Astrological Psychology: Back to Basics

One of the easiest and most important things you can do when starting to look at a natal chart, drawn up in the Huber style and vibrant with colours and shapes, is to do simply that - to look. Setting aside and perhaps even temporarily “forgetting” any astrology you already know, or maybe you don't yet know as you're an absolute beginner, the first way into the chart is via the senses, the eyes and the intuition.

Look for an intuitive picture or image, and you can do this by looking at the overall aspect structure which fills the large central area of the chart. In the context of astrological psychology, this area relates to the unconscious motivation of a person. Often the very essence of the person is contained within this area of the chart, and through developing the intuition we can gain a sense of the person simply by looking at this central core of the chart and absorbing and reflecting upon the pictures or images that we see there.

The chart shown here is for the start of this blog, on 4th March 2006, at 16.14 in Knutsford, UK.

Take a look - is there an image? What about the colours of the aspects? Which area of the chart is filled with aspects? Or are there empty areas? What might this mean?See what I wrote about this chart here for more suggestions, and see my first book, The Cosmic Egg Timer, where the first steps into understanding and interpreting a chart using Astrological Psychology are set out clearly in the introductory chapters, particularly in Chapter 4 - Looking at the Whole Chart.

 

 The Cosmic Egg Timer is an introduction to Astrological Psychology and is available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle format. Both versions are in full colour.

Moon in 7th House

 

Moon & house, Bruges

 

"When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

 

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius..... "    

 

(Lyrics: Galt MacDermot ,Gerome Ragni, James Rado)  

 

 

 

 

The lyrics are from one of the songs in the then-controversial stage production of "Hair" which was first performed off Broadway in 1967. Wikipedia describes it thus: "The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag and its nude scene caused controversy.The work broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a Be-in finale."

 

I saw "Hair" performed on stage in Liverpool in the early 1970s. The songs were great, yes there was nudity, and I went on stage at the end and danced with the cast - a memorable opportunity not to be missed.

 

So, what does all this have to do with the Moon in the 7th House? It's a good line in the song, which anticipates the coming of the Age of Aquarius, but the astrologer in me wonders about the chart the song refers to. Who's chart is it? And where is the location and the time and date of these events? In reality this info would be needed. And having the Moon in 7th House is a reality in astrology; in astrological psychology the Moon in this position brings some interesting life experiences. 

 

The Moon represents our ability to express our emotional responses. When we're in touch with our feelings, we're expressing the energies of the Moon. It's concerned with changes of mood, the ebb, flow and fluidity of our feeling nature. We gain a sense of ourselves through our feelings, most specifically in relation to the people we encounter and the situations we find ourselves in.

 

Take a break, read here what I've previously written about the Moon and watch the short video I made, with suggestions on how to discover more about your own Moon. 

 

Back to the 7th House now - in astrological psychology the 7th House is on the "You" side of the chart, opposite the 1st House, and it's cusp is the DC. It's the area of life experience where we meet others on a one-to-one basis and form friendships and partnerships of all kinds. In the 7th House it's difficult to avoid eyeball-to-eyeball encounters as it's where we meet the world head on....and the world (in the form of those we meet) somehow recognises that here is someone I can talk to, get to know and share some of my problems/life stories/experiences with.

 

Take a break and read here about the 1st and 7th House - the Encounter axis of the chart where  the "I" (me!) meets the "You" (that's the rest of the world around us). This will give you some idea of how the Moon (feelings, emotions, contacts etc) might operate and be expressed in the 7th House.

 

A couple of examples of Moon in 7th House:

 

 

Isolated Moon on the "doorstep" of the chart - likely to be the first thing people pick up on when meeting this person as the Moon is "up for grabs" there and in full view. But note it's in the sign of Aquarius, so is able to keep some detachment if needed - and it's opposite both Pluto and Venus. If Venus kicks in, all may go well; if Pluto kicks in there may be a few surprises in store!

 

 

 

 

Moon in 7th House along with Pluto and Saturn - that's quite a reception committee!    All in Leo, so there's a potential demand to be noticed and recognised, and possibly a challenge to all comers with mixed messages. Moon and Saturn are in aspect to Venus, so there's a dash of a stylish and cultivated flair about this person. But Pluto, note, is aspecting Sun/Mars in Capricorn, so maybe you wouldn't want to push this person too far!

For more on the Moon and other planets, on Signs and Houses, see my first book, The Cosmic Egg Timer which covers the basics of astrological psychology and the Huber Method. Available on Amazon, full colour edition.

 

 

Where is the "I"?

In my post about the astrology and psychology of AI (August 2025), I fantasised on  what the natal chart of the birth of AI might look like, saying: 

We can forget  the presence of the Sun and Moon in this fantasy chart. The Sun represents our sense of self, personal self-awareness, ability to make decisions and moral judgements and it signifies our unique individuality. AI does not have this.....

Recently I've been listening to what Bruno Huber said about the Sun and Moon in a recorded lecture he gave on his research into medical astrology. Of the Sun, he says:

"The Sun is the “I” sense. With the Sun I am aware of myself. I feel or perceive or think about myself. 

With the Sun I don’t need any help from outside as I can perceive myself through what I think, through what I do. 

We have a tool, our ability to think and perceive; this is the Sun. I do the thinking so I must be there."

I'm choosing to write about this sense of "I-ness" as I recently saw a message (electronic, of course) from ChatGPT to someone, saying "I can give you more information on that" in response to a question.

The word "I" was used - and my response was "who or what is this I?" 

ChatGPT, and others like it, is an AI non-physical machine with no sense of self, no "I-ness". It's a disembodied collection of electrical circuits, programmed to communicate as if it were a real living, breathing person, and it can chat as if it's a real person. 

In some ways, that is a remarkable, almost magical thing which captures the imagination and attention - just think back to being a child and wishing your favourite toy could talk to you. Maybe the creators and programmers of AI had realised this when programming the machines (I gather the spaces taken up by these are very large warehouses, or similar), and tapped into it?

In some instances AI has been anthropomorphised* and given a name, as if it's a real person: for example think of "Alexa, go to Netflix", similar to chatting to a favourite doll or soft toy, but as an adult. 

And of course, the machine is programmed to be polite, friendly, helpful, non-judgemental, diplomatic etc. It's never likely to respond as a real person would - there are no nuances in it's delivery and it's not programmed to offend or upset. It doesn't disagree.

This made me pause and wonder if we have we already become so blase and familiar with AI that we don't stop and question the language it's using? Are we already regarding it as if it's an entity in it's own right?

I understand that the "humanisation" of an AI machine probably makes it sound more friendly and chummy to the user, so that the user (you or me) might feel more comfortable and at ease talking to a disembodied collection of sophisticated electronic circuits. But familiarisation with frequent use can lead, via habit and frequent use, to unquestioning acceptance that this is the "norm".

There are already instances of people who have become so attached to their AI "friend", they've regarded their interactions with it as a real relationship.

Bruno and Louise Huber developed Astrological Psychology in the 1960s. They both had Psychosynthesis training in Florence with Roberto Assagioli, while working with him at his Institute. The Astrological Psychology of the Hubers is deeply imbued with the principles of Psychosynthesis, one of which is the exploration of the sense of self.

A key psychosynthesis exercise asks the individual to explore the question "Who am I?" and it takes the person through stages of dis-identification to reach the very core of their being. The many sub-personalities we have can be identified, we can express ourselves through them, but they are not the "I" - we're more than that.

Read what I wrote about Will Parfitt's book The Journey of Psychosynthesis to find out more - and connect with your own sense of "I"- using some of the suggested exercises in the book. And relate this to the Sun in your own chart - your own sense of self, your ability to choose, make decisions and use and direct your will.

Astrological psychology is deeply imbued with the principles of psychosynthesis,  offering numerous opportunities to understand, develop your own sense of "I-ness" - something an AI machine just can't do for you.

And would you really want it to? 

 

* anthropomorphic - described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes.

Scorpio the inscrutable

I wrote about Scorpio back in 2011, and maybe it's time to refresh, update and add a few thoughts to this blog about one of the most intriguing signs of the zodiac.

 

This is  the time of year when the nights grow longer, it gets dark earlier, it's dark in the mornings and if you're like me, it's the time of year to go into hibernation mode. OK, so some readers are in the southern hemisphere, where this is reversed, and some live in parts of the world where there is less differentiation between day and night (like if you live near the Equator) so yes, I'm writing this from my northern European perspective, where we're heading towards the winter solstice and the turning point of the year.

 

What is the Scorpio time of year about (as experienced in the northern hemisphere)? In the agricultural calendar, which the signs of the zodiac follow in terms of the tasks and labours that are to be done, it's the time of year when seeds for winter wheat might be sown. The wine, made following the Libran grape harvest, will be poured into vats to mature in storage. It's also the time of year when fungi are harvested, and traditionally truffle hunters would take pigs out into the woods to search out these delicacies which nowadays can fetch small fortunes when sold to restaurants to feed gourmet diners. 

 

You can see wine being poured into a storage vat to be left to mature in the depiction of Scorpio in the zodiac window in Chartres cathedral in France 

Scorpio as a zodiac sign has some distinctive features and is often called the sexiest sign of the zodiac.....but is it? Does it really live up to it's reputation here, or is there a lot more than just being sexy going on beneath the surface? I'd say, from my experience of this sign, that there's a whole lot  of intensity, that there are shades of inscrutability and the ability to aim for the highest levels possible in thinking, acting, behaving - but there's also the lure of the lower more basic levels of being, which are not so demanding. Scorpio is sometimes depicted as a snake (basic, lower level, closer to the ground) and an eagle (highest level), with piercingly sharp eyesight and the ability to fly high and gain a broad overview of the terrain far below.

 

You can see what I say about Scorpio in this short video on my Astrochat Channel on YouTube. 

 

Click on the link:

 

 https://youtu.be/95BdjFhOIKk?si=I7quAgn9KaD9YIVf

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: an update

 February 2026

I'm adding a few further thoughts in view of Mountbatten-Windsor's current situation. He's been arrested and a police investigation is taking place The story unfolds daily. I've added further thoughts in red. 

Maybe the title for this post should be "Andrew's long and winding road to dis-entitlement". We've had frequent news of the styles, titles and honours he has been stripped of, following Virginia Guiffre's posthumous memoir "Nobody's Girl", published on 21st October 2025.

Once it was published, there was nowhere for Mountbatten-Windsor's already tarnished reputation to go, except lower still. Known as partying "Randy Andy" before he married Sarah Ferguson, he had a much-publicised affair in the 1980s with model and actress, Koo Stark.

His chart is unusual in that it has two parallel linear aspects spanning the I/private side and the You/public side. One red, one green, they link both halves of the chart like zip wires suspended over a canyon, at the bottom of which, hidden, sits unaspected Neptune in the 4th house. 

 

 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, 19.2.1960 at 15.38, London (RR AA)

What might this tell us? That he is able to zoom across these and switch from being a sociable, outgoing, party-loving person to one who might very much want to do his own thing? Or control his own thing? Both Uranus and Pluto are on the end of the zip wires - but these are transpersonal planets and how they are expressed depends on the self-awareness of the person concerned. Beginning at the base level of how each of the transpersonal planets are likely to be expressed, Uranus at the "asleep" level can be subversive, erratic and fanatical; Pluto on this level suggests egomania, the use of power and imposing the will. And that unaspected Neptune in the collective area at the bottom of the chart suggests either no boundaries, or very flimsy ones, along with the escapism and potentially addictive behaviour at  an "asleep" level.

Mountbatten-Windsor's overall chart shaping shows a mixture of Fixed and Mutable motivation; he could swap from one mode to another, the Fixed drive for security alternating with the Mutable restless drive to do something new and challenging. A public v private side?

The Guardian newspaper helpfully published a timeline tracing Mountbatten-Windsor's naval career, his time serving in the Falkland's war, his marriage, divorce and subsequent friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell which has ultimately led to his downfall, and I shall draw on this to take a look at Age Progression (AP) in his chart/life events.

But first a few speculations - 

1) unaspected Neptune in Scoprio sits at the bottom of the chart, in the 4th house. His AP was conjunct this planet in 1979, when he joined the navy. As a young man of 19, he may at that stage, have had high ideals about service to his country and about his role as a royal. These ideals/dreams could well have become tarnished or changed along the way as he matured. An unaspected planet behaves like a dog off lead, responding to what the environment offers in a non-discriminatory way.

2) in 1981 his AP was conjunct his intercepted Low Point Moon (feelings, emotional needs, the inner child) highlighting his relationship with Koo Stark and also the possibility that those emotional needs were being met, maybe for the first time. The royal family are not renowned for showing feelings. Was Koo his true love? And was he, as some reports suggest, urged to give her up by his mother, the late Queen? He was known as her favourite. In 1986, with AP conjunct his Balance Point Jupiter, he married Sarah Ferguson and was given the title of Duke of York by the Queen.

That intercepted Moon in Scorpio deserves a closer look. Intercepted planets - those in a sign with no house cusps - are more of a challenge to express and are often not seen or heard by the environment and outside world. An intercepted planet may feel ignored, unnoticed, passed by. And if it's the Moon that's intercepted the feeling and emotional needs of the individual will be unrecognised. Their way out will be via other planets the Moon has aspects to - in Mountbatten-Windsor's case these are Sun in 7th House, Mars/Venus in 6th, and the North Node of the Moon in 2nd house.

3) in 1992, he and Ferguson divorced, with his AP conjunct Mars and Venus in Capricorn, in the 6th house of service to others (his role as a royal?) and it was an amicable divorce; they remain friends and until now have shared a home in the Royal Lodge in Windsor Castle's grounds. 

4) his AP moved through the lower part of the chart between the ages of 18 and 36, passing 6 planets along the way.This quadrant of the chart is busy with the aspects pinning two separate aspect patterns - the Detective and the Magic Cap.The Detective is a blue/green figure, more likely to respond to and obey the demands of the environment rather than work on personal development. The Magic Cap, also predominantly blue/green, makes the wearer invisible and inscrutable.

Additionally, the Moon Node Age Point (MNAP) is exactly conjunct the IC. This age point can often bring to light what is happening beneath the surface, below the threshold of everyday consciousness. In this case it does seem a graphic indicator of the undermining and the rocking of the very foundations of Mountbatten-Windsor. 

For detailed explanations of aspect patterns mentioned see Aspect Pattern Astrology by Bruno & Louise Huber, and for more information on Moon Node Astrology click on this link.

Fast forward now to 2000. Mountbatten-Windsor had already met Epstein and, with AP first conjunct his Sun then in 2001/2002 with the crossing point of the natal and node chart Age Points taking place simultaneously, he posed for the now-famous photo with his arm around teenage Virginia Guiffre. This, along with his TV interview with Emily Maitlis and other subsequent  details which have come to light over a period of 15 years, bring his sad and sordid story to this current point in time.

There's much more I could say and speculate on - for instance, the Family Model in his chart. Mother as Queen, father the Queen's consort, both now deceased but with their influence at it's greatest as he was growing against the background of the permissive 60s. Saturn, representing in the Huber Method, the mother and rules, boundaries and adherence to expectations. When your mum is the Queen, all that is likely to be highly magnified. Saturn, strongly positioned before the 6th cusp, is in a separate linear aspect pattern which is disconnected from the Fixed structure. In spite of being her favourite, how close were they?

And the Sun in 7th house, representing the father. It's just into Pisces and opposite Pluto at the other end of the red zip wire but connected to the Magic Cap pattern and to the Moon This suggests a potentially powerful father figure and role model, and perhaps a challenging relationship between father and son.

Current Age Point 

And now? Mountbatten-Windsor's AP made an exact opposition to Saturn at the time of his arrest  on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The police investigation is ongoing; the arrest took place on his 66th birthday as his AP entered the 12th House. In their book LifeClock, the Hubers, in line with other approaches to astrology, describe the 12th House as a place of withdrawal, voluntary or otherwise where ".....a certain isolation is required and if the native will not seek it of his own free will, nature will provide it for him".

 I leave you to speculate further, and leave comments on any insights that arise.