




Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ much vaunted spending review has led to accusations of spend now, pay later with investment in infrastructure like nuclear power stations. Boosts for Health and Defence budgets come at a cost to other departments like the police which is unlikely to go down well with the electorate. Investors are widely expecting that tax increases will be necessary in the autumn Budget given poor growth, rising borrowing costs, and the continued upward pressure on Nato defence budgets. All this in the context of Labour’s YouGov poll rating down at 22 per cent with Reeves’ own popularity nosediving.
Born 13 February 1979, Lewisham, England, an uncompromising and determined Sun Mars Mercury in Aquarius square Uranus Reeves continues to look bullishly confident from late this August to mid December 2025 with the final hit of tr Pluto opposition her Jupiter in Leo. Though that can bring over optimism or arrogance that backfires.
On midpoints she has a calamitous this July, early October to early November and again in May 2026. With a ratchety, panicked, blocked and confused run on several unfavourable aspects through 2026/27.
Her relationship chart with Keir Starmer looks edgy and seriously rattled from this July onwards into 2026. With the September Solar Eclipse this year conjunct their composite Pluto which hints at either formidable pressures for change in their joint enterprise or a power struggle.
Her relationship chart with the UK is strewn with three strained yods, suggesting she will, for good or ill, have an effect on the UK’s destiny. Given that tr Neptune Saturn are conjunct the composite Mars, tr Pluto is conjunct the composite Sun and tr Uranus is square the Saturn and opposition Neptune – through this year and 2026 as well – it does not look as if the ‘fated’ bond will end well.
The Bank of England, 27 July 1694 JC 10 am London, is entering into panicky-failure territory with tr Neptune Saturn opposition its Mars now and into 2026, continuing on in 2026 to square the financial Venus and square the North Node in Capricorn.. By 2026 there is a Solar Arc Pluto square the Mars which is trapped, scary and completely grid locked. Once over that hurdle the BoE chart looks in better fettle and could be forging ahead.
The Rachel Reeves/BoE relationship chart could not be more fraught with a hostile, power-struggling Mars Mercury square Pluto Uranus and Jupiter square Saturn – all of which is under pressure in 2026 and on.