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The End of the Noon/Midnight Puzzle

Temper, continued from last week:—Capricorn: The temper is generally cold,

and the tongue controlled.Aquarius: Courteous.Pisces: Good-tempered.

In cardinal signs the temper is usuallysharp; in mutable nagging, and in fixedsudden and violent. The above remarksapply, of course, to ordinary everydaypersons. Mercury, and to a somewhatlesser extent the Lights or ascendant, af-flicted by malefics usually corrupts thetemper. Fiery signs are usually the mostexplosive. Mars, afflicted by Uranus inFire generally causes a bad temper, andMars and Saturn are also often evil. Onthe other hand, Venus conjunct Mercury,the Lights or ascendant will usually causethe moods to be harmonious and equable.Jupiter, in similar circumstances, inclinesto good spirits and bodily health. It mustnot be forgotten how often a bad temperis really the direct results of some func-tional disorder, such as liver trouble ornervous derangement.

The End of the Noon/Midnight Puzzle

FROM time to time over the years Ihave needed to change the am/pm ina chart in order to make it work. Sub-

stitute am for pm or vice-versa. Some births,such as that of Austrian conductor Herbertvon Karajan, were strongly enough markedto make this a necessity. I put this down tothe usual errors and fuss that we are natu-rally prone to.

This changed with the chart for PopeFrancis. Hard work by Argentine astrolo-ger Claudia Rizzi turned up the new pope’shand-written birth certificate, with the timeclearly marked on it: 21:00 hours on De-cember 17, 1936. Which was interpretedto mean, 9:00 pm.

All my make-dos went straight out thewindow. At 9:00 pm on the day, the newpope was a womanizer, a sex-addict, an in-vestment banker, OR astrology was utterrubbish and a worthless guide to anythingOR 21:000 hours meant something otherthan what we thought it did.

About this time I chanced to see a localproduction of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Piratesof Penzance and its casual first act referenceto days that began and ended at noon. Notmidnight. And I remembered charts in Lilly

that were drawn for noon, not midnight, andhow strange they were. Could it be that upto and including parts of the 20th century,that birth documents were drawn up as if theday started at noon, not midnight?

Someone directed my attention to the In-ternational Meridian Conference of 1884,held in Washington, which established a defacto midnight start to the day but did notactually change any laws. So, since I “knew”that we now record births with days that startat midnight, I then set about to try and findwhen the change happened, as there seemedto be no overt record of it.

My suspicion was the change happened,unnoticed, during World War II. To test mytheory, I decided to delineate the four Beat-les, as they were all born during the war, andall of them in Liverpool. To date I have doneJohn, Paul and George (the youngest) andfound all of their birthdates to be clearlybased on a noontime start to the day. Mytheory was starting to look shabby.

My work was interrupted by the arrivalof the new Prince George. As I have beenlooking forward to his arrival for more thantwo years, I eagerly took up, not only hischart, but that of his parents, grandparentsand great-grandmother. With surprising re-sults, as you may read on pg. 2.

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The New PrinceLondon, July 22, 2013, 4:24 pm

As posted on their website, this was theofficial notice:

HER Royal Highness TheDuchess of Cambridge wassafely delivered of a son at

4.24pm.The baby weighs 8lbs 6oz.The Duke of Cambridge was present

for the birth.The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh,

The Prince of Wales, The Duchess ofCornwall, Prince Harry and membersof both families have been informed andare delighted with the news.

Her Royal Highness and her child areboth doing well and will remain in hos-pital overnight.

Notes to editors1. The medical staff present were Mr

Marcus Setchell, Surgeon-Gynaecologist, Mr Guy Thorpe-Beeston, Obstetrician and Dr SunitGodambe, Consultant Neonatologist atSt. Mary’s Hospital.

2. The names of the baby will be an-nounced in due course

3. The baby is third in the line of suc-cession after His Royal Highness ThePrince of Wales and His Royal High-ness The Duke of Cambridge. He isstyled His Royal Highness Prince[name] of Cambridge.4. A formal notice of the birth will beposted on the forecourt of BuckinghamPalace.

You will note the time of birth is speci-fied as 4:24 pm. The time was not given in a24 hour format (“04:24”), so there is no am-biguity as to morning or afternoon.

The child has now been named: GeorgeAlexander Louis. Prince George of Cam-bridge.

After waiting more than two years fromthe wedding, the birth was a disappointment.There are no angular planets. Sun and Moonare both in intercepted, along with Mercury,Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. The full moon be-stows judgement and objectivity, but inter-cepted in succeedent houses, will be largelyinvisible to his subjects. Ruler of the 7th, hisfuture queen, is found debilitated in the 9th,implying marriage to an exotic stranger.

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nus, is found in Virgo, where his queen willeither be slovenly or shrewish. Opposed toNeptune she will be out of touch and maytake up with our handsome prince in order toadvance her own agenda, whatever that maybe. Her subjects — the British people —may at first find her exotic and intriguing,but will learn better. But this is getting aheadof ourselves. George is still a tiny infant.

George has four planets in Cancer in the8th. As that is a lot to puzzle out, let us takeone planet at a time:

Sun in Cancer/8: Establish emotional se-curity/struggle. Mercury in Cancer/8: Emo-tional sensitivity, personalized/secretive,probing. Keeps grudges. Mars in Cancer/8:Personally insecure/sex magic, unpleasantdeaths in one’s immediate circle. Jupiter inCancer/8th: Good parents, loving home/in-herits a kingdom as one’s personal plaything.

All of these are opposite the Moon, mostparticularly the Sun. The full moon makesone confrontational, for better and for worse.

With Houdini, Neil Armstrong, EvelKnievel and Steve Irwin, I have establishedthat a light — Sun or Moon, usually the Moon— in the 8th house, with a planet opposing itin the 2nd, which can be the Sun, but is mostoften a malefic (Mars or Saturn), makes fora daredevil. Someone who cheats fate.

Here we have the opposite. We have theMoon, insecure and stiff in Capricorn, op-posed by a powerful 8th. When the Sun op-poses the Moon, 8 to 2, there will be a ten-dency to be reckless, even though it will befrightening to do so.

A debilitated Mars sandwiched betweenMercury and an exalted Jupiter, Mars willtend to use the other two to satisfy his owninsecurities. Which, in a life or death house,will be profound. Jupiter will magnify thoseinsecurities, while Mercury will give themingenious, as well as personalized solutions.Those with Mars in the 8th commonly attenda lot of funerals. Throw in some intense 8thhouse sexuality, note that Mars rules the 5thof sexual activity, and the conclusion I reach,which I do not like, is that this man will seemany of those close to him pass away.

If so, George may rationalize these deathsas better them than me, which is the lunaropposition putting distance between himselfand the rest of the world.

Prince George of Cambridge

WHAT a natal chart revealsabout us is accounted-for ingreat part in the pre-natal charts,

the nine covering the whole gestation pe-riod. These begin with the all-importantchart at conception, the one we call theEpoch, the first in the series of nine.

It is moreover true the chart at epoch &the chart at birth make way for each other,each in its turn. The door of the Mars-ruledFirst House opens before us as we enter theworld & the door of the Mars ruled EighthHouse closes after us as we leave on ourway back to the Mars-ruled First Houseagain because our celestial conductor is al-ways the planet nearest our planet Earth,Mars, coming & going. What we come inwith in our next epoch shall depend on whatwe do with what we have to work with inour present incarnation: something to keepever in mind.

Natal aspects reveal what is to be ex-pected after birth, and are related to thosethey sprang from in the epoch chart. Therewe see the promise of what pathology be-comes apparent in congenital defects orphysical handicaps, as well as psychologi-cal shortcomings we are to recognize inourselves & correct.

Our innate talents are special aptitudesthat did not come to us unearned: no, thechart at epoch reveals what we had alreadydone for ourselves in our preceding incar-nation & who shall say how many more ittook for us to come this far in our develop-ment? This is the answer to the question,WHY WAS I BORN?

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Houses below the horizon are more ob-scure than those above, as will be seen bycomparing the rulerships of opposite houses.Thus the third house rules short journeys andthe ninth long ones; the fourth the home andinner life, the tenth business and the outerlife, and so on.

In every respect the houses are similar tothe signs and share the positive and nega-tive, and other qualities, associated with thesigns to which they correspond. Their influ-ence, however, is more personal than that ofthe signs on account of the fact that all plan-ets pass through all the houses once a day,whereas they may stay in one sign for years.The effect of any planet in a house is entirelydifferent from its effect in any other house,and it is therefore essential to know the timeof birth and also the place, in order to ascer-tain the house position of the planets.

6. THE RELATION OF HOUSES AND PLANETS.The planets are more favourable in certainhouses than in others, just as in the case ofthe signs, and these positions are termed ac-cidental dignities and debilities. Since eachhouse always corresponds to a particular signa planet is favourable in the houses corre-sponding to its signs of house or exaltationand unfavourable in those corresponding toits detriment and fall. Thus Saturn is favour-able in the 10th house, which corresponds toCapricorn, and also in the seventh whichcorresponds to Libra, its exaltation. Apartfrom this the planets are said to “joy” in cer-tain houses, and the older astrologers gavethe following list:— Sun in 10th, Moon in3rd, Mercury in 1st, Venus in 5th, Mars in6th, Jupiter in 11th and Saturn in 12th. These,however, are not important and are usuallyignored at the present time.

3.04—MARS WITH JUPITER:The conjunction of Mars and Jupiter,

particularly when both planets have northdeclination or occupy the meridian of aningress chart, is one of the strongestcombinations for extremes of hightemperatures for the season, followed byintense electrical phenomena. Under thiscombination in northern signs, thunderstormsmanifest even in mid-winter. In summer orwarm seasons, electrical reactions follow inproportion to the intensity of the heat wave.In all seasons, any aspects between these twobodies induce a rising mercury. The 60degree angle is conducive to heat anddrought, but electrical reactions are lesslikely, unless Saturn, Uranus or Neptunecombine their configurations.

All negative aspects between Mars andJupiter, including the opposition, square and45 degree angle, also the parallel ofdeclination, are sudden storm breeders assoon as a northwest wind sets in. One mustnecessarily observe whether cold planets likeUranus or Saturn combine their influences,as conflicting currents then disturb theatmosphere. Jupiter represents oxygen andtherefore, when Mars combines its fiery ray,we may logically account for the increasednumber of fires, including forest fires as maybe indicated on April 2, 1942 when they forma conjunction in Gemini 15. Theseconjunctions develop evaporation rapidlyand near the time of such phenomenaobservations have indicated an increase inthe number of fires resulting fromspontaneous combustion. Sometimes, inwinter, during the coldest weather, sharpwinds, following temporary “warm” spellsunder Mars-Jupiter configurations are alsoprovocative of increased fire hazards. — A Text-Book of Long-Range WeatherForecasting, by George McCormack. Buy.

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IV. Parents, grandparents, descendants, realestate, fields, houses, water supply, knowl-edge of genealogy, what succeeds death andwhat happens to the dead.

V. Children, friends, clothes, pleasure, joy,little acquisition of property, accumulatedwealth of father, what was said of him athis burial-service.

VI. Sickness, defects of body, overwork, ifunfortunate accident to legs, loss of prop-erty, disease of internal organs, slaves,maids, cattle.

VII. Women, concubines, giving in marriage,marriage-feasts, contentions, partnership,losses, lawsuits.

VIII. Death and its causes, murder, poison-ing, evil effects of drugs on body, inherit-ance, wife’s property, expenditure, poverty,extreme indigence, feigning death.

IX. Travel, religion, piety, fate, seriousness,attainment of knowledge from the stars anddivination, philosophy, surveying, sharpdiscernment, trustworthiness, interpretationof visions and dreams.

X. Rule of Sultan, government with councilof nobles, absolute authority, success inbusiness, commerce, professions, well-be-haved children, liberality.

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Prince GeorgeJuly 22, 20134:24 pmLondonPlacidusMean Node

Remember that we tend to reincarnate inruts, which is to say, royals will often rein-carnate as royals. Traditionally a lot of roy-als have been in fear of their lives, their wholelife long. Palace intrigues and all that. Withthe Moon in the 2nd, opposite to the 8th, andwidely out of orb to a waning conjunction toPluto, the prince will feel inherently weakand powerless and may become fearful anddefensive and tyrannical in equal measure.

Confirmation of this is, I regret, easily tohand. The rising sign is Scorpio. The inse-cure Mars in the 8th is the chart ruler. Hewill be known for his sexuality and for thosein his immediate circle who end up dead.

There is a possible exception to this bleakpicture, and that hinges on the time.

If you run the chart for 4:24 GMT, youwill get Sagittarius rising, with Libra, notVirgo, on the MC. Jupiter in the 7th becomesthe chart ruler and the strong planet. Exalted,it dominates a weak Mars.

I regret this is the only saving grace I canfind in Prince George’s chart, that the timeof birth might be 4:24 pm GMT, not 4:24 pmBST. It is a slender thread. I sent a note to thecustodians of the Duke and Duchess’s webpage, asking for clarification, while there wasstill a chance anyone would remember. Thepage says they do not reply to emails.

AS the BST time is most likely cor-rect, the son’s chart confirms the fateof the father, Prince William. As-

tute astro-royal watchers have doubted Wil-liam would reign. As to why William willnot reign, note the absence of a Mars-Jupiteraspect in his chart. I imagine he will someday fly off on holiday and just forget to re-turn and when found and asked why, willairily dismiss his kingdom with a wave of aroyal hand as no longer of interest.

At 4:24 pm BST, George is an orphan.His 4th house, representing his father, is Pi-sces, the ruler is Jupiter, Jupiter is in the 8th,exactly conjunct Mars. At 4:24 pm BST, his10th house, representing his mother, is Virgo,which is ruled by Mercury, which is in the8th, with Mars applying. If you know yoursymbolism, you know what this means. I donot want to go further.

Instead, imagine Bill and Kate, with theinfant George in tow, are driving through thecountryside one day and stop off at a smalltavern for a bite to eat and when they aredone, these two lovebirds forget the sleep-ing George and leave him behind, forever.Whereupon he becomes an orphan, his par-ents lost to history. Which brings up:

SUCCESSION

ELIZABETH was not born to rule.The abdication of her uncle, EdwardVIII, put her in line to the throne, pro-

vided her father produced no male heir, whichhe did not. Her Mars-Jupiter conjunction, alittle more than a degree apart, made her queenat age 25, on February 6, 1952. She was bornon April 21, 1926, in London, at “2:40”.

Examination of Elizabeth’s chart is yetanother case of day starting at noon, not mid-night. Set the chart both ways and judge foryourself. The chart for 2:40 am has Capri-corn rising with the south node very nearby,ruled by Saturn in Scorpio in the midheaven.The 2:40 pm time has Virgo rising, ruled byMercury in Aries in the 8th. It also has herMoon, in Leo, very obscurely placed in the12th, where it is conjunct Neptune.

Of this woman, Wiki says, In 1950 Crawford published a biog-raphy of Elizabeth and Margaret's child-hood years entitled The Little Prin-cesses. The book describes Elizabeth’slove of horses and dogs, her orderlinessand her attitude of responsibility.Love of horses is Moon-Neptune in the

12th, of large animals. Dogs are Mars-Jupi-ter in the 6th, of pets and small animals. Or-derliness and responsibility is Virgo rising.Note that corgis must be socialized in ordernot to nip, which is a trait of Mars in theQueen’s 6th. If it had been some other plan-ets, it would have been some other dogs.Elizabeth has had around 30 corgis to date.

It is not hard to confirm a chart when thetime is right.

Her son, Charles, has his own Mars-Ju-piter conjunction, which, if you need a re-fresher, works like this:

Mars, representing the prince or princess,moves forward in the zodiac by some kindof progression, until it meets up with Jupiter,who “enlarges” or “promotes” it. If you area prince or princess, the only promotion youcan get is to become the new king or queen,hence the necessity of having Mars apply-ing to a conjunction of Jupiter in a natal chart.By contrast, if, in the case of William, Marsshould run into, say, Saturn, both planetsbeing in, I dunno, Libra, the debility of oneand the exaltation of the other, the outcomewould be different. Does Bill know his ownfate? It is hard for me to believe he does not,but on the other hand, if he did know hewould not be a helicopter pilot with theSearch and Rescue Force.

Mars and Jupiter only 9 minutes of onedegree apart in George’s chart, the new princeis for all practical purposes already the king.He will ascend at a very early age.

Which brings me back to Elizabeth andfinding her in George’s chart. The conceptof six degrees of separation is an astrologi-cal one. If you turn a chart you can find any-one and anything in it, there are no exceptions.

Having found George’s father and motherin George’s chart, we then go looking forCharles, his grandfather. As this is hisfather’s father and as the father is George’s

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4th house, then four houses from that isCharles, which is George’s 7th.

Which has a late degree of Taurus on thecusp, meaning that Charles is elderly, whichhe is. A fixed sign, Charles has been aroundsince forever, which he has, and is not goinganywhere. He is ruled by Venus in Virgo inGeorge’s 9th. To George, Charles will ap-pear strange and exotic (9th house) and justa bit fussy and puritanical (Virgo). And hewill be absent a lot. My father fell in my 9thhouse. He was rarely home.

To find Charles’ mother, the Queen, inGeorge’s chart, we count ten houses from thehouse in which we found Charles. Themother is always ten houses from where westart, which in this case was the 7th. Tenhouses from the 7th is George’s 4th. So inGeorge’s 4th house is not only George’s fa-ther, but also, as it happens, his paternal great-grandmother, the Queen. It’s the same foryou, it’s the same for me. Which in this caseis ruled by the Jupiter in the 8th. Just as withthe father, William.

So in our imaginary Sunday-afternoon-in-the-park-with-George scenario, it could bethat Bill and Kate and George, out for a drive,take a break at a roadside inn, where theyare surprised by the Queen, who invites themon holiday, but in their delight and eagerness,they mistakenly leave young George behind.A few hours later Charles is given the newsthat as the Queen has wandered off and can-not be found, he must, at last, become kingin her stead. Yes, I think that’s it.

AS for the orphan George, if it is hisfate to grow up in the palace with-out mother or father or grandparents

— as it seems he must — then his fear andparanoia as ruler may be justified. Underagerulers are commonly supervised by a regent,who rules in their stead while the years pass.These regents are typically under the thumbof the surviving parent, usually the mother, butthis may not happen in George’s case.

Why would the young orphan George befearful? Because until he can produce an heir,which is at least 20 years away, the next inline to the throne will be his uncle, Harry.You will ask, what about Kate and William,the parents? Won’t they have another? Whileanything is possible, it took Kate two yearsto produce her first child, at age 31. It maybe hard for her to produce a second. What ifshe does not?

At this point the interplay of George, Wil-liam and Harry becomes of interest and tojudge astrologically I need the various charts.The right charts this time. Not what we havelong accepted as correct.

Having established to my satisfaction thatCharles was born twelve hours later than wethink (November 1948), that Tony Blair wasborn twelve hours later than we think (May,1953), that Lady Diana Spencer was born 12hours later than commonly believed (on July2, 1961, at 7:45 am, not July 1 at 7:45 pm),I have carried the-day-starts-at-noon up tothe present, for if there had been a change inrecording birth times, from noon to midnight,it would be within living memory of justabout every astrologer on the planet. As it isnot, the astonishing conclusion is that wehave been presuming, rather than knowingthe time, and that most astrologers are un-able to read a chart, but I digress.

BUT having looked at PrinceWilliams’ chart, born on June 21,1983, at “9:03 pm” BST, I was un-

able to advance it by 12 hours. Does thismean the birth records are now based onmidnight, as we have long presumed?William’s birth was a media spectacle.William’s birth time might have been takenfrom news accounts, rather than officialrecords. In which case, let’s look at hisbrother, Harry. His birth was not a spectacle.

Harry, second child of Charles and Di,was born on September 15, 1984, at “4:20pm,” London. This will give a Capricorn ris-ing, ruled by Saturn in Scorpio late in the9th. The combination of Capricorn and Scor-pio and Saturn will make the native dark.Very dark, as well as small.

Harry is in fact a redhead, so I addedtwelve hours to his time and made his birth4:20 am on September 16. Adding 12 hoursto Harry’s official time gives him 28 Leo ris-ing. .I am not entirely happy with Leo risingproducing redheads, but Capricorn will not.Harry’s red hair might be from the ruler, theSun, in late Virgo. Carter says fire signs whenrising produce fine hair that burns away. (AsWilliam’s hair is burning away we may takethat as a confirmation of a fire sign rising.)

Leo rising relates Harry to his mother,who also had Leo rising and a definite maneof hair. As the choice is Capricorn rising orLeo rising, I opt for Leo. So let’s go find thenew prince in Uncle Harry’s Leo chart.

One’s siblings are shown by the 3rdhouse. In Harry’s revised chart, the thirdhouse has Libra on the cusp, with Venus inLibra hard on it. As Venus rules Libra, wemay say at once that Harry loves his brotherWilliam unconditionally, and always will.

In Harry’s chart, William’s child, whomwe know as George, may be found fivehouses from Harry’s 3rd, which is the 7th.

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the cusp, which is ruled by Saturn. We findSaturn, in Harry’s chart, a little shy of 13Scorpio. Taking Harry’s Saturn and goingto George’s chart, we find Scorpio onGeorge’s ascendant. Which means thatHarry’s Saturn will turn up in George’s 12th,in the same sign as the ascendant, which isunfortunate. Ronald Davison, whose book,Synastry, I use for basic chart-to-chart de-lineation, says that George may not feel atease in Harry’s presence.

Note that Harry’s Saturn sits exactly onGeorge’s north node. If it was the south nodewe would be okay, as the south node is anenergy drain, just like Saturn itself. Harry’sSaturn on George’s south node would occupyitself mopping up the vomit.

The north node, on the other hand, is anenergy inlet. Harry’s Saturn on George’snorth node lets him pour in soured SaturnineScorpio energy, which is not good. IfGeorge’s mother and father disappear, and ifGeorge has outlived his grandfather and greatgrandmother, Uncle Harry is about all thefamily he will have, for better or worse.

WHERE this becomes interestingis that Harry, not William, hasthe sign of the king in his chart:

A very wide applying conjunction of Mars,at 17 Sagittarius, to Jupiter, at 3 Capricorn.Yes, yes, yes, Neptune at 28 Sag is in theway, but the ancients knew nothing aboutNeptune and we might, for sake of argument,imagine it not to be there.

Note that in Harry’s chart Jupiter rulesMars and so will welcome his advances, inother words, be eager to make him a king,one way or another. In its turn, Harry’s Jupi-ter is ruled by Saturn, which is in Scorpio,which is, on the one hand, ruled by Mars, rep-resenting the prince hunting for his throne, aswell as ruling brother William’s newborn babyboy, at least, so far as Harry is concerned.

So what about Harry’s Neptune? Theplanet that keeps his Mars, a heat-seekingSagittarian missile, from finding his Jupiter,his own personal king-maker?

Aside from being imaginary to the an-cients, Harry’s Neptune is exactly 30 degreesfrom George’s Moon. To the degree. Re-member that in all charts the Moon repre-sents the physical body. This makes Harry’sNeptune an influence on the young George,albeit a minor one.

So if Harry is second in line to the throne,then will George have children?

So far as George’s eventual issue, Aries onthe 5th house cusp burns up children. Ruler-of-children Mars in the 8th is not good, I shouldnot need to explain why. George’s Moon isnot fertile, the Sun is in its last degree and notin a good house. George may be childless.

In which case, if George has no brothersor sisters, then the throne passes to Harry, orto Harry’s children. Again: Harry has themark of kingship in his chart, but if it comesto him, it will be by indirect means (the Nep-tune thing) and he will be elderly when itdoes (change of signs, Mars to Jupiter). Notethat Harry’s Mars is just outside of, and try-ing to get into, his 5th, of children, where itwill find Jupiter, in Capricorn, the sign ofgovernment and rule. Harry’s chart may wellmake his descendants kings, presumingHarry himself has children. I regret to sayHarry’s chart is largely infertile, both pm andam versions.

At this point I could regale you with sto-ries of finding George’s hyleg, the giver of life,and then his alcohoden, the giver of years. Aswell as the same for Harry, but I will draw backfrom that.

AS for myself, I first forecast the birthof George on May 10, 2011, inthese words,

Above it all as well, Charles’ grand-

son, yet to be born, who will rule froman early age. He already has the prom-ise of Mars and Jupiter conjunct.Which puts his birth in July, 2013, theconjunction in Cancer. Conjunct hismother and father, in square to theirwedding vows. (Reprinted in DuelsAt Dawn, pg. 70)And again, on October 2, 2012: Birth

should be the second or third week of July,2013, the closer to the 21st, the sooner theindividual becomes king/queen.

And for a third time, on December 11,2012: So if there is, at last, to be a king, andif he is to be born of the Duchess of Cam-bridge, he must be born on or around the22nd of July, 2013.

These last two were scheduled to be partof my 4th book of essays, tentatively entitled,Quad Bike Analysis, but so much has hap-pened to me since I laid the book out in Janu-ary of this year. As we now know, Georgewas born, on schedule, on the 22nd of July,2013.

Evangeline Adams became an overnightsuccess when she predicted a hotel fire forthe very next day. Beats me how she did it.All I did was to know a simple trick aboutroyal births and to use this newsletter to tellyou about it. Will the finer points of astrol-ogy always be hidden away, or will this be-come common knowledge some day?

So will I become the next royal astrolo-ger, presuming there is such a position? Iam somehow not holding my breath, but Iwould advise the royals to be exceedinglycautious for the next several years. We loveyou all dearly.

On the following pages are my revisedcharts for this strange family, along with briefnotes:

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Prince CharlesNovember 15, 19489:14 am GMTLondonPlacidusMean Node

Lady Dina SpencerJuly 2, 19617:45 amSandringhamPlacidusMean Node

Prince Charles. His data is tradition-ally given as the 14th, at 9:14 pm, witha Leo rising, Sun in the 5th, which

makes for an idle playboy and someone whowould likely oust his mother as sovereign, atleast in his own mind.

The correct chart, set for the official timein the legal fashion, produces Sagittarius ris-ing and his horsey face. Mars in Sag in thefirst house is a go-anywhere, do-anything,try-it-once kind of guy. Neptune on the MC,there is a general confusion about who he isand what he’s up to, which is not his opinionof himself, by the way.

His marriage problems are simply told.Ruler of the 7th, Mercury, in the 11th, he mis-takes friends as partners. Disastrously so,with Mercury’s conjunction with the southnode. Opposed to the Moon in Taurus, he isunable to commit emotionally to the womanin front of him and so hesitates, to his detri-ment. As with all oppositions, when the firsttime is a mistake, the second time is a charm.Camilla would have been his bride in the1970’s, if he had only asked. Instead there

Lady Diana Spencer. Her accepted data is July 1, 1961, at7:45 pm, Sandringham. For many years there was greatconfusion with her birth times, in part as no one could make

either 7:45 pm, or 2:00 pm work, so far as transits and progressionsand arcs and such. Since neither 2:00 nor 7:45 pm were right, thiswould be understandable. Eventually the 7:45 “pm” time stuckand we forgot the fuss.

Her accepted time of birth gives her a Sagittarius rising, whichmeans her house cusps would more or less match those of herhusband’s, which is powerfully compatible all by itself, as I’ve meta few people who had the same cusps as Ido. It was clear to all of us that the Princeand Princess of Wales were never remotelyclose in this fashion.

Advancing the clock by 12 hours solvesthis and many other problems. Again, if youare skeptical, the legal day has, for centu-ries, began and ended at noon. At 7:45 amthe next morning, Diana has Leo rising. Lookat her hair: It is a lion’s mane, which is uniqueto those with Leo rising, females especially.She had a domineering and compelling per-sonality, much like a Leo, but when hurt sheretreated. When the Sun rules the ascendantfrom the 12th house, it invariably retreatswhen hurt. Cancers can easily be hurt.

Instead of a Mars-Jupiter conjunction,Diana had a Saturn-Jupiter conjunction, fromCapricorn to Aquarius. When her Saturnreached her Jupiter, Saturn crushed her Jupi-ter, and her as well, as Saturn will alwaysdo. Note the “daredevil” Moon-Mars/Plutoopposition, between 8th and 2nd. Her southnode with the Moon, you could also say herrisk-taking killed her.

was the huge blunder of Di, the worst mistake of his life. Note theMars-Jupiter conjunction, which is wide, which means he becomesa king late in life.L

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Kate MiddletonJanuary 9, 198211:33 pm GMTReadingPlacidusMean Node

Prince WilliamJune 21, 19829:03 pm BSTLondonPlacidusMean Node

Prince William is the only non-USbirth to which I am unable to justifyadding twelve hours, so this chart

uses the generally accepted data, of June 21,1982, 9:03 pm, London. I suspect that as-trologers, still living, got the birthtime fromcontemporary news reports and have neverbeen confused by misunderstood officialrecords. I was frankly expecting that withhis father’s birth, that Charles’ generally ac-cepted time would be the true and correcttime, since that was a media event as well,but was disappointed.

Note Venus in Taurus on the 5th housecusp. Presuming this time is correct, Will-iam should have fathered at least one bas-tard by now. Taurus is a moderately fertilesign. Cancer, where we find his Sun, Moonand north node, is a hugely fertile one. Ve-nus in and ruling the 5th, he will love all hischildren, however many there may be.

Note that for William to become king,Mars will have to climb over both Saturn andPluto before it can reach Jupiter. I deeply re-gret there is no possibility of this happening.

Kate Middleton’s birth time has never really been estab-lished. There is an unconfirmed report of 11:33 pm. Evi-dence suggests the English record birth times, but these

are not generally available to the public, for reasons that are un-known to me. If 11:32 pm is correct, then with Mars in the first, herface will have a superficial resemblance to that of John Lennon,who also had Libra rising, with Mars in Libra in the first.

Arguing against Libra rising is the fact that she does not seemto drag her husband around with her, as Lennon dragged first Mc-Cartney and then Yoko, and as Bill Clinton (another Libra risingwith Mars in the 1st) dragged Hilary around.She seems to be her own woman.

If so, she, like Lady Di, may be a Leorising (birth around 6:30 pm). Her hair wouldsupport this. I once knew an Aquarianwoman with Leo rising. Her hair streameddown her back. Shortly after meeting meshe cut it to a normal length, but then pro-ceeded to grow it all back. Kate has the sortof imperious air about her, like Lady Di, likemy Aquarian friend of long ago.

With the exception of the Moon in Can-cer, this chart is largely infertile. Venus nearthe cusp of the 5th helps a little, but Aquariuswill not produce children. The Leo risingchart is no better, having Sagittarius on the5th, the Moon still in Cancer, in the 12th.

As she would have been under enormouspressure to produce a child immediately af-ter the marriage but needed more than twoyears to do so, I am left wondering if she andthe Prince did not resort to fertility treatmentsto produce the young Prince George. Willthey produce a second, a “heir and a spare”?

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Prince HarrySeptember 16, 19844:20 am BSTLondonPlacidusMean Node

Queen ElizabethApril 21, 19262:40 pm BSTLondonPlacidusMean Node

Prince Harry. The Prince’s officialbirth data is given as September 15,1984, 4:20 pm, London. This will

give a Capricorn rising, ruled by Saturn inScorpio late in the 9th. The combination ofCapricorn and Scorpio and Saturn will makethe native dark. Very dark, as well as small.

But as it seems astrologers were not pay-ing attention on the day, the data seems tohave come from official sources, and like allofficial sources, was recorded in a 24 hourclock that started at noon, not midnight. Leorising, we have a redhead. This is not myideal way of getting a redhead, but a Leo ris-ing will do it far easier than Capricorn will.

Note this well: This man, unlikely to rule,will die the king of England. He has the markof kingship in his chart: Mars applying toJupiter. It will be late in life, as the aspect iswide, it will be unexpected, as Mars mustchange signs in order to do it, and there willbe a king before him, as Mars must climbover Neptune to get to the ultimate prize.Few of us will live to see it. Make a mentalnote, that you want to know how it all turnedout, and in your next life you may be drawn to this story, which willbe more than a century old by then. And you will know.

Will Harry have an heir? I really do not see how. Sagittarius onthe 5th cusp is not fertile. South node, Uranus, Mars, Part of For-tune and Neptune, all in Sag, are not fertile in much of any sign.Jupiter is in Capricorn in the 5th, but while Jupiter is the greaterbenefic, Capricorn is the least fertile of all signs. Presuming thatGeorge dies without an heir, Harry could be the last Windsor. Allruling families die out eventually.

Queen Elizabeth. If this time comes from official records,which I presume it does, then without question it was basedon a day that started at noon, not midnight, as that was

how things were done back in the day. There are no questions ordoubts about it. The queen was not in line to the throne at herbirth, there would have been little fuss made at the time.

We have traditionally thought of her as Capricorn rising, theruling planet being Saturn in Scorpio. Which, as with Harry, wouldmake her small and dark, as well as a strict disciplinarian.

Instead we have Virgo rising, ruled by Mercury in Aries in the 8th,which makes her curious and eager to explorethe mysteries of life, but with the ruler of Ar-ies and Mercury, Mars, being in the 6th, oppo-site her Moon and Neptune in the 12th, theQueen’s more interesting side has been keptcarefully hidden, perhaps even from herself.One sacrifices much when one is the ruler.

Moon in Leo in the 12th, we have neverknown her feelings or her thoughts, and neverwill. As I have many brothers and sisters Isometimes use their charts to assist me. Myeldest brother, younger than me, has a 12thhouse Moon. He has always kept his feel-ings to himself and I have to make an ex-traordinary effort, as the eldest of all, to syn-thesize so that I do not blunder about and up-set him accidentally, as he will never showanything overt. I can do it if I like, but I canonly do it because I am extraordinarily well-placed. So far as the Queen’s feelings, few ofus have that ability. She has learned to smile.

Note the Mars-Jupiter conjunction, inAquarius, of the masses, and in the 6th, ofservice. Barely more than a degree apart,she became queen at age 25.

— Camilla is on the next page —

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Camilla Parker-BowlesJuly 17, 19477:00 pm Double War TimeLondonPlacidusMean Node

Camilla Parker-Bowles. Her timeof birth is traditionally given as 7:00am, which puts her Moon, Venus,

Part of Fortune, Mercury and Sun, all inCancer, all in the 12th. A deeply privateperson like this will not show herself out ofthe house. Leo rising accounts for her hair,but Saturn and Pluto in Leo in the first donot account for her daring. Nor will Jupiterin Scorpio in her 5th limit her to only twochildren, not with a powerhouse in Cancerstanding behind it. With the south node inthe 5th, children will be unlucky and a bur-den and she may lose one or more, but shewill have them.

Presume her birth record was based ona noon-time start to the day and the result-ing chart, set for 7:00 pm, emerges. Ten ofSag rises, which makes a nice complimentto Charles’ 13 Sag ascendant. House cusps— and interceptions — are nearly the sameright the way round the two charts, Millie’sand Chuck’s. When house cusps match uplike this, your situations in life are largelyidentical, but your ways of dealing withlife’s challenges will differ, based on the dif-ferent placements of the planets in the twocharts.

In other words, Chuck and Millie bothhave a lot of the same problems, but Chuckdoes it this way and Millie does it that wayand, presuming the underlying synastry issatisfactory, they will take great delight inlearning from each other. Identical housecusps are a greatly under-appreciated areaof synastry.

Since it takes two to blunder through arelationship, then just as we may faultCharles for not proposing, we may also faultCamilla for not tempting him to do so. Why

was this?Let’s look at Camilla’s 7th house. Mars

on the cusp means she wants a man. Abright, witty, verbal, versatile man, one withhands and fingers and maybe tongue(Gemini) to please her (guys, are you pay-ing attention?).

Mars is ruled by Mercury, in Cancer inthe 8th. The 8th is the house of his values.He has to mean something, something tohimself. He has to know who he is. Regret-tably, all those years ago, Charles did notknow who he was. Not when it came rightdown to the nitty-gritty of the house of lifeand death and married sex and ultimate loss

of virginity, all of which the 8th house rep-resents. This is because Mercury inCamilla’s chart is retrograde. Leaning intoher Moon as her retrograde Mercury does,Camilla Parker-Bowles knew it instinctively.Fueled by cardinal Cancer’s insecurities andfurther aided by a nervous, impatient, angu-lar Mars, Camilla impulsively rejected theinept Charles in favor of marriage to Andrew.

The rest, as they say, is history. Notethat Mars and Jupiter are not in aspect.When Charles becomes king, Millie willbecome a Princess Consort. She could havegiven birth to the heir to the throne.

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I expected to add 12 hours to the Queen’schart, as a noontime start to the day wascustomary in the 1920’s.

But I was surprised the same 12 hourtrick made perfect sense of her son’s chart.Charles was born in 1948, far after the warand my imaginary changes. Moreover,though his birth would have been a mediaevent, the time we now use did not comefrom news reports, but from official records.Which we then misinterpreted.

I then skipped ahead to a recent PrimeMinister, Tony Blair. He was born May 6,1953 at 6:10 “am”, in Edinburgh. The chartmade no sense. I added 12 hours, it madeperfect sense.

No longer having any traumatic eventon which to hang such a fundamentalchange, and with no record there had everbeen any change in how birth records re-corded the time shown on them, and sens-ing the worst, I then went to Diana Spencer,born July 1, 1961, at 7:45 “pm”. I addedtwelve hours and the chart fell into place.

Finally I went to her two children. Andfor the first and so far only time, with PrinceWilliam I could not make an addition of 12hours stick. At last! A time that was solid.AstroDataBank says it was taken from anactual birth record. Is this true? Had theworld of birth records changed, from noonto midnight?

If it had, then the accepted time for hisbrother, Prince Harry, would also be solid.I would not be able to add 12 hours and getanywhere.

I regret this was not the case. With HarryI again got a better chart by adding twelvehours to it. Which means that William’s time

was not taken from a birth record, but fromcontemporary news reports.

DO you live in a country which usesa 24 hour clock to record births?Are you confused as to what your

birth time actually means?Here is the solution: Go to your local

hospital. Any hospital will do. Find theperson in charge of birth records. Ask.When does the day start? Noon or midnight?How do they record 6:00 am? 6:00 pm?Ask and they will tell you. Tell me and Iwill tell the rest of you.

But I regret this does not say much forus as astrologers. This problem has goneon for at least half a century, if not a fullcentury or longer. A period of time in whichwe could not read a chart well-enough tofind this 12 hour flaw.

As a consequence, it becomes hard toexcuse aspect-driven astrology. If we can-not read the houses, if we cannot read therulers of those houses and which housesthose rulers are located in, then we cannotread an astrological chart. We must makean effort to learn.

Are there books? Well, there is Robson’sBeginner’s Guide. There is Patty TobinBrittain’s Planetary Powers, The MorinMethod. There is Avelar and Ribeiro’s Onthe Heavenly Spheres. There is Morin’sBook 21, The Morinus System of Horo-scope Interpretation. There is Ivy. Thereare the classes given by Robert Corre.There is me and my newsletters. I am betterin person, but as I do not know how to breakout of my isolation, I might never be seen inpublic.

In the brand-new Biographical Dictio-nary of Western Astrologers, by James

Herschel Holden, I saw the entry for VivianRobson, pgs. 619-620, in part to see if theauthor had incorporated my biographicalnotes, which he had not. But I found thisinstead:

It is interesting to note his testimo-nial to the efficacy of the use of derivedhouses in natal chart interpretation [As-trology and Sex, pgs. 143-147]. Hementions the French astrologer EudesPicard (1867-1932) (q.v.) and was evi-dently familiar with his Astrologiejudiciare, which treats derived housesin great detail. This puts Robson in thesame camp with J.B. Morin [as well aswith Holden himself — Dave] in oppo-sition to those English astrologers, suchas A.J. Pearce who opposed the use ofthis “horary method” in natal astrology(because it was not mentioned by Clau-dius Ptolemy).It’s up to us as to what we want to learn

and how far we want to go with our studies,either in astrology or microbiology, for thatmatter. As for myself, I have never been ableto accept limits on my mind and in those in-stances, which are not rare, when I find I havebeen outclassed, then after I make a big fussyscene (I’m human, I can’t help myself), I havebeen more than happy to accept my inadequa-cies and bow before the greater authority.

As for astrological data collections, I in-creasingly think they have problems, to putit mildly. The people who collect data shouldgo down to their local hospitals and ask someinnocent questions.

As for me, the experiment is over. Birthsoutside the US and Canada will henceforthbe presumed to be set to a noon-time clock.

DNOON or MIDNIGHT?