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What is next for Elon Musk according to astrology

He’s now even wealthier than the incredibly rich robber barons of the 19th century – and he’s the so called first buddy. So what can astrology tell us about the rise of Elon Musk and what’s next for him.

A clear connection with the US chart

Elon Musk has amazing synastry with the US. His Sun is exactly conjunct the country’s Jupiter, his Ascendant and Mercury are on the US’s natal Cancer Sun.

Like it or not he embodies and gives a voice to an aspect of the country.

Let’s look a bit closer at that American Sun and what it means to try to tease out who and what he speaks for.

America’s natal Sun in Cancer in the 7th house of relationships forms an exact square to Saturn in the 10th house in the country’s natal chart. It is a patriotic Sun, but being in the 7th house, it is also enmeshed with the “other”, it is concerned about others. And it wants to share its vision of the homeland with others.

If the country was a person this could speak of someone who cares deeply about relationships, but struggles to express it fully because of burdens and/or an ambition related to status. Or someone who expresses their views quite forcefully, because they think they know best.

So perhaps Elon Musk embodies the US’s need to care – and also to meddle. Cancerians can sometimes be quite self-interested and are often willing to go to great lengths to protect those they care about, those in the inner circle.

What is Elon Musk doing at the moment?

He is throwing his weight around, he is commenting on, trolling, governments in Europe, seemingly suggesting that he can influence elections and change the political winds on the continent.

Is he speaking for America? There are probably many in the country who agree with him, even though much of what he says is either ill-informed or actual misinformation.

Pluto playing a part

Part of the astrological reason for his rise to power is his synastry with the country he now speaks for.

But Pluto might also have had a role to play. As it’s traveled through the late degrees of Capricorn over the last few years it has sent a positive sextile to Elon Musk’s career point, the Midheaven, from his 7th house of relationships. His connections have been crucial to his success.

When Pluto is involved it means the fates are playing a part in this – exactly how this story ends remains to be seen though. What we are seeing now is the first act, the rise to power.

And Pluto has been generous. It has also sextiled Elon Musk’s lucky money making Jupiter in Scorpio in the 5th house of the gambler, trined his natal power-player Pluto in the 3rd house of communication and is now moving to a trine with his natal Saturn in the 11th house of groups – leadership.

The astrology suggests this has been a lucky period for the so called chief troll officer.

But what’s next?

Pluto’s journey through Aquarius over the next twenty years will reveal what the fates have planned for him. And just to caveat this, I’m not a fatalist, I believe we can bargain with the Gods and the choices we make are important, but as with many famous people a larger story is playing out through Elon Musk. He has chosen to play that role and that sometimes means being swept along by forces beyond his control.

The lessons of the Russian oligarchs

An astrologer might tell Elon Musk to watch out. His natal Sun is in his 12th house. That can sometimes speak of a spiritual person, a person connected to something larger than just the mundane. It is also a house that was traditionally linked with prisons and hospitals.

When the Soviet Union fell many people feasted on the ruins and took the country’s wealth as their own. They became the oligarchs, but the story didn’t end happily for many of them. Those who disagreed with Vladimir Putin or were seen to have become too powerful ended up dead or in prison.

Donald Trump has often expressed his admiration for Vladimir Putin. Someone like Elon Musk might want to study the story of the oligarchs who flew too close to the sun. As the fates lift you up they can also tear you down.

A more challenging time ahead

In about four years transiting Pluto will start to form the apex of a yod with Elon Musk’s natal Sun and Moon. This is another astrological pattern that speaks of the Gods playing a part in the story. This aspect is also called an inconjunct, it can be difficult, uncomfortable and sometimes speaks of endings.

At the same time Pluto will cross the US’s South Node in the 2nd house of finances and security, sextiling revolutionary Uranus in the 6th house. This is a transit that could speak of financial turmoil causing an uprising of some kind. The US will also have its Uranus return, the last time this happened was when the US entered World War Two, the time before that was during the Civil War.

During this period and the years that follow Chiron and then Saturn will cross Elon Musk’s career point the Midheaven. Revolutionary Uranus will square his Moon from the 11th house of the people.

Then Pluto moves on to a conjunction with his point of fate, the North Node, and Mars in the complex 8th house in the 2030s.

Chiron in Aries

It’s interesting that Elon Musk’s rise to power coincides with his Chiron return – one of the astrological milestones in life – when we are faced with our wounds and weaknesses in our early fifties.

Elon Musk’s Chiron sits in the 9th house in Aries – a Chiron that speaks of a wounding around being the pioneer in a foreign land. His family emigrated to South Africa, a country that was segregated and suffered from deep inequalities.

He moved to the US – a country where those same wounds around equality and civil rights lie closer to the surface than many might want to acknowledge.

And the US has almost exactly the same Chiron placement as Elon Musk. It is just a few degrees later in Aries and in the 4th house of home in the country’s birth chart. His wound is also the nation’s wound.

It will be part of the story playing out over the next few years.

The transits coming up for Elon Musk could be described as challenging – but as always with astrology it is difficult to predict exactly how they will play out. And if he leans into his Chiron wound as the asteroid crosses his Midheaven, it is possible that he will be able to use that wound to speak to a part of the US population. Which part though?

Perhaps he will speak to the descendants of immigrants and settlers who voted for Trump, who are right leaning and who feel scared of and oppressed by the society that surrounds them. They are, just like his family, pioneers in a land where civil unrest lurks not far from the surface.

Musk comes from a country which for decades othered and dehumanised its black population. Where the wealthy shut themselves in gated compounds and drive from one heavily guarded place to the next. Violence still ripples through the country.

Is this where the US is heading? If so Elon Musk can draw on his experiences from having grown up in South Africa as he will understand what the US population is going through. He will understand this particular expression of Chiron in Aries.

But all of that will be more difficult if he falls out with Donald Trump. The two men have a very interesting composite chart with a Sun/Saturn conjunction in late Gemini in the 11th house trining a Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in early Scorpio right on the IC. Both placements also form a sextile with a first house Pluto in Virgo.

This is a fated relationship, a partnership allowing both men to becoming even wealthier. It will be severely tested as Pluto crosses its Ascendant/Descendant axis starting in 2027.

What is interesting is that the North Node in the composite chart sits at 17 degrees Aries in the 9th house, right in between Musk’s and the US’s natal Chiron.

It all comes back to the pioneer, the settler, themes that are so prominent in Donald Trump’s chart as well. Here we have the settlers, yet again conquering a foreign land, ready to crush all who oppose them and then there is the wound created (Chiron in Aries) in both those who oppress and conquer and crush and those who are oppressed.

What exactly does that wound look like? Perhaps a stuntedness and a myopic focus on the individual – an inability to work for balance, harmony and for holistic solutions that serve all (Libra).

Mega-wealth

If I was Elon Musk’s personal peppy astrologer I would suggest that he is now entering a period that will allow him to become even wealthier.

In March he will have a progressed New Moon conjunct progressed Venus in Leo in his second house of finances. This is the start of a new thirty year chapter in his life. For some reason the fates are clearly pushing him towards incredible wealth.

But why?

It doesn’t always end well for the people who throughout history have gone down this path. Astrologers have long spoken about Pluto in Aquarius being a time of revolutions. The last time Pluto worked his way through the sign of the people gross inequality lead to the wealthy being beheaded during the French revolution.

It doesn’t have to end that way this time. But that means those involved in this particular play by the fates have to make enlightened choices and think about what is best for the people (Aquarius) – all of the people – not just the ones that are part of the inner circle.

The people might of course also have a say in this too, and they have a will of their own. Take that Aries wounding too far and Libra will rise up to restore the balance.

January 8, 2025
Is football coming home? What watching the Euros taught me about astrology

During the World Cup in 2022 I started looking at astrology and football. Messi had some astonishing transits going on and leading his country to victory was clearly hugely important to him. If I remember correctly the Moon crossed over his Midheaven as Argentina won the penalty shoot-out.

I thought I’d make another attempt for the Euro 2024 tournament and so far it’s taught me a lot about astrology and perhaps also a little bit about football.

1. It’s difficult to predict a winner

Those of us looking at the tournament through an astrological lens aren’t seeing the full picture. In most cases there isn’t a birth time so we’re working without the houses and angles.

It turns astrology into a slightly more blunt tool and some of the transits are playing out over a long period. Pin-pointing what will happen during one game is difficult.

Different transits also mean different things to different people, depending on their birth chart.

So how do you then disentangle what is positive and what is negative?

Watching how the games unfold and what the astrology means for the players and the managers suggest to me that a transit that might look tough and challenging can also be turned into a positive. It often comes down to how we’re able to work with what we’ve been given.

2. Working well with what we’ve been given

England manager Gareth Southgate has a perfectionist, detailed-focus Virgo Sun and a Pluto/Mercury in Virgo conjunction. He has a conservative and stubborn Saturn in Taurus which might find it difficult to adjust and go with the flow, he might be quite fixed and set in his ways.

He also has a T-square between that Saturn, Mars in Virgo (or Leo depending on when he was born) and Neptune in Scorpio. So that intuitive, instinctive part of his nature could potentially be in conflict with an innate conservatism and a difficulty to change when needed. He might instinctively hold back, or be convinced he’s right, when he should change and listen.

This is mitigated by the Mercury/Pluto conjunction in Virgo, linking up the placements in a positive way. So perhaps he thinks very deeply about stuff, he’s analytical, he can see patterns and he can communicate this to his players.

And if the structure is correct at the outset, if he’s made the right calls at the beginning there is no need to change – if he hasn’t then winning comes down to being able to work constructively with the pattern that makes him fear change and spontaneity.

This tournament is challenging him to do that.

3. Identifying a transit of the tournament

The major astrological event for the tournament is a Mars/Uranus conjunction in Taurus which will be almost exact during the final on the 14th of July.

What does this mean? Perhaps that the nature of the tournament is one that speaks of sudden events or surprises, goals scored late in the game, sudden bursts of energy or a touch of genius on the pitch that will secure a win.

Several players and managers have placements that are pinged by this conjunction.

For Southgate it sits almost exactly on his Saturn, trines his Pluto/Mercury and opposes his Neptune. It calls for him to break his pattern, to step away from his innate conservatism. He might need to go with the flow and dare to tap into his instinctive ability to read the game and see patterns (Neptune in Scorpio sextile Mercury/Pluto in Virgo).

But no matter what happens on Sunday his life and fortune will change when Pluto moves to square his Jupiter early 2026. Too late to be connected to an England win, but a change for him nonetheless.

4. How to spot a winner

During the semi-final between England and the Netherlands both players and managers had transiting Saturn opposite Moon aspecting important natal placements in their charts.

Southgate had it near his natal Sun. Harry Kane had it on his natal Mars i Virgo. Bukayo Saka had it forming a loose grand cross with his Sun, Saturn and Chiron. Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford had it near his Pisces Sun.

Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman had Saturn on his natal Mercury, which could mean both depressed thoughts or steely resolve. Striker Wout Weghorst had Moon opposite Saturn on his natal Jupiter, so his planet of good luck was activated.

How come England won?

Lucky Ollie Watkins scored 90 minutes into the game.

But was he actually lucky? The astrology shows that the Moon/Saturn opposition during the game hit his natal Saturn and he is having his Saturn return. Not the transit you might associate with success at first glance.

So the astrology of this tournament has meant a slight reframing of Saturn, which can bring constriction and hardship, but is also the planet that rewards hard work and grit. These players worked hard. Capricorn Ollie Watkins must have worked very hard and dug deep to have this be the moment of his Saturn return – and Saturn has rewarded him.

5. Who will win the Euros?

With all of this in mind. Will England win?

The final is held on the 14th of July in Berlin.

As I mentioned before I think the big astrological event will be Mars/Uranus at 25 and 26 degrees in Taurus, so I’m keeping this in mind when looking at the charts.

Spain

Spain manager Luis de la Fuente has the conjunction trining his natal Saturn, which is also very near retrograding Pluto in Aquarius. Big stuff astrologically. But is it positive or negative?

The day after the game transiting Mercury is moving towards his natal Uranus and Mars and the Moon is moving towards his natal Neptune. Will his heart swell with the joy of victory or will he be swamped by feelings of anger, frustration and sadness?

For captain Alvaro Morata Mercury is moving towards his natal Chiron after the game, so his mind might be focused on mistakes and errors. He does have Pluto’s support though, trining his lucky natal Moon/Jupiter conjunction in Libra.

“Spain’s wonderkid” Rodri has some potentially good astrology with Jupiter, the bringer of good fortune on his Mercury/Mars/Venus conjunction and tapping into a pattern that affects most of his chart. Looks pretty lucky to me. Or big, a big moment in his life.

Spanish goal keeper David Raya also has some powerful astrology at the moment. The Uranus/Mars conjunction is affecting a powerful and mostly positive pattern in his chart.

England

After the game the Moon will cross England manager Southgate’s natal Venus and Jupiter, his feelings might be focused on love and/or victory.

Jupiter is separating from a trine to his natal Moon and Uranus, so the planet of luck is still sending helpful beams to his natal chart.

And as mentioned before the Mars/Uranus conjunction taps into several patterns in his chart. The key to his success might be to bend instead of to break, to be flexible even though he might find it difficult.

After the game Venus will move to conjunct Harry Kane’s natal Sun. Love and adoration iare coming his way, but a few days later Mercury will cross his Chiron so he too might be ruminating on some inner wounds or mistakes.

The Mars/Uranus conjunction is less helpful for him and is activating some tough points in his chart.

Saka has Jupiter on his Saturn, opposing Pluto, squaring his Sun and trining his Moon. After the game Venus will return to its natal place and trine his Moon, that looks pretty positive.

Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has some tougher transits. Saturn on Sun. Chiron square Moon. Mars/Uranus loosely squaring his natal Mars, but sextiling his Venus.

After the game the Moon will transit his Jupiter and then Pluto/North Node conjunction in Scorpio.

So what does this mean? Maybe that the game will go to penalties, so there will be a lot for the different players to process and come to terms with after.

But what is the clincher? Maybe looking at the 1066 birth chart for England will help?

On the 14th of July Chiron, the wounded healer, is on England’s Ascendant and the Moon is on the Descendant (the opposite team). Saturn is on the South Node. Neptune is on the natal Moon, squaring Uranus in the 9th house – broken dreams due to something surprising and foreign perhaps.

Spain has equally powerful astrology. Pluto is on the Ascendant and Venus is on the Descendant. Mars and Uranus are exactly conjunct the IC, the point of home, and opposing the Midheaven. Jupiter is sending lucky beams to natal Pluto/Venus and Jupiter.

Pluto is transformation, it can mean being lifted up, or falling down. Mars/Uranus is surprise and shock to the homeland. And Jupiter, Jupiter is the giver of gifts and blessings and he is much more active and helpful in the Spanish chart.

Good luck to both of them on Sunday – a sentence that will probably say more about my understanding of football (outside of astrology) than anything else in the article.

Photos by Abigail Keenan and Izuddin Helmi Adnan on Unsplash.

July 11, 2024
The astrology of Julian Assange – why was he released now?

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has left the UK and has landed in Australia. He is now a free man after reaching a plea deal with the US – who had been seeking to prosecute him for leaking military information.

Assange has spent five years in prison in the UK fighting extradition to the US. Before that he spent seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

During the post-Iraq invasion/financial crisis/Occupy-years he was lauded as a hero.

Then came allegations of sexual assault in Sweden and questions around his links to Russia. Instead of being extradited to Sweden, where he would have faced charged of rape, he escaped bail in London and sought political asylum and refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy – just around the corner from Harrods.

The astrological story of Julian Assange

Julian Assange has an interesting birth chart with Mars almost exactly conjunct his IC, point of home and the North Node thrown into the mix too. His Sun is in patriotic, home loving Cancer in the 8th house of sex, taboo, power and secrets. His Moon is in perceptive, sharp-thinking and power-hungry Scorpio in the 12th house of the subconscious.

Cancer is often described as the sign of the mother and the nurturer, but Cancer can also be quite a self-interested sign. It’s interested in nurturing and mothering itself. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, just a different expression of those Cancerian vibes.

To me Julian Assange’s birth chart speaks of a person who has a sharp and penetrating mind, someone who is focused on questions around power and home, and who isn’t afraid to shake things up, to break things in order to change things to how he thinks they should be (IC/Mars/North Node in the maverick sign Aquarius).

He wouldn’t be afraid to hurt people along the way either with this chart – it’s the ideas and the ideals that matter, not the people or their feelings.

He has Pluto and Uranus in the 11th house of the collective – so he might appear a bit shocking to the collective, but there is also some kind of deep, compelling or perhaps compulsive link between him and “the people”. The collective might also bring shocking and difficult events into his life.

Saturn is almost exactly on his Descendant, the point of “the other”, in the 6th house of service. Relationships might not come easily and there might be power imbalances to deal with.

Finally he has Neptune and Jupiter in the 12th house on his Ascendant in free-thinking, ideological and free-spirited Sagittarius. So who he is seen to be is lifted up by the fantasies of the collective. And at the same time he would be someone who becomes the target of others people’s projections and fantasies – perhaps being made to spend his life playing the role of the archetypal Sagittarius.

Why was he released now?

I suspect the discussions around this plea deal might have started when Pluto moved into Aquarius in the spring. That’s when it would have started to trine his Saturn/Descendant and sextiled his Neptune/Ascendant – both positive and supportive aspects suggesting a significant change is in the air.

Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, would also have been crossing his Saturn/Descendant and opposing his Jupiter/Neptune and Ascendant, sprinkling some extra good fortune on that Pluto transit.

As Pluto is now moving backward over those points the deal has been finalised and he is released.

It’s fitting that it is Pluto who will release him as he entered the Ecuadorian Embassy and his imprisonment started with Pluto squaring his natal Moon and opposing his Sun from his second house of finance, security and self-confidence. Mars, the planet of aggression, also crossed his natal Pluto in 2012.

It’s also interesting that Uranus, the planet of sudden shocks and surprising events, was conjunct his Chiron in the 5th house of children and love affairs in 2012. Suggesting his inner wounding was activated in a sudden and surprising way – and that this wound might be connected to some kind of aggression and sex (Aries and 5th house). Chiron is sometimes a placement that can speak of self-sabotage.

Saturn would then have crossed his Moon and the other placements in the 12th house, as well as his Ascendant, during the years in the embassy – bringing constriction, restriction and perhaps a period of low health.

Then, in April 2019 when Ecuador revoked his asylum and he was sent to HMP Belmarsh, Pluto and then Saturn moved from his second house into his third house of communication and the mind. Perhaps suggesting that this was the time when he became serious about how to get out.

Another significant time for Pluto transits came two years later – around the pandemic. Pluto opposed his natal Mercury, trined his Pluto and sextiled his Jupiter, which could have been a positive shift and lead to breakthroughs around how to move forward, especially with the legal side of the story. Around this time Australian MPs visited the UK in order to help him and his case.

There might have been setbacks – or hard work – when Saturn crossed his IC and Mars in 2022. He also had his Chiron return. In April that year his extradition to the US was approved.

Why didn’t it go through? Perhaps his lucky natal Jupiter saved him. On the day when the extradition was approved by the UK courts a Jupiter/Neptune conjunction opposed Assange’s natal Pluto and trined his Jupiter and Mercury – suggesting that the outcome of the ruling might not be negative for him.

After several attempts to appeal he was given permission to do so in May this year – just as Pluto had crossed into Aquarius and with transiting Sun/Venus/Jupiter and Uranus tapping into the same pattern – on his natal Saturn. This was the point when he won his freedom.

Ultimately it seems like it was his country that came through for him – or at least claimed the win.

When Julian Assange touched down on Australian soil on the 26th of June 2024 Australian PM Anthony Albanese said he had fought for Assange because he believes “in standing up for Australian citizens”.

Quite a fitting end to this chapter in the life of a man with so many placements that speak of home and his homeland.

The astrology suggests this isn’t the last we will hear of Mr Assange. He had a progressed New Moon in 2020, very near his Midheaven, suggesting the next 30-year chapter of his life might bring more fame, infamy and renown.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash and Acidpolly on Flickr.

June 26, 2024
A tale of two politicians – fear, hope and the UK general election 2024

Two politicians are currently getting a lot of media attention in the UK ahead of the general election on the 4th of July 2024. They represent opposites of a spectrum. One has spent his whole political career speaking to our fears and our prejudices, leaning into feelings of discontent and anger. It has made him hugely influential and he is now running to become an MP for the first time in his life.

The other politician has had a low profile until now. Suddenly he seems to be everywhere on social media. Journalists are sharing his latest stunts – videos of him looking jolly and joyful, laughing as he’s drumming in a retirement home or going down a water slide.

In a more serious video he talks about what it’s like to be a carer for his disabled son. He talks about his father dying when he was young and how, a few years later, he nursed his mother when she was suffering from terminal cancer. He speaks of the importance of a society looking after everyone. He talks about carers, about those who suffer, those who are ill and vulnerable and about what politicians can do to help them.

So here we have the two sides of the British general election – appealing to two different sides of human nature.

We have the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, once again promising that the answers lie in getting rid of everything that scares and angers us.

Then we have Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal democrats, speaking to the part of this country that wants to be inclusive, to help, to nurture and to support.

So what can astrology tell us about these two characters and the upcoming election?

Nigel Farage’s birth chart

It looks like it will be a good election for Nigel Farage. If the birth data is correct then Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, will be almost exactly conjunct his Midheaven on the 4th of July. He will be lifted up, he will be seen and all eyes will be on him. Perhaps the Tories will fall apart and elect him leader. It’s all possible.

The North Node has just crossed his natal Sun, so this is his destiny. He speaks to something in the collective consciousness. Often with characters like him and Donald Trump their purpose is to collect all that is ugly and nasty out there and then speak it back to the crowd. They highlight the parts of society that need help, the bits that we haven’t focused enough on. A lot of darkness is channeled through them, to hopefully, eventually be transformed and released. The question is just how much damage those dark urges and instincts can cause while they are being uplifted and given power.

There is a sense that victory, when it comes on the 4th of July, might be short-lived or a bit of a poisoned chalice for Mr Farage. He will have Saturn retrograding over his Chiron and then crossing his Mars and Sun in the next two years, as well as squaring his Moon. Tough.

He might be stymied in power. Hamstrung, because his whole career has been about tearing things down.

Uranus will also cross his Venus, then his Midheaven and move into his 10th house. Lots of change and upheaval.

And Pluto is squaring his Mercury, potentially a sign of conflict and power-struggles. Although looking at the transits I’m wondering if there might be some domestic stuff going on for him too. Perhaps a love affair or some kind of romantic entanglement that will take up time and energy as Pluto is in the 5th house and his Mercury is in the 8th.

His progressions also speak of a short period of success, that could be followed by disappointment and disillusionment with his political peers.

Ed Davey’s birth chart

I don’t have a birth time for Ed Davey, so looking at his chart will be a bit more hit and miss.

He also has powerful transits around the time of the election. The first is Pluto on his natal Moon/Mars conjunction. Pluto can bring someone power and Pluto on Moon/Mars means the transit is connected to deep set values and feelings that he is willing to fight for. With that conjunction he is a fighter at heart. And who does he fight for? The Aquarius placement suggests it’s the underdog, the left behind, the misunderstood. Aquarius can also simply stand for “the people”.

He’s also had Saturn on his natal Saturn/Chiron conjunction, which is opposite Uranus/Pluto. That’s quite the chart pattern. This election has been hard work. It’s highlighted his childhood wounds, but there is a sense that this is an unusual and resilient character who is somehow compelled to work with that wounding.

Jupiter will be conjunct his natal North Node during the campaign and moving towards his natal Jupiter after the election. All good signs for Ed Davey and the Lib dems.

His progressions suggest this will be an important chapter in his life. He has recently had a progressed New Moon (in 2022), this is the beginning of a new phase.

His progressed Moon is on his Chiron in Pisces. So he really is working with his own wounds here, wounds that speak to the collective and might perhaps be healing to the collective. Progressed Venus is moving towards his natal Moon/Mars, another positive astrological sign.

The connection with the collective

So what can these two uplifted men say about the UK as country?

The connections between Nigel Farage and the UK chart from 1801 are uncanny. Farage’s North Node is on the UK’s Midheaven. His Sun is on the chart’s North Node. Yikes. He really is part of the country’s fate and growth.

His Moon is on the UK’s Mercury. So he can feel into the country’s state of mind. His Saturn is on the UK’s Pluto, channeling and concretising its darker instincts and hunger for power. His Mars is very near the Descendant – he will stand for fighting “the other”.

What about Ed Davey then?

The links aren’t as apparent and much softer. There is a Venus conjunction between the two charts – a connection around what we love and how we show it.

Davey’s Sun is very close to the UK’s point of home and ancestry, the IC. So he does stand for and represent something in the country’s nature. His Pluto/Uranus trine the UK’s Mercury and sextile its Moon from the 12th house of the collective. So he can be a channel for a different story, a different energy. They sit in the sign of Virgo – the sign of service and of those who work in the healing arts.

Fingers crossed this is the story that starts to resonate on the 4th of July and in the years that follow.

Photo by Chris Boland on Unsplash.

June 11, 2024
What’s up with the water? The astrology of contamination

The rivers are full of E coli and we’re told not to go wild swimming. The shores stink of untreated sewage. The Thames is turning into a sewer – again.

And while this is happening the privatised water companies have payed their shareholders and directors millions and millions of pounds in dividends and bonuses over several decades as the infrastructure crumbles around them.

It’s bad. But it’s not the first time its happened in the UK.

Some of you might have heard of John Snow. Not the guy from Game of Thrones, the scientist who was much derided in the 1800s for suggesting that it was the bacteria in the water that was causing waves of cholera outbreaks around the country.

Back then no one had been able to see these little bugs and Snow’s ideas seemed too far fetched. The medical establishment laughed at him. Even though people were finding pieces of toilet paper in their drinking water.

This went on for decades. Thousands of people died a horrible death. It wasn’t until after John Snow himself had died that people started to take matters into their own hands.

They started to boil their water, then they started suing the water companies that had pumped unfiltered water straight from the Thames into their homes. Then the thinking shifted. But it took a long time.

And now it seems like we’re having to learn the same lessons again here in the UK.

So why is this country seemingly so bad at looking after its water?

The astrology of the Great Stink

One event to look at is the so called Great Stink in 1858, when the stench from the Thames became so intolerable that parliament finally decided to build the city a new sewer.

What’s interesting about the chart for the day when parliament started to debate what to do with the Thames is the grand trine in water signs.

Neptune is in Pisces in the 6th house of hygiene trining Mars in the second house and Saturn in the 11th house in Cancer. So the collective had had enough, they had decide to start caring for their water and made sure there were funds available to do it.

Neptune is in the last quarter of its transit through Pisces in the chart. The issues had been building and building until a point where there was finally a decision to do something about it.

Neptune is currently in Pisces as well. The watery planet has been in its own sign since 2011 and will stay there until 2026.

The astrology of the Brixham water contamination scandal

On the 18th of May there was a modern water scandal here in the UK. That day residents living in an area of Devon were told to boil their water after the bacteria cryptosporidium was found in the supply. Several people fell ill.

The chart for that day also has Moon in Leo. And there is a positive pattern linking Neptune in Pisces to Sun/Uranus/Jupiter/Venus and Pluto.

There is an urgent need in the collective (Pluto in Aquarius) to find innovative ways of sorting things out (the very healing and practical Sun/Uranus/Jupiter/Venus conjunction in Taurus). And it’s connected to how we treat our water – Neptune in Pisces.

Water, the general election and astrology

The UK is soon about to vote in a general election. And what I’m interested in is if it will have an impact on the 1989 Water Act – that’s the legislation that privatised the water companies and it might be one reason for the current mess we’re in.

The Act was given royal assent at midnight on the 6th of July 1989.

The Ascendant is at 27 degrees Pisces. A chart point that Neptune will cross a couple of times before it leaves the sign in 2026.

This chart also has the Moon in Leo. This time its in an uncomfortable conjunction with Mars/Venus in the 5th house square Pluto in the 8th house. A gambling, dare-devil and devil may care risk taking – leading to financial rewards.

Neptune/Saturn are exactly conjunct in Capricorn in the 10th sextiling that Pluto. This Act will make some people very rich. And it’s the people – Chiron/Sun in Cancer in the 4th – who will suffer.

Unfortunately there isn’t much in the transits indicating that things will change soon. Pluto will start to oppose the Water Act’s Venus, Mars and then Moon from the 11th house of the collective as it moves through Aquarius over the next twenty years. The people might speak up.

Saturn and then Uranus will cross the IC and then Chiron and the Sun, opposing the placements in the 10th. This will change things, but it will play out over the next decade or so.

What sort of person do we need to sort this out?

Perhaps someone like John Snow with his grand trine in water signs, a powerful Pluto/Sun conjunction in those final degrees of Pisces, connecting to Jupiter in nurturing Cancer and a genius Uranus in detailed focused and perceptive Scorpio.

There is also a health focused T-square between a physicians Moon in Virgo, the wounded healer Chiron and Venus in Pisces and visionary Neptune in Sagittarius.

Just the sort of person we might need to end this sad chapter in the story of the sacred waters of this country.

But I didn’t answer my question – why has the country gone through periods of neglecting and abusing its water?

Perhaps the Moon in Leo offers up a clue. It’s a Moon that potentially doesn’t care about anything but itself. Is that Moon having a good time? Is it rolling in money? Then everything is fine. So there is no need to worry about the toilet paper in the drinking water – until the people (Aquarius on the opposite side of the Zodiac) rise up and say they’ve had enough.

Pictures via Unsplash by: Benjamin Elliott, Paul Macallan and the blowup.

June 5, 2024