Out of the frying pan onto the spit-roast, the Prime Minister is back wrestling with the Northern Ireland Protocol with every indication that it will end up a hot mess on the floor. The EU is hardening against an ‘unserious’ Johnson, whom no one in Europe believes according to an Irish minister. He’s being elbowed at home, as per usual, by the Tory true-believer euro-sceptics, into what are described as ‘lawless antics’ in breaking the agreement he signed. It is likely to end up in a trade war and continuing ill will, which at a dire economic time seems outrageous.

  UK exports to the EU in 2021 were down 12 per cent on 2018, double the hit to the level of UK exports to the rest of the world – so it can’t all be blamed on the pandemic. Analysts reckon exports to the EU may fall by another 8 per cent again by 2025. The pound is weak, generally attributed to Brexit — down 9 per cent since June 2016.  UK exporters continue to struggle with the bureaucracy involved in selling goods and services to the EU. The massive deregulation and open trade with the rest of the world to replace lost EU business and deliver a boom promised by the Brexiteers hasn’t happened. And the deregulation never will because of the impact on domestic industries such as agriculture.

 The proof of the pudding and all that. The electorate were bamboozled and bewitched by cheap n’ easy slogans that were never going to be a reality.

   Boris’s relationship with the EU has always had that mystifyingly hostile composite Mars opposition Pluto – mystifying in the sense that he has a mega-multi-cultural background so is hardly your average John Bull. But his sojourn as a child, aged 9 to 11, in Brussels with his family when he father was working for the European Commission must have coloured his outlook. That was when his mother suffered a breakdown and he was sent back to England.

 Anyway that Mars opposition Pluto is getting a bucket of cold water thrown on it throughout next year, from early on as tr Saturn sits in hard aspect – and there’s a discouraging uphill slog of tr Pluto conjunct the composite Saturn in 2022/2023 – so nothing that looks like a speedy détente between him and the EU.

  The two prominent Tory Brexiteers who reckon they have the Prime Minister over a barrel – Bernard Jenkins, 9 April 1959; and Bill Cash, 10 May 1940 –  both look considerably discontented ahead for two years.  Bernard Jenkins looks deeply uncertain this year and totally trapped in 2023; and feels a failure by 2024. Bill Cash is displaying some machismo and bullish confidence interspersed with panicky failure this year and next.  So clearly they are not getting it all their own way.

  As an added aside – of Astro-note – Bill Cash has his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Libra North Node now and Jenkins has his Solar Arc Uranus conjunct his Libra North Node.  I’m not sure how I’d interpret that except that in both cases with a Libra North Node their challenge in life is learning how to co-operate and their primitive defence will be to insist on standing alone/being the leader not a partner.

 Relations between the UK and the EU are jangled this year with emotional outbursts and irritations from tr Uranus square the composite Venus and tr Saturn conjunct the Mars; and into 2023 an aggravating and argumentative tr Uranus square the composite Mars and tr Saturn in Pisces blocking the composite Pluto and jolting the Uranus. So this spat is not going to settle any time soon either.

Sun sign astrology has in recent years been the despised poor relation of ‘proper’ serious astrology and widely assumed to have been a popular media invention from the 1930s. Sceptics sneer that not every twelfth person can be the same but how the zodiac sign interpretations are any different from the psychological test definitions of Myers-Briggs labelling types as extraverted, introverted, intuitive etc I’m not sure.

  Kim Farnell’s latest book The True History of Sun Sign Astrology is an eye-opener which sets the record straight on where sun sign astrology fits in to the wider discipline as she follows its winding path from earliest times in Mesopotamia four thousand years ago. From a Babylonian temple to the Daily Express of 1930 sounds an unlikely trajectory but she makes a plausible case for the Sun having been at the centre of the astrological canon since the start.

  It was certainly a driving force for the best-selling almanacs of the day in medieval times. Though sometimes with questionable interpretations “Those born under Pisces shall be wise and cunning, a marriage breaker and very covetous. Her husband shall forsake her and she shall have great pain with strangers and she shall not have it that it is her fault.”

  As astrology moved from being a tool for the monarch in earliest times to gain popularity amongst the masses it continually ran into critics, none of which made any inroads into the public appetite for teasers about their prospects – emotional, financial and medical. Nor did its illegality, with astrologers continually charged with criminal behaviour for fortune telling.

  William Lilly, the 17^th Century English ‘Merlin’ advised politicians and soldiers in the febrile times of the civil war and was summoned to appear in the courts for having predicted the Great Fire of London in 1666 in the form of a coded drawing.

The next notable Alan Leo, the theosophist, picked astrology out of the doldrums in the late 19^th century during Neptune Pluto in Gemini and stimulated a revival of interest which disseminated his work across Europe and America. He made a fortune from mass produced horoscopes as well as writing 30 books some of which are still in use today.

  In the 20^th Century Linda Goodman is credited with doing more to popularise sun sign astrology than any. Her book Sun Signs was a runaway success and a New York Times best-seller, introducing a wider public to credible descriptions of the signs. She dined with the Kennedys, knew Howard Hughes and moved amongst the celebrity set. Her private life was troubled with three of her five children dead in infancy and one daughter dying of suicide in her twenties. She earned millions from her books but ended up bankrupt with an amputated leg from diabetes complications.

What marked out her chart for success from lowly beginnings in West Virginia was her lucky Jupiter in her career 10^th square her Sun Chiron in Aries on her Ascendant. She was an upfront, outgoing personality who was a healer as well as an attention-grabber and who would attract increasing appreciation the older she got.  Her Sun was also square Pluto on her IC suggesting a troubled childhood and later adult domestic life, especially since her Pluto was trine a 7^th house Saturn in Scorpio. Good fortune shone on her achievements but not her emotional life. A 5^th house Neptune in Leo indicated both her talent as an entertainer in a Neptunian sphere; and confusion and disappointment around children. She also had a ‘leadership’ North Node in Leo in her performing 5^th house.

    What is intriguing is that Linda Goodman’s chart shares some similarities with William Lilly’s. Both had Neptune in Leo square Saturn in Scorpio.

  Lilly was a Sun Venus in Taurus opposition Saturn in Scorpio widely square Neptune in Leo.  His Mercury in Taurus was conjunct Uranus on one side and Pluto on the other, trine Mars in Virgo – so his words would pack a punch.  

  Alan Leo had a more obvious astrologer’s Uranus in his 10^th house with an influential-communicator Pluto in his 9^th in a confident square to Jupiter and his Sun in Leo which would help him gain attention.

  For a readable and well-researched dance through astrology’s multi-millenial existence this book will fascinate Astro-historians and give copious ammunition to defend against the nay-sayers.

The True History of Sun Sign Astrology: Kim Farnell. Publishers: the Wessex Astrologer.

In a rare flash of humour a Russian government spokesman  remarked “Our diplomacy has yet to master teleportation,” when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was blocked from flying to Serbia because of the surrounding countries closing their airspace.  Serbia is totally dependent on Russian oil and gas, has not joined western sanctions against Moscow and been slow to condemn Russian aggression. It is stuck between its close historic, religious and cultural ties with Russia and its application to become a member of the EU.

 Serbia became independent on 5 June 2006 at 2.09pm in Belgrade (caveat – I dislike modern charts for countries with an ancient history, but it’s tricky to see what earlier chart could be used.) This one has a Gemini Sun trine Neptune and square Uranus – idealistic and rebellious, or vague and disruptive.  There’s also a mixed, enduring T Square both indulgent and hard-edged with Jupiter in Scorpio opposition Venus square Saturn Mars in Leo.

  It’ll face its greatest problems from 2024 onwards with a trapped/frustrating tr Pluto opposition the Mars and significant challenges in the years thereafter.

   Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, 5 March 1970, sworn in for a second term on May 31^st, after a landslide election earlier this year, is a Sun Pisces with an intensely charming Venus in Pisces opposition Pluto; and Mars in late Aries conjunct Saturn in early Taurus.  He’s stuck this year, facing major aggravations this August to December and sensing his power diminishing into 2023 and beyond.

  His First Term chart as president from May 31 2017 is showing indications of instability this year and failure next. His 2^nd Term chart has Mercury conjunct Algol square Saturn trine Pluto so his persuasive powers won’t be making much headway.

 Relations between Serbia 2006 and Russia 1917 will be in for a jolt and a shock come the middle of this month onwards on and off into 2023, with over reactions likely. Pressures will build through 2023 though tensions may ease from 2024/25. There are evasions and miscommunications this year flagged up on the other Russia 1991/Serbia chart; with confusions and mounting challenges 2024 to 2026.

 Sergei Lavrov, 21 March 1950, has been Foreign Minister since 2004 though is not thought to be part of Putin’s inner sanctum.  He’s a Sun Aries in an assertive/aggressive opposition to Mars in an uncompromising square to Uranus so will have a short fuse and be impulsive. He also has a persuasive Venus opposition Pluto but with Jupiter also in opposition to Pluto will be pushily over confident at times and bulldoze across accepted behaviour to get what he wants.

This year he’s having sagging moments of uncertainty, especially mid this September to late October; but also lucky, successful phases in late June to early August. His ups and downs continue through 2023. And it will be 2025/26 when he faces his worst moments as the tr Saturn Neptune in Aries squares his Uranus, is conjunct his Sun and then opposition his Mars.  

The No Confidence vote against Boris Johnson will be held at 6pm tonight, over fifty Tory MPs having stuck their oar in with enough-already letters – the requisite 15%. Mercury is exactly conjunct the destructive Fixed star Algol trine Pluto and square Saturn so the mood will be heavy. The Virgo Moon was exactly square Boris’s Mars when it was announced; will be opposition his Saturn exactly as it kicks off and conjunct his Uranus and Pluto in the hours thereafter. So impacting all of his overly excitable Mutable T Square. There’s also a separating Uranus in the 7^th over the start of the vote.

  If he loses on a simple majority it goes to a leadership election. If he wins, he is theoretically safe from another such challenge for a year. Though Theresa May resigned within months of the no-confidence vote she survived. Delaying the vote until after the June 23 bye-elections which are expected to be punishing for the Tories would have made a difference.

  There’s nothing much to add to previous postings where signs are unclear about a fast exit. There are solid indications of his increasing unpopularity from Solar Arc Saturn opposition his Moon in full force now and for the next two months or more; plus tr Saturn square his Solar Arc Venus and Sun. But nothing that screams ‘fired’ instantly.

  His 2^nd Term chart, 13 December 2019 11 am, will be braced for the June 23^rd bye-elections with the unholy collection of a 12^th house Saturn, Venus, Pluto in Capricorn having moved to close the Saturn Pluto conjunction to absolutely exact at the moment. This was always when the s*** was going to hit the fan with underlying dirty dealings making an impact. What is worse is that tr Mars in Aries will be exactly square the Term Venus Pluto and Solar Arc Saturn on the day itself as it moves towards the trapped, destructive Mars square Pluto by July 2^nd – so the mood will be aggravated and worsening in the aftermath.

  Given that those around the PM may be better weather-vanes – David Canzini, a right-wing Lynton Crosby strategist, was brought in this February to reset the Johnson operation and clean up the mess. He is focused on winning the next election. Though tr Neptune conjunct his Sun/Mars midpoint this year and conjunct his Pisces Sun in 2023 doesn’t suggest he’s on a triumphant streak. He looks edgy in the extreme from mid this month onwards with tr Uranus opposition his Neptune as well.

 Steve Barclay, Boris’s chief of staff, looks in every bit as bad shape with tr Neptune squaring his Mars Venus in Gemini throughout this year and his Taurus Sun catching the Eclipses.

 Guto Harri, Communications chief, 8 July 1965, is facing a run of catastrophes exactly now and throughout this year. He’s on better form through 2023 but that may be because he’s jumped ship and set up stall elsewhere.

 The Conservative Party chart, 10 May 1912, is facing a point in destiny exactly now with the tr North Node conjunct its Saturn but all indications are that it is 2023 which will see the significant challenge for change perhaps brought about by outside pressure.

See previous post: May 28 2022 below.

Rock-star executive Sheryl Sandberg is to leave Meta after 14 years as CEO during which she turned Facebook from a place to keep up with friends into a commercial juggernaut. When she arrived in 2008, FB was making $500 million in sales ‘from a ragbag of money-making experiments, none of which showed staying power.’ Last year, it brought in $117 billion, virtually all of it from the advertising machine that Sandberg built. The monthly user base has risen from 100 million to 3 billion — more than a third of the planet.

  It seemed an ideal partnership where Mark Zuckerburg would handle the geek-end while she anchored down on financial expansion.  In recent years however she has been besieged by criticism in particular over the 2016 Trump election and Cambridge Analytica data harvesting mess for which she was blamed as well as for various ‘dirty tricks’ campaigns against critics. Recently she said she was feeling burnt out and tired of being the public “punching bag” for Facebook’s shortcomings. And she leaves at a fraught time with Meta losing users to TikTok, ad revenue down because of anti-tracking software and suspicion that metaverse’s immersive version of the internet isn’t appealing to users. Stock is down by nearly 50% per cent. The exit of her ‘safe pair of hands’ at least in the commercial sense is not improving investor confidence. All of which coincides with Mark Zuckerburg’s Scorpio/Taurus heavy chart catching the Eclipses and the tr Uranus square tr Saturn hard aspects this year and next.

  She was born 28 August 1969 with an ophthalmologist father and teacher mother, scored distinctions through college and beyond, had Larry Summers as mentor and became his chief of staff when he was appointed by Clinton to the Treasury. From there she joined the three year old Google and helped turn the search engine into an advertising leviathan. It was always thought she’d ultimately go into politics. An extraordinary and driven life. He first marriage lasted a year; her second husband died suddenly young in 2015 and she is about to marry again.

 She’s a practical Sun Virgo trine a steady, financially-oriented Saturn in Taurus; with a lucky/adventurous Jupiter Uranus Mercury in Libra – and most significantly a hard-driving and can-be-ruthless Mars in Sagittarius square Pluto tied into a Pisces North Node and maybe Moon.

  Her Saturn in Taurus sits conjunct the Facebook IPO midheaven so she was the right person steering the ship. Her lucky Jupiter boosted the IPO’s innovative Uranus Pluto; and her Virgo Sun connected with the IPO Mars in Virgo opposition Neptune square North Node.

  This year’s Eclipses are rattling up Sandberg’s Neptune in Scorpio and Saturn in Taurus and she has a disempowering tr Neptune opposition her Pluto. But she’s unlikely to be coasting for long and will be well primed by 2027/28 to make a political push with tr Pluto trine her Jupiter if that is still on her agenda.

  See previous post October 29 2021 – Meta, Zuckerburg.

TS Eliot, renowned as the greatest 20th Century poet has imbedded lines from his masterpieces, The Waste Land and Four Quartets into common consciousness.

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”  

“April is the cruellest month.”

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

  Yet the muddle of his private life left the impression of a callous, enigmatic personality. Siegfried Sassoon, his contemporary, described him as “cold-storaged humanity”. He abandoned his unstable first wife in an asylum and never visited her; dazzled an adoring sweetheart for decades with his lovestruck letters but kept her hanging on a string and eventually betrayed her; and towards the end of his life  married his secretary forty years his junior. A reviewer remarked that he followed Wordsworth’s pattern where being starved of sex arguably led to his greatest work.

 He was born 26 September 1888 7.45 am St Louis, Missouri, and had a 12^th house Sun Libra with a highly-strung 12^th house Uranus as well and a striking collection of Neptune Pluto and Moon in Gemini in his 8^th house which are opposition Mars Jupiter in Sagittarius in his 2^nd. He’d have more than his fair share of mental instability to cope with.

  The 12^th house is the chart area of the unconscious and creativity; and the 8^th house for some has this magical ability to influence the masses – for good or for ill since Hitler had the same. King George VI had Neptune Pluto in the 8^th opposition Sagittarius planets and he was given to uncontrollable rages. So there was a good deal more emotional turmoil going on in TS Eliot’s life than his stunted relationships might suggest.

  Both his first wife Vivienne, 28 May 1888, and his arm’s-length love Emily Hale, 27 October 1891, were born with Neptune Pluto in Gemini prominent. In Vivienne’s case it was conjunct her Gemini Sun so she’d always have been battened down, poor soul, and his treatment of her exacerbated her fragile state of mind. Emily had the Neptune Pluto trine Mars and a stellium with her Sun in intensely emotional Scorpio so she hung on through the years hoping he’d fulfil the promise of his passionate letters.

  Valerie, 17 August 1926, whom he eventually married for the final 8 years of his life, had been starstruck with him as a writer since her teens, married him when she was 30 and after his death tended devotedly to his estate for decades. She avoided the fey Neptune Pluto syndrome being a later generation and was a Sun Neptune in Leo opposition Jupiter in Aquarius.

  I’ve always thought that the Neptune Pluto conjunction of the late 19th Century, first in Taurus and more importantly in Gemini between 1876 and 1902 had a defining effect on the 20^th Century. It’s a curious and can-be terrifying mix of Pluto’s intensity with Neptune’s cosmic yearnings, both intensely sexual and equally rejecting of human desires.  It imbues hubris of a stratospheric scale on some who bear its stamp – ambition without limits. It produced epically brutal leaders; fostered art, especially erotic literature and scientific advances in such intangibles as electricity, radio and telephone. As well as megalomaniac ambition, it also has a propensity for scandals.

“I think we are in rats’ alley

Where the dead men lost their bones.”

― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.

“I have heard the key

Turn in the door once and turn once only

We think of the key, each in his prison

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”

― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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The Queen’s great-grandchildren are making the most of a family jubilee with Louis’s balcony antics taking the edge off the formality. Even the Sussex minis are across, with Lilibet, celebrating her first birthday, meeting her namesake for the first time.

Of Kate and William’s three, Prince George the eldest with the heaviest burden to bear being in the direct line of succession, is the quietest. Born 22 July 2013 4.24 pm London, he has a final degree Cancer Sun in the well-travelled and well-read 9^th house; with a private Water Grand Trine of an 8^th house Mars Jupiter in Cancer trine Neptune trine Saturn in Scorpio, formed into a Kite by Mars Jupiter opposition Pluto. He’ll be ultra-determined but tend to live within his own bubble of reality and not be overly outgoing. With a 9^th house Venus he’s likely to marry a foreigner.

  Princess Charlotte, 2 May 2015 8.34 am London, has a friendly Sun and Mars in Taurus in her 11th with an intense Sun trine a 7^th house Pluto, sextile a helpful/healing Neptune on her Midheaven. Her Jupiter in flamboyant Leo is highlighted being on the focal point of a Yod to Pluto sextile Neptune – not short of ambition or confidence, she will make a difference.

Prince Louis, 23 April 2018 11.01 am London, is a Taurus like his sister, with a tempestuous chart. His 10^th house career-oriented Sun is trine a sensible and hard-working Saturn, but is also conjunct a wayward Uranus which in turn is square Pluto Mars in Capricorn. His life is likely to be dramatic with a fair few crises. He has an indulgent Venus in Taurus opposition Jupiter in Scorpio; and his flashy Leo Moon in his 1^st is conjunct a ‘leadership’ North Node – he’ll make a splash one way or another.

Harry and Meghan’s two follow slightly similar pattern with the eldest Archie, 6 May 2019 5.26am London being the more serious. He does have an outgoing Taurus Sun on his Ascendant but it is trine a battened-down and determined as well as dutiful Saturn Pluto in Capricorn in his 10^th. His Saturn Pluto are also square a 12^th house Venus and Mercury in Aries – so he won’t be a light-hearted gaddabout for sure. He does have an 8th house (= generous grandparents) Jupiter in a lively opposition to Mars square Neptune – he’ll be attracted to showbiz pzaazz as well as making money. If his birth time is accurate, his mother comes across as overly rigid and disciplinarian.

  Lilibet, 4 June 2021 11.40am Santa Barbara, CA, has a 10^th house Gemini Sun and Mercury trine a hard-working 6^th house Saturn sextile an 8^th house Aries Moon – destined for a public career, communicative, emotionally secretive. An expansive Jupiter in her 7th will make her a persuasive and popular social companion; but a Mars in Cancer opposition Pluto does suggest major aggravations in her life.

  Louis and Archie will clash mightily with their Capricorn planets clashing – though that may not matter much down the road.

The tortured tale of Hunter Biden’s ‘laptop from hell’ abandoned in a repair shop may finally be about to wriggle free from the smog of claims and counter-claims about disinformation. The media largely buried the story before the 2019 election partly because the Trump camp had lied and smeared so copiously it was easy to write it off as yet another self-serving falsehood and because the chain of custody of the offending emails wasn’t clear.

  The laptop content now appears to be accepted as substantially authentic and in keeping with Hunter Biden’s trainwreck of a life. It reveals the bulk of the $11 million he earned from 2013 to 2018 came largely from his seat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company and two deals with Chinese business interests. Despite which his drug addictions, hook ups with prostitutes and riotous lifestyle ended him up in serious debt, with unpaid taxes, leading to an ongoing federal investigation. His wife divorced him after a daughter found evidence of his affair with the widow of his brother Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015. The laptop contains photos and video clips showing him in a series of sexual liaisons.

  Evidence in laptop emails also show him apparently trying to leverage his father’s reputation for financial gain in Ukraine when Joe Biden was the point person for US policy on Ukraine under President Obama. The White House insists that Joe Biden had “never spoken” with his second son about “overseas business dealings”. An FBI executive said there is a national security risk when foreign powers like China see an opportunity to get close to someone like Biden.  The computer repair shop owner behind the data being made public, has written a book to be published in November giving his side of the story.

   One striking clue from Joe Biden’s chart vis a vis his defensiveness about his clearly out-of-control son is his 5^th house Taurus Moon suggesting that his (Joe’s) nurturing and comfort come from children. A daughter died young in the car crash that killed his first wife and his eldest son Beau died seven years ago. What raises the stakes are his Moon being on the focal point of a Yod inconjunct Neptune sextile Venus Sun. So he will have a distorted emotional take on situations involving his children and not find it easy to face the reality.

  This year’s Eclipses were always going to rattle up Joe’s chart with his Mars in Scorpio catching the April Solar Eclipse and the May Lunar hitting his Sun Venus. Which could just be part and parcel of rolling global crises. But significantly the late October Solar Eclipse in Scorpio will oppose his Moon severely testing his relationships, not just with the public, but in particular with his son. That repeats in October 2023 with a Taurus Lunar Eclipse close by. And by 2024 tr Pluto will be squaring his Moon for family challenges – and public approval as well since the Moon in a politician’s chart reflect his popularity.

  Hunter, 4 February 1970, has his Pluto in his father’s 10^th so he has the potential to damage pa’s reputation and career; and Hunter’s Neptune is conjunct pa’s Ascendant which again could be undermining to pa’s image.  

   He’s a Sun Venus in Aquarius with a reckless Mars in Aries opposition Uranus. Plus a see-saw, up and down Saturn in Taurus opposition Jupiter in Scorpio. He’s got a handful of discouraging, panicky Solar Arcs and transits through this year into 2023 with a logjammed Solar Arc Saturn square his Pluto in 2023 as well.

  Whatever mess he’s in won’t disappear quickly or at all.

Previous post Feb 8 2022.

Add On: Just to add to the Biden family’s angst a memoir by Hunter Biden’s long-suffering former wife and mother of his three children is about to be published. She lived through his alcohol and drug addiction, his gaslighting, his debts and the grim realisation that he was addicted to porn and prostitutes. When she divorced him, he had run through his considerable earnings from Chinese and Ukrainian investments and she was left with almost nothing.

  Born 5 December 1970 in Chicago, she’s a Sun Sagittarius with a Pisces Moon which may be conjunct Hunter’s North Node. Her Venus in Scorpio is conjunct his Jupiter and her Jupiter is square his Venus Sun. This would bring good feelings at a superficial and social level but her Mars opposition his Saturn points to running aggravations. Their relationship chart is argumentative and volatile with a composite Sun, Mercury, Mars square Uranus. The initial passion from a composite Venus square Pluto would wear off.

 Although she got on well with Joe Biden at least superficially – again because of Jupiter Venus crossovers – it was a relationship based on power and none-too-comfortable at times. The mood between them looks strained and discouraged throughout this year and next.

There is an outpouring of appreciation for the Queen as the Jubilee celebrations draw huge crowds and much local partying. Behind the good feelings there is also a sadness that the days of her reign are coming to a close. She’s gradually handing over the public ceremonies of state to Charles, though by all accounts is not letting go of the red boxes which tie her into a monarch’s daily perusal of political and global events.

  While in no way wishing to hasten her exit I wondered if her accession chart should throw up any clues to a future handover as Queen Victoria and Elizabeth 1’s did.

  Elizabeth 1 was handed the sceptre (metaphorically speaking) on 17 November 1558 on Mary’s death. The coronation took place two months later. When Elizabeth died on 24 March 1603, the Accession chart was showing distinct tremors with an undermining Solar Arc Mars closely opposition the Neptune; Solar Arc Neptune was also square the Mars; tr Saturn was conjunct the Sun and tr Uranus opposition the Uranus.

  Queen Victoria acceded on 20 June 1837 on the death of William IV with the coronation a year later. When she died Solar Arc Mars was conjunct the Accession Saturn exactly; with tr Neptune conjunct the Sun.

  The Queen’s Accession chart, 6 February 1952, has no dramatic Solar Arcs in the immediate future. Solar Arc Mars will square the Neptune in 2027 when she will be 101 and matching her mother’s longevity; and Solar Arc Pluto will conjunct the Mars by 2028.

 There is a shift this year and next as tr Uranus, preceded by tr Saturn hits on the central Aquarius Sun opposition Pluto – so there will be significant changes. But nothing like as dramatic as was showing for either Elizabeth 1 or Victoria.   

Life in the UK will not be the same.