I’m glad I didn’t make any predictions. If I’d predicted that there was going to be a hung parliament I would have looked like an opportunistic charlatan, because that’s what everyone was predicting all along.
Though if I gain any small crumb of credit, it’s for noticing that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg wasn’t going to change the shape of British politics. His horoscope just wasn’t good enough. And as it happened, he had a bad election, with his party actually losing some of its seats.
We then have Gordon Brown. If you read through my posts, over the last few years, you can see that I have been consistently negative about him. Yet the Labour party’s performance in yesterday’s election wasn’t disastrous, and he denied the Conservative opposition a majority.
He was probably helped by a brief astrological phase, lasting from April 19 to May 22, which is fortunate, which might allow him to fend off his enemies.
However it’s possible that Gordon Brown is being helped by something else, that has nothing to do with him personally, but which is nonetheless intrinsically astrological.
As we move towards an opposition aspect between Jupiter and Saturn, that becomes exact at the end of the month, the focus is on survival rather than vague idealism. You want politicians who regard life as a being a struggle, who realise that wishful thinking on its own achieves nothing.
One can define such politicians through their personalities. But you can also do it through their generation. With a Jupiter-Saturn opposition coming up, it’s possible that politicians who are born around the time of this opposition will prosper.
When we look at Gordon Brown’s horoscope, we notice that he has Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Libra. This means that he was born just before the opposition. So in spite of his appalling misjudgements over the last thirteen years in government, he now understands what’s going on, and is in accord with the times in which he is living.
But remember, I am talking about Gordon Brown as a representative of a generation, not as an individual.
We then look at the new politicians on the block, who are all born in the mid-1960s. David Cameron was born on October 9 1966. Nick Clegg was born on January 7 1967. In Gordon Brown’s own party, there’s David Miliband, born on July 15 1965 and Ed Balls, born on February 25 1967.
These politicians were born in the positive, ideallistic phase of the Jupiter-Saturn Cycle – in fact, they born in the run-up to the Summer of Love, in 1967. They’re getting a lot of attention, and even if their horoscopes are brilliant, their mini-generation is out of synch with the times.
As far as David Cameron is concerned, the hung parliament has given him a major opportunity to save his political reputation – because if he becomes Prime Minister over the next couple of years he’ll be a disaster, and he should wait it out. Not only is his generation wrong, but his horoscope is wrong as well.
Going back to the Labour Party, they should of course ditch Gordon Brown – his horoscope is in a far worse state than that of David Cameron. They should replace him with someone who is also born close to a Jupiter-Saturn opposition. This means skipping David Miliband and Ed Balls, and going for Alan Johnson, the current Home Secretary, who was born on May 17 1950. It’s obvious really, but will the Labour Party listen to my advice?
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Hi Archie, I was reading your observations (before the election which in which you implied there would be a hung parliament) re the potential for a Cameron/Clegg collaboration.
I noticed you didn’t seem too optimistic. What birth times do you have for them? I’ve been looking at 05.55 bst for Cam and 05.30 for Clegg (off the internet).
Things that jump out to me are Clegg’s impatient level of ambition. If birthtime is early am, Mars could be in 10th together with the fact he has exact Sun/Mars cardinal square.
I thought Cam might seem like a gatway to success for Clegg as Cam’s Sun conjuncts Cleggs Mars and if Clegg’s MC is 9 libra Cam’s venus conjuncts it.
Both have Chiron 22 conjunct Saturn at 24 Pices (Brown’s Venus!) possibly in mutable houses (Cam 6th/Clegg 3rd)
Both have Jupiter at 01 Leo, Cam has easier access to Jupiter it is conjunct his Moon in Leo and possibly in his 10th house. Clegg’s Jupiter trines his moon (depending on morning birthtime) but it’s retrograde and in the 8th. Perhaps he needs someone to share their success with him – a kind of Jovian benefactor?
Cam’s Moon/Jupiter trines Clegg’s Moon in Sag, and possibly his ascendant which could be 9-10 Sag. Perhaps Cam’s Moon facilitates easier access between Clegg and his retrograde Jupiter.
Clegg seems intellectually sharper (Mercury capricorn square Mars) than Cam who is intellectually deeper (Mercury scorpio square Moon/Jupiter in leo) but less agile. Cam’s ideologies are likely to be more traditional and deep seated than Clegg’s cooler, more pragmatic “get the job done” way of thinking. Also Clegg’s sun is trine Pluto/Uranus, giving him that ability to sense trends ahead of their time. I don’t think Cam’s Mercury would find it easy to think outside the box, and even though he’s deeply instinctive and intuitive the Moon-Mercury/Jupiter square doesn’t make him open-minded.
In any case Cam is slower and probably less pro-active (unaspected Libra Sun, fixed Mars-Neptune square). If he has Libra rising with Venus close to ascendant, he could benefit from a pushy, ambitious partner (Aries on 7th) like Clegg. And of course Clegg’s Mars is pushing Cameron’s Sun.
Both have fire Moons and air Venuses which suggests they could get along ok socially and emotionally. On the surface, I’d say Clegg has more to gain than Cam from the relationship, but as Cam has Mercury in Scorp, it’s difficult to know what’s going on under the surface!
Hope all is well with you, I really like your new site. I’m in Lucca at present in an area of inconsistent bandwith so although I’ve re-planned my site I can’t risk uploading the new and will have to wait until I get back to Ealing (volanco plume and BA threatened strike permitting).
Hope all is well with you – are you still planning to go to the states?
best wishes Pauline