It
was the authoritarian impulse - in the sense of being able to take
control and lead and not being too concerned to please - that was both
the strength and undoing of Thatcher and Blair. The point at which it
became their undoing was when they stopped listening. With Thatcher, it
was the poll tax. With Blair, it was Iraq. With Johnson, I suspect it
may be Scottish Independence, if his disregard of Ian Blackford is
anything to go by. Blackford is the leader of the SNP in the Commons,
and as he spoke recently, Johnson was playing with his mobile phone.
That seemed pointed. Johnson may be a multi-tasking Gemini, but he also
has Scorpio Moon: he knows the game of power and how to put opponents
down.
It
was his Scorpio Moon that became apparent as soon as he became PM. Up
until then what had been most apparent was his Air: Sun, Mercury, Venus
and Mars in Gemini, Libra Rising. The guy who seemed to be just playing
around and charming people and making jokes and cocking up. But then
this very instinctive, absolutely determined and hugely ambitious guy
took over. His Moon rules his Cancer MC as well as being in Scorpio, so
here is a guy who leads from gut instinct. And so far, it has served him
well. Brexit was an issue the country had voted for, it had become
enmired, and a leader was needed who would push it through regardless.
It resonated with the needs of the country, Johnson has been sensitive
to that, and it is why he won the election so convincingly. Just as
Thatcher was sensitive to the need, for the sake of the country, to
reduce the power of the miners, and why she kept winning elections. And
sometimes an attack-dog is needed. Thatcher had Sun square Pluto and
Scorpio rising, Blair had a (wide) Sun-Moon-Pluto t-square. So
Pluto/Scorpio is common to all 3 of them.
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Johnson
feels strongly and instinctively that he wants to preserve the Union.
He is intensely patriotic, and I think there is a lot that is good in
that, as well as a lot that is blind. It seems clear that the popular
feeling in Scotland is moving towards independence, particularly as we
leave the EU. Johnson is not prepared to listen to that - as his
disregard of Ian Blackford showed - and that is why I think it may be
the beginning of his undoing, or at least a clue to the nature of his
undoing - which may be a long slow fall, as it was with Blair and
Thatcher.
In
2024 Pluto will exactly square Johnson's Moon. The year before, Pluto
will cross the MC at 29 Capricorn of the Northern Ireland chart (the
1922 UK chart relocated to Belfast). This will be the decisive period
for NI Independence, as demographic realities become pressing, and as
the partial separation of NI as a consequence of Brexit - namely the
border in the Irish Sea - bears fruit. This is an unspoken consequence
of the deal that Johnson has negotiated with the EU. Everyone knows it,
and no-one is saying it. Johnson doesn't want NI Independence, even
though he is catalysing it. But because he has catalysed it, I think he
will allow it. But it will be difficult for him, as the square transit
of Pluto to his Moon at the time shows. The Moon is our patriotism, our
love for home and roots.
Not
so for Scotland. That will come a year or two later, if the chart above
for Scotland is reliable, when Pluto opposes its Asc. Scotland is a
more emotive issue. A good leader is able to negotiate the popular
currents. Maybe it is difficult to be both: to be true to those
currents, as well as to your own instincts, when they clash. Humans are
generally only partial beings. So this is why I suspect that Scottish
Independence may be the start of Johnson's downfall, because he will not
be able to put the popular feeling in Scotland before his own
Scorpionic instincts. Brexit and its aftermath will probably be what he
is remembered for, and a consequnce of that, Scottish Independence, may
be what gradually brings him down. As TS Eliot (and any astrologer)
said, "In my beginning is my end".
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I always enjoy your political analyses. Much food for thought and helpful understanding of the planets’ influence on ourselves and our world. Thank you, and happy new year!
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