Having recently had Pluto cross my MC and been exposed to the intensity of the disruption of my life, I've been waiting with trepidation for Uranus and Neptune to cross my ascendant and speculating on how my life is going to change forever. Imagine my surprise, then, when I realized that there is one very famous person in the world who just went through this and had all the gory details documented in papers and tabloids around the world.

Who is this poor soul? Why, Queen Elizabeth! With 25 Scorpio on the MC and 21 Capricorn on the ASC, the Queen of England went through her Annus Horriblis in 1992-93 as the aforementioned planets hit her angles.

Does anyone need to be reminded of the family problems the Windsor's had with Prince Andrew and Fergie followed soon afterwards by Prince Charles and Princess Diana? Just about everytime the Queen thought that things couldn't get any worse, something new would pop up in the papers damaging to the monarchy!

A marital rift develops between Charles and Diana. He's committing adultery. She's making the headlines in the tabloids as a bulemic and thought to have attempted suicide several times. Then the tapes come out of Charles joking with his mistress, Camilla, that maybe he'd come back in a second life as a tampax so he could be closer to her. Diana demands a separation, but no monarch in modern times has ever been divorced and the Queen tries desperately to keep them together. Then tapes are released of Diana talking to HER lover. The Queen must have been going through her own personal hell during this time.

But that wasn't the end of it. No, Fergie had a mind of her own and when left to her own devices while Prince Andrew was off at sea in the Royal Navy, she took on several lovers. The pictures of Fergie, topless and with her latest lover sucking on her toes, surely must have made the Queen cringe -- she, whose sole purpose in life has been to uphold the dignity of the monarchy, saw it plunged into it's darkest depths.

As if this wasn't enough, Windsor Castle catches fire (the Queens favorite home) and considerable damage is done. This was perhaps the only time the world has seen the Queen look so vulnerable. There she was in the court- yard, standing in the rain watching her home go up in smoke. Never one to display her emotions or any commonplace feelings towards her children, the moment was upsetting enough to have her lay her head on Prince Edward's chest as if seeking solace.

Looking at her chart, we can see that as Pluto hovers around her MC and opposes her 4th house it seems as though the very fabric of her family is ripped to shreds and transformed into something totally different than what she was used to.

Other aspects made around this time were a square to her Mars, ruler of her 2nd house. The people of Britain did not want to pay for all the damage done to Windsor Castle and demanded that a large portion of it come from her pocket.

Then a T-square to her Jupiter/Neptune opposition. Jupiter rules her 11th house. In 1993 she lost the dearest, closest friend she had, but that's not all. The 11th also represents her child's spouse. She didn't lose them through death, but they certainly were behaving underhandedly and in an excessive manner that brought her considerable grief.

So, what did Uranus and Neptune crossing the ASC bring into her life? Chaos. Uncertainty. Doubts about the future of the monarchy. Many changes in the way personal affairs are handled. The first time in several generation that a monarch offered to pay taxes. She allowed Diana to officially separate from Charles (unheard of for a Prince expected to become King). The calm and expected routine of royal life became everything but that. Her life has been transformed in ways she never imagined.