Windsor Castle is the military stronghold and refuge of kings. When violence was afoot in England, the King and his family often sheltered at Windsor. During the turmoil of 1917, as people across Europe brutally slaughtered each other, destroyed their monarchies and even executed their rulers, a dull English King born for this moment came up with an idea to save himself, his dynasty and his throne from the anger of the British people. He would shelter again at Windsor taking it as his name and the name of his descendants. The Royal Family would find among their possessions the perfect commercial name. They would soar on the wind above the fray.
King George V was born for this purpose. This ancient warrior king stepped forward with a Gemini Sun and within his horoscope a special karmic emphasis on Mercury. The long alienation of the British from their own king would come to an end in his reign. He himself was born with a Sagittarius Jupiter in the 9th house loosely conjunct the Midheaven. As king, he was a benevolent foreign king (Sagittarius Jupiter) ruling in a foreign land (9th house). As a man, he was an Englishman (Gemini Sun) living on his English estate (2nd house). He managed to grow up and not learn French or German. He was English by creed if not by birth.
He was a second son but, on the day of his birth, he carried within him this Sagittarius Jupiter near a 30° Sagittarius, also 0° Capricorn, Midheaven. He was born to complete a karmic cycle of change from foreign king (Jupiter) to a dutiful master sovereign (Saturn). The 0° of any zodiac sign is the place where the old sign reaches its end and transitions into the next zodiac sign. He was crowned a foreign king and died a dutiful sovereign. His retrograde Libra Saturn is loosely conjunct his North Node. His mastery of relationship structure and willingness to create a collaborative partnership guided the royal family through this dangerous moment. His partner would be the British people. As has been seen over and over again, the British like their king to be a Gemini Jupiter. That is a commercial king that is a adherent of the goddess. This British King who rules over an empire of commercial enterprise is close to the heart of the British.
H.G. Well’s wrote about the “alien and uninspiring court” of George V, George V replied “I may be uninspiring, but I’ll be damned if I’m alien.” On the day George V christened the royal family, he had made the transition from alien to British and declared himself under a Gemini Jupiter. He was preparing the family for the end of the British empire and a restoration of English kingship. The Gemini zodiac sign is known for words and Jupiter is a king. This moment holds the energy of the royal (Leo) family (Cancer) and reaches deep into the family roots to find the perfect English name (Gemini). At some point in the future, the royal family will probably shed the Mountbatten appellation and return to this name. Windsor itself is the Cancer Mercury in the 5th house and there you find Leo Saturn, Leo Neptune and Leo Venus. Neptune is the ideal, Venus is beauty and Saturn is mastery. The Moon is at 29° Gemini and the Sabian symbol is “the first Mockingbird of spring.” The Moon is the herald of a new beginning for the royal family. The karmic south node shows it was the perfect family name waiting to be unearthed.