Liam Fox: is he in or is he out?

The UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox is under pressure over his working relationship with a male friend, Adam Werrity. Werrity, who is 17 years younger than Fox, sat in on several MOD meetings despite having no government role or national security clearance. He has been a regular visitor to the MOD and has accompanied Fox on holidays and on official visits abroad. He used to be Fox’s flatmate and was best man at his wedding in 2005. Fox said at the time that his wedding should put paid to the rumours that he is gay. He had announced his engagement in June 2005, just in time for the Conservative leadership race, which he entered but did not win. In the early 1980s, as a medical student, he backed the university’s policy of not allowing gay organisations in the student union, saying he did not want them flaunting their gayness in front of him.

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It seems highly unlikely from his behaviour over the years that Liam Fox is NOT gay. Natally, he has a Venus-Uranus-North Node conjunction at 27-28 Leo. Uranus is associated with unconventional behaviour, which in this case it is bringing to Venus, relationships.

It doesn’t necessarily mean that he is gay, but it does mean that he needs to live out his love-life free from conventional restraints, and that doing so will be an important part of his overall development (North Node). Princess Diana also had a Venus-Uranus contact (square). It didn’t make her gay, but her attitude was not conventional within her milieu of the Royal Family.

It’s not so much that Uranus requires one to be unconventional – that is a side effect, albeit challenging and strengthening. It is that Uranus requires you to be who you are in relation to the groups around you. If you deny Uranus, then he will find a way through.

This seems to be what is happening with Liam Fox. His inappropriate professional behaviour with Adam Werrity was bound to come out. There is a Leo blindness to it.

It is as if there is a deeper level to the psyche that will out, and the outer planets represent that evolution. It is more important that you become who you are than that you maintain the structures of your life, like being Minister for Defence. Somehow, without knowing it, Liam Fox has set this situation up. He is responsible for it, and he has done it because it is a psychological necessity for him to come out as gay. Because he is a public figure, the concealment has been the greater – but the acknowledgement will be the greater when and if it comes out. With Neptune currently opposing his Venus, it is time to admit that he loves men.
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In the early 1980s, when he was vocally anti-gay, Uranus was squaring his Venus. In the mid 90s, Pluto squared his Venus, empowering it, and it was a few years later that he began his 'friendship' with Adam Werrity, then a university student. Fox was in his late 30s, Werrity was 20/21. Werrity's career has been on the coat-tails of Fox's, and he is known in Westminster bars, where he boasts of his connections and influence. Fox would seem to be the father-lover, Werrity the young man who has never achieved independence. Fox has a wide Venus-Pluto conjunction, and a Moon-Pluto opposition, so there are clearly power issues when it comes to his personal life.

Liam Fox's situation resembles that of the Liberal MP David Laws. He is prominent in his Party and was briefly in government in 2010, until a parliamentary expenses scandal broke around him. He had been claiming rent for a room in London owned by a man who turned out to be his boyfriend. This broke parliamentary rules. The rule had been in place since 2006, and Laws continued to claim the expense until 2009. Paradoxically, he could have claimed instead, and quite legitimately, for his house in Chard, and claimed more, but he did not do so.

Again, it seems clear that Laws wanted to be outed. Here he was, a public figure living with his boyfriend, and even his parents did not know he was gay. It is a very understandable situation, but what is interesting is the unconscious steps he took to expose himself. Afterwards he said what a deep relief it was to have admitted who he is in public. It cost him his governmental career, but becoming who you are is the real imperative.

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David Laws also has a Venus-Uranus contact, in this case a trine from a conventional Venus in Capricorn. With Fox, who has Venus in Leo, there is a kind of flaunting and yet too much pride to admit his gayness, probably even to himself: look at his student opposition to gays. With Laws, there does not seem to have been so much of a problem admitting it to himself, reflected perhaps by the trine, an easy aspect, to Uranus. The big problem for him was what others would think, which is Capricorn.

Being gay is increasingly not an issue for senior politicians. The real 'crime', from the point of view of the psyche, is not whether you fiddled a few expenses or were a bit lax about national security: it is not owning up to who you are.