Nigel Farage in a classic shoot-in-the-foot manoeuvre has managed to stir up a fight that could wreck his Reform Party’s chances of making inroads into the Tory vote and providing a viable alternative. Rupert Lowe MP is the latest of his cronies to fall foul of his anger with a spectacular hissy fit being thrown, police called over hurtful words by Lowe, who appears to have been cancelled without due process. All of Lowe’s staff apparently deny the allegations of bullying made against him and say he is a decent man.
Farage is an oddity, with an ability to trigger momentous changes such as Brexit yet seemingly incapable of holding to a steady course to maximise his triumphs.
Born 3 April 1964 4.30pm Farnborough, England, he has an 8th house Aries Sun conjunct Mars in Aries in his late 7th house; plus Jupiter in Aries conjunct Mercury in Taurus also in his 8th. Certainly intense though also with a hint of the Aries’ hash and crash approach which tends to lack endurance and the capacity to stay the course.
What makes him both an instigator of significant change and an agent for constant change rather than stability is Uranus Pluto in Virgo conjunct on his Ascendant.
Political columnist Daniel Finkelstein has a delightfully savage description of Farage: “One of Farage’s deepest beliefs is that he is surrounded by idiots –. He notes that one particularly dangerous form this idiocy takes is for some party rando to start believing that they, rather than he, should be leader. — And he invariably acts against such people, however messy it gets.”
Rupert Lowe, 32 October 1957, Oxford, a Sun, Neptune, Mercury in Scorpio is hardly a good fit with an Aries even an 8th house one. Their relationship chart has an afflicted composite Mars conjunct Saturn and trine Pluto so was never going to make for a cooperative duo.
Farage anyway has Chiron in his 7th hinting at an unhealable woundedness in close relationships and his Sun/Moon midpoint is conjunct his evasive Neptune so harmonious togetherness is not exactly his forte.
His relationship with Elon Musk is a bubbling cauldron of dislike with a composite Mars opposition Pluto plus an argumentative composite Mars square Mercury and a distrustful composite Sun opposition Neptune. Their interface will be more than usually upset from now until early April.
His relationship with Trump will hiccup late April into May.
His personal chart will be rattled this year by the Solar Eclipses catching his Aries Sun and his volatile Sun/Mars midpoint. Disappointments, failed plans and panic in 2026 about dashed hopes won’t improve his spirits. He’ll have a few lucky breaks but more of the other variety.
The Reform Party chart, 23 November 2018 looks badly undermined in 2027.
Alas I had to explain to people I know on small incomes that Farage’s parties always been rich man’s parties not for lower middle class or working class people such as them or I. In the same way as Trump torched that class in the US, I tell all of these people who will listen Farage will do the same to them. Effectively this segment of the population who form the overwhelming majority of voters have been disenfranchised and fallen prey to charlatans.
Glad to see that transiting Neptune will soon hit Farage’s Mars – a dissolution of energy and resolve. Followed by Saturn – if anyone needs to come down to earth with a bump it is Farage.
Interesting i thought Rupert had the same birthday as me…26 October. I’m sure when I looked earlier in the month that’s what it said but i see wiki now has Halloween…unless there’s a way to see if his wiki page has been edited…even three years older his pattern and mine seemed similar.
Farage has always struck me as a wannabe leader of the Conservative Party
who basically created parties like UKIP and Reform because the Tories somehow failed to recognise his genius. Johnson and Sunak missed a trick in not simply promoting him to the House of Lords before the 2024 election. Maybe they realised Farage’s ego would always cause Reform to implode.
I suspect he prefers the role of external troublemaker or big fish in a small pond than actually having to govern. In that respect he is different from Trump who combines a super disruptive Uranus, Sun, North Node in Gemini with both Pluto and Mars in Leo and an ascendant conjunct Regulus. Trump has most of his planets in the eastern hemisphere (left side of the chart) which means that for all his failings he does not lack self belief and a willingness to go it alone in pursuit of his goals. It is why those who think that Trump can be deterred by external criticism or unpopularity don’t understand him. Farage’s chart has a predominance of western hemisphere planets (right side of the chart) and I suspect he needs the people around him to bolster his ego constantly. It also probably explains why when he is on the verge of success he almost deliberately messes things up so he does not have to deal with the consequences.
Thanks, Hugh. Would Farage’s Uranus rising in the 12th be connected to Farage’s self-undoing that you described? I have this, though it doesn’t rise, and have to watch myself in case I go too far with something and upset people.
It definitely suggests a certain amount of instability. Farage likes to be the centre of attention but he does not like being tied down by inconvenient things such as his own party. I suspect he has an almost compulsive desire to break free of those constraints by whatever means.
Interesting that you mention about him creating his own party because the Tories didn’t recognise his genius. Emmanuel Macron did the same thing with En Marche: couldn’t get his own way so he formed his own party.
So much aries…starter not finisher. Sun and Jupiter conjunct is good for inspiration but the long slog?…