On July 29, 1981, the fairytale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets, trying to catch a glimpse of the new princess, while an estimated 750 million watched on T.V. Twenty year old Lady Diana was taken to the cathedral in a glass coach. She wore a dress of ivory taffeta and antique lace, with a 25-ft train, designed by David and Elizabeth Emmanuel. Lady Diana’s walk down the aisle took three and a half minutes.
After the ceremony, conducted by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Robert Runcie, the Prince and Princess of Wales travelled in an open-topped carriage through the streets to Buckingham Palace, where they appeared on the balcony and shared a kiss, to the delight of the crowds below, They then withdrew to a private wedding breakfast attended by 120 guests. Less than a year later, the princess gave birth to a son, William. A second son, Harry, was born two years later. By that time the couple’s marriage was already showing signs of strain. The couple officially separated in 1993. Source “History through the Headlines”.
The large scale wedding took place during an exact Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Libra. The contact has a 20-year cycle with the conjunction staying in the same element for roughly a century at a time, moving from earth to air and then to water and fire. Sue Tompkins lists the contact with economic peaks and troughs and legislative changes. The cycle has also coincided with the American Presidential death cycle and often marks great social change. The last conjunction took place in Taurus, in the year 2000. The next Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will take place in in Aquarius at 0 degrees in 2020. It will trine the conjunction of 1981, and this past vision of a harmonious society will come to fruition and will also reflect a new vision of a tolerant humanity and progression into a more inclusive and larger human family.
The conjunction in Libra occurred in Saturn’s exaltation, the sign of relationship, harmony and balance. We would have seen the redefinition of partnership and structure of all interpersonal interaction. Saturn in Libra represents the ideal of relationship and concept of marriage. Society would examine how harmony can be established and maintained? The marriage between Lady Diana and Prince Charles represented the institute of marriage at that time. The unstable period for relationships occurred when both Uranus and Pluto were in Libra and the divorce rate was statistically the highest on record.
Many reforms have taken place and have effectively been breaking down and transforming ideals. Suitably, the royal wedding took place in the month of Leo (royal sign) and the whole celebratory period of relationship (Jupiter in Libra) and permanence of marriage was now a time to rejoice. The horse drawn carriage and lengthy lace wedding dress set the scene for romantic idealism and reflected a profound change in human values. Libra is unmatched for creating an atmosphere of cooperation, accord and refinement.
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