Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s closest aide and architect of the Labour victory has been dropped in as chief of staff at No 10 replacing Sue Gray, who had become a distraction. He is credited with removing Corbynism which has not improved his popularity with the left and has tended to parachute his friends and allies into safe seats.
According to company check he was born April 19 1977 in Ireland, and, if accurate, has a final degree Sun Aries; with Saturn in Leo on the focal point of a Fixed T Square to Mercury (Moon) in Taurus opposition Uranus. He will have executive abilities though won’t be good at sharing the driving seat, will be stubborn and could be autocratic. He also has a lucky, confident Jupiter trine Pluto sextile Saturn.
His emphasized managerial Saturn is conjunct Starmer’s leadership Leo North Node which figures.
What is of note is their relationship chart which has the composite Pluto rattled up by the recent Lunar Eclipse and two eclipses throughout 2025 which could suggest power and how it is wielded will be a key dilemma. But most interesting is the composite Sun square Uranus, pointing to a reforming spirit, which will be undermined in 2026 with tr Neptune square the Sun and in 2027/28 by tr Neptune and Saturn opposing the Uranus at the same time as tr Pluto squares the composite Saturn.
On all the government charts it points to 2026 as being period of escalating crises.
He was experiencing his Jupiter return during the election campaign, and transiting Pluto is now square his Sun.
His Sun falls in the UK’s 7th house of enemies, and his Pluto is near the 1801 UK ascendant. He’s a citizen of the Irish Republic, isn’t he? There might be conflicts with the UK establishment.
One of the expressions of the Virgo/Pisces axis, particularly when the Pisces end of the axis is strong with Jupiter there (the sign’s co-ruler) and power-moded and controlling at the Virgo end with Sun exactly conjunct Pluto as is the case with Starmer, is the constant juggling between order and chaos. Power battles therefore may well beset Starmer’s administration and I somehow doubt that Sue Gray’s resignation will ultimately resolve this problem. Perhaps it’s a problem of character in the leader himself.
According to my Vivian Robson book on Fixed Stars. McSweeny has Scheat conjunct his Mars in Pisces. Not a good placement. Perhaps Sue Gray has passed the baton?
Whatever one may think of Sue Gray she knew how the inside of the Civil Service worked something her successor will struggle to replicate. In addition it is hardly surprising that Gray became seen as a distraction since so many of the Labour special advisers in Number 10 have been constantly leaking against her in recent weeks. One might also think that Mcsweeny did not really have to show any genius as a campaign architect to defeat Sunak’s hapless government particularly as Farage and Reform were doing much of the job for them. Indeed, in those circumstances Labour getting only 34% of the popular vote at the General Election was completely underwhelming.
If the date of birth is correct then Mcsweeny was born with his Mars at 23 Pisces exactly conjunct Markab, the “Star of Sorrows”. The natives with this placement are described as potentially “impulsive, and of an emotional, sometimes quarreling nature.” They can be hasty and self destructive. Mcsweeny’s Mercury at 14 Taurus is conjunct fixed star Menkar which is associated with “difficulties through writing” and legal losses. One wonders if we are going to see yet another Labour administration dominated by the “The Thick of It” constant leaking, plotting and jockeying for position.
All excellent points! Do Boris and Starmer both share an overwhelming desire to get INTO No.10 …but have little idea of how to manage once there …. and end up relying on unsuitable, empire-building advisors?
As a lay observer it would appear that the desire to win office, power and even salaries has greatly outweighed any interest in actually coming up with workable policies for dealing with the problems that confront Britain. The actual body of Labour MPs returned by the voters appears to be just so much Parliamentary canon fodder with little influence while the Party apparatchiks seem more interested in muscling their way into jobs rather than running the country for the benefit of the people. It seems in that respect the Johnson and Starmer governments are very similar.
His strong 17th Harmonic chart brings together Mercury-Neptune-Pluto.
Positively this gives….”Subtle ideas communicated with intensity.”
Negatively it gives……”Cofused and vague thinking causing mental obsessiveness.”
David Hamblin says seventeen people….”feel themselves to be apart from
the rest of society, and feel a need to rebel against it. The spirit of revolutionary
fervor is many of these cases of strong seventeeness. Seventeeness can be used
in evil ways as in the case of Neville Heath and Randall Woodfield whose anger
against society led them to rape and murder.”
https://ibb.co/H7Vc6mx
Dominic Cummings 2.0?
Not nearly as excitable as Cummings.