Gordon Brown’s political career should have ended in 2007, at the same time as Tony Blair. This is clearly shown by Hindu astrology. In April 1997, weeks before his party came to power, Gordon Brown entered a fortunate, ten-year phase, which ended in April 2007. After April 2007 Britain has had the misfortune to be government by an unlucky Prime Minister, who by all rights should have been tucked up nicely in his political grave.
The fact that Gordon Brown is still Prime Minister, and is managing to keep his head above water, is explained by a mini-phase, lasting from September 2008 to August 2009. It gives him a reprieve, and he reminds me of the Knight, in the Ingmar Bergman film The Seventh Seal.
The Seventh Seal has an apocalyptic medieval setting, a world racked with sickness and doom. The Knight was supposed to have died of plague, but he didn’t, and Death is pursuing him. At the end of the film Death and the Knight agree to a game of chess, and if the Knight wins he’ll be spared. Unfortunately Death is an expert chess player, and the Knight quickly starts losing. In desperation he knocks over the chess board, but Death’s got a photographic memory, and remembers the placing of each piece.
Gordon Brown is playing his own game of chess, and political Death will be the ultimate winner. Yet until August 2009 Gordon Brown will have enough strength to struggle and gasp, as he desperately seeks a winning move. And hopefully, for himself, his party and his country, he’ll hold an election before August 2009. It’s an election that he can’t win, but humiliation might be avoided. Death with honour!
Though I have my doubts whether Gordon Brown has the objectivity to call an early election – like many politicians he seems to regard his interests and the nation’s interests as one and the same. In this light, I can’t help comparing Gordon Brown with Robert Mugabe.
This is a comparison that’s been made before, usually by people on the political right. In one sense it’s a silly comparison – Gordon Brown genuinely cares about the welfare of the British people and he respects the rule of law. Yet one can’t help noticing the two men’s birthdays. Gordon Brown was born on February 20, Robert Mugabe on February 21 – so they’re both Pisceans, their birthdays being one day apart.
Pisceans are often very emotional, and they find it difficult to control their feelings. There can also be a lack of boundaries, in the sense that their emotions can spill from one place to another. In the case of Gordon Brown, you don’t have to be psychic to guess at what he’s feeling – I have the impression that he’s a man who wears his heart on his sleeve, whose emotions are betrayed by his facial expressions and body language.
In the case of both Gordon Brown and Robert Mugabe, life has given them some hard knocks, which attract one’s sympathy. Gordon Brown lost an eye as a teenager, and his first child died soon after birth. Robert Mugabe’s young son died of malaria while he was in prison, and he wasn’t allowed to attend the funeral. These events have perhaps contributed to the sense of entitlement that both men seem to have. They’ve had personal tragedies, and they somehow deserve to be in power.
And overall it seems that the inner, emotional states of Gordon Brown and Robert Mugabe are tied up with their political office, and that the events and struggles of the past are all part of the issue. At the same time, Gordon Brown and Robert Mugabe see perhaps themselves and certainly their countries as being victims of outside forces. It was Britain that destroyed Zimbabwe’s economy, and poor Robert Mugabe and his ZANU government are trying to pick up the pieces. It was the credit crunch and the nasty, irresponsible banks that wrecked the British economy, and Gordon Brown’s irresponsible over-expenditure had nothing to do with it.
We also have a moral dimension to both men, that arguably relates to their religious upbringing. Gordon Brown’s father was a Church of Scotland minister, and his early contacts with Christianity almost certainly had a big influence on his political beliefs. It’s a brand of Christianity that’s connected with public service and egalitarianism, that eschews vulgar materialism.
Robert Mugabe, on the other hand, was brought up a Roman Catholic, and he was educated by Jesuits. A Jesuit education is certainly rigorous, and often encourages an ideological approach to life – that sometimes turns its pupils into Marxists. For example, Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader, was also educated by Jesuits. Unlike Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe remains a declared Catholic, which isn’t surprising, given that Pisces can be a very religious sign.
Both Gordon Brown and Robert Mugabe have the first magnitude star Fomalhaut within a few degrees of their Sun. It’s a star that’s very important, and it was one of the four royal stars of the Persians. Sometimes called ‘the mouth of the fish’, it can propel people to the top. Yet its influence is mixed. Vivien Robson wrote:
It is said to be very fortunate and powerful and yet to cause malevolence of sublime scope and character…
Perhaps the longer a politician with the Sun on Fomalhaut stays in office, the more malefic the influence. Yet Gordon Brown soldiers on, apparently oblivious to the bad energy he’s attracting. An unlucky prince rules over an unlucky land, and the sooner political Death checkmates him the better.
Copyright © 2009 Archie Dunlop
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