
Brazil, the world’s fourth largest democracy, is on the brink of electing a far-right, pro-gun, dictatorship-praising populist as its president tomorrow. Haaretz writes: ‘Mix up fascist geopolitics, Pat Robertson’s LGBT hate, Bannon’s nationalism and Putin’s shills and you get Jair Bolsonaro, who’s nostalgic for the U.S.-backed dictatorship that tortured and killed thousands of leftists – and he’s about to come to power.’ Latest polls give Bolsonaro a 12-point lead over his leftist rival. He’s a former paratrooper known for his venomous rhetoric towards black, gay and indigenous people and women, an advocate of sterilization for the poor to stave off “chaos”, a fan of Pinochet and supported by the Evangelicals, who have been pouring money into the far-right in Brazil and the USA.
Brazilians appear so fed up of politicians in general and particularly disenchanted with liberals and the left after the corruption scandals which impeached Dilma Rousseff and landed Luiz Lula da Silva in prison, that they’re willing to throw themselves at the mercy of a strong dictatorial leader who will ‘drain the swamp.’
Who’d have thought the Pluto in Capricorn’s deconstruction of governmental systems would end up with this? Transformation is a word lightly used, but change can mean for the worse. Pray heavens it’s Saturn Pluto at work which will have moved on by the early 2020s.
Bolsonaro, 21 March 1955, Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a Sun Aries or last degree Pisces, with a hard, ruthless, incredibly stubborn Mars in Taurus opposition Saturn square Pluto opposition Venus (Moon) in Aquarius; and a lucky Uranus Jupiter in Cancer in a can-be-fanatical square to Neptune. His Fixed Grand Cross and his Cardinal square are coming together now by Solar Arc to mix brutality with luck. Right place right time clearly. Often such a coming-together in a chart depicts a major life crisis. He was shot a few weeks ago and nearly died and there may be more turmoil to come as his Solar Arc Pluto moves to conjunct his Neptune which can be devastating; Solar Arc Saturn opposes his Uranus for a major jolt in 2019; though he’ll also get an uplift from Solar Arc Mars conjunct his Jupiter.
The Brazil 7 September 1822 4.30pm Piranga chart looks undermined till January 2019 with tr Neptune opposition the Sun; and then moving through a highly aggravated three years as tr Uranus opposes the Mars in Scorpio for high-insecurity and maybe violence in 2019; as well as squaring the accident/assassination-prone Mars/Saturn; before making a tension-erupting conjunction to Saturn in 2020.
The 15 November 1889 Brazil chart looks no better with signs of a revolution in 18 months to two years’ time with Solar Arc Uranus square the Pluto; and tr Pluto square the Uranus in 2020/21.
And wouldn’t you know? Trump will warm to him – with a composite friendly Sun, Venus, Mercury trine Jupiter in their relationship chart. There’s something very weird going on in the world just now.
See previous post September 11 2018.