JOHNSON'S UNDOING

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".