{"id":2329,"date":"2022-11-14T15:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2022-11-14T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:43:49","slug":"is-the-force-with-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2022\/11\/14\/is-the-force-with-sunak\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the force with Sunak?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the day of the recent solar eclipse Rushi Sunak kissed the ring and was officially appointed the UK\u2019s Prime Minister. He is the first \u2018PM of Asian origin\u2019 and the youngest PM the UK has had in two centuries, just edging out David Cameron and Tony Blair for the youngest PM spot. His premiership comes on the heels of the Truss disaster, which set a record for the shortest-serving PM in British history aamid her disastrous economic policies. The eclipse signalled the finishing-off of Truss and the start of what many pundits believe will be more of the same under Sunak. We will have a look at all that here.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will start with the chart of the premiership of Sunak. The chart, within a margin of error, is below (bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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This chart has not been proven yet, but the nearest time I could find was the time indicated on the chart, judging from news reports. The 12:33 time shown on the photo is from a Tweet, shown in CEST, since I live in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The immediate standout is the square of Orcus to the administration Horizon axis from the 9th<\/sup> house. The letter of the law will loom large over this administration. There is another side to Orcus, though, and it has to do with regulations and treading the straight and narrow. Orcus has a disciplinary function. Esoterically it represents the steady, graded clearing of the subconscious mind \u2013 the disciplined approach instead of the crash and burn approach one would find with Pluto, for instance. Orcus is a plutino, like Pluto and works with the collective subconscious. In a mundane figure it deals with regulations and the letter of the law. In the case of this administration the approach is to say, \u201cRegulations be damned!\u201d We\u2019ll see.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, Mars is out-of-bounds and in the admin 7th<\/sup> house, pointing to strong criticisms and battles over policy. Sunak and Co. will try to win hearts and minds, shown by the square from Mars to an out-of-sign wide conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, with Mars near the midpoint of the two. That combination points to failures in realizing plans or to unrealistic thinking, though \u2013 probably both in this case, which we will examine here. It is a combination that tends to speculation rather than facts.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, Mars is trine the Sun\/Moon (eclipse) conjunction with Venus and to Mercury in the admin figure, so there is energy there as well as attractive energy, a more pleasing facade on the administration, the ability to argue his case well, and so forth. But underlying the good of those trines is the Jupiter\/Neptune just described, which denotes the capacity for self-sabotage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then we see the quincunx to Pluto. The latter shows the desire for power. When combined with the factors just described the Pluto connection points to a tendency to go too far too fast and to overplay one\u2019s hand. Couple this with the quincunx between Mercury and Neptune and we see an administration that thinks very well of itself but which has some misguided notions about their purpose, their mandate (if there is one) and their way to go about things. Lastly, we see the quincunx of the Sun\/Moon\/Venus conjunction to Jupiter, showing overconfidence and the tendency to bombast, combined with the other factors just mentioned.<\/span><\/p>\n

To round out the aspect analysis we see the Saturn\/Uranus square at just about a degree of orb of separation. Saturn rules the 2nd<\/sup> house of the figure (finances) and is in that house, though currently transiting through Aquarius. Aquarius is intercepted in the 2nd<\/sup> house. The economy will be the single biggest challenge for this administration, but the way of the Conservatives (Saturn) is being challenged by the realities on the ground and progressive forces demanding change (Uranus), the latter we see growing in the labour movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunak has promised to \u2018form a government \u2018of all the talents\u2019<\/span><\/a>, rather than focusing on loyalties. That could work out to his disadvantage if there are not enough loyalists in key positions. We see this possibility in the following midpoint of the administration chart:<\/span><\/p>\n

Sun\/Moon=Neptune<\/strong>: \u201cInner discontentment, the tendency to torment oneself<\/strong>, the disposition to get upset quite easily. – Shared suffering, mistakes, misunderstandings, illusions or deceptions, the undermining of associations<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This midpoint is reinforced by the quincunx between Mercury and Neptune. From what we have seen of the Tories thus far there is no real loyalty in the Party, except to their position and pay. Looking back on May, Johnson and Truss, as soon as the offal hit the turning blades the PM of the moment was unceremoniously dumped. May was weak on Brexit, Johnson was too scandal-ridden, Truss all but imploded the economy, and given the current socio-economic state of the UK, what can we really expect from Sunak? Will he do well or will he eventually become \u2018poison Sunak\u2019 (as in sumac) and give the UK a nasty and painful rash?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunak faces daunting problems, and there are many doubts he will be able to handle, much less face them. Let\u2019s list a few, shall we? There was a Twitter thread that outlined them, along with possible solutions. Those were recently listed for us by Richard Murphy<\/a><\/span>. It\u2019s a long list, but we list only the essentials here:<\/span><\/p>\n