Re the recent UK political pantomime… last month, (and possibly an ongoing one), Uranus last month was exactly conjunct Liz Truss’s Mars (only every 84 years) and simultaneously, Pluto was exactly opposing her Mercury (only every 248 years), it was therefore virtually impossible to think she could survive then politically. The personal chaos, shock, change and massive confrontation from others, typical of both those rare planetary combinations, was as powerful as it gets.
Now that Mars currently in Gemini (London’s sign), has gone
retrograde, till 12th January next year (a very rare event of that length)
… life will seem in freeze frame of confusion, impasse, shock/awe and anger
during that period, not least in Britain, but globally. Boris Johnson, with his
natal Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars in Gemini, will certainly need to seriously
rethink his future, as paralysis and impasse hits him. Interestingly also, the
partial solar eclipse on the 25th last month, was right on his Scorpio moon, on
the day of his realisation of his failure to make a comeback as prime minister.
His ego will demand that another plan must be pondered on, and a new chapter must
be created, which eclipses often indicate, when they significantly impact your
personal planets.
Rishi Sunak also came
to power as the UK prime minister on the day of last month’s solar eclipse,
which was certainly a new chapter for UK politics. Unfortunately, we have no
time of birth for him, but he is a Taurus, both Sun and Mercury (money/
security/practicality) hence his previous job in banking and then chancellor.
He is in many ways grounded and practical, underlined by having his natal
Jupiter and Mars in Virgo. His Moon is
certainly in Aries, which also gives him a fiery drive and ambition. His Venus
in Gemini also gives him a certain level of convenient butterfly like
flexibility in his stance, to suit his preferences and personal advantage. His
Mars conjunct Jupiter certainly adds to a pioneering, confident and zealous
streak. His Mercury and Sun trine to
Saturn, gives him also a capacity for caution, constructive hard work and
intelligent practicality. It also gives him an instinctive very conservative
stance… with both a capital and a small “C”.
However, to contrast
that Saturn influence, and what is very striking in his natal chart, is that he
has a powerful and quite unusual aspect of both his Sun and Mercury, being in
opposition to his Uranus. This gives a tendency to have periodic considerable
shock and sudden change in his life, and radical challenges to his ideology,
often created by situations out of his control and likely instigated by others.
Ominously and
interestingly, next year Uranus moves to conjunct his Sun and Mercury (only happens
every 84 years, so only once, for significant a period, in his lifetime),
triggering massively that very intrinsic, unpredictable natal energy. He will
then be subject to significantly challenging and inevitable change in his life
and position, that will very likely be triggered by others, and certainly by
significant forces, largely out of his control. This period notably will be
activated in June /July, October /November and early December 2023, and will be
repeated in March/ April 2024. Once in a
lifetime stuff indeed!
His natal Moon is almost certainly opposition his Pluto in
his chart, indicating that he is attracted to power, has much hidden power and
attracts powerful people/contacts into his life, especially women, and it is of
course, no secret that his wife comes from a very wealthy family and who has
indeed massive financial assets.
However major emotional battles and power struggles with
others, can also go very deep with this natal aspect… His decision re not
attending this year’s COP meeting has triggered much criticism and controversy
re his seeming lack of awareness/concern of global priorities, especially in
view also of the absence of King Charles at that conference. Finances are classically his priority, to an
overwhelming degree, as indicated by his chart.
Putin’s desperation re
Ukraine has been made much scarier, by his realisation of his underestimation
of the challenge of his so called “military operation”. The decision he was
almost certainly making at the end of last month, when that solar eclipse in
Scorpio was virtually exact on his ascendant was decisive… a new chapter
indicated. He has a choice to either, in
some face-saving way, withdraw, or to potentially cause a world war.
Next year we will have the initial taster of a coming major
revolution, when Pluto dips his toe into Aquarius, between late March and mid-June.
However, from January 2024 to early 2044, when Pluto is really committed to
that sign, there will also be powerful lessons to learn then and a price to
pay, re abuse of technology (technology being an Aquarian issue) … despite the
then huge developments of technological abilities. Power is always tested for positive use. For every technological advance, there is
often an equal and opposite step backwards in its potential … Motive is everything. Pluto always tests for wise use, or misuse of
power as represented by whichever sign he is travelling through.
Elon Musk will surely
also be tested in his now ownership of Twitter, as to what he accepts as
legitimate in its power and use.
Aquarius is not only very linked to technology and the
future, but positively, very much to a big picture awakening. it is a wakeup
call to truth, big picture objectivity and the huge need for cooperation for
the greater good. Indeed, it is a humanitarian sign, in best manifestation.
We are on the brink of a need for a total change of our
values in many ways now, as Pluto finally finishes his lessons and reveals the
consequences of years of misuse/abuse of financial power in Capricorn
(financial value systems).
Saturn in Aquarius continues currently to square up to Uranus,
(which rules Aquarius) which is totally symbolic of a real and fundamental
clash between the old order (Saturn) and need for the new (Uranus)… This gargantuan
conflict is clearly between the desire to maintain the old socioeconomic value system
(Saturn) and the need for a fundamental revolution in values and priorities
(Uranus), not least because of climate change.
Mars in Gemini is also currently and protractedly, because
of its retrograde motion, squaring up to Neptune … This is classic of smoke and mirror messages,
and a sense of inadequacy, confusion and uncertainty of action, as to the
correct way forward. Mars in Gemini can be about much talk and promises,
scattered energy and little action and when additionally square to Neptune, it
brings added deceptions and confusions. Devious
actions are rife. Indeed, also a collective lethargy can also permeate. The world, literally, and its people, are all
generally tired and depressed in mood.
It knows we are running out of time for a lifesaving existential change
of values to be established.
A very powerful and profound period, globally this month is November the 8th/9th. The total lunar eclipse then is exact on the 8th, which sees the Moon at 16 degrees of Taurus, oppose the Sun at 16 degrees of Scorpio, and the Sun will also simultaneously oppose Uranus while the Moon conjuncts it. Mercury will also oppose Uranus on the 9th. The North node in Taurus is also involved. This is an enormous conflict between what can be described as the forces of good and evil, between the need to cooperate rather than compete. It is an eruption of trauma, both personally and globally, brought about by the patriarchal desire for control and power, versus the great scream of planet earth to stop this battle of egoistical power versus the greater good of collective harmony, and indeed for the literal health of the whole planet. In other words, wisdom versus ego
.
This is not a comfortable time at all. Hopeful signs follow, with Mercury trining Neptune and sextiling Pluto on the 12th and 13th. This is when sensitivity, insight, intelligence and power can come together to heal…. potential.
Trump has Mars conjunct his Sun between the 18th and 23rd. suggesting a real bid for power and an exceptional fighting mood, but being retrograde, it could be frustrated, and his anger will be very evident.
There are only two certainties in life, and one of them is
change, and the astrology certainly points to that truth right now.
When looking at the
world and the symbolism of the current astrology now., I cannot help but be
reminded of a line from the W.B. Yeats poem, “The Second Coming”.
“Things fall apart,
the centre cannot hold”
