Scenario: This is a novel that chronicles the important events in the life of Queen Elizabeth I as well as her astrologer John Dee and the important role played by the astrology. John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, teacher, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Queen Elizabeth I was a believer in astrology and had summoned the astronomer and mathematician, John Dee to calculate the most auspicious day for her coronation. Dee drew up the Queen’s horoscope chart and deduced that it should be on January the fifteenth, 1559 at midday. Given the circumstances in which Elizabeth ascended the throne: when England was at war with France and the country was divided by the Catholic and Protestant faith, she took all the necessary precautions to ensure her safety and fidelity to the throne.When Elizabeth ascends to the throne, her astrologer John Dee warns Mars crossing Jupiter signifies looming chaos. She relies heavily on his stellar prophecies, even in affairs of the heart. They prevent her marrying beloved Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, as the stars foretell only misery. The two pine for forbidden union for years. In 1568 when the deposed Mary Queen of Scots seeks asylum, Dee finds in her chart a destiny for deceit. His readings confirm Mary is fated to betray Elizabeth. For years Dee guides the Queen based on the stars, helping uncover plots. After the 1569 Northern Rebellion, Dee discovers Saturn and the north node strangely aligned in Taurus—evidence of future treachery by a high ranking woman. Elizabeth keeps Mary confined. By 1586 the Plot letters reveal Mary has indeed conspired against Elizabeth’s life. Even Dee agrees her fate is fixed. Then he detects a second moon in Aquarius—a dire warning of impending Continental threat. As Mary meets her end, Dee works obsessively to understand the altered realm’s new destiny. But the Armada still takes him by surprise. He is tormented his art failed Elizabeth, though she forgives him for not divining every twist of the thread the Fates spin. Elizabeth relies heavily on John Dee’s celestial guidance in matters of state, but even more so in affairs of the heart. She has long harbored affection for Robert Dudley, whom Dee warns she must never marry, as an inauspicious Saturn-Mars opposition in their synastry foretells only heartbreak. In 1560 when Dudley’s wife dies mysteriously, rumors swirl he plots to wed the Queen. Elizabeth beseeches Dee to reconsider the stars’ judgment, but he sees only discord. Reluctantly she refuses Dudley’s hand, though she gifts him the title Earl of Leicester. For years Elizabeth and her beloved Leicester lament that the heavens denied them union. But in 1578, Venus moves into Aquarius and Dee excitedly tells the Queen that planets have shifted: at last they can marry without calamity. Elizabeth arranges an intimate candlelit dinner, expecting Leicester will re-propose. When in some confusion Leicester fails to offer his hand, Elizabeth flies into a fury. She banishes him from court for a year to punish his wavering heart. Thereafter they meet only formally. Elizabeth dies a virgin queen, secretly believing had Leicester asked that night, she would have cast crown and country aside for love. On his deathbed in 1588 Leicester confesses to Dee that he rued his hesitation for 30 years. But Dee knows the stars still warned against their fate. Even he cannot change the inexorable movements of the heavens that separated the Queen from her greatest happiness.