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.