Keir Starmer (September 2, 1962)

It wasn’t too difficult to read the tea leaves about yesterday’s UK election result. The Conservatives had coasted for too long, trying to right the sinking ship that is the United Kingdom. Labour came roaring back with a vengeance. This should have happened earlier, but the voters didn’t like Starmer’s predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

Starmer’s birth time is unknown, so I rectified his birth chart to show Venus @ 45, when he married his wife. Is he really this ‘soft’, with Pisces Rising, Mars in Cancer, Moon in Libra, and Sun in Virgo? I think not. His natal Sun is exactly conjunct his natal Pluto, which gives him an edge of steel. Of the three inconjuncts, shown above, only two can be relied upon:

Mercury Inconjunct Jupiter

You like to think big, and you have great ambitions, but you don’t always make sure that your thinking is clear or careful. When you make any kind of plan, be careful. Don’t try to take on more than you can handle and make sure not to overlook details, for that could hurt what you are trying to do. Careful planning will help you develop disciplined habits in other areas as well. This aspect can mean that you are sloppy in your personal appearance and in your work habits.

Planets in Youth (page 161) by Robert Hand (1977)

Mars Inconjunct Saturn

This can be a difficult aspect because it signifies a conflict between your sense of responsibility and your desire to fulfill your own needs and do what you want. This leads to a struggle within you that may keep you from acting decisively. Instead of deciding what you will do, you feel caught between these two forces, wondering whether you have the right to do what you want. You may feel that others are trying to frustrate you, but it is only your own indecisiveness that is causing the trouble. Sometimes this conflict makes you very irritable and resentful about nothing in particular. Then, when someone happens to act in a way that is obviously annoying, you focus all your built-up anger on that person.

Ibid (pages 230-231)

Isn’t it amazing how astrology lets us see behind the mask?

Yesterday’s Landslide Election Results

By itself, the chart for yesterday’s events cannot tell us about how, or even why, Labour won so overwhelmingly. There has been word that the turnout was the lowest since 1945. I suspect that is because the ‘party on the left is now the party on the right’ (as predicted by Pete Townsend in his Who song, Won’t Get Fooled Again). His actual words were:

And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ve just always heard them as the ‘party’, rather than ‘parting’. Maybe he had disguised what he was trying to say, at least in my opinion.

When you combine the noon chart for yesterday with Starmer’s birth chart, only one thing stands out.

Yes, the event Part of Fortune is (exactly) conjunct Starmer’s Sun/Pluto conjunction. His time had come.

Hmm.