It is said
that if you want to predict major events in someone’s life, then look at the
charts of their close relatives. In the absence of a chart for Scotland, we
need to look through the lens of the UK chart and see what is happening there.
First of all
though, I don’t think that astrology on its own predicts much. It says a
certain amount: for instance, we are currently in the latter stages of a square
from Uranus to Pluto, that has impacted in a big way on the charts of all the
major powers. So the astrology on its own has been saying with some certainty that
the West would go through a major crisis and renewal over this period, and with
less certainty but with high probability (based on history) that this crisis would
centre around the economy.
The collective
divinatory sea that has built up around the symbols involved tells us that
much. It shows shapes in the mist. To see more clearly, you need the individual
divinatory skills of the astrologer, his or her ability to use the symbols to
see something beyond them.
And it’s the
same with the Scottish referendum. The astrology on its own does not tell us
which way it’s going to go. What it does say – through comparing a number of
charts – is that something major is going on, and that even if there is a no
vote, the impact will be lasting.
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The usual
chart for the UK that astrologers use is the 1801 chart, the union of England
and Ireland. Astrology is a symbolic rather than a literal, exact art (too much
insistence on accurate data suggests that somewhere you are missing the point),
and it’s as though a chart and a person/country grow into each other through
repeated use. Like the US Sibly chart, which works well for the USA, but which
is based on a symbolic rather than a literal time. And maybe it has worked
better as time has gone on? That might be worth researching.
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| UK 1801 Click to Enlarge |
The UK 1801
chart is emerging from Uranus and Pluto hard-aspecting its Sun and Angles. And
the UK has been going through an identity crisis for some years now. Do we
remain part of the EU? Will Scotland leave the UK? Even the traditional
party-political set-up has shifted: we have the 1st coalition government
since WWII, and UKIP has arisen as a serious challenge to the Tories.
The transits
are set to continue as Uranus and Pluto move on to hard-aspect the UK Moon at
19 Cancer between now and approx. 2018, which covers the EU referendum in 2017.
The Sun is
the leadership, the MC is the State and the Moon is the people. So changes to
the leadership and state, leading to a change in the people a few years later.
Big changes that take time to absorb and settle.
The
referendum takes place on 18 September. My view is that the crucial
astrological event of that day is a Lunar Return – the Moon will at one point
be in exactly the same place, 19.26 Cancer, as in the natal chart of the UK.
And it is the planet of the people, in the sign of homeland, a conservative
sign.
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| UK Lunar Return 18 Sept |
And at the
exact moment of the Lunar Return, whether set for London or Edinburgh, the Sun and
Angles will be in the late degrees of the mutable signs. This is not a good
time for beginning a new venture – you want cardinal signs for that. The Iraq
War was begun under Sun and Angles in the mutable signs (Sun at 29 Pisces) and
that was a mess. It was able to begin because a collective hysteria had been whipped up, and I don't think this applies very much to the Scottish Referendum.
So this
analysis suggests that the vote will be No to independence. If Scotland were
desperate to get away, then I would read the mutable emphasis as a natural
unravelling of the Union. But that is not the case, so it would take Cardinal
energy to make it leave.
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| Scottish Parliament |
At the same
time, all this is happening under such intense transits to the UK Chart – the biggest
in our lifetimes – that it will still be a seismic event. Something is being
awoken in the people (Uranus square natal Moon over the next 2 years) on both
sides of the border. Either way, Scotland will have increased powers of self-governance
a year or two from now. Another referendum is perfectly possible when Pluto
opposes the UK Moon in 3 to 5 years’ time (and that transit will also describe
the EU referendum of 2017.) It may not, however, be orchestrated by Alex Salmond.
His Sun is at 9 Capricorn, so his moment is now.
OTHER CHARTS
The chart
for the Union of England and Scotland in 1707.
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| UK 1707 |
Pluto (shift in power) will
be conjoining the ascendant of this chart in 2 years time, Uranus (breaking away) is squaring
it right now. On the day of the referendum, the Moon will pass over the
Moon-Desc conjunction in Cancer, which is very significant. This chart suggests
something powerful is happening to the Union, and as it’s not getting closer,
it suggests it is pulling away. The angular Mars at 20 Cancer is very
significant, and like the 1801 Moon will be activated by Uranus and Pluto in
the coming years. So again, if not independence now, then it looks likely in a
few years.
The chart
for the gradual disintegration of the UK, as I call the chart for 1922, when
Eire left the Union.
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| UK 1922 |
What we see
here is Neptune (dissolution) squaring the Asc next year, and then squaring the
Sun in 3 to 4 years’ time, as Uranus and Pluto do their work on the Moon at 23
Cancer (whose sign and degree connect it to the UK 1801 chart). So again, we
have a similar message to the 1801 and 1707 charts.
My overall
conclusion is that Scotland will indeed become independent, but probably in about 5 years’ time rather than now.
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| UK 1801 Prog and UK 1922 |
Here’s a slightly uncanny one: the 1922 UK disintegration chart has MC at 5 Aquarius. If we
progress the 1801 chart (the UK at its maximum size) to 2010, when the Scottish
government published its 1st draft bill for a referendum on
independence, the MC of this chart was also at 5 Aquarius. So the UK as a state
(MC) moving into a period (progression) of disintegration (MC of 1922 chart).
