William Cecil, Lord Burghley (September 15, 1520 – August 4, 1598)
OK, OK, this will be my last Luke Aaron connection. I was looking for a tenuous link to his present day counterpart, and it would seem that being Knighted was all I needed to discover. William Cecil was made the 1st Baron of Burghley, during Elizabeth I’s reign. Look at those eyes…
I set the timing of his birth for 8 am. That means that two of the three inconjuncts may be nonexistent. Only one linking the Sun and Neptune is definite. Hmm. That means the Yod pointing at Neptune is half right. What was he hiding?
“William Cecil’s public conduct does not present itself in quite so amiable a light. As his predecessor, Lord Winchester, said of himself, he was sprung “from the willow rather than the oak”. Neither Cecil nor Lord Winchester were men to suffer for the sake of obstinate convictions. The interest of the state was the supreme consideration for Burghley, and to it he had no hesitation in sacrificing individual consciences. He frankly disbelieved in toleration; “that state”, he said, “could never be in safety where there was a toleration of two religions. For there is no enmity so great as that for religion; and therefore they that differ in the service of their God can never agree in the service of their country”. With a maxim such as this, it was easy for him to maintain that Elizabeth’s coercive measures were political and not religious. To say that he was Machiavellian is meaningless, for every statesman is so, more or less; especially in the 16th century men preferred efficiency to principle. On the other hand, principles are valueless without law and order; and Burghley’s craft and subtlety prepared a security in which principles might find some scope.”
A F Pollard – Encyclopedia Britannica
Cecil Parkinson (September 1, 1931 – January 22, 2016)
Those eyes, again. Cecil Parkinson was the Chairman of the Conservative Party during most of his time in British politics. You could say he had quite a similar hand in shaping Margaret Thatcher’s rule as Prime Minister as William Cecil did over Elizabeth I’s reign.
This timing is randomized. Therefore, the single inconjunct linking Saturn and the Midheaven is fleeting, and probably nonexistent, too. But it does tell a tale, nonetheless. Having lived in England for part of this time, I can attest to the fact that Cecil Parkinson was a man of great political significance.
Let’s Compare the Charts
I asked Luke, in an email, if he was an astrologer. Because he wasn’t expecting me to respond that way, he probably deleted my communication as ‘spam’. His ‘spot-on’ connections between the first and second reigns of Elizabeth cannot be based just of their looks, surely. Something else has to be inspiring his choices. Perhaps in this case, it’s the name “Cecil”. After all, stranger things have happened.
