Countries have birth charts too. Here, Vogue Scandinavia's resident astrologer Clarisse Monahan reads the remaining World Cup contenders' celestial placements to predict who is written in the stars to lift the trophy
Last month in this column, we talked about Jupiter, the planet of luck, moving into Leo, and how anyone holding that placement would find themselves running unusually lucky this season. Nowhere was that clearer than with Norway.
Here's a detail that surprises people who are new to this: countries have birth charts too. Give a nation a founding date, a moment of independence, a constitution signed, and you can cast a chart for it exactly like you would for a person. It's called mundane astrology. Norway's chart is built on 7 June 1905, Oslo, the day it dissolved its union with Sweden and became fully independent.
Norway's natal Moon sits in Leo, exactly the sign Jupiter has spent this tournament moving through. The Moon represents the public: mood, popularity, the people's imagination. When Jupiter crosses a nation's Moon, it doesn't just bring luck, it brings beloved luck, a team the whole world starts rooting for. That's exactly what happened: Norway's run, including a stunning win over Brazil, turned them into the tournament's favourite underdog story.
Their star, Erling Haaland, had a stranger signature behind it. His natal Jupiter sits in Gemini, hit by unpredictable Uranus, with Mars adding its own volatility, wildcard energy capable of something electric out of nowhere. That's exactly what we saw against Brazil. But Uranus gives and takes without warning, and Norway's ending had the same flatness: Haaland quiet, subbed off, the magic gone as suddenly as it arrived.
Which brings me to why I think that same wave is now carrying England.
Photo: Olav Stubberud