The Ireland north-south border enshrined as a frictionless zone in the Good Friday peace agreement to end three decades of violent troubles is the unsolvable conundrum of Brexit. Weaponised gleefully by the EU and carelessly ignored by the Brexiteers it has assumed mountainous proportions, though as a customs border problem it could easily be resolved by technological means, obviating the need for a concrete barrier. Northern Ireland voted 56% to stay in the EU.
Northern Ireland, 7 December 1922 3.28pm Belfast, is already logjammed having been without an executive government since January 2017 with civil servants taking the key decisions in the absence of an agreement between the leading parties. It’s looking completely blocked at the moment with the Solar Arc Pluto conjunct Saturn; and the ongoing undermining tr Neptune is square the Sagittarius Sun Mercury till late 2019. Tr Uranus will square the midheaven for a jolting change of direction from mid February onwards for as few weeks; with the tr Saturn Pluto in Capricorn opposing the Moon at 23 degrees Cancer through 2019 and exactly in early 2020 – which looks bleak and very discouraging. They won’t be remotely pleased with whatever decision is made.
Relations between Northern Ireland and the UK will be tense and conflicted mid January to mid February 2019 with tr Pluto opposition the composite Moon (repeating later in the year) as well as confused and jolted – and at their lowest ebb in 2020/2021 with tr Neptune opposition the composite Jupiter Saturn and square Uranus. Relations between North and South are stressed through 2019/2020 and disillusioned in 2020 and worse for several years thereafter.
The Ireland 18 April 1949 12 am Dublin chart hints at setbacks and frustrations through 2019 with tr Saturn square the 10th house Neptune in January and then square Mars later in the year; with tr Pluto continuing another year of frustrations as it squares Mars. The volatile, overly impulsive Solar Arc Mars conjunct the Ireland Uranus will gradually fade into 2019.
Relations with the UK will be fraught over the March 29 2019 theoretical exit date.
It’s heresy to say it but Northern Ireland not having the ‘luxury’ of stomping off into independence like Scotland or even Wales, would be better to unify with the south and be done with it. But alas and alack too many decades of blood feuds make that unlikely.
Here’s wishing that the problems btwn NI and Ireland don;t return to what they were.
What a global mess.