Tag Archives: General Election 2010

Election Postmortem

I’ve learnt two important things from this election. The first is that you should always have an understanding of the constraints and processes involved in the thing you’re considering and you need to fit the astrology around them. My forecasts for a hung parliament with Brown remaining PM – which I’ll take as a successful [...]

General Election – take your positions for the first act

We’re now in the final lunar cycle before the polls open on Thursday. The Moon entered Aquarius just before 10pm BST on 4th May and will be at 16 Aquarius at 7 am on 6th May 2010 and will stay in Aquarius until 9.30 on Friday morning when we shall almost certainly know the result.  [...]

Leaders’ Debates: UK General Election 2010

The UK general election campaign reaches an historic point this week. The first of three debates between the leaders of the three main parties will take place on Thursday night. Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will face questions on the topic of home affairs and will be broadcast by ITV, who are also using many [...]

What’s the state of the parties?

Given the current state of party politics in the UK, I thought it would be interesting to look at what’s happening to the individual parties astrologically. We have similar problems here as when we look at national charts: not everything has a nice discrete start moment.  Let’s start with the incumbents. The Labour Party The [...]

Nick Clegg, the King maker?

The UK electoral system is biased to the two main parties. In practical terms it’s not possible for a party other than Labour or Conservative to win a majority of seats and so form a government. However other parties do stand candidates and the third party – the Liberal Democrats – usually takes around 20% [...]

David Cameron, pretender to the throne?

David Cameron Chart, Solar Return for Brown and Cameron, Transits and progressions for David Cameron Live already looked at the conditions in the run up to the election, at Gordon Brown and now it’s time to look at the leader of the opposition, David Cameron. The major transits Cameron is experiencing are the Saturn conjunct [...]

Gordon Brown, the next PM?

Having put together an overview of the conditions leading up to the UK general election I thought it was about time I had a look at the candidates and how they shape up on the day. This article looks at Gordon Brown. Cameron, Clegg et al will follow. It’s difficult to know what charts to [...]

Election announced

A big thank you to Gordon Brown for letting us enjoy our Easter weekend in peace before announcing the date of the election. As expected, it’s the 6th May and, as I expected, it’s announced as Mercury enters its shadow period. I’ve talked a lot recently about shadow periods – when a planet reaches the [...]

Gordon Brown transits and progressions for opening of the polls

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David Cameron transits and progressions for opening of the polls

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