When you consider that Operation Overlord started the process on June 6, 1944, it took 80 days to finally achieve its objective of liberating Paris. That’s the equivalent of circumnavigating the world in a Jules Verne story. It would take another eight months to finally defeat the Nazis and end WWII in the European arena. It’s now been 80 years since this happened.

This chart is the exact moment that the Germans surrendered that day. Notice that all the planets and lights are above the horizon. Also notice that there is only one inconjunct.

Moon Inconjunct Uranus

With this aspect you must learn to control sudden outbursts of emotion that occur at difficult times when you least expect it. Also your present home life may not be a stable situation in which you can grow up emotionally secure and confident. A particular incident when you were very young may have given you the feeling that you can’t count on anything or anyone for support. Later in life, you may try very hard to get away from anything that reminds you of your earliest childhood, even if your childhood has not been difficult. You just feel that you have to get away and go somewhere else.

Planets in Youth (page 130) by Robert Hand (1977)

The “City of Light’ was in the dark since almost from the beginning of the war. The German occupation was not a pleasant experience by anyone’s standards. The French Resistance was instrumental in keeping the French from giving in and giving up, but no one likes being under an oppressor’s thumb.

Paris was also the focus of the Allies’ attention from the very beginning, really.