The surprise resignation of the UK’s Ambassador to Brussels is causing a flurry of comment depending on whether the media outlets are pro-Brexit or against. For the Remainers it’s deeply damaging to Theresa May, the removal of a highly skilled negotiator who knew the EU inside out. For the Brexiters, it’s good riddance since he was uppity, contemptuous of politicians’ limited understanding of what they are facing, and negative about the prospect of getting a speedy and clean divorce.
What is clear about Theresa May’s Government – even if nothing else is – is that it is living up to its start chart, 13 July 2016 5.44 pm – with an intensely secretive Sun Mercury in the 8th with Sun opposition controlling Pluto; plus a prickly focal point Saturn on a Sagittarius Ascendant which makes it overly defensive about criticism and resistant to open debate. An afflicted Saturn in Sagittarius is know-it-all, self-righteous, resentful about any questioning. Plus the 8th house Sun Mercury in Cancer are trine a 12th house vengeful Mars in Scorpio. Step out of line and woe betide you. Forget any speaking truth to power.
That Government Saturn is under double assault this year from the worst of its enemies – delusional, dissolving, undermining Neptune. Tr Neptune squares that Saturn from 12 January to 11 February 2017; and the Solar Arc Saturn moves to square Neptune by late 2017. Plus the Feb 2017 Pisces Eclipse is conjunct the Neptune. If mishandled, this can lead to self-deceit in the months following. The Feb Eclipse is also square Saturn which can be fearful, overwhelmed by responsibilities.
Throughout February tr Uranus will square the 8th house Government Sun which will create a fair upheaval against even more resistance so is likely to be highly uncomfortable. February also sees tr Pluto conjunct Mars/Neptune which usually accompanies plans collapsing into confusion; with a frustrating/enraging/stuck tr Pluto square Mars/Node mid March to early June; when the Mars/Neptune returns. There will be phases of high confidence and optimism when tr Pluto trines Jupiter but they’ll be muddled in with a fair amount of chaos as well.
What puzzles me given that all 27 countries need to vote individually and all, as I understand it, have a veto, how anything will ever get decided. What TM’s Government wants (hard, soft or liquorice all sorts, who knows?) is neither here nor there faced with the Tower of Babel. If a 0.1% per center like Luxembourg can bury a tax avoidance scheme (see previous post) then neither common sense nor flexibility reign on the other side. It takes two to tango in a negotiation and if one side has set their multi-faces to the wall then there’ll be complete stalemate and a messy tumble-out in 2019.
The EU is a grand idea, but Europe has not unified in this way throughout a very long history. Trying it in the same century as two World Wars (that had massive European conflict) seems like an opposite kind of abberation.
Marjorie, I have just reread your comments on Theresa May’s Mars and that is surely another dollop of Neptune to add to the mix. Do you see it as significant or are there other more hopeful transits to offset it? Seems as if nothing will get done for years and many people will be left in uncertainty about their futures. They could, at least give some assurance to members of EU countries who are working here. I have spoken to several medical professionals who are returning home in view of the situation.Any hope of some clarity before 2019? Appears not from your posting and yet I remember reading a positive posting for the UK in 2017.
It wasn’t all singing and dancing [Dec 25th post]. Partly it feels like an adventure away from same old, same old, which will keep the national mood buoyant at times. Though the tr Pluto opposition Moon in 2017/18 will be fraught and angst-ridden. And tr Saturn joining tr Pluto after 2019 going through the UK 4th will make for a sticky two or three years domestically for the UK.
Fascinating timeline, Marjorie.
I’ll superimpose some of my political rune reading onto it.
“Tr Neptune squares that Saturn from 12 January to 11 February 2017;” – The earliest the Supreme Court can deliver its verdict on the government appeal of the Miller judgement (essentially, does it require an Act of Parliament to trigger Article 50 or can it do so within its own powers) is 11th January, when they reconvene after the Christmas Break.
If the judgment does against the government (i.e the SC rules that it does require an Act of Parliament to trigger Article 50), the government will try to ram such Act through the two Houses between January and March, to make the “end of March” deadline.
“Throughout February tr Uranus will square the 8th house Government Sun which will create a fair upheaval against even more resistance so is likely to be highly uncomfortable. February also sees tr Pluto conjunct Mars/Neptune which usually accompanies plans collapsing into confusion; ”
This sounds terrible, because it just means chaos. Brexit is too big a genie to shove back into the bottle and I fear riots in the streets if Brexit is seen to be stalled. I really hope it does not come to that.
“What TM’s Government wants (hard, soft or liquorice all sorts, who knows?) is neither here nor there faced with the Tower of Babel.”
Correct. Article 50 was never designed to work. It was an exercise in theory, as the author of that provision, ironically a Brit-Lord Kerr of Kinlochard-said. Conversely, it was designed to make the situation of the leaving country extremely uncomfortable.
Whether we want a soft or hard or gray or a red, white and blue Brexit is irrelevant. The EU can only offer either no Brexit or a hard Brexit. Not only do all 27 countries have a veto, some countries, such as Belgium have sub-national governments that can block an agreement, as we saw with CETA. Also, to dissuade any other country from leaving, with the rise of the far-right across Europe, the EU will want to make sure that leaving the EU will be a miserable experience. In that sense, the UK is in for a very painful experience. I fully expect that our economy falls outside the top 10 (we were No 5 till last month) top economies of the world.
The way I see, the EU is like a bullying husband in a polygamous family of 28 wives. To make sure that none of his wives leaves him, the one who does dare to leave will be harried through the divorce process, made to lose any share of common property, left without a roof to shelter under and be made a spectacle of. Whether such a husband is worth having is another story
Thanks. That all fits with no doubt a few black swans paddling in along the way as well. Love the polygamous analogy. Having started as a selfish Remainer, (nasty problem for Brit ex-pats in Europe) I’m now veering towards a hell-mend-the corrupt EU. We’d be better on our own no matter what the upheaval. Frankly if they held referendums in most other EU countries they’d say the same. The French want their franc back. All an unholy mess. It’ll all end in tears on all sides.