All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. – Enoch Powell, 1977
You’ve got to feel sorry for David Cameron, the new British Prime Minister. He came so close to avoiding political disaster. If the opposition Labour Party had got a few more seats in the May 6 General Election, they might have been able to stay in power, at the helm of a ‘rainbow coalition’. David Cameron and his Conservatives could have waited it out in opposition, and after a few years of political and economic chaos, there would have been another election and David Cameron would have become Prime Minister on his own terms.
Most importantly, by staying in opposition David Cameron would have been recognising that astrologically he was going through a difficult period, where it would have been very hard for him to get anything right.
I’m certainly talking about his own horoscope. In terms of Indian astrology, until May of 2011, and probably for much longer, he is going through an unfortunate period of life, when his enemies are going to get stronger and stronger. And in Western astrology, Saturn is soon going to make a number of very tough transits to various planets in his natal chart.
This immediately raises the question of how he got to become Prime Minister, if indeed things are so bad for him. I would argue that to an extent we’re talking about a collective, national destiny. The previous Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, lost his luck the moment he got the top job, so in a way it was the country’s destiny to have an unlucky Prime Minister.
This is best summed up in one of my favourite films, John Boorman’s Excalibur, where Merlin tells Arthur:
You will be the land,
And the land will be you.
If you fail, the land will perish.
As you thrive, the land will blossom.
The land is sick, so it chooses Prime Ministers going through unlucky phases of life.
Nonetheless, nothing is absolutely definite, and in a recent article I gave David Cameron some astrological advice. He’s got to be a tough Libran and not a weak one, and he should stop trying to make everyone happy. This is going to be difficult for him, even impossible, now that he’s in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
Looking at the wider astrological situation in which David Cameron became Prime Minister, and we’re in the immediate run-up to a Jupiter-Saturn opposition. The emphasis is on splitting rather than unity, and forming a coalition government seems very unwise. I believe that cracks will start appearing pretty quickly.
It’s also worth noting that the last British Prime Minister to be elected at the time of a Jupiter-Saturn opposition was Edward Heath, in 1970. His four year term in office was riven with economic crisis and industrial unrest, and he lost power for good in 1974.
When we focus on what was going on at the moment David Cameron became Prime Minister, on the evening of Tuesday May 11, the picture isn’t great. In particular, the Moon is in a poor position. It’s towards the end of Aries, and it’s void of course – in other words, it’s made its last major aspect to a traditional planet before leaving the sign. Things that start on a void Moon are very often on a course to nowhere.
Furthermore the Moon is waning, and therefore right at the end of its cycle. It’s a time for endings rather than beginnings, and it’s yet another sign that David Cameron’s premiership will end in tears. Not to mention recrimination and failure.
Copyright © 2010 Archie Dunlop
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