Venus-Neptune: Someday my Prince Will Come

Camilla Parker Bowles is the second wife of Prince Charles. Camilla had been Charles' Mistress while they where both married. Today she supports her Prince in all his royal duties, which include charity work and attending events. Camilla's relationship began with Prince Charles when they met at a Polo match, and she became one of the numerous girlfriends of the Prince, and he was said to have wanted to marry her. However, she was seen as an unsuitable match for the future king. It was reported that Charles had met Camilla too early, and that he had not asked her to wait for him while he went overseas for military duties. It seemed the two of them could never really say goodbye and their feelings for each other never really ended. The affair between them became public knowledge with the Publication of Diana her True Story.

In this interview below Diana talks about her marriage with Prince Charles and his affair with Camilla.

Camilla Parker Bowles has a Cancerian chart, and the sign is emotional, caring and responsive. Even with these traits innate, she didn't elicit much sympathy from the public, not in the way that Diana could. The role of the "victim" in the whole relationship (Diana), will usually be offered a more sympathetic response. Cheating first and foremost is an act of deception, lying, and betrayal, and it is described as a violation of a relationships boundaries. 

Camilla was violating her own marriage and another woman's sacred bond (as Prince Charles was doing). A love triangle involves an unobtainable love, because the other person is involved in a permanent relationship with somebody else. The reasons may vary why a person has a love affair, but for Charles he was convinced Diana was emotionally unstable. So Charles would frequently seek comfort in Camilla's arms. She was emotionally supportive and protective over him and mothered him through his turbulent marriage with Diana, and perhaps this is where the Cancer themes dominate in Camilla's nativity. Camilla has a natal aspect of Venus-Neptune contact, and this represents the urge to lose herself in a partner, and she has a tendency to over-idealize love. 

Another manifestation of Venus-Neptune in the natal chart is the inability to see the other person realistically. Love can be blind drunk and full of longing. The high romantic idealism, sympathy and acceptance of the situation leads to her ability to overlook flaws and limitations in a relationships. In fact, the roadblocks to love prolonged the fantasy. When Camilla finally obtained her own bona fide "Prince charming" he may not have turned out to be everything that she hoped he would be, and the scales may fall from her eyes.

Venus-Neptune is a romantic, sacrificing and selfless contact in all romantic situations. Often Venus-Neptune contacts fall for people who are Pisces, Neptune or have a powerful 12th house. Some Venus-Neptune's are attracted to losers/victims in society, perhaps the penniless artist, or struggling musician. It appears any type of person who is in some kind of emotional mess and needs "rescuing" stimulates the sexual desire. Such romantic idealism is always best teamed with a realistic discrimination of the love, but then again it would spoil all the magic.

I wonder what happened when Camilla married her Prince, did it take all the "romanticism" away? No more secret rendezvous and pining for that elusive love. All her suffering and not being accepted by the public. Loving from a distance allows many of her fantasies to remain intact. Disillusionment in love is common too, here is a quote on Venus-Neptune by Sue Tompkins:

When I first started practicing as an astrologer I was several times caught out by Venus-Neptune clients requesting comparisons between them and their partners. "Caught out" in that I entered into their fantasies only to discover, after further, usually very directive questioning, that they were not in fact having a relationship with the object of their desire. It could be said they were having a relationship, but only with a fantasy, and certainly without the other person physically participating in it!