There is a whiff around the super-casinos, however: firstly of the Manse, of Brown not wanting to see people enjoying themselves; secondly, and more seriously, of authoritarianism. Having proclaimed a return to collective cabinet decision-making, he dropped the super-casinos without consulting his cabinet. It was a Brown dictat. This is the real shadow around Brown that hasn’t surfaced yet in his few weeks as PM. Some might argue that he’s got the job he wanted at last, and maybe he’ll relax now and not be so power-crazed. But I think that the way he ran the Exchequer will be the way he runs the government. Why should he change at his age?
So I’m enjoying seeing him make some good policy decisions in his early period as PM, but I am waiting for the shadow of fear and authoritarianism to return; Brown’s “sheer Stalinist ruthlessness,” as one civil servant at the Treasury, both impressed and horrified, put it.
Back to David Cameron. He has that Mercury in Scorpio square to Moon-Jupiter in Leo that I’ve been waiting to see since he became leader of the Tories. Like Brown he has Moon in Leo. We have a PM and a leader of the opposition, both of whom feel that being king is their rightful and natural place. Brown’s Moon is conjunct Pluto, so it is obsessive, as we all know. Cameron’s Leo Moon is conjunct Jupiter, so it is something he hardly has to try for, he just KNOWS it is coming his way, he was BORN to it. Brown’s conjunction to Pluto, and Cameron’s square to Scorpio Mercury both indicate an ability to conceal this hubris, while at the same time empowering it; other MPs feel it is only proper to bow to them, without perhaps quite knowing why they feel it.
On TV today Cameron was making light of his background (Eton and Oxford, married to a baronet’s daughter), even disclaiming it. At the same time his shadow cabinet is stuffed with Old Etonians. This is Mercury in Scorpio square to Moon-Jupiter in Leo: concealing (Mercury in Scorpio) his allegiance to privilege (Moon-Jupiter in Leo). I say there is nothing wrong in having had a privileged upbringing. There is lots that is great about it, you have had opportunities that others have not had, let us be happy for you. Just do not be proud. But the English are perverse and resentful. The upper class are the new lower class, a privileged upbringing is something you feel embarrassed about. And if you are a politician you downplay it, pretend you have risen above it, and then fill your cabinet with schoolmates, members of the same tribe.
My current take on David Cameron is that at heart he is a toff, he feels the privileged classes are superior and should be rewarded for their superiority. But he has the gift of the gab, he has charm (Sun and Venus in 1st House Libra), and I think he does also have some convictions: I think the environment is one of them. I think it’s time he let us know his convictions, because we’ve seen all the charm and feel-good stuff before, and it’s starting to wear thin.
The people may end up loving him, not because he is one of them, but because he is not. The English resent and love their toffs. England (1801) is a Sun in Capricorn nation, we are deeply hierarchical. But that Sun is (just about) square to Uranus rising in Libra, so we also feel ourselves to be equals. Tony Blair went to public school and then Oxford, but he could also appear to be one of the people. That was why he was so popular. When it came to the people, he knew how to have his cake and eat it.
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My father is born with the same aspect (Moon conjunct Pluto in Leo) and I have to say that the obsessive quality of such men is towards queens and women who have a mythical or otherworldly sense about them.
Personally speaking, I find this aspect to be obsessive as a means to compensate for some emotional needs which may not be met very easily in daily, public life. This pairing in leo becomes a kind of desperate attempt to merge with the collective consciousness which lends itself to a pontificative posture when forces align.
It's weak and transparent over time in a fixed sign since it lacks integrity and wisdom of the flow... Great post by the way! You are well on your way to a book.
Thanks mb. One point: personally I wouldn't regard publishing a book as the next 'step-up' from blogging (not that you said that!) With blogging you get to know your readers and fellow-bloggers, and say you've got 150-200 hits a day (like I currently have), would a book do any better? That said, I wouldn't object to it either!
I know an old man with Moon conjunct Neptune in Leo, and he goes for fantasy women, women who purely act a part, the latest of whom quoted Jerry Hall (?) in his presence: "The only thing you can't delegate is the bedroom!"
I know another old man with Moon conjunct Pluto in 2nd House Cancer, and he has 2 women - his daughter and his finacee - fighting over his money.
Interesting reading, DR. But this sense of entitlement that you relate to Moon in Leo -- over here, with George III and his band of toadies, there's lots of Leo in the Decider's chart but not the Moon. (Instead it's a "fair and balanced" Libra Moon - hah!) I catch a whiff of the same with Al Gore, also with lotsa Leo. So I'm thinkin' it's not a lunar factor.
No, I don't see it need be lunar either to create that sense of entitlement - but the Moon maybe makes kingship more of a basic, even unconscious emotional need, whereas the Sun might make it more of a goal you strive towards?
Lifting the ban for protests around parliament? WONDERFUL! Congrats for your country; I hope more of this is en route!
I have found that the moon conjunct Pluto denotes a destructive or overwhelming parent (could be father or mother). The crushed moon in Leo then needs to get back some status by becoming a ruler.
Very interesting blog.
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