Prince Harry’S Journey of Healing
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PRINCE HARRY’S JOURNEY OF HEALING AN ASTROLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE by Kathy Rose Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com s a consulting astrologer, I am to see and feel the pattern of planetary mother’s death finally caught up with fascinated with patterns, as are development associated with his emo- him. He also revealed that, during the A many in our practice. Our con- tional breakthrough. last few years, he sought professional stant and sometimes obsessive inter- I researched, connected, and calcu- counseling and started out on the path est in exploring and understanding the lated, and a marvelous pattern revealed toward healing. rhythms of planetary cycles and the ef- itself in planetary movement tied to the As part of this journey, Harry has fects they have on life trains us to step timing of emotional release for Prince announced his new public service cam- back and view events from a big-picture Harry. This pattern is important because paign, “Heads Together,” with the perspective. We seek the planetary con- it illustrates that areas in the horoscope intention of ending the stigma around nections that link together past, present, can retain pain or trauma from a past those who are dealing with mental and future — we look for the embedded event — and, when reactivated by tran- health issues in the UK. The Heads To- patterns that are associated with certain sits or solar arcs later in life, can trigger gether project is a family affair, jointly behaviors and also with major life events. the same issue to come to the surface. coordinated by the Duke and Duchess of Perhaps the undeniable curiosity I’ve seen this potent pattern before Cambridge, and is a partnership among that drives most astrologers to connect in many consultations I’ve done. This very several charities. life events to planetary contact super- public case, with Prince Harry’s remark- Attention began to focus on Harry sensitizes the part of our brain used able journey of healing, is a wonderful in mid April 2017, when the prince for pattern recognition. We observe, example from which we can learn a lot. shared his newfound emotional chal- calculate, research, and then reveal es- lenges and insights during a podcast sential patterns that help us to anticipate The Breaking Story with interviewer Bryony Gordon on her behavior. This process is also projected Prince Harry has been a hot topic of program, Mad World: Why It’s Totally into forecasting and prediction. discussion recently because he opened Normal to Feel Weird. In the 27-minute In essence, this is what led me to up so intimately about his struggle with podcast, we find out that it was only in write about Prince Harry and his long loss and his grief for his late mother. the past four years that Prince Harry road to healing from the deep emotional The younger son of Princess Diana and finally started to face the emotional wounds left by the death of his mother, Prince Charles shared with the world upheaval from his mother’s death on Princess Diana. I listened to the story he that many years of suppressing, even August 31, 1997. Harry was 12 when recently shared and immediately wanted denying, the hurt and anguish over his Princess Diana died — a very tender age 48 — THE MOUNTAIN ASTROLOGER for a boy to lose his mother — and this lapping planetary cycles that are present ested in seeing what was presently ac- trauma was made even more difficult during an individual’s biggest life events. tive in his horoscope, as well as what by his living in the public spotlight with We must anticipate that the most has been in development for the past people’s expectation of scripted royal powerful events — whether traumatic or few years, leading up to the press re- behavior. rewarding — take place when there is lease about the new campaign that, in The British have always been contact from solar arcs or outer-planet some respects, shatters a longstanding known for their “stiff upper lip” when transits to the angles in the chart or, facet of British culture. facing such trauma or adversity. The secondarily, to the planets ruling the na- The next step was to compare cultural tradition has been to remain tal angles: the Ascendant, Descendant, the recent activity in his chart with the resolute and unemotional as a sign of Midheaven (MC), and IC. These four planetary cycles that were occurring at strength and fortitude. In the podcast cardinal points in the chart are the most the time of his mother’s death. I have with Gordon, Prince Harry let down powerful zones for development; we learned that very often we will see fasci- his guard and revealed that shutting can count on angular involvement when nating and instructive repeating patterns down all of his emotions was the way he there is a life-changing moment in time. in the areas of the horoscope that are coped with the sudden loss. He chose to We can also expect that there will activated. refuse to ever think about Diana’s pass- be more than one arc or transit mea- ing, because all it would do was make surement during the same period. Echoes in Development him sad. Trying to deal with his feelings Rarely does just one transit or solar arc When an intense event in life man- wouldn’t help the situation, so he locked produce a major breakthrough. These ifests during a challenging solar arc or the pain away. overlapping planetary cycles can be con- transit period, it follows that the areas Prince Harry specifically mentions sidered power clusters for development in the chart receiving the activity may that he began to address his tumultuous in life, and are incredibly reliable for retain an emotional echo of the event. grief when he was 28, after feeling that prediction and forecasting. If the life event that is presented during he was “on the verge of punching some- When I began to research the tran- a series of arcs or transits is a power- one” and also because of recurring anxi- sits and solar arcs that were activating ful emotional trauma or loss, it’s as if an ety during royal engagements. He shared Harry’s chart for the past four years, energetic bruise forms, and a sensitized that he was “very close to a complete I found just what I anticipated: a se- tender spot in the natal chart develops. breakdown on numerous occasions.” ries of strong planetary contacts begin- This is very similar to when we have a With the support of his older brother, ning in 2013 and continuing until now, painful bruise on our body: If pressure is Prince William (the Duke of Cambridge), providing the impetus for a change in applied to that area, we experience an he finally sought counseling and began awareness. acute reminder of the injury. facing and releasing the locked-up emo- So, it also follows that when an tions and addressing the pain. Prince emotionally injured or bruised area of Harry, now 32, shared that not dealing the chart receives contact from solar with the trauma of his mother’s death had Prince Harry, now arcs or transits later in life — to the very contributed to years of “total chaos” in same areas that were involved during a his late 20s. He is now being applauded 32, shared that traumatic period — the planetary con- for bringing awareness to a very sensi- not dealing with tact may reactivate the original injury, tive issue, and his efforts to call attention and there may be powerful development to his situation, as well as to the cultural the trauma of his related to the theme of the issue. norm behind it, have gone viral. It’s logical to anticipate that the mother’s death had very same planets and angles that re- The Saturn Return contributed to years ceived contact from solar arcs and tran- There are certain buzzwords that sits when Prince Harry’s mother died attract an astrologer’s attention when of “total chaos” 20 years ago had been reactivated in they are emphasized as part of a news the past four years, opening the door to cycle. When I listened to the podcast in his late 20s. his emotional breakthrough. Indeed, the and heard Prince Harry say that his new “stiff upper lip” that had been Harry’s emotional awareness started when he emotional defense mechanism — pro- was 28 years old, I became instantly in- tecting him from feeling the pain of loss terested in his story. Viewing the Pattern — symbolically began to tremble and My astrologer’s antennae were ac- My first step was to look at the cur- relax during a very important cluster of tivated because I knew that the prince’s rent cycles in Prince Harry’s chart — planetary reactivation starting in 2013. healing journey and new perspective searching for the solar arcs and transits The doors opened for healing, and he were keyed to the Saturn return. I antic- coinciding with the announcement of walked through! ipated that there would be much more his Heads Together initiative. Harry is in This is what I find so fascinating cyclic activity in his chart accompanying the middle of a major publicity period; about the artistic design of planetary the Saturn transit, simply because I have his poignant personal story is causing movement in astrology. learned to assume that there will be over- quite a stir in social media. I was inter- OCT./NOV. 2017 — 49 stress, pain, and emotional loss already In this case, Neptune adds a sense Prince Harry building in Harry’s reality, which began of ego wipeout, confusion, and bewilder- in late 1996.