Royal Baby

I gave a small TV interview today for Associated Press on the Royal Baby. We had already filmed a segment a couple of weeks ago on said child having Sun in Cancer, but today we switched to the likelihood of Leo. If Will & Kate's baby comes after 5pm local time, then it will be a Leo. If it comes after 7:08pm local time, then it will also have the full Moon in Aquarius. 

This is not generally what media outlets want to hear. They like nice clean lines and feel rather uncomfortable with people who take astrology seriously enough to talk times of day. Still, I smiled hard and convinced them that it made a difference, and no, there is no such thing as being born on the 'cusp'. I didn't take the discussion into anaretic degrees - they'd had enough punishment already.

Yet the royal sprog is an intriguing case. A Cancer-Capricorn baby sits nicely with Will & Kate's respective Sun signs. Both parents are also born at eclipses - new and full Moons in Cancer respectively - and they may welcome a shyer, more laid-back child. Aquarius-Leo on the other hand is more in line with House of WIndsor tradition. The Queen has Moon in Leo, Charles has Leo rising, Princesses Anne, Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother were all Leo Suns. The Queen's father, George VI ('The King's Speech') had Jupiter in Leo on the midheaven, a classic royal signature that saw him take over the throne from his brother at at critical time. 

Moon in Aquarius on the other hand strays into Diana territory. This is not a Moon that sits well with tradition and precedent. This is a free-spirit who may take up the independent cause, after it skipped a generation with Will and Kate. Leo Sun with an Aquarius Full Moon is likely to be an individualist and possibly a reformer.

Venus also shifts signs today, but remains conjunct the royal star Regulus. This is clearly an auspicious placement, for what is essentially a PR role. The future King or Queen will meet and greet, shake hands and make people feel important. Good luck to him or her, Cancer or Leo. I have no great Royalist sympathies, but they probably pay for themselves, and better a family of unelected Windsors than a political dynasty of Blairs or Camerons.

PS - So the baby boy, as yet unnamed, is Cancer-Capricorn after all. Born 16:24pm local time, with 27 Scorpio rising.