I started work on the lifetime progressions of King Charles last night. But at the pace I am going, it will take a while to write a post that detailed especially because I am also looking at his current transits. But as I looked at his current progressed chart, I saw there was enough to create a short post on a few remarkable points.
He was still the Prince of Wales when he started his Balsamic Phase: a phase of endings which began on 21 March 2020 and ended on 5 Feb 2024. During this phase, he lost his father in April 2019 followed by the loss of his mother in September 2022. The second loss elevated him from prince to king and on 6 May 2023 he was coronated as King Charles III. On 31 October 2023, the King referred to Britain’s colonial actions as “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence” and as a “cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret.”
The balsamic phase is about letting go, so that there is space for something new to enter. Which is why the next phase is the progressed new moon. A death and a rebirth all rolled into one. What is striking in this example is that King Charles announced his cancer just a day before his progressed new moon which occurred on 6 February 2024. So what does this phase hold for him? Change certainly because this is a beginning and this is also underlined by the fact that all his angles are currently at 29 degrees and about to change signs.
I don’t always use Sabian symbols but I looked at King’s Charles Sabians for the angles which will more from 29 degrees to 0 on 1 May 2024:
MIDHEAVEN
29 Gemini – A Parade Of Bathing Beauties Before Large Beach Crowds
0 Cancer – On A Ship The Sailors Lower An Old Flag And Raise A New One
ASCENDANT
29 Virgo – Totally Intent Upon Completing An Immediate Task, A Man Is Deaf To Any Allurement
0 Libra – In A Collection Of Perfect Specimens Of Many Biological Forms, A Butterfly Displays The Beauty Of Its Wings, Its Body Impaled By A Fine Dart
IMUM COELI
29 Sagittarius – The Pope Blessing The Faithful
0 Capricorn – An Indian Chief Claims Power From The Assembled Tribe
DESCENDANT
29 Pisces – A Majestic Rock Formation Resembling A Face Is Idealized By A Boy Who Takes It As His Ideal Of Greatness, And As He Grows Up, Begins To Look Like It.
0 Aries – 0-1 deg Aries A Woman Just Risen From The Sea; A Seal Is Embracing Her
So what do these Sabians mean? Your guess is as good as mine. I see them as a sort of Rorschach test. Although sometimes they can be strikingly literal. My Juno, the asteroid of marriage is 27 Cancer and the Sabian for that is – An Indian Girl Introduces Her White Lover To Her Assembled Tribe. I am an Indian and a few years ago I got married to a Swede. So this could have been a literal photo from our wedding when my partner met most of my family for the first time.
King Charles’ progressed MC will moved over his natal Uranus before it moves into Cancer. Uranus stands for the sudden and unexpected. And the transiting Pluto has been squaring his 0 degree Taurus Moon. The Moon symbolises the body itself and Pluto is associated with cancer and this transit can symbolise the pressure his body is under. There is change in the air.
Text for Sabains take from the excellent Cafe Astrology site – https://cafeastrology.com/sabiansymbols_degreemeanings.html
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