All things Marie Antoinette
Tonight I started reading The Secret Diary Of A Princess, by Melanie Clegg. Marie Antoinette was a Scorpio (Born November 2nd 1755 at 7:30 PM) with a Libra Moon and Cancer Rising. Her Sun is conjunct Venus in the 5th house and Square Neptune in the 2nd. The 5th house is associated with pleasure and gambling and she loved both. She also had awful spending habits and a pretty unrealistic relationship with money which is indicated by Neptune in the 2nd house (The 2nd house rules money and what we value) Marie’s chart is dominated by Water and Fire. She had no Earth in her chart, which made it quite difficult for her to ground herself. Neptune is pretty strong in her chart: It Squares her Sun, Venus, Trines her Pluto and Mercury and Sextiles her Jupiter. She lived in a world of fantasy (Neptune) and probably didn’t have a very strong sense of who she was (Sun/Neptune).
The Squares to her Libra Moon from both Mars and Saturn stood out for me. This reveals quite a bit about Marie’s mother. Marie’s Moon in Libra made her very likable and charming, but her mother was a different story. Moon/Saturn aspects can indicate a mother that is cold and some what distant. Moon/Saturn types often deal with a tremendous amount of responsibility during their young years and Marie described her relationship with her mother (Who married her off at the age of 14) as one of “Awe-inspired fear”. That statement describes her Moon/Saturn aspect perfectly.
