Red lights are flashing in Westminster with tempers ratcheting up to defcon level as Boris Johnson, fuelled no doubt by his aide the ‘psychopathic’ careerist Dominic Cummings, forces parliament into the longest suspension since 1945. It was all done on the specious excuse of preparing for new government strategies on a range of non-Brexit issues to be prepared for a Queen’s Speech on October 14th. Normally that takes one to two weeks. The manoeuvre has been described as an “affront to parliamentary democracy” and is clearly designed to help the government avoid scrutiny for its Brexit plans. Scotland and North Ireland are up in arms as are many Tories and Remainers.
The Queen who was dragged into the mess and had little choice but to sign it off is not amused. The country who are on their knees with Brexit boredom and exhaustion are bemused and befuddled.
It is hardly surprising since both Johnson and Cummings have focal point Mutable Mars in their charts, Gemini and Pisces respectively, which gives a tendency to leap first and think second – harum scarum, dashing headlong into action in an ill-considered way. And the government chart, 24 July 2019 3.12pm, also has an afflicted Mars on the apex of a Yod – which equally points to reckless action, plunging ahead without necessarily having a clear plan to follow so it can often backfire. It can be courageous and daring but more often foolhardy.
Mid-November to mid-December is when dashed-hopes and significant calamities assail the government chart. With Boris’s own chart panicking at the prospect of failure from September 22nd to late January 2020 with a run of tr Neptune hard aspects to various Mars midpoints. September 22nd to October 19 point to leadership upsets, martyrdom, suffering and being forced to adjust to new circumstances. November 11 to December 18 looks high-risk, blocked and powerless.
Dominic Cummings, 25 November 1971, is also hemmed in every which way and completely poleaxed by events from mid November to mid December.
Senior civil servant David Frost, 21 February 1965, Boris’s knight-in-shining-armour, despatched off the Brussels to accomplish the impossible, is more or less admitting defeat from mid November for a few weeks, his enthusiasm dented, though with one upbeat influence giving him a straw to clutch at. But even that will have sunk by late December into January when he sees plans dissolving in a puff of smoke.
The UK chart has the confused tr Neptune square the 3rd house Mercury now till late September; and then the panicky-failure tr Neptune square the Solar Arc Mars until November 12th; with a depressed tr Pluto square the Mercury/Saturn also till early November. That bizarrely is followed by an upbeat, enthusiastic tr Pluto square the Sun/Jupiter till December 18th though running concurrently with another nerve-stretching influence. Mid December tr Saturn is in a donwbeat opposition to the 10th house (ruling classes) Moon for a few days. Then from mid January 2020 tr Jupiter moves into the UK 4th house for a year which can bring a period of quiet contentment which seems unlikely but maybe in the background there’ll be an acceptance of the way thing are. Maybe even an extension of the exiting process allowing it to become less of a foreground panic.