Δευτέρα 3 Μαρτίου 2025

Applications of Dane Rudhyars Astrology Theory - Lady Diana and King Charles


In examining Rudyard’s system, what is interesting is the tracking of a person's transition from one psychological-evolutionary stage to the next. And the inner conflict shown in the natal chart, which leads to this transition. Perhaps one of the most tragic examples of this relentless conflict is the case of Lady Diana. In Her Ladyship's natal chart the two considerations of the Collective and the Individual Level graphically stand out.

Princess Diana natal chart

Princess Diana

Birthday: July 1st, 1961, 7:45 pm, Sandringham, United Kingdom.

Source: Astroweekly

Looking at Diana's chart we see the Sun on the sign of Cancer. It is the portrayal of the Mother (the good mother who takes care of her children as the establishment intended). A role that Diana played for quite some time. And she played it for the children of the rest of the world. By playing the Good Fairy.

At the same time, there is a powerful Saturn on the chart. In Capricorn. On the cusp of the second house. Indicating that to find security she may have sought to enter the establishment and stay there. The Moon helped her to conduct a marriage of convenience. I am with a man I don't need to sleep with. I don't love him. In a house where we are together and apart. And it works for me because I feel secure in the other issues that Saturn indicates.

Her Moon in Aquarius gives her another way of harmonious coexistence which is through emotional detachment. Diana sees and doesn't speak. She seems to tolerate but in reality she stays far away emotionally detached from her environment.

But the same chart is read differently when the person resonated to the Individual level. After her existential crisis, Diana becomes a true Cancer, Moon, Woman, Hecate, Cybele. She brings out the venom of the erotically unsatisfied woman to the media. She gives up husband and children, creates her own Hearth and seeks the erotic satisfaction of her nature in the young man. She is no longer the good mom, but the woman who listens to nature and hormones and how it affects her emotional mood).

In the process of her individualization, some of the so-called malefics at the sociocultural, such as Mars, suddenly become allies. While she was integrated into the establishment and did not speak (Moon in Aquarius) Mars conjunct Pluto in the 9th symbolized her mistreatment or suppressed sexual desires. When her consciousness  focused on her Sun, however, the sextile to Mars worked, supporting her choices through leaks she caused and using “calculated secret blows” to her advantage. Furthermore she suppressed her Moon, leaving her indifferent and unsupportive family environment behind.

According to Rudhyar when we step up to the Individual Level we also begin to create thought forms from the outer planets for the first time. The reason we do this is because we want to differentiate ourselves. According to Rudhyar this differentiation is implemented using the energy of the outer planets. One person might do this via Uranus (Revolution, breaking bonds to family or homeland), another by Neptune (Religion or Reiki or Drugs), and another by Pluto (Delinquency or by exerting Sexual Influence on others). Using the outer planets we all do nothing but try to strengthen our Sun, to gather personal power. To escape the restrictions of the flattening uniformity of our time.

In Diana's case, the solution came from Neptune. As long as she was focusing on the Sociocultural Level, she was unable to use Neptune. Instead Neptune symbolized how she was used by others as a super model to serve their interests (Neptune as a mesmerizing influence via media). But when she focused on her individuality she used Neptune to mesmerize people using her own will and reduce the reactions to her actions. She used the establishment to her advantage, to free herself from its restrictions and feel free. She drew personal power from the effect she had on the world. In this case Midheaven can be considered something more than paternal imposition or personal goal, it can be considered as a step up of consciousness to the next level, the escape from current circle, the endless repetitions of mistakes and patterns in our lives on a certain level. In a way, when we go round and round the same mistakes, Midheaven might offer a way out to the next level of consciousness, which will terminate the current endless loop, and introduce us into another new loop, but this time on a higher level of consciousness.

But Diana is not the only example of Transformation (as Rudhyar calls the transition from the Sociocultural Level to the Individual Level). Charles himself, albeit belatedly, went through such a phase of life. And in certain ways he is still struggling to rely on himself.

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King Charles

Birthdate: November 14, 1948, 21:14, London, United Kingdom

Source: AstrologyWeekly

With the Moon dominating his chart from Midheaven, the royal family has a very strong influence as an establishment on his individuality. The mother queen who rules everything is the main way he has of solving his issues. The other way is Saturn in Virgo in trine to Midheaven. The institutional role of the acolyte supporting authority in which he existed all these years before his crowning. He was not the man who enjoyed public attention so much as Diana, but the one who stood next to or behind the protagonists.

The persona that the environment had created for Charles was a Sun in Scorpio. The man who did not speak, did not appear, did not exist. He was humiliated several times by his blunders (conjunction to Chiron), which were disapproved by the family (quincunx to  the Moon) and through them his personal profile was mostly erased.

Along the way, however, Charles used the power of the Sun to individualize himself and create a new personality (Sun on the cusp of the 5th). In the process Camilla helped him a lot (her stellium in Cancer in trine to his Sun in Scorpio) but in order to protect themselves their relationship was kept secret from everyone (his Sun in Scorpio and her stellium in the 12th house). Thus Charles managed to keep a part of his life to himself and not give it away to the public. In this relationship he ignored his mother, causing her some resentment but without directly clashing with her (quincunx of his Sun to the Moon), and used the power of Uranus in Cancer, throwing away the sociocultural model (conjunction to 12th cusp) of the good family man. Mars in the 5th house went from being malefic to an outburst for personal expression through wit, self-sarcasm and fun.

Same aspects, same positions. The only thing that changes is the level of consciousness. And depending on the level of consciousness, some planets go from being malefics to benefics. This is the central idea of transcending from the Sociocultural to the Individual Level.

 

Applications of Dane Rudhyars Astrology Theory - Lady Diana and King Charles

In examining Rudyard’s system, what is interesting is the tracking of a person's transition from one psychological-evolutionary stage to...