This article is about British politics. In particular the contest for the leadership of the Labour Party.
On the face of it, this is a very boring topic, especially if you’re not British. The Labour party lost the May 6 general election, they’re not in government, and therefore no-one cares who leads them.
However you have to remember that this election took place very close to a stressful, opposition aspect between Jupiter and Saturn. This aspect is about political and economic instability, and those in government can’t take their position for granted.
Right now David Cameron, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister, is enjoying a honeymoon period, but it’s not going to last. He’s in a phase of life that isn’t particularly fortunate, and by the end of the year his leadership won’t be looking so great. Especially as he’s in a coalition government, with the Liberal Democrats. The prevailing Jupiter-Saturn aspect is about division rather than unity, and the cohesion of the ruling coalition won’t last.
So the election for the next leader of the Labour Party is important – because the winner is very likely to be the next British Prime Minister.
There are five candidates, and two of them, David and Ed Miliband, are brothers. David Miliband is a Cancerian, born on July 15 1965, while his brother Ed is a Capricorn, born on December 24 1969.
The third candidate is Ed Balls, with a February 25 1967 birthday – which makes him a Pisces. The fourth candidate, Andy Burnham, is a Capricorn, born on January 7 1970, and the final candidate is Diane Abbot, who is a Libran, who came into the world on September 27 1953.
From my star sign analysis of previous British Prime Ministers, Ed Balls, as a Pisces, is not a good candidate. Britain’s worst Prime Minster ever, Neville Chamberlain, had this sign – it was he who sold Czechoslovakia down the river at the 1938 Munich Agreement, and therefore allowed Hitler to unleash his cataclysm on Europe.
Britain second worst Prime Minister, at least in living memory, was Gordon Brown, and he is also a Pisces. Gordon Brown’s economic profligacy almost destroyed the nation’s finances, and Ed Balls was once of his closest allies.
There was another Pisces Prime Minister, namely Harold Wilson. He was a charismatic politician, who had a brilliant television manner. Yet in the late 1960s his economic policies wrecked Britain’s economy.
We then move to David Miliband. Cancer is a sign that can be very good at defeating its enemies, and David Miliband would probably be OK as a British Prime Minister – but only because David Cameron is in such a weak position. I really think that the Labour Party can choose a better candidate – especially as Britain’s last two Cancerian Prime Ministers, Sir Alec Douglas Home and Edward Heath, found it difficult to assert their authority.
Diane Abbot is a Libran, and the general view is that she has no chance of becoming Labour leader. Still, female Librans can be quite formidable, and they certainly shouldn’t be underestimated. Margaret Thatcher is a Libran.
Historically the most successful sign for a British Prime Minister is Capricorn. There have been three Capricorn Prime Ministers since the early Nineteenth Century, namely William Gladstone, David Lloyd George and Clement Attlee. All of them were social reformers, and all of them had a big and lasting impact on the country.
So it’s great that two of the candidates for the Labour leadership have Capricorn as their star sign, and if the party has any sense, they’ll go for either Ed Miliband or Andy Burnham. As to which of the two they should choose, I suspect that Andy Burnham is the better choice – his Sun in Capricorn makes a brilliant aspect to Mars in Pisces, that will give him a good chance of putting progressive, left of centre policies into practice.
Finally, I should add that both Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham were born close to a Jupiter-Saturn opposition. This means that of the five candidates, they have the best understanding of the problems that Britain is currently facing.
Copyright © 2010 Archie Dunlop
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This is a fascinating intriguing article on the Labour leadership and it really made me think.