Charles III's Birth Chart

Against simulated 1940s births, the Moon's exaltation in Taurus ranks first (about one chart in 12), then Jupiter at home in Sagittarius (about one chart in 9), Mars out of bounds (about one chart in 6) and Venus at home in Libra (about one chart in 7). Fifth to eighth come eight planets under the horizon (about one chart in 6), the Moon in its sign's opening degree (about one chart in 5), Jupiter in its closing one (about one chart in 5) and a locomotive spread (about one chart in 4).

The Jupiter, Mars and Venus items hold all day; the other four hold together only from 8:24 PM, when the Moon entered Taurus, to 10:17 PM, when Pluto would cross into the 12th house.

By sect this is a night chart, as is any London birth between 4:06 PM and 7:24 AM the next day, so the Moon, Venus and Mars are in sect and Jupiter and the Sun are not. The strength table scores the Moon 100, Jupiter 96 and Venus 92, and the Moon is Lord of the Geniture. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune ran faster than average, Pluto was three days from turning retrograde, Uranus alone was already retrograde, and Mercury, nearest the Sun, stood 15°27′ off.

A Whitehall notice dated November 15, 1948, in London Gazette Extraordinary issue 38455, page 6003, puts the birth at Buckingham Palace the previous evening at "fourteen minutes after nine o'clock"; the Royal Household's biography gives the same minute. The rating in the facts table is this databank's own reading of that notice. British Summer Time had ended on October 31, 1948, so the clock was Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0).

Leo had been rising for 30 minutes, more than any rounding could absorb, but the houses are tighter: a birth 2 minutes earlier moves the Sun into the 5th house, one 4 minutes later drops Neptune into the 3rd house, and so the four-planet 4th house lasts about 4.9 minutes. Whole-sign houses, counted from Leo, leave the Sun in the 4th house for every minute of Leo's rise.

Moon, Jupiter and Saturn are linked in the chart's single aspect figure, a grand trine. Its Moon–Saturn side (4°50′) stays inside earth, but Jupiter, in the last degree of Sagittarius, trines the Moon (0°32′) and Saturn (5°22′) across sign lines: purists wanting one element reject such a figure, while astrologers counting degrees accept it.

Mars, 20°56′ Sagittarius, lies 24°03′ south in declination, 0°37′ past the Sun's limit, which declination writers such as Kt Boehrer read as working outside the usual rules. Uranus is out of bounds to the north. The Moon at 0°25′ Taurus sits in its sign's opening degree, while Jupiter at 29°53′ Sagittarius and Uranus at 29°55′ Gemini share a final degree, which some modern astrologers call anaretic.

That applying opposition is the closest contact, and both its signs, Sagittarius and Gemini, are intercepted in the Placidus houses. Venus sextile Pluto follows at 0°10′. The Sun, chart ruler as lord of Leo in the traditional and modern schemes alike, squares Pluto in the 1st house, and the Moon trines Jupiter and sextiles Uranus within 0°32′.

The planets run from the Moon in early Taurus to Jupiter at the end of Sagittarius and leave 120°32′ empty, Capricorn through Aries: a locomotive in Marc Edmund Jones's terms. Only the Moon and Uranus are above the horizon. Counting the angles, fire and the fixed signs lead with five points each.

Jawaharlal Nehru, also born on November 14, has the closest chart (Sun in Scorpio, Leo rising and Sun within 1° of each other), ahead of Frida Kahlo (Moon in Taurus and Leo rising), Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (Moon in Taurus and Venus within 2° of each other) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Sun in Scorpio).

Without Lahiri's ayanamsa of 23°08′, each main placement slips back a sign: Sun 29°16′ Libra (Tula), Moon 7°17′ Aries (Mesha), lagna 12°15′ Cancer (Karka). The Moon was in Mesha from 7:04 AM, so it is not exalted at any evening hour. Jupiter keeps its sign, Mars moves to Scorpio, its own in Jyotish, and Venus to Virgo, its debilitation.

Saturn reached 5°16′ Virgo again on September 6, 1978, its first return; the second took three crossings, the backward one in the middle, from October 18, 2007 to July 9, 2008. Jupiter's 6th and most recent return came on December 2, 2019.

Positions were cast for 21:14 UTC on November 14, 1948 at 51°30′ N, 0°08′ W with precise astronomical calculations. Hour windows mean recasting the chart across the London day; rates mean a Monte Carlo sample of 1940s births.