Charles III

There is a depth to Charles III that waited a very long time for its hour. His Sun in Scorpio is the sign of transformation and endurance, the phoenix that keeps rising from the ashes: a self forged through survival, patience and quiet mind-power rather than force. Born at Buckingham Palace in 1948 and heir apparent from the age of three, he spent the longest apprenticeship in British royal history, serving in the Royal Air Force and Navy, earning a Cambridge history degree, founding The Prince's Trust in 1976 and championing the environment decades before it was fashionable. This Scorpio Sun sits in the fourth house of home, lineage and roots, so his whole life-agenda glows at the family hearth, bound tightly to his mother, his motherland and the long chain of succession he finally completed in 2022 as the oldest person ever to accede to the throne.

His Moon in Taurus is the luminary exalted, steady and loyal, comforted by the enduring and the beautiful, an old-school constancy that outlasted turbulence. Placed in the tenth house, that emotional life played out on the throne of the chart, in full public view, his feelings, his reputation and his reign forever watched. His Leo Ascendant lent the regal, unmistakable presence of a king.