Notes from November 2004 Workshop. Three charts were used in this compilation: Inauguration 1994, Inauguration 1999, Thabo Mbeki's natal horoscope.
§ Major theme#1: economy … huge amounts of foreign direct investment, strong, bouyant, subject of national focus, energetic, largely due to the efforts and insights of the president as mentioned before. (A:Sun tr Jup EBP, B:Merc sx Mars, B:Sun cj Merc). Applies to rest of 2004 and 2005. The political focus on the economy shifts in 2006 as progressed Moon moves from 2nd into 3rd house … attention now turns to education, universities, transport infrastructure, etc.
§ Major theme#2: crime rate … notwithstanding assurances to the contrary, 2005 hosts and unprecedented rise in corruption and violent crime. (A:Pl opp Mars, B:Nep sq Moon). Sadly, the focus is so much on the economy and the rich getting richer, that any sympathy for ordinary people suffering from this malaise is drowned by the clanging of Kruger rands. The other factor to consider is the differential between rich and poor magnifies, which only exacerbates the crime situation.
§ Major theme#3: First quarter 2006 … tough time for the government and Mbeki in particular. There is frustration. Heavy burdens of state. Nothing seems to be working out. The cabinet is not achieving anything. A: Moon is void of course and B:enters via combusta. No crisis. Just difficulties.
§ Major theme#4: 2nd to 4th quarter 2006 sweetness and light. A very gentle, peaceful vibe. The calm before the storm. Parliament is operating well, strong approval ratings from the people. It appears that nothing much can go wrong. If SA was a person, she’d be falling in love. (Nep tr Venus, 11th house ref)
§ Major theme #5: There seems to be a political crisis of some sort that strikes towards end 2006 and dominates 2007 and 2008. It is in the making for quite some time before this but no-one realises the depth of the threat until it is too late. The pressure on Mbeki is enormous. He gets it from all sides. Internally, within the ANC there are moves to dilute his authority (B:Nep sq Sun). Externally, the political opposition puts the boot in. (ASC-p sq Pl). He is exhausted. It seems to be connected to a major crisis in foreign policy/foreign relations. The whole mess intrudes quite deeply into 2008. There definitely appears to be a leadership crisis, within the cabinet, within parliament. The chart for 1999 inauguration which also serves as Mbeki’s personal odyssey as president, has the Moon going void from Oct 5 2007 through to November 2008, barely 4 months or so before his term would have ended anyway. We have to ask ourselves the question, given all the above, given the adverse indicators in Mbeki’s own natal chart, will this president complete his term in office? Or will this political crisis intervene to force his resignation or retirement in some way?
§ Whatever happens, SA has been served by a very talented man who can take personal credit for the excellent state of the economy, as much as Mboweni and Manuel might be the direct recipients of the accolades.
§ Interesting quirk: constitutional chart for Feb 3 1997, Moon-p void end 2009 and remains so through to April 2011.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Workshop Nov 2004 - Mbeki's Outlook
Notes from November 2004 workshop dealing with what the next 5 years had in store for President Mbeki. These prognostications were based on a solar chart, in the absence of a rectified birth time.
§ Emphasise the difficulty of obtaining accurate results without a birth time
§ Having said that, it is possible to get some idea of the stresses and influences, and potential events, operating in the life of the president. The timing of these is necessarily fuzzy.
§ Explain progressions
§ Venus-p activating Pluto-Mars complex: his personal style of slave driving and bending everyone to his will is in extremely sharp focus at the moment … this continues well into 2006. A lot of people are going to bite the dust. This could take the form of cabinet reshuffles, changing his advisers, changing his circle of friends, and even on an international scale he may revise his circle of preferred partners. This theme is reinforced by the Neptune sq Venus transit during 2006 … disappointments in relationships. People he thought were on side and okay turn out to be the wrong choices. And Saturn sq Venus … definitely the ending of certain important relationships over the years.
§ Merc-p sq Merc-r: circa 2008, 2009. When an intellectual like Mbeki experiences a progression like this, it portends a serious intellectual challenge to this ideas and thinking. He will become even more of a controversial figure … very similar to the situation with his HIV/AIDS position.
§ Merc-p tr Venus: At same time his thinking and intellectual life is harmoniously received by his milieu, by the people he surrounds himself with, by the people he enjoys relating to … we see a very similar situation arising to the HIV debate where his yes-men all took the same position.
§ The transits of Mercury reinforce this theme. 2007/2008 Mercury comes under fire from Uranus (sq Merc) – revolutionary conflicts in the realm of ideas and there is jarring intellectual controversy. He starts to communicate more and more erratically. And 2008/2009 sees Mercury under attack by Saturn – his intellectual excesses are curbed … such as when he was forced into a climb down on the AIDS things. And he was forced to stop sounding off on the whole thing.
§ Sun-p ingress Virgo: Around the same time. The last 30 years has seen Mbeki’s sun moving through Leo, the sign of the king, the leader, the creator, the risk-taker, the proud one, the desire to be looked up to, be adored, be seen and recognised. In 2008/2009 he transitions into Virgo, the sign of the servant, the sign of practicality, the sign of the perfectionist, where he sands off the rough edges of the last three decades and puts the finishing touches on his life’s work.
§ August 2005: He looks to be having a huge clash. A fundamental and bitter disagreement that occasions much anger.
§ Pluto opp Sun: this is the story for 2006 and 2007. A very difficult transit. The universe starts assaulting his basic identity. It is a very threatening and challenging transit. For a world leader like Mbeki, this kind of pressure could easily occasion a bit of paranoia. It portends an unprecedented challenge to his power and authority. It also holds the possibility that his power and authority may be abused or mishandled in some way. Whatever happens, Thabo Mbeki the man will never be he same again. No-one emerges from a transit like this unchanged.
§ Neptune tr Merc: 2006 … a soft, gentle Neptunian hit to Mbeki’s important Mercury. Dare we say that the intellectual Mbeki experiences moments of intuition and compassion, and he’s quite comfortable with it.
§ 2009: Uranus sq Sun: uncomfortable turbulence; change that comes out of the blue – coincides with the next election. Given this aspect and the difficulties he has as a person during the next five years, it is unlikely that he will go for a third term (which will involve a constitutional amendment); it is unlikely that he would even want to. These are mostly not happy times for President Mbeki.
§ Emphasise the difficulty of obtaining accurate results without a birth time
§ Having said that, it is possible to get some idea of the stresses and influences, and potential events, operating in the life of the president. The timing of these is necessarily fuzzy.
§ Explain progressions
§ Venus-p activating Pluto-Mars complex: his personal style of slave driving and bending everyone to his will is in extremely sharp focus at the moment … this continues well into 2006. A lot of people are going to bite the dust. This could take the form of cabinet reshuffles, changing his advisers, changing his circle of friends, and even on an international scale he may revise his circle of preferred partners. This theme is reinforced by the Neptune sq Venus transit during 2006 … disappointments in relationships. People he thought were on side and okay turn out to be the wrong choices. And Saturn sq Venus … definitely the ending of certain important relationships over the years.
§ Merc-p sq Merc-r: circa 2008, 2009. When an intellectual like Mbeki experiences a progression like this, it portends a serious intellectual challenge to this ideas and thinking. He will become even more of a controversial figure … very similar to the situation with his HIV/AIDS position.
§ Merc-p tr Venus: At same time his thinking and intellectual life is harmoniously received by his milieu, by the people he surrounds himself with, by the people he enjoys relating to … we see a very similar situation arising to the HIV debate where his yes-men all took the same position.
§ The transits of Mercury reinforce this theme. 2007/2008 Mercury comes under fire from Uranus (sq Merc) – revolutionary conflicts in the realm of ideas and there is jarring intellectual controversy. He starts to communicate more and more erratically. And 2008/2009 sees Mercury under attack by Saturn – his intellectual excesses are curbed … such as when he was forced into a climb down on the AIDS things. And he was forced to stop sounding off on the whole thing.
§ Sun-p ingress Virgo: Around the same time. The last 30 years has seen Mbeki’s sun moving through Leo, the sign of the king, the leader, the creator, the risk-taker, the proud one, the desire to be looked up to, be adored, be seen and recognised. In 2008/2009 he transitions into Virgo, the sign of the servant, the sign of practicality, the sign of the perfectionist, where he sands off the rough edges of the last three decades and puts the finishing touches on his life’s work.
§ August 2005: He looks to be having a huge clash. A fundamental and bitter disagreement that occasions much anger.
§ Pluto opp Sun: this is the story for 2006 and 2007. A very difficult transit. The universe starts assaulting his basic identity. It is a very threatening and challenging transit. For a world leader like Mbeki, this kind of pressure could easily occasion a bit of paranoia. It portends an unprecedented challenge to his power and authority. It also holds the possibility that his power and authority may be abused or mishandled in some way. Whatever happens, Thabo Mbeki the man will never be he same again. No-one emerges from a transit like this unchanged.
§ Neptune tr Merc: 2006 … a soft, gentle Neptunian hit to Mbeki’s important Mercury. Dare we say that the intellectual Mbeki experiences moments of intuition and compassion, and he’s quite comfortable with it.
§ 2009: Uranus sq Sun: uncomfortable turbulence; change that comes out of the blue – coincides with the next election. Given this aspect and the difficulties he has as a person during the next five years, it is unlikely that he will go for a third term (which will involve a constitutional amendment); it is unlikely that he would even want to. These are mostly not happy times for President Mbeki.
1994 Inauguration Chart is Radix
Mandela took the oath of office at 12:20pm, May 10th 1994, Pretoria (Tshwane).
The tumultuous events in SA politics of the last 12 months - Polokwane conference, recharging of Zuma, Nicholson judgement, culminating in the resignation of Mbeki & some of his cabinet - have occurred under the pAsc sq nPluto progression in this inauguration chart, which has been in orb since September 2007.
The primary aphorism in Ronald Davison's Technique of Prediction states "No important event in the life ever comes to pass unless a direction involving an angle of the horoscope is in force at the time." We can assume therefore that this inauguration chart is radix as it tells the story of the remaking of the SA political scene.
[Note also the solar arc Saturn in octile to radix Asc-Dsc axis, further confirmation of the chart's radicality.]
Pluto in the inauguration chart tenants the 4th house and is the modern ruler of the 4th. It is therefore a very powerful significator of the "political opposition" to the ruling authority (10th house). This has two implications for the short term future of the political landscape.
1. The putsch that unseated Mbeki originated in structures which equivalenced a "political opposition". In other words, even though the ANC post-Polokwane were ostensibly still the governing party, for all intents and purposes they operated as a political opposition to the Mbeki cabinet.
2. By the time this progression plays out (March 2009), the face of "opposition politics" will have been completely transformed.
Click on the images below to enlarge them.
The tumultuous events in SA politics of the last 12 months - Polokwane conference, recharging of Zuma, Nicholson judgement, culminating in the resignation of Mbeki & some of his cabinet - have occurred under the pAsc sq nPluto progression in this inauguration chart, which has been in orb since September 2007.
The primary aphorism in Ronald Davison's Technique of Prediction states "No important event in the life ever comes to pass unless a direction involving an angle of the horoscope is in force at the time." We can assume therefore that this inauguration chart is radix as it tells the story of the remaking of the SA political scene.
[Note also the solar arc Saturn in octile to radix Asc-Dsc axis, further confirmation of the chart's radicality.]
Pluto in the inauguration chart tenants the 4th house and is the modern ruler of the 4th. It is therefore a very powerful significator of the "political opposition" to the ruling authority (10th house). This has two implications for the short term future of the political landscape.
1. The putsch that unseated Mbeki originated in structures which equivalenced a "political opposition". In other words, even though the ANC post-Polokwane were ostensibly still the governing party, for all intents and purposes they operated as a political opposition to the Mbeki cabinet.
2. By the time this progression plays out (March 2009), the face of "opposition politics" will have been completely transformed.
Click on the images below to enlarge them.
Birth of New South Africa
Progressed Ephemeris 1995-2015
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Mbeki's 2008 Resignation Predicted in 2004
In November 2004, I delivered an astrological workshop to about 70 people on the subject of South Africa's political future. One of the prognostications derived from the Mbeki 1999 inauguration chart was as follows:"There seems to be a political crisis of some sort that strikes towards end 2006 and dominates 2007 and 2008. It is in the making for quite some time before this but no-one realises the depth of the threat until it is too late. The pressure on Mbeki is enormous. He gets it from all sides. Internally, within the ANC there are moves to dilute his authority (B:Nep sq Sun). Externally, the political opposition puts the boot in. (ASC-p sq Pl). He is exhausted. It seems to be connected to a major crisis in foreign policy/foreign relations. The whole mess intrudes quite deeply into 2008. There definitely appears to be a leadership crisis, within the cabinet, within parliament. The chart for 1999 inauguration which also serves as Mbeki’s personal odyssey as president, has the Moon going void from Oct 5 2007 through to November 2008, barely 4 months or so before his term would have ended anyway. We have to ask ourselves the question, given all the above, given the adverse indicators in Mbeki’s own natal chart, will this president complete his term in office? Or will this political crisis intervene to force his resignation or retirement in some way?"
Mbeki resigned in a public address to the nation at 19:30 (GMT+2), Pretoria, 21st September 2008.
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