Started on 10th March, published 15th March.
It struck me this morning, as Mars stationed direct, that we are now a maximum of 13 weeks from a general elelection. The next one must take place by June 3rd but most people expect it to take its traditional spot of the first Thursday in May as this coincides with the local elections which are already scheduled.
Given the timescale, I thought it high time I wrote something about this. Pondering this, this morning, I realised there were several cycles knitting together which highlight this period of time.
Today, 10th March, Mars turns direct. It went retrograde between Christmas and New Year at 19 Leo and is now at 0 Leo and stationary before it moves forward. It will reach 19 Leo on 16th May. The period after a planet turns direct and before it reaches the degree at which it went retrograde is part of its shadow period. The Mars shadow will take us up to around the time of the General Election.
That’s not all, Mercury will also go retrograde before then. On 19th April, when its at 12 Taurus, Mercury goes retrograde and stations at 2 Taurus on 11th May. So the most likely date for the general election will be in the middle of a Mercury retrograde period. Does this surprise us? What we can see taking shape so far lacks clarity, definition and is uncertain of its message. Sounds like a good working definition for Mercury retrograde to me. The classic example of an election on a Mercury station was the election of George W Bush for the first time. Remember the confusion over the process, the vote count and the result?
Saturn dips back into Virgo in April and then the fourth of five oppositions between Saturn and Uranus will take place on 26th April. The first was in November 2008. I’ve already written about the extremely powerful planetary patterns which will be in action over the next few years. This series of oppositions guides us into the “cardinal explosion” of June and July 2010, thanks to Rob Hand for that description. You’ll find all sorts of stuff written about this but the point I want to emphasis here is that the election will happen immediately before it. Who ever gets in will surely find that the job they’ve got is drastically different from the one they applied for. This is where things will start to get a little intense. June will see big changes.
Major planets are changing signs: Uranus (28th May) and Jupiter (6th June) will both move into Aries and conjoin on 8th June. This is the first leg of the T-Square around the beginning of the cardinal degrees. Saturn will take up his position at the beginning of Libra during July and Pluto in Capricorn will be square to the Aries and Libra planets; the Cancer ingress will see the Sun complete the grand cross.
There’s much, much more to say about the astrology of the summer which I’ll get to very soon but as this piece is supposed to be about the General Election I’ll stick my neck out and say confusion reigns – not a risky prediction – and that the current Pisces emphasis will help Gordon Brown more than David Cameron. Who ever wins, we’re in for a big surprise.
