the 1960s] has inspired as much reaction as how he has been preparing for his death. A year and a half ago, Leary learned that he had fatal prostate cancer — and he promptly did the one thing almost nobody does in such a situation: He celebrated the news [...]
One afternoon we were talking about, well, death. I had been telling him about my last acid trip. He winked at me and laughed. “But of course,” he said. “Everybody says it’s a dying, death experience. If you don’t die, you didn’t get your money’s worth from your dealer. Dying was built right into it. Why do you think we were using the Tibetan Book of the Dead as our guiding text?” I understood then that I was talking with a man who had already died many times over. It’s like he said: That was one of acid’s core truths. It could take you into all kinds of deaths — deaths of ego, deaths of misconceptions — and you could then walk back alive. More or less.

From “Timothy Leary 1920-1996,” by Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, July 11-25, 1996.

Jupiter = 110
Moon = 120
Venus = 122
Uranus = 122
Neptune = 131
Mercury = 200
Saturn = 220
Pluto = 220
Mars = 222
Sun = 321

Node = Transcendental Node (100)

[Least-aspected Jupiter] [Moon]

Monica Lewinsky

Primary Transcendental Jupiter, Secondary Transcendental Moon.

Jul. 23, 1973
12:21 PM PDT (+07)
San Francisco, CA
122W26’00; 37N47’00”
Asc: 15Li38; Mc: 17Cn43

Source: Linda Hill, Zodiac Gazette (online), August 1998, citing: “from the Steinbrecher Data File, Birth Certificate in hand.”

Commentary: The Transcendental pairing of Jupiter and Moon rules, among other things, “excessive / oral pleasure.”

Sun = 000
Uranus = 000
Neptune = 011
Mercury = 100
Mars = 100
Pluto = 101
Moon = 301
Venus = 301
Jupiter = 301
Saturn = 401

Node = non-Transcendental Node (142)

[Least-aspected Sun-Uranus]

In my heart I prefer fame above all else, even life itself ... Love of glory has the same subtleties as the most tender passions ... In exercising a totally divine function here on earth, we must appear incapable of turmoils which would debase it.
–– Louis XIV.

Louis XIV, the Sun King

Equally aspected Primary Transcendental Sun, Uranus.

Sept. 5, 1638
11:22 PM LMT (+00)
St.-Germain-en-Laye, France
2E04’00”; 48N53’00”
Asc: 17Sc04; Mc: 03Vi06

Source: Vincent Cronin, Louis XIV, p. 21.

Commentary: Louis XIV, le roi soleil or Sun King, reigned during France’s “most brilliant” period and became a virtual symbol of the “monarchy” (Sun). His Primary Transcendental was indeed the Sun, ruler of the “monarchy” –– the “visible divinity” –– and the type of “fame, glory, grandeur, and leadership that transcends ordinary human dimensions.” His equally underaspected Primary Sun-Uranus describe his “autocratic belief / in the divine right of kingship,” which during his reign was raised to an astonishing level. His Primary Sun and Secondary Neptune frame France: Sun is positioned in a Midheaven line just east of France, while Neptune rises over the westernmost tip of the Republic.

Mercury = 021
Mars = 110
Neptune = 111
Venus = 120
Sun = 121
Uranus = 201
Moon = 212
Jupiter = 212
Saturn = 220
Pluto = 221

Node = non-Transcendental (200)

[Least-aspected Mercury]

Thomas Mann

Primary Transcendental Mercury, Secondary Mars, Tertiary Transcendental Neptune.

Jun. 6, 1875
0.15.00 PM LMT (+00)
Lubeck
10E41’00”; 53N52’00”
Asc: 21Vi57; Mc: 19Ge10

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data II, data rated ‘A’, citing: “March states, ‘from his daughter’.”

Mars = 111
Jupiter = 111
Neptune = 121
Moon = 140
Mercury = 212
Saturn = 222
Venus = 232
Uranus = 312
Pluto = 322
Sun = 410

Node = non-Transcendental (220)

[Least-aspected Mars] [Jupiter]

Elvis Presley

Equally underaspected Primary Transcendentals Mars, Jupiter.

Jan. 8, 1935
4.35.00 AM CST (+06)
Tupelo
088W43’00”; 34N16’00”
Asc: 12Sa21; Mc: 26Vi49.

Source: Lois Rodden, Astro-Data II, citing: “AA: B.C. contributed by E. Moore.”

Venus = 020
Sun = 031
Saturn = 051
Jupiter = 210
Uranus = 220
Neptune = 230
Mercury = 321
Moon = 421
Mars = 421
Pluto = 500

Node = non-Transcendental Node (510)

[Least-aspected Venus]

John Ruskin

Primary Transcendental Venus.

Feb. 8, 1819
7.30 AM LMT (+00)
London
0W06’00”; 51N31’00”
Asc: 16Aq41; Mc: 11Sa36

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data II, citing Circle #162, which cites Life and Works of John Ruskin, by W.G. Collingwood, “data from him.”

Uranus = 011
Saturn = 020
Mercury = 121
Jupiter = 121
Pluto = 121
Venus = 141
Mars = 211
Sun = 231
Moon = 311
Neptune = 321

Node = non-Transcendental Node (331)

[Least-aspected Uranus]

Patti Smith

Primary Transcendental Uranus, Secondary Transcendental Saturn.

Dec. 30, 1946
6:01 AM CST (+06)
Chicago
87W39’00”; 41N52’00”
Asc: 19 Sa27; Mc: 11Li53

Source: Richard Nolle’s online: “Celebrity Data,” citing: “Rodden, Astro-Data II, 1986. (D=A).”

Mercury = 000
Neptune = 000
Pluto = 010
Venus = 021
Mars = 131
Saturn = 201
Moon = 211
Uranus = 211
Sun = 221

Node = non-Transcendental Node (411)

[Least-aspected Neptune] [Mercury]

Kenneth Starr

Equally underaspected Primary Transcendentals Mercury, Neptune, Secondary Transcendental, Pluto.

Jul. 21, 1946
18:45 PM CST (+06)
Vernon TX
99W16’00”; 34N09’00”
Asc: 13Cp27; Mc: 03Sc23

Source: Lynda Hill, citing Rodden, “Birth Certificate in hand.” (“Bill, Monica, Starr and Tripp — An American Epidemic,” Lynda Hill, published online in the Zodiac Gazette, 1998.)

Commentary: The planetary pairing of Mercury and Neptune rules the “manipulation / of the media” and the “disseminating of / propaganda.”

Neptune = 101
Moon = 110
Saturn = 110
Pluto = 140
Uranus = 202
Mercury = 210
Venus = 302
Jupiter = 310
Mars = 410
Sun = 412

Node = non-Transcendental (220)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

Richard Wagner

Primary Transcendental Neptune.

May 22, 1813
4.00 AM LMT (+00)
Leipzig
12E20’00”; 51N19’00”
Asc: 28Ta21; Mc: 27Cp18

Source: Rodden, Astro-Data II, p. 383, citing: “Steinbrecher quotes biography by A. Ellis, ‘sunrise’.”

Neptune = 011
Jupiter = 111
Venus = 112
Saturn = 121
Pluto = 131
Mars = 311
Mercury,
Uranus = 320
Sun = 341
Moon = 411

Node = non-Transcendental (201)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

Orson Welles

Primary Transcendental Neptune.

May 6, 1915
7:00 AM CST (+06)
Kenosha, WI
87W49’00”; 42N35’00”
Asc: 24Ge21; Mc: 28Aq19

Source: Rodden, AstroDatabank (CD): “B.R. in hand, Steinbrecher. Same in CSH and GBAC, same from Barbara Leaming “Orson Welles,” citing: “Steinbrecher quotes biography by A. Ellis, ‘sunrise’.”

Moon = 021
Neptune = 100
Jupiter = 101
Uranus = 121
Venus = 200
Sun = 201
Saturn = 201
Mars = 300
Pluto = 300
Mercury = 321

Node = non-Transcendental (320)

[Least-aspected Moon]

Oprah Winfrey

Primary Transcendental Moon, Secondary Neptune, Tertiary Transcendental Jupiter.

Jan. 29, 1954
4.30.00 AM (+06)
89W35’00”; 33N03’00”
Kosciusko, MS
Asc: 29Sa41; Mc: 17Li24

Source: Rodden’s “AstroDatabank” (online), citing data source as: “From memory.” (Data rated ‘A’.): “East Coast astrologer Robert Marks quotes her from the time he was on her show in 1988, reported to LMR on 10/02/2000. Formerly, Frank C. Clifford reported, 3/ 1995, “She held a show late last year a few months before her 41st birthday in which she featured a ‘life-clock’ that shows how many hours, minutes and seconds a person has left until they reach age 80. At 12:38 PM exactly on that day, she had 344,479 hours and 12 minutes before reaching 80. This would compute to a birth time of 7:50 PM.” (Several mathematicians separately came up with the same time, which is, nonetheless, an arbitrary example of the life-clock and may or may not have come from her actual time of birth. (A quote from her is a preferable source.) (www.chartshop.com gives 6:29 PM, no source, 3/ 2000.)”

IV. World Events

Mercury = 020
Pluto = 040
Uranus = 111
Jupiter = 120
Venus = 220
Mars = 220
Neptune = 211
Sun = 222
Saturn = 321
Moon = 302

Node = non-Transcendental (301)

[Least-aspected Mercury] [Pluto] [Uranus]

The Year 2000: Greenwich, England

Primary Transcendental Mercury, Secondary Pluto, Tertiary Transcendental Uranus.

Jan. 1, 2000
00.00.00 AM GMT (+00)
Greenwich, England
80E00’00”; 51N29’00”
Asc: 07Li02; Mc: 09Cn09

Source: “Whether the millennium begins in 2000 or 2001 is not the only debate surrounding the New Year’s Eve party of the century. Just exactly where the dawn of the New Age will take place has become an international argument ... Caroline Island ... will be the first [inhabited] land to see the dawn as it crosses the International Date Line. [...] If time rather than the sunrise is the determining factor, then Greenwich, England, where each day begins at the prime meridian at 00:00 UT, will mark the official start of the year 2000.” Time Almanac 1999, p. 413.

chart=death of princess diana

Neptune = 000
Mercury = 200
Uranus = 210
Saturn = 221
Pluto = 231
Venus = 312
Jupiter = 312
Sun = 320
Moon = 402
Mars = 502

Node = Transcendental Node (042)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

Death of Princess Diana

Primary Transcendental Neptune, Secondary Mercury, Tertiary Transcendental Uranus.

Aug. 31, 1997
00.25.00 AM CED (-02)
Paris
2E20’00”; 48N52’00”
Asc: 17Ge40; Mc: 15Aq16

Source: Times, September 1, 1997. This study is based on the moment of the fatal car crash and not on the official announcement of her death (it was announced at 4:00 A.M., Paris time; 2:00 A.M. GMT).

Commentary: The international outpouring — particularly among women — of “sympathy and empathy”1 for Lady Di at the moment of her death was most extraordinary, and it was widely commented upon. The planet ruling such far-reaching empathy and concern — Neptune — was the least aspected or Transcendental Planet at that tragic moment. Of particular note: Neptune was a “triple-zero” Transcendental: with no traditional major, minor, or Ascendant / Midheaven aspects (000). Neither does Neptune make any aspects to certain other notable points, such as the Node, the Vertex, or the Equatorial Ascendant.
        Along with her other two least-aspected planets, Mercury and Uranus, we have the rather startling portrait: “A global outpouring of empathy / due to an accident or to an unforeseen set of circumstances / that occurred during a brief commute or in a vehicle of travel” (Neptune / Uranus / Mercury). Neptune is also the ruler of “drugs and alcohol,” and the use of such substances by the chauffeur who drove that night seems to have played a central role in this unfortunate event.
        The portrait becomes more fascinating when we study the horoscope houses in which the Transcendental Planets reside: Primary Neptune and Tertiary Uranus in the Ninth House of travel to foreign lands, and Secondary Mercury in the Fourth House, which rules the personal soul, the homeland, and burial. We should also keep in mind that Mercury rules journalism, the press, and the overall communication of ideas. (Some astrologers have also assigned the rulership of the “common people” to this planet.)
        With Primary Neptune in the Ninth House we can speak of “an international outpouring of empathy.” It would also be correct to assume that something of the “world-soul” or anima mundi (Neptune) is touched upon here in an immediate and direct manner: one affecting the hearts and souls of many people, regardless of national affinity. Besides the notion of “an accident or an unexpected hazard in a foreign land” (Tertiary Uranus in the Ninth), Uranus points to something else: the telic or future-oriented nature of this event. With her unexpected demise, the collective mass-perception of the core or “future personality” (Uranus) of Diana came immediately to the fore. She was, or strived to be, a humanitarian figure. Jupiter, which rules “humanitarian work,” was the least aspected or Primary Transcendental Planet in her birth chart. With her death, her future role (Uranus; the one we now imagine when we think of her, but one which was at previous times obscured by the scandals and personal problems of her life) came immediately into focus: for the first time, certain people now thought of her as a “saint” (Primary Neptune). The Church of England even felt obliged to advise the public that while Diana did perform good works, she was not in fact a modern goddess. Yet regardless of this paternalistic advice, a certain “worship” (Neptune) of Diana continues to this day.2
        Uranus also rules sudden, unexpected reversals; I have previously identified it with the “enantiodromian” function (Jung) in the psyche. In other words, when an extreme position is reached, a reversal into the opposite position or form of expression (e.g., the coup d’êtat; the political “swing” of voters from party to party; sudden shifts in the fashion, taste, or mental attitude of the social collective) may suddenly occur. With the death of Lady Di there was indeed this sudden alternating shift, not only a shift in consciousness regarding her new or future personality but one as regards the view of Diana as not only transcending scandal but as now being “godlike” or “divine” (Neptune) in some way. Who knows what a future enantiodromia may bring: we may not always remember her as such. Yet with her sudden death, Tertiary Uranus did enforce this dynamic reversal of consciousness. Enantiodromia is not merely a reversal or “seesaw like” up-and-down motion: it also works with the forward moving tendency of the psyche and its yearning for growth through reformation — that is the reason for achieving such reversals in the first place: a reformation is gained, another step toward the future position is taken. With this Uranian quality that surfaced so powerfully at Lady Di’s moment of death, the collective realization of Diana as embodying an authentic spiritual force suddenly struck home, on a global scale, for the very first time. The collective consensus was that: “Yes, indeed, in her acts there was something saintly, something beyond the “merely human, all too human,” something that transcended the ordinary personal tale.”
        Secondary Mercury in the Fourth House eerily symbolized not only the theme of travel (Venus), it also symbolized the role of the pursuing journalists — and the constant pursuit of the journalists “at home” (Fourth House) that led to the pursuits and fiascos abroad. Indeed, the role of journalism as a factor in her death was debated in the months that followed, as was the “future role / of journalism / in Britain” (Tertiary Uranus / Secondary Mercury / Mercury in the Secondary Transcendental House). As Linda Reid has written, “the Fourth House is the ultimate place of safety, an allegorical womb to which one can withdraw for periodic sustenance.”3 Yet the British journalists and their nonstop feeding frenzy for any piece of “Lady Di” left her largely unable to secure such any psychic sustenance her homeland. With the Fourth House as ruler of “conditions at the end of life” and “the grave,” we might add that they, “the media, / entombed her” (Secondary Transcendental Mercury / Fourth House).

Notes:

1. “She was mourned by more than a million people in central London who lined the route of her funeral procession; by the 2,000 mourners inside Westminster Abbey who had been invited to attend her funeral service. Tens of thousands more gathered along roadsides to say farewell as she was driven roughly 70 miles northwest of London to Althorp, her family’s ancestral home. And across the earth’s 24 time zones, hundreds of millions interrupted their waking or sleeping schedules to gather around television sets.” Time magazine, “Farewell, Diana,” September 15, 1997, pp. 29-30.
2. In his essay on Princess Diana, astrologer Nicholas Campion evokes the proper archetypal perspective when he asks: “Was Diana a saint? I would say yes, and I called her such from the moment when she began her visits to AIDS patients and lepers. But the affirmative answer is based as much upon projection of public hopes and expectations on to her as to her nature. It was not that her nature was saintly that enables her to be perceived as such, but that she became such a powerful vehicle for those public projections. It seemed to me that from that moment she took on the archetype of one of those Anglo-Saxon princesses who died young and whose shrines became healing sanctuaries.” “Diana, Princess of Wales,” The Astrological Journal, Nov./Dec.1997, vol. 39, no. 5.
3. Linda Reid, Crossing the Threshold: The Astrology of Dreaming, p. 109.

chart=sputnik1

Mercury = 030
Venus = 121
Neptune = 201
Mars = 211
Pluto = 220
Uranus = 311
Jupiter = 320
Moon = 331
Saturn = 410
Sun = 431

Node = Transcendental (140)

[Least-aspected Mercury]

Sputnik: The first satellite

Primary Transcendental Mercury, Secondary Venus, Tertiary Transcendental Neptune.

Oct. 4, 1957
9.00.00 PM GMT (+00)
Baikonur, USSR
66E03’00”; 47N50’00”
Asc: 19Le12; Mc: 06Ta 40

Source: Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, p. 504.

Commentary: The “information gathering, processing, and transmission” performed by satellites are all associated with the planet Mercury. Mercury also rules travel; in Russian, sputnik means “traveler.”

Neptune = 010
Pluto = 010
Mercury = 101
Venus = 110
Mars = 130
Saturn = 121
Sun = 131
Jupiter = 230
Moon = 231
Uranus = 311

Node = non-Transcendental (310)

[Least-aspected Neptune-Pluto]

NATO: Truman signs the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreement

Equally underaspected Primary Transcendental Neptune, Pluto; Secondary Transcendental, Mercury.

Aug. 24, 1949
11.42.00 AM EDT (+04)
Washington, D.C.
77W01’00”; 38N53’00”
Asc: 02Sc59; Mc: 08Le38

Source: Nicholas Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, p. 483.

Commentary:

Notable points include:
LAP Neptune in the Transcendental Twelfth House.
LAP Pluto in the Transcendental Tenth House.
LAP Mercury in the Secondary Transcendental Eleventh House.

MAP Uranus in the Leading Ninth House and ruler of the Leading Fourth House.
Secondary MAP Moon in the Secondary Leading Tenth House.

In the birth chart for NATO we find equally aspected Primary Transcendentals Neptune and Pluto. A Primary Neptune-Pluto Transcendental Midpoint-Field runs over Washington, D.C., which is where NATO was “born,” when President Truman finally signed the document that brought NATO into being. Indeed, the original NATO agreement was even called “The Treaty of Washington.” This chart also makes a great deal of sense if we view NATO as — now more than ever — an arm of the U.S. government, not to mention the United States military. What is of especial significance is the fact that the MAP or most-aspected planet, Uranus, runs directly over western Europe, setting precisely above the Strait of Gibraltar and touching the territories of Spain, France, Germany, and Poland, and then continuing north, over the Baltic Sea, near the southeast coast of Sweden and the northwestern coast of Russia. According to my theory, MAPs may indicate hubris when not tied-in to the numinous function symbolized by the least-aspected planets (LAPs). While Primary Transcendental Neptune is also found in its vertical, Transcendental Midheaven position directly adjacent to western Europe (fittingly, in the North Atlantic, which forms part of the NATO acronym, “North Atlantic Treaty Organization”) the question remains: Is it in Europe itself that NATO must be most careful not to overreach and suffer a fall? Or may Uranus instead symbolize the possibility of placing new and innovative thought — especially thinking that focuses on reformations leading to greater liberties within the overall social-collective matrix — in the service of Primary Transcendental Neptune and Default_XREF_styleREF Pluto? Neptune signifies the world soul, the yin-oriented global zeitgeist (Neptune): its counterpart in global transformation, Pluto, symbolizes the yang-oriented zeitgeist and its potential for deep-seated, transgenerational change.

Pluto = 011
Jupiter = 111
Uranus = 201
Mercury = 210
Saturn = 220
Venus = 221
Mars = 310
Neptune = 321
Sun = 330
Moon = 410

Node = Transcendental Node (110)

[Least-aspected Pluto]

Vatican City

Primary Transcendental Pluto.

June 7, 1929
11.00.00 AM CET (-01)
Vatican City, Rome
12E29’00”; 41N54’00”
Asc: 04Vi49; Mc: 29Ta59

Source: Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, p. 431.

chart=crash

Saturn = 012
Mars = 020
Venus = 110
Jupiter = 110
Moon = 111
Sun = 111
Pluto = 111
Neptune = 132
Uranus = 210
Mercury = 220

Node = Transcendental Node (140)

[Least-aspected Saturn]

The Great Depression: Black Thursday

Primary Transcendental Saturn, Secondary Mars, Tertiary Transcendental Venus.

Oct. 24, 1929
11.15.00 AM EST (+05)
New York City
73W57’00”; 40N45’00”
Asc: 00Cp24; Mc: 24Li10

chart=discovery of pluto

Saturn = 120
Pluto = 120
Mercury = 121
Moon = 220
Sun = 220
Mars = 310
Venus = 322
Uranus = 330
Neptune = 341
Jupiter = 501

Node = non-Transcendental (421)

[Least-aspected Saturn] [Pluto]

The Discovery of Pluto

Equally underaspected Primary Transcendentals Saturn, Pluto.

Feb. 18, 1930
04.00.00 PM MST (+07)
Flagstaff, AZ
111W39’00”; 35N12’00”
Asc: 03Le34; Mc: 23Ar16

Source: “The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet by Clyde W. Tombaugh.” Posted online by the NASA/JPL Outer Planets/Solar Probe Project.

chart=titanic departs

Uranus = 021
Mercury = 120
Saturn = 131
Moon = 141
Mars = 142
Neptune = 211
Jupiter = 220
Pluto = 221
Venus = 230
Sun = 231

Node = non-Transcendental (221)

[Least-aspected Uranus]

Titanic: Final departure from Queenstown

Primary Transcendental Uranus, Secondary Mercury, Tertiary Transcendental Saturn.

Apr. 11, 1912
01.30.00 PM GMT (+00)
Queenstown, Ireland
8W17’00”; 51N51’00”
Asc: 20Le37; Mc: 05Ta55

Source: “April 11, Thursday Morning: Capt. Smith takes the Titanic through some additional practice turns en route to Queenstown to test maneuverability. 11:30 a.m.: The Titanic rides at anchor in Queenstown harbor, about two miles from land. 113 third-class and seven second-class passengers board from tenders with 1,385 bags of mail. Seven passengers disembark. 1:30 p.m.: The starboard anchor is raised for the last time and the Titanic departs on her first transatlantic crossing for New York. Estimated total number of crew and passengers on board: 2,227.” Astrologer Claudia Dikinis, citing various historical accounts.

chart=wright brothers

Uranus = 110
Mercury = 210
Jupiter = 210
Neptune = 212
Sun = 220
Pluto = 221
Moon = 222
Mars = 231
Saturn = 321
Venus = 430

Node = non-Transcendental (302)

[Least-aspected Uranus]

The Wright Brothers: First flight

Primary Transcendental Uranus, equally underaspected Secondary Transcendentals Mercury, Jupiter.

Dec. 17, 1903
10.35.00 AM EST (+05)
Kill Devils Hills
75W39’00”; 36N01’00”
Asc: 19Aq34; Mc: 05Sa07

Source: “First acknowledged human powered flight,” Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, p. 503.

Commentary: “An invention / for travel, both short distances / and for great voyages” (Uranus / Mercury / Jupiter) — what could be a more fitting Transcendental portrait than the planetary combination of Primary Uranus / Secondary Mercury / Tertiary Jupiter? The original intention of the “inventor-brothers” (Uranus / Mercury) to use their “new invention” (Uranus) as a means of “transport and mail delivery” (Mercury) is also reflected in this Primary Uranus / Secondary Mercury Transcendental pairing.

chart=first oil strike

Neptune = 022
Saturn = 121
Venus = 122
Jupiter = 141
Mars = 200
Moon = 201
Uranus = 242
Mercury = 300
Sun = 311
Pluto = 311

Node = non-Transcendental (200)

[Least-aspected Neptune]

The first oil strike

Primary Transcendental Neptune, Secondary Saturn, Tertiary Transcendental Venus.

Aug. 28 1859
04.00.00 PM LMT (+00)
Titusville, PA
79W40’00”; 41N37’00”
Asc: 13Cp30; Mc: 08Sc57

Source: Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, pp. 479-480.

Commentary: Neptune, the planet traditionally associated with petroleum, is least aspected here and tenants the Second House of material possessions, resources and, of course, money.