Brian Mulroney (March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024)

Canada’s 18th Prime Minister died yesterday. I used to joke that I moved to the UK in early 1985, after Brian Mulroney‘s Progressive Conservatives won the general election in September 1984, to escape from Canadian politics, especially the right of centre kind. But then, I was often reminded that I came to a nation under the sway of Margaret Thatcher. You couldn’t get any more Conservative than that.

The Sun/Moon conjunction speaks to the man’s popularity. The Mars/Pluto inconjunct tells us that he would not be dissuaded from anything he deemed good for the country, including a free trade agreement with the States (NAFTA). But his greatest achievement was a very unpopular one, at the time: he introduced the federal Goods & Services Tax. Comparing his birth chart with the event chart allows us to see that this legislation was his crowning achievement.

When the Ascendant/Midheaven axes turn 90° from a person’s birth chart, the result gets the same effect that Jesus did with his birth/death charts. It’s what he was born to do. And Mulroney got crucified for it.

Now, he is being praised from his progressive thinking. That’s how you know it’s all worked out for the best.