Gemini more
than any other sign is the trickster archetype. In public life they do and say things
that upset the status quo. They keep us entertained. They appal us, we wouldn’t
trust them as far as we could throw them. And sometimes it can seem like Fate is
intervening, as though Geminis are a vehicle for bizarre, rule-breaking events.
With Sun
conjunct Uranus (another trickster, as is Eris) and North Node in Gemini, it is
Donald Trump’s destiny to upset the status quo. American politics will never be
the same again.
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| DONALD TRUMP |
As a human being, I hold him in low regard. Politicians are
usually in it for a reason, they are trying to do something that they see is
useful, and I think it is important to try to discern this, rather than just
seeing everything as acting in bad faith, which I think is a cop-out that a lot
of otherwise intelligent people engage in. But Trump…. I do find it hard to see,
because everything he does is so entwined with his delusory self-regard. It is
as though the Fates said this system needs shaking up, and we’ll use this guy,
this is what he’s good for.
In the UK we
have Boris Johnson, another Gemini. His behaviour over the EU referendum was
classic Gemini. He couldn’t make up his mind until the last minute whether to back
the Leave or Remain campaign. In the end he led the Leave campaign, in opposition
to the Prime Minister. He told a whopper about using the money we’d save to
fund the NHS. Like a good Gemini, he is now well-known for this piece of
exaggeration. How much of all this is just manoeuvring for power on Johnson’s
part, and how much what he genuinely thinks, is hard to say. Maybe we shall
never know, maybe he doesn’t know himself.
But manoeuvring
for power is what he does. He has Moon in Scorpio. The Moon is often hidden,
and Scorpio of course can love to manoeuvre for power.
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| BORIS JOHNSON |
BUT Boris
Johnson has Sun in Gemini conjunct North Node and MC in Cancer. So maybe he
really does want to improve the NHS. The other day he spoke out of turn, asking
for more money for the Health Service. He is starting to have a history with
the NHS.
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At any rate,
the EU referendum has shaken up the UK, there is no doubt about that, and
Gemini Boris played a part in that. As did Sun-Mercury-Venus in Gemini Jeremy
Corbyn, the Labour leader, who was a lukewarm Remainer, which isn’t how leaders
are supposed to act: they are supposed to take one side and back it.
Something
else Boris does is put his foot in it by speaking the truth. Which, as the
country’s head diplomat, is an interesting quality. About a year ago, he said
that Saudi Arabia was involved in proxy wars in the region. Everyone knows
this, but no-one will say it. Furthermore, the UK was in the process of
concluding a major arms deal with Saudi Arabia. So it really was NOT the thing
to say. Maybe because it was Boris and he is, in a way, not taken seriously, it
was smoothed over and the deal proceeded. But credit to Boris, IMO.
And then
there is the British woman who has been imprisoned in Iran on charges of political
subversion. She is a mother with young children back in the UK, and claims she
was just in holiday. Step in Boris to help: he says that she was merely in Iran
to ‘train journalists’. Of course, this set her case back, for it was used by
the authorities as a means of confirming their suspicions. And Boris was widely
condemned. What no-one is saying is that she probably WAS in the country for
that reason, and Boris said it. Stupidly, and I won’t give him credit for that.
Uranus is
starting to oppose Boris’ Moon at 0.35 Scorpio. And his Moon rules both his MC
and his North Node. So I think we can expect to see continuing twists and turns
in the Boris story this year, and I think they will include that manoeuvring
for power that seems so obvious in him. And which he can get away with because
Theresa May’s position is so weak.
I was
prompted to write this piece because of a news item this morning: “Boris
Johnson 'is descendant' of mummified Basel woman”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42805485
A mummified woman was found 10
years ago in Basel, and she turns out to be Boris’
great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother. It doesn’t get more
bizarre than this. It could only happen to Boris. And it is something to do
with being Gemini that attracts this sort of event to him.
His ancestor died of mercury poisoning, given as a treatment for syphilis. She got syphilis because she looked after people with syphilis. Yeah, right. If Boris is anything to go by, her husband was a philanderer, and that's why she got syphilis.
