Horoscope: The Battle of Flodden Field 1513

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

At the Battle of Flodden Field (59M 35S video, you may have to rewind!), one of my 13th-great-grandfathers, Sir William Maclellan was killed as were other of my (our!) ancestors and forebearers. Some sources give the Battle as September 8, 1513 but most say September 9, 1513. The invasion by Scotland's King James IV was ill-fated and if we wish to check the planets of the Battle, we find that Jupiter the General in the possessive, intolerant sign of Taurus was retrograde (Rx), never a good portent for belligerents waging war.

Famously, The Battle of Flodden Field is known as the largest ever fought between Scotland and England based on the number of troops, many of whom had already been felled by disease.

Now as you know, Flodden 1513 falls within the larger cycle of The War of the League of Cambrai (which goes back to Pope Julius II, Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I, and Venice in the early 1500s), yet this post is merely intended for publishing a symbolic Sunrise Horoscope of the Battle of Flodden Field in which so many of our ancestors lost their lives (or somehow managed to keep them!) while others were victorious.

This post is subject to future edits if new data is found, and as noted, the 1513 Horoscope is symbolically set for Sunrise (5:43:21 am LMT) using Flodden, Northumberland's co-ordinates as listed on the Battle's Wikipedia page (linked, above).

Obviously during a conflict, planetary oppositions (180 degrees) are of particular importance while squares (90 degrees) retain their usual implication of internal blockages, trines (120 degrees) suggest beneficial aids and/or alliances, and sextiles (60 degrees) show oportunities; the Chiron-Pluto pairing denotes primal violence - here in Sagittarius, sign of The Archer - appropriate since archers were battle participants:

An additional note: The Battle of Flodden Field was fought under the auspices of the Total 2 Old North Solar Eclipse of August 30, 1513 @16Vir01:49 with themes of unfortunate news concerning relationships, separations, or endings of unions; things seem glum at first but fast action can bring good outcomes (paraphrasing B. Brady). The last 2 Old North Eclipse occurred on July 13, 2018 @21Cancer; the next 2 Old North will manifest on August 21, 2036 @29Leo and will be the final Eclipse in the Series.