Princess Diana – The candle in the wind

John MacIntyre [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Today is 20 years since the sudden death of beloved Princess Diana, probably the most famous royal person of our time.

Diana was born as a Yin Wood person, which represents the gentle nature of a plant. She had a powerful combo of Fire and Earth Element, solid Metal, and non-existent Water Element.

If we look at her Five Elements BaZi Chart, we will notice that 85% of it is warm. Either producing Fire (Wood) or is the result of Fire (Earth). So naturally, she needed Water and Metal elements to keep things balanced. These two elements can exhaust excessive Fire and Earth.

Things functioned quite well for her while she was young and supported by a strong Metal presence. Her image was powerful due to a good Element constellation. The period between 1972 and 1982 was outstanding, when her charisma and authority shone, and it was then that Prince Charles noticed young Diana and instantly fell for her.

The following 10 years were manageable, but things totally fell apart in 1992, when she entered a potent combination of Earth and Fire, throwing her Chart completely out of balance. There was no help from the Metal Element in cooling things down anymore. This imbalance involved the husband, lover, and various scandals around relationships. Things were simply beyond her control, and she was driven by passion and emotion, one of the strongest traits of the excessive Fire Element.

We won’t delve into details about why and how her accident happened; we want to keep these posts light. Such events are complex and involve the destinies of many other people.

Princess Diana was a passionate woman who spoke her mind. Generally, for a Yin Wood woman with intense Fire and weak Metal, it is not easy to have good relationships. She was too strong for Prince Charles. During the Metal period, this was somehow still holding together, but once the Metal lost its power, her relationship went downhill.

If they knew about this problem, they could avoid a lot of pain by simply spending more time apart, giving each other more breathing space. It could be that Charles was suffocated by her strong personality and drive, and couldn’t handle her. She needed a strong man, but her destiny was unstable to get a proper relationship, and driven by her passion and strong emotional desires, she died way too early.