It’s just been announced that on Thursday May 6 there will be a General Election in the United Kingdom. As an astrologer, I hate elections, because you’re in a lose-lose situation. If you get it right you’re just following the opinion polls, if you get it wrong, you’re just useless.
In the case of the forthcoming election, we’re dealing with a contest between the Labour Party, led by Piscean Gordon Brown, and the Conservative Party, led by Libran David Cameron.
There are three possible results. Gordon Brown wins a majority of the seats in parliament, and remains Prime Minister; David Cameron get a majority, and takes over from Gordon Brown; or neither party gets a majority, and there’s a ‘hung parliament’, which means horse-trading and chaos.
Astrology aside, the general consensus is, that it’s almost impossible for Labour to win an absolute majority, so if one is making a prediction, one is either going for a hung parliament or a Conservative victory. At the moment bookmakers are suggesting that a conservative victory is the most likely outcome.
This election is certainly very bizarre, in the sense that both Gordon Brown and David Cameron are unsuited for political life.
Gordon Brown, as a Pisces, is a man who wears his heart on his sleeve, and like so many people with this star sign, he finds it difficult to control his emotions. At the same time he seems to have a gut feeling that he and his country are entwined with each other, that his interests and his country’s interests are one and the same.
In this light, I can’t help noticing that his birthday and that of Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe are only one day apart – Gordon Brown was born on February 20 1951, Robert Mugabe on February 21 1924.
The two men are both obsessed with the idea that they have to be in power, and both of them are capable of having a scorched earth policy to get what they want – as they said in Viet Nam, ‘We had to destroy the village in order to save it.’
Interestingly two of Britain’s worst Twentieth Century Prime Ministers, Neville Chamberlain and Harold Wilson, had their Suns in Pisces. Neville Chamberlain handed Czechoslovakia to Hitler, while Harold Wilson, in spite of his great intelligence, managed to wreck the British economy in the late 1960s.
David Cameron is a much nicer person than Gordon Brown, but as I discussed in a recent article, the next few years don’t look great for him, especially if he becomes Prime Minister. In particular, he’s likely to fall out with his own party over Europe.
As far as what’s going to happen on May 6 is concerned, one thing is for sure. It will usher in a period of British history where neither the Labour nor the Conservative party are particularly strong, and like the 1970s, there’ll be regular changes of government.
Unless David Cameron follows my advice… which I’ll tell you about in a couple of days time. Though in the mean time, we should remember that Librans only do well in politics if they’re as tough as nails.
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I have had a go at analysing the transits occurring on May 6th with regard to Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Nick Griffin. The current Saturn/Jupiter opposition is telling Brown to ease off politics and perhaps take up a new hobby. Cameron will have a difficult time, but he will do better than Brown. Clegg is going to do surprisingly well.
Details here:
http://solascendans.com/2010/04/06/alex-general-election-2010-forecast/
http://solascendans.com/2010/04/07/election-forecast-part-2/
Interesting stuff Archie, but was Harold Wilson really one of our worst Prime Ministers? He won three elections for Labour, like Blair. He presided over a country full of optimism and invention. He expanded higher education, lowered the voting age, legalised being gay, legalised betting, brought in equal pay for women, outlawed racism, kept Britain out of the Vietnam war and gave the Beatles OBEs. Impressive!
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I know that Harold Wilson always regarded the establishment of the Open University as his finest achievement, but haven’t you got to look at his legacy? From an economic point of view he arguably laid the foundations for the wreck on the 1970s, having to call in the IMF, etc. Of course unlike Gordon Brown Harold Wilson had charisma – I think he was able to use his Pisces Sun much more effectively. And like Tony Blair, Harold Wilson was surely able to benefit from the ‘zeitgeist’ – so the optimism and invention might have been in spite of Harold Wilson. And surely the Beatles, the Rolling Stone, etc, became stars under a Conservative government? Likewise the Lady Chatterley trial. Though in general, I’m not sure that Britain has been particularly well served by its Prime Ministers since 1951. In terms of how well they played the hand they were dealt, I’d rate John Major and Jim Callaghan pretty highly.
Having said all that, I sometimes think that astrologers should stay out of politics. At least the politics of their own country. Political opinions can trip up our judgement!