Theresa May has her fans who see her as diligent, earnest, dutiful and straight, landed by fate with a poisoned conundrum that no one could have been expected to solve. There again there are those who reckon she’s part of the problem, indeed in the words of one despairing minister the “sole architect” of the recent and present Brexit chaos. He said “It is her inability to engage in the most basic human interactions that brought us here.”
Journalist Anne Applebaum remarked recently that “she has always seemed to outsiders the sensible person in the room, the adult who knows what she is doing, the sane person in a madhouse. Alas, she is not any of those things. She is not sensible, she does not know what she is doing, and, increasingly, she doesn’t seem to be entirely sane either.” And columnist Matthew Parris has described her as “the Death Star of modern British politics,” a black void that sucks in people and ideas and never provides a response.
Her inability to interact with living breathing human beings means she’s not designed for negotiations and the inevitable compromises they involve so she was the worst possible person to send to Brussels or to form any cross-party consensus or even intra-the split Tory Party in Westminster.
Pondering on her chart I realise I’ve been overly distracted by her opportunistic, chancer’s Mars opposition Jupiter and her Libra Sun. What dominates her chart and pins down both of her emotional planets is a fearsomely fixed, rigid and utterly unbendable Saturn in Scorpio square Pluto conjunct Venus in Leo and almost certainly conjunct her Leo/Virgo Moon. And it’s further strengthened, if that’s the right word, by Saturn sitting on the North Node opposition South Node, putting a Fixed Pluto on the point of a T Square. Such a Pluto gives tremendous stubbornness and staying power with a compulsion to over control.
It’s ironic that the tr Saturn Pluto conjunction is what over sees her downfall. The last tr Saturn Pluto in the early 1980s coincided with her father dying in a car crash followed a year later by her mother who had multiple sclerosis.
Saturn Pluto in a chart, especially tied into personal planets, does lead to immense obstinacy which can be self-defeating. Learning to be flexible and adaptable is crucial. Often the individual feels pitted against social forces and restrictions which require great stamina to withstand so the primary response in any situation is to stand rock solid and not budge. There is usually a strong sense of some link between the individual’s fate and the fate of the wider society. Which leads to deep feelings of frustration and an underlying resentment which can turn into a masochistic pattern of behaving. When tied into the personal planets, especially the emotional ones, it does suggest a bleak, oppressive start in life. Her inability to form relationships at work seems extraordinary given that she lives permanently surrounded by people.
Added onto this rigid personality structure is a wobbly Mars in Pisces; and two Neptune midpoints that are key to her temperament. One is Mercury conjunct her Neptune/Pluto midpoint which Ebertin describes as ‘the inability to think independently, plans incapable of realisation, nervous weakness.’ And her Sun is conjunct her Jupiter/Neptune midpoint which is head-in-the-clouds, overly optimistic and leads to lack of self-control.
A wandered brain inside a Sherman tank – not a good combination.
Thank you, yes absolutely right about the Saturn/Pluto (though you might also expect a bit more from her mutable planets here?). When I was about 15 I had tr Saturn on my Moon and tr Pluto on my Sun, exactly at the same time (and square each other). I thought I felt fine and normal all through that at the time. However, when I look back now at what I was dealing with I shudder at the thought of dealing with it now, especially now having a daughter nearing that age. The resilience of youth, eh? When you’re in he thick of it, you just get on with it, in many ways the effects are felt later. Theresa May’s obstinacy is perhaps tied into her fear of loss.
I so wish that there was a birth time for her. My natal Mercury isn’t stationary, but it’s 2nd decan mutable and definitely by the station. Mercury is in my 8th and rules my 2nd, quite financial for me. The station has pretty much burned a hole in my pocket, expensive car trouble and a leak and water damage. So, where has Mercury burned a hole for Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn? 10th?
And thoughts on a prospective General Election, Marjorie and Hugh (Fowler)?
There is no astrological marker for an election so no way of knowing
I think the Tory chart, aided with Theresa May’s chart looks terrible in May. Assuming she lasts that long things don’t look good so if there is an election around then they aren’t looking like winners
I always wanted to know what is it that makes Theresa crave power and why did she want to become prime minister. Whether from her chart or (couch or other type of) psychology. Yesterday an information, whether true or false, popped up that one of the reasons she isn’t resigning now is that she wants to outlast Gordon Brown. I mean, seriously?! Goodness gracious.
TM has Saturn, Pluto and Neptune planets at anaretic degrees.
She does not really control her destiny now anymore than she did when her parents died.
All humans are to some extent authors of their own undoing but I see the hand of Fate here with a capital F.
She may be a ‘difficult woman’ and out of her depth but she is not the only actor here.
I do agree with you, Hugh. In the end she must be a projection of the British psyche as it is in this current age. they say we get the leaders we deserve. and in the end, it is all written as the Arabs say.
There is talk Theresa May will bring the vote back again for a 4th try next week. This madness is never ending.
It’s literally like trying to play whack-a-mole on Groundhog Day.
John Bercow won’t allow it.
lets hope he does. Theresa May cannot be allowed to get away with this. I’ve been looking back at some of Marjorie’s charts on Brexit and the Tories look downbeat and beated in April so it doesn’t look like anything positive is on the cards.