Muddle and mayhem wherever you look. May wins and then loses. Merkel still can’t form a government. And the great Juncker is getting snarled up in an old wiretapping scandal from his Luxembourg PM days, refusing multiple dates to turn up to give court evidence claiming he’s too busy.
Want to see Neptune in action out in the real world? Look at Theresa May’s government, launched on a Full Moon of Gemini Sun opposition Moon square Neptune. A focal point Mutable Neptune is disorganized, absent-minded, refuses to face facts, lacks will-power, is credulous and constantly shape-shifting – and the Full Moon suggests a constant struggle to pull two opposing forces together. Admittedly May’s obsessive Saturn in Scorpio square Pluto gives her stamina, but her natal Neptune and its midpoints hook into many of her other planets – she’s quite a chameleon herself. She has more swampy, ground-dissolving-under-her-feet Neptunian transits to come in 2018/19/20. Plus some truly catastrophic Pluto transits to Mars midpoints in 2018/19 (see post December 2017). Though oddly enough the May Government chart apart from a gigantic hiccup in May 2018 and again in Nov/Dec will be keeping its spirits up courtesy of two Jupiter midpoints.
Merkel will continue to slide in energy, motivation and popularity, with a major jolt after mid 2018 and a facing-failure few months in late 2019. Martin Schulz, the pro-EU more-integration SDP leader on the other hand has a good deal going his way at least over the next two years. This despite the fact the German business/financiers and voters will resist strenuously any prospect of being drawn into a closer union that forces them to foot other country’s financial losses.
Jean-Claude Juncker had to resign as Luxembourg prime minister in 2013 in the wake of the scandal in which Luxembourg intelligence chiefs were accused of the unauthorised tapping of phones, bugging politicians and keeping some 13,000 secret files. Hot denials all round but fresh evidence has emerged suggesting that members of his staff had tampered with crucial evidence.
He’s got tr Neptune square his Sagittarius Sun from early May 2018, on and off into 2019, which won’t improve his morale, but his lucky Uranus Jupiter in Cancer may fish him out of some sinkholes. His presidency chart has a ruthless Mars Pluto conjunction which is catching the tr Saturn conjunction from late January 2018 which will throw a few obstacles in his path, returning late in the year into 2019. And Pluto squares Uranus on that chart which was always going to make it a crisis-ridden term.
The EU is muddling its way towards a worrisome, financially- disastrous and blocked 2019 when it picks up tr Saturn conjunct Sun, Solar Arc Pluto conjunct its 2nd house Neptune, and Solar Arc MC conjunct Pluto, followed in 2020/21 by a hugely uncertain tr Neptune square Saturn. 2019 also sees tr Uranus start to tug mightily on the EU Fixed T Square when it opposes the 2nd house Neptune and moves on to square Uranus and conjunct the 8th house Moon in 2020/2021. With 2021 also having the Solar Arc Mars square the Moon and opposition Uranus. And that looks like a whole heap of financial woes, in a rolling series of disruptions, shocks and upheavals.
Thanks Hugh on your interesting perspective I am of that opinion too.
Neptune is supposed to dissolve all rigid structures so hardly surprising it is having that impact on all established political entities be it the UK and German governments or the EU. The fact that Neptune is in Pisces which shares its characteristics just reinforces the effect. It is a ‘generational planet’ so its impact runs much wider than certain individuals astrological charts. In many ways this is a classic end of a Saturn Pluto cycle scenario much like that seen before the last conjunction of these planets in 1982 when the UK suffered a number of political and economic crisis from the mid to late 1970s and society itself seemed on the verge of failure. The next Saturn Pluto cycle begins in 2020 when the planets conjunct in late Capricorn. There is also Saturn and Jupiter conjunction in early Aquarius towards the end of that year which marks a shift in the Great Chronometer to Air signs. This shift between elements only happens approximately 250 years. Just to complete the picture Pluto ingresses into Aquarius and Neptune into Aries in the first half of the 2020s decade which is a combination that only coincides every half a millennium. This is really epoch making stuff at the Mundane astrological level particularly for the UK if my reading of past events is correct. It all means that whatever visions either Remainers or Brexiteers have for the future are almost certainly not going to span out quite how many of them hope. In fact future generations may see the year 2020 as a dividing point in history though needless to say the historical process will be working itself out both before and after that date and the significance of some of the changes may take decades to become fully apparent.
Thanks Hugh. That’s very interesting and descriptive – the leaders being in the centre of the zeitgeist swamp. We in the UK are obsessed with Brexit at the moment, and the US with Trump, but those however indicative of the times, may turn out to be the least of it, once other circumstances take over and prove more significant. Astrology was always better in hindsight, since it lacks clairvoyant abilities. We know these huge shifts will happen just not quite how they will manifest. You need the distance of historical perspective to really grasp them.
The Saturn Pluto conjunction is the next major mountain to climb and it’s effect will throw a completely different light on present dilemmas. We wait and watch.
Is there any prospect of either a Corbyn government or of a Brexit reversal in either 2018 or 2019, Marjorie?
Will nationalist parties gain seats in the European Parliament in the May 2019 elections? I so very hope that some of the prominent Euro-fanatics lose their seats. Hopefully, after Juncker and his master Martin Selmayr leave in 2019, we will have a much more conciliatory and moderate Commission president.
I hope the EU gets its comeuppance for using the Irish border question to try to divide the UK. Hopefully, some more countries may start their own exit talks and remind the EU that what goes around comes around and that karma truly is a <>.
I well and truly hope that after the UK leaves, Poland and the Visegard countries remind the EU and particularly the fanatic federalists that the EU is no more than a collection of nation-states, each one of which has its own opinions and concerns as individual independent countries, not as a state of the United States of Europe.
And as for the financially disastrous 2019, great. That should teach the EU that it needs to drop some principles to compromise. We (the UK) can offer financial help when we get the terms our way.
I used to see some benefits in the EU, but the way it has treated the UK in the negotiations is appalling and I now think it is time the EU gets some really hard knocks to come back to reality. Less ideology, more practicality.
From the 1980s (Yes, Minister) – James Hacker: “You know what they say about the average Common Market official. He has the organising ability of the Italians, the flexibility of the Germans, and the modesty of the French. And that’s topped up by the imagination of the Belgians, the generosity of the Dutch and the intelligence of the Irish.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751817/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
The squabbling is already well under way, especially on migration issues. See:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/14/divisions-over-migration-spoil-show-of-unity-at-eu-summit-in-brussels
Not sure the Yes Minister quote is quite pc nowadays, amusing though it is. Had another country been hosting the show, they’d probably have had a few pithy adjectives of their own for the English, Scots and Welsh as well.
For some reference on the “German Governmental Crisis”, Angela Merkel still had an approval rate of 68 per cent on Monday. I think this an aspect of German politics and mentality, as whole, English speakers have a very hard time to understand. Germans are still more willing trust their leaders than Brittish, not to speak about Americans. Schultz, on the other hand, hadn’t really lead and proven himself to German. SPD still has historically low support. So, what ever is seen on charts of these two must be read on that perspective.
Well her votes were down 8.5% from the 2013 election and it was the worst result for her party since 1949, I gather, so not quite at her peak popularity wise.
Well if Theresa May was operating from a more Soul-infused or Higher Consciousness, that Neptune would enable her to create Magic out of Chaos since it requires one who is already in a flow to be able to navigate the ocean of Neptune. Explaining it the way this article has done is what makes people think of Neptune as a negative, when in fact it is our ego and limited understanding of these planets that make them come across as Malefics.
Sure Neptune works well at a spiritual or a creative level, but in the hard, nuts n’ bolts, pragmatic world not so much. It just needs the right context to flourish and I don’t think government Brexit negotiations are where it shows its best side.