The Brexit chaos is causing major alarm in Northern Ireland with talk of the Good Friday Agreement being threatened. That was the power-sharing deal struck on 10 April 1998 which saw an end to hostilities. The DUP was the only party to oppose it. No definitive or constructive ideas have been forthcoming about how to resolve the problem of the soft North South border in Ireland in the event of a Brexit outside an EU customs union. Boris Johnson is swatting it aside as an irrelevance and Barnier is playing it up as a chance to keep the north within the EU.
The GF Agreement chart goes look highly stressed this year and on with tr Pluto square the Sun 2018/19; tr Uranus in an explosive conjunction to Mars across mid to late April this year, returning later in the year; high-wire this July and again in 2019 with tr Uranus square Neptune; and a tested-to-the-limit tr Pluto square Saturn 2019/20 – with worse aggravation in the years following.
The Northern Ireland chart looks jangled this month; at a critical point and trapped with tr Pluto square the MC in 2018/2019; and uncertain and depressed from May 2019 with tr Neptune opposition Saturn.
The relationship charts between North Ireland and both Republic of Ireland 1922 and 1949 charts look angry, blocked and damaged this year, worse next.
Sinn Fein, 28 November 1905, is running into a deadlock in about 18 months’ time. The DUP 30 September 1971 is deflated and argumentative this year; and nerve-stretched in 2019/2020. Relations between the two parties will be disrupted in a minor way in 2018, and be in complete upheaval in the three years following. That relationship chart has a bitter-hostility composite Mars opposition Pluto square Mercury Sun (Venus), which tr Uranus is clashing with in hard aspect till late 2021.
The UK/Northern Ireland relationship chart is moving through trouble times in 2018/19 with tr Pluto trine the composite Mars; and undergoing major adjustments to accommodate a change of direction, starting this May, but really exacerbated from May 2019 when tr Uranus will conjunct the composite Pluto. The old rules won’t apply any more.
The same goes for the UK/Republic of Ireland with ructions when tr Uranus moves into Taurus from May onwards; with more upsets and a re-set in diplomatic ties in 2019/2020.
Heaven knows what that all adds up to. No one looks happy, including Arlene Foster, the DUP leader.
Whether tr Saturn conjunct the UK Capricorn IC and Sun late this year and through 2019 is strong enough to separate the UK into its constituent parts, I’d doubt. Though it is possible, and the problems are mounting over Scotland and Wales devolved powers, never mind Gibraltar. I’m intrigued to see how the Solar Arc Moon opposition the UK Saturn, exact this time next year works out. The Saturn represents the legislature and the populace are obviously a million miles apart from their hapless politicians.