Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. Everywhere.
The White House is going off like a firework factory hit by a scud missile. Europe is teetering on several brinks. Theresa May, wrestling with the multi-headed hydra of Brexit, is also facing a looming Tory campaign funds crisis which may see several constituencies have to rerun the vote. And there is a possibility of Northern Ireland, after Sinn Fein wins in the recent election, ultimately going the way of Scotland and demanding independence. Is that her tr Neptune conjunct her singleton Mars in Pisces picking up in April?
Now the fissures in the tempest tossed Vatican are widening at an alarming rate as Pope Francis’s reforms have run into the intransigence of the old guard. His efforts to reform the governance of the Vatican, financial and otherwise, tackle the problem of bishops who have covered up child abuse, and modernise attitudes to divorce and homosexuality have aroused such internal hostility there is now talk from some quarters of asking him to go. Last week the final remaining abuse survivor in his commission of child abuse resigned because of “shameful lack of cooperation.” So he’s being stalled at every turn.
His Election chart, 13 March 2013 7.06pm Rome, has just been through the very rocky Solar Arc Uranus square Pluto a couple of months back. There is the final hit of an emotionally intense and conflicted tr Pluto square Moon this September/October; with a downbeat tr Saturn square Sun on and off till the autumn. There will be heavier challenges in 2018 with tr Pluto conjunct the catastrophic Mars/Saturn midpoint; and it only gets worse with a blocked Solar Arc MC opposition Pluto in 2019, as well as sudden-shock Solar Arc Mars conjunct Uranus. It was always going to be a divisive Papacy with an argumentative, self-willed and uncompromising Mars Uranus on the Descendant.
There have been concerns about his health in recent months as he passed his 80th birthday. His own personal chart, 17 Dec 1936 9pm Buenos Aires, is certainly under immense and frustrating challenges in 2017/18 with tr Pluto square his Mars; and then in 2018 his Solar Arc Uranus is conjunct his Pluto and tr Uranus is square Pluto, which in older people can suggest health issues, certainly a life-changing series of events.
The Vatican chart, 7 June 1929 11am, is facing disappointment and unpopularity this year with tr Neptune square the Sun/Moon midpoint; with a pressured Saturn Return; and more of an undermining slide in morale in 2018 with tr Neptune square the Gemini Sun; plus a high tension tr Uranus trine Neptune. So it won’t be coping well in an atmosphere of suspicion, delusion and strain.
Pluto in Capricorn grinding its way relentlessly on with the herculean task of dismantling old style governing practices against heavy resistance from the status-quoers. Razing to ashes before the phoenix can arise.