Written in the Stars: The Birth Chart of Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales

The Princess of Wales was born under a near-full moon — the Sun in Capricorn, the sign of institutions, directly opposite a fully dignified Moon in Cancer, the sign of home: the crown and the kitchen table, facing each other across her whole sky. Add a mutual reception between Venus and an exalted Saturn — grace and duty holding each other's crowns — a retrograde Venus that took ten patient years to say yes, and Venus square Jupiter at just six minutes of arc, the astrological engine behind the "Kate effect," and you get the chart of a future queen whose sky has never been ambiguous about what the throne is for.