Queen Camilla

Her chart puts five planets in water signs, three in air, two in fire and not one in earth. Water registers a situation before it decides anything about it, and the element that would simply plant itself and hold is missing from the chart altogether. Camilla is the British queen consort, which is a position defined by standing beside an office rather than holding one.

The Sun, the Moon, Mercury and Venus all sit in Cancer, four planets inside thirteen degrees of the sign that keeps what it has been given and protects the people inside the door. That is the whole personal half of the chart in one sign. Identity, private feeling, speech and taste all answering to the same instinct is a very undivided arrangement, and it points at the household rather than at the public role attached to it.

The Sun sits in easy contact with Uranus at thirteen hundredths of a degree, with effectively nothing between them, which is identity on comfortable terms with the planet that refuses the expected arrangement. Venus makes the same easy contact with Mars at three fifths and with Saturn at under nine tenths. Mercury, retrograde at her birth, is the one planet facing the other way, which turns speech inward before any of it is said. For somebody whose public role arrived late and by a route nobody had planned for, identity on easy terms with the planet of the unexpected is the aspect that carries it.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Scorpio birth degree on 4 September 2018, at seventy one. Scorpio has no interest in how a thing looked from outside, so the planet of reach is asked there what it cost in private instead. Five circuits come before it, which few charts live to collect, and the office the record names arrived four years after the most recent of them. With four planets in Cancer and none at all in earth, this is a chart organised entirely around the people in the room rather than around the ground it stands on.