Divorce 13
UK-Princess
Anne Windsor
Laurence
née Mountbatten-Windsor
(birth data from
Astrodatabank.com)
Princess
Anne is a public figure whose life milestones are well known. The Vimshottari
dasha timing of her first marriage; birth of children; divorce; and
second marriage timing are useful examples of how the system works.
Princess Anne's radix also offers an excellent example
of Kuja Dosha and its effect on
marriage, as well as the general lifelong implications of owning a very
powerful Mars.
The most famous facts about Anne are her perpetually
sour expression during the troubled first marriage, her remarkable sporting
abilities (she is an Olympic athlete), her 93 mph speeding ticket, and her
aggressive dogs. Of course there are many other interesting things about
her as there are about any intelligent, good-hearted person. But the
fact that these media items form a major aspect of her public presence are in
fact attributable to the remarkable strength of her rising Mars.
These facts are from Wikipedia:
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On November 14, 1973 Princess Anne married Mark
Phillips
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her children are Peter
Phillips (born 15 November 1977); and Zara
Phillips (15 May 1981)
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In August, 1989, the Princess Royal and Mark Philips
announced their intention to separate. The marriage had been under strain
for many years. The couple divorced in April, 1992.
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On December 12, 1992, Anne remarried, the first
royal divorcee since Henry
VIII of England to do so. She chose to remarry in the Church
of Scotland since the Church
of England forbade divorcees from remarrying in their churches. She
married Timothy
Laurence in Crathie Kirk near the Balmorals Estate, Aberdeenshire.
They have no children together.
 Timing
of Marriages & Children
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Female [first]
marriage timing:
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Chandra/Shukra,
where Shukra is lord of navamsha
lagna. Although not important for marriage timing, Shukra is also
lagnesha,
suggesting that being married was an essential component of her public
identity at the time.
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gochara
Rahu/Ketu in Sagittarius/Gemini - not a classical position
for the nodes, except that they do contact navamsha Kuja
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This is an especially interesting & unusual case
due to the peculiar constraints of the European monarchic system.
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As
described by a biographer "the royal family required [Mark]
Phillips to provide a semen sample prior to his marriage, to confirm that he
was capable of producing an heir. Two children were indeed born to the
couple." Indeed the marriage contract may not have
been fulfilled until childbirth, which would explain why marriage nodes were
not in place until the birth of their first child.
Female [first] childbirth timing:
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Kuja/Shani,
- Shani = L-5 = first child
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gochara
Rahu/Ketu in Virgo/Pisces, crossing the mother's natal nodes
AND navamsha nodes.
The nodal return to both radix & navamsha axes
suggests that childbirth was a very significant, self-and-life defining
event for Anne - a vital fulfillment of the marriage promise.
Much more
than ritual marriage, childbirth created major, and wanted, changes in her
identity and lifestyle.
Female [first]
divorce timing:
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The
timing of Anne's divorce is rather difficult to pin down, since it is known
(through the successful paternity suit) that Captain Phillips fathered an
illegitimate daughter in 1985. Presumably the married couple were
alienated before then.
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Their legal divorce in April
1992 arrived three years after announced separation in 1989. We could
really take 1985, 1989, or 1992 as divorce years.
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Sanjay
Rath opines that in cases of significant public illusion, the arudha of the
8th house will produce public recognition that the marriage is
finished. This public awareness does not necessarily correspond to the
legal divorce, especially where the estate is highly complex as is certainly
the case in royal families.
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Following Rath's
advice: L-8 = Kuja, who occupies 6-from-8; the arudha of house-8 =
6th-from-Kuja, = Ari bhava. Lord of Ari = Shani.
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Anne's
Shani oppresses her Moon & casts drishti upon her Thula-Kuja lagna, her
child-house, and her house-8 of divorce. This is a reasonable timing
choice. Therefore, without knowing the intimate details, we will set
the divorce at the notoriously difficult
Rahu/Shani
period.
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Rahu/Shani
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gochara
Rahu/Ketu have returned to Pisces/Virgo, ending the 9-year cycle which began with the birth of her first
child. Nodes returning to natal axes signify a major life change,
every 9 years - with major shifts every 18 years.
Female [second]
marriage timing: December 12, 1992
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Rahu/Ketu
- where Ketu is ipso facto a marriage-maker.
B.V. Raman confirms that, along with Shukra, Shani & Rahu, Ketu
can give marriage during his periods, whether He gives the effect of
L-1/L-7 or not.
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gochara
Rahu/Ketu are moving through Scorpio/Taurus, where
they cross the 2/8 axis in both radix & navamsha
Observations on
possible improvements due to Wisdom of Age in the second marriage:
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Using my favorite method of finding the matching
energy that binds any partnership via the lord of radix L-7's
navamsha, we see that Princess Anne's first marriage, whilst Karmicly
inescapable, was difficult indeed.
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There
is limited improvement in her second marriage, because radix L-2 is also
Kuja. (indicating inter alia that her second husband is also a
military man.) However considering that the culprit graha is Guru in Shani's
sign, where Shani is Karaka for Age, there may be benefit of
self-knowledge gained with Age in the second marriage.
L-7 = Mesha; Lord Kuja occupies Dhanusha navamsha;
so the link from her own personality - the lesson to be learned from the
spousal mirror - no matter how difficult - arises from Anne's own
Guru/Kumbha/5.
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This is a notably difficult position which
indicates an element of Anne's ego-personality which Captain Phillips,
whatever his other motives, was karmicly destined to bring to her
conscious attention.
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Remember we marry for a spiritual purpose, whether
we know it or not.
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That purpose is to bring forward into
consciousness, aspects of our own subconsciously repressed belief and
behavior which the partner will mirror back to us.
Behari says of Guru/Kumbha in the fifth house:
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You will be unhappy in many ways.
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Your education will be obstructed; siblings and colleagues may entangle you in litigation.
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Your own righteousness and egotism will often embroil you in a welter of confusion.
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Your philosophy, actions, and achievements will all be full of contradictions.
The way marriage usually works when a negative
attribute forms the matching-energy link, is that the native will
presume these negative qualities arise exclusively from the
spouse. The marriage is unpleasant with much blaming and
discomfort. It is only later, after the separation, that the
partners might (ideally) acknowledge & accept their own role in the
creating the negative link.
Second marriage is psychically much the same
due to an identical matching energy link.
L-2 is also Kuja, who occupies Dhanus
navamsha, making the marching energy link Guru. Thus, the
identical psychic energy is present.
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The sole advantage in her second marriage is age,
which is a significant factor in marriages started after age 42 (as hers
was).
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Guru occupying a sign of Shani, the karaka for age, also
strengthens the advantage of self-knowledge gained over time.
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However, the difficulties remain embedded in the
Princess's personality, and unless she acquires conscious awareness of
the role she plays in evoking the "righteousness and egotism"
associated with Guru's position, the second marriage also becomes
strained.
May all beings venerate life as a
state of deep spiritual intimacy.
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