How Duchess Catherine Became Our Fairy Tale Prince’s Bride

There’s no magical, exciting love story without Venus; no great passion or great romantic love—so how did the Great Goddess show up at the wedding of Prince William in Her human expression as his gorgeous bride Catherine?

We know that modern Western astrologers have seen that this couple are somewhat rare “eclipse babies” sharing their Cancer moon in addition to having harmonious communication and sexual attraction planets. But how did the bride’s natal Venus bring us the “fairy tale princess” we all seem to have been craving to see in our own lives and in the world? Catherine couldn’t possibly accomplish this without the Great Goddess Venus in cahoots. A limited modern view of Catherine’s Venus conjunct Mercury in Aquarius certainly couldn’t do the trick. It would be more of an indication of a flirty, clever, rather fickle bride, and it falls really short of this beautiful new duchess with a “Nancy Reagan” loving gaze toward her Prince William.

So, let’s go back to our astrology roots and look at Catherine’s chart through Mesopotamian eyes—a time when astrologers were observing the magic in the skies above—when Venus (then Innana/Erishkigal) was loyal to her great love Nergal. When Catherine was born, Venus was retrograde and setting, with Mercury after the Sun. This made her Venus an “Evening Star”—one committed to her Solstice (Sun) King, referring to the mythic translation of Prince William’s being born on the Summer Solstice under an eclipse (this is quite rare). Catherine’s Venus being retrograde dramatized this even more, as her path in the sky is to be returning to her king after passing him. This is truly a fairy tale of mythic terms when one considers that they broke up, but couldn’t stay apart.

In the sky, Venus/Catherine came back together with her Sun King/William amidst the stars of the great ancient lawgiver, the Sea Goat Capricorn. This helps give an even more solid grounding to this couple, whose charts show that they are forward-thinking people who respect tradition, but who will also be totally committed to bettering the human condition that William’s “People’s Princess” Mother established. How magical, and what a valid source of celebration!