Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission President, is facing calls to resign after a botched handling of the vaccine shortage issue. The EU made the mistake of centralising the order for the entire bloc rather than leaving individual countries to proceed at their own pace and were late to the party. Then when the manufacturers plead production problems in shortfalls on delivery she demanded AstraZeneca stop supplying the UK. A deluge of criticism forced her to U-turn.
Her Term chart, 1 December 2019 has an explosive Mars opposition Uranus as well as a limp and impractical Sun square Neptune. Tr Saturn has been squaring the Uranus and then the Mars in February; with tr Uranus having a final opposition to the Mars also in February which leads to high insecurity resulting in macho gestures to prop up self-esteem which often backfire. The fireworks will run on.
Her time as Minister for Defence in Germany was generally regarded as a failure with domestic criticism for her leadership style, reliance on outside consultants, and continued gaps in military readiness. A report for the German Parliament concluded about the military under her administration – “There is neither enough personnel nor material, and often one confronts shortage upon shortage.”
The domestic consensus was that her party would be happy to see her go to Brussels and Merkel was a cheerleader there for her. Politico.eu remarked, “What the rest of Europe gets out of the bargain is another question.”
Born 8 October 1958 in Brussels, with a civil servant then politician father, she qualified as a doctor and has seven children. She has a diplomatic and cool Libra Sun Mercury sextile Saturn in Sagittarius; with a do-or-die-determined Mars square Pluto; and a head-in-the-clouds Neptune Jupiter in Scorpio.
For someone under heavy pressure for a cataclysmic series of mis-steps she has a good deal of upbeat Jupiter sprinkled about through this year, along it would have to be said with some confusion. 2022/23 look more of an uphill struggle with 2024 running both her personal and her EU Admin chart into the buffers.
See previous Posts: July 17 2019 and December 10 2019.