king charles

The Chart Doesn’t Know He’s a King

What King Charles’s birth chart says about the price of arriving at the place you spent your whole life reaching toward

I found The Little Prince on my own when I was a child. I don’t remember where exactly. Somewhere in Manila, in that specific way things appear when you are poor and curious and always looking for something without knowing what you are looking for.

I picked it up because of the word prince.

I was a child who had gone one day without food. My parents had just separated and the refrigerator was empty and nobody came, and that was the day I understood that the walls of a home are not as permanent as they look. So when I saw a book with the word prince on the cover, I picked it up the way a drowning person picks up anything that might float.

I wanted to see inside the palace. I wanted to see what it looked like when the food never ran out and the walls never moved and nobody left.

What I found was the loneliest person I had ever met in any book.

The little prince lived alone on a tiny planet. He had a rose. He had a volcano. He had sunsets he could watch 44 times in a single day by moving his chair. And he was alone in a…