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.
Knowing he doesn’t believe in climate change, I’m highly concerned about fiture of the lung of the world.
Capricorn is indeed the most conservative sign of the zodiac, so it is not too surprising that right wing movements have gained headway globally over the Pluto in Capricorn years, in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. I do think that the high water mark for the right will be in 2019-20, as Saturn and Pluto move towards their conjunction. But their power is just temporary and is reflective of enormous pressures building up underneath the surface, as economic and political institutions crack under their own pressure. Things will come to a heads in late 2020, when Mars in Aries squares Jupiter/Saturn/Pluto in Capricorn. The early 2020’s will be an era of enormous transformative change, ushered in by a systemic crisis of significant proportions. Right wing movements like this are just a harbinger of greater incoming forces that will be shaping our politics for the next several years.
I’m actually getting slightly ahead here and say Saturn/Pluto in Capricorn will be when “The Establishment” takes over again. My reasoning? These rightwing populist parties may position themselves as “social conservatives”, but their actions are radical. They disparage democratic principals and institutions, such as indipendence of courts of law. They are credible only as long as people they claim to represent think their way protects their interests better than, let’s say, rule of law or more “traditional” grassroot movements.
I’m already seeing support for populist right faltering in countries where they’ve governed. In Finland, taking Finns party to Government split the party, and the fraction still in Government currently polls at one per cent, down from 18 per cent. I’m fully expecting something like this happening in Italy within months (Italian politics is notariously fast paced), Austria and Denmark may follow.