Despite scoring a spectacular victory with the Brexit vote, UKIP (the UK abandon EU party) is still a car crash. Which given that its start chart of 3 Sept 1993, has a Mars Jupiter square Uranus Neptune is not too surprising. Mars Jupiter is gung-ho, Mars Uranus explosive and erratic, Uranus Neptune fanatical and highly strung. Having got themselves in a tangle voting a replacement leader for Nigel Farage, they forced Diane James in under duress, who resigned 18 days later this week. A major donor Aaron Banks described some of the top executives as ‘circus clowns – who’d be out of their depth in a paddling pool.’
Now Steven Woolfe, one of the possible replacements for the replacement leader, has ended up in hospital after a heated exchange in Strasbourg amongst UKIP MEPs, in which he allegedly called one of the other members outside to finish the argument like men, received a punch, fell down hitting his head and then collapsed with a seizure two hours later. You couldn’t make it up. Almost on a par with the then leader Nigel Farage nearly getting killed in a light aircraft crash campaigning for the 2010 election when the UKIP banner got tied round the propeller.
The UKIP chart had this September Eclipse conjunct the Virgo Sun which usually indicates a crisis; and the UKIP Sun has also been suffering from the downbeat tr Saturn square, just finished, and is facing the undermining tr Neptune opposition through 2017. Plus an over-heated tr Pluto square the Mars Jupiter now which would lead to inflamed passions along with an overly-intense Solar Arc Pluto square Mercury, which is also picking up the tr Pluto trine at the moment. And it’s not going to get easier with tr Pluto conjunct the Uranus Neptune from early 2017 to late 2018.
Steven Woolfe, 6 Oct 1967, who according to Neil Hamilton picked the fight, is a Sun Libra opposition Saturn in Aries, but the diplomatic niceties of his Libra Sun will be outweighed by a fiery Mars in Sagittarius in a do-or-die determined square to Pluto and a no-compromise square to Uranus.
Another MEP, Mike Hookem, 9 Oct 1953, an ex-commando, was evidently incensed when he heard Woolfe was thinking of defecting to the Tories until Diane James resigned. Hookem is another Sun Libra like Woolfe, with a passionately enthusiastic Mars Venus in Virgo which is conjunct Woolfe’s Pluto and square Woolfe’s Mars, so an argumentative combo. Both have Mercury in sharp-spoken and distrustful Scorpio.
No complaints or charges have been brought and there’ll be no investigation unless that happens. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
You couldn’t make it up. It’s seems the thing that united them is over, not sure why they don’t just put a plan in place to wrap the party up. Not sure what the point of them is any more.