Keir Starmer has hit the ground running or tripping himself up depending on one’s viewpoint. Since politics in the moment is as much about perception as policies, there is a slight sense of a tone-deaf administration picking the wrong fights however sanctimonious the reasons behind their decisions. None is weirder (though admittedly trivial) than the decision to remove from the No 10 study the portrait of Maggie Thatcher, whom Starmer had previously praised and had been commissioned by Gordon Brown, because he found it “unsettling”. It was rehung elsewhere.
What both Maggie and Starmer share is a prominent Jupiter opposition Pluto = super-confident, power hungry, good leadership material but tending to assume rules don’t apply to them. It also leads to oneupmanship tussles for the upper hand and last word. Maybe he thought she was glaring down at him, trying to outshine his achievements. Their charts in an odd way are fairly similar since she had her Sun and Mars tied into Jupiter Pluto. While Starmer has his Sun tied into Pluto and Jupiter.
Starmer’s Uranus is conjunct Maggie’s Sun and his Sun Pluto falls in her 10th – so if she was alive he would be determined to keep her under control. His Libra Moon clashes with her Mars in Libra square Pluto and Jupiter so he would in the flesh have found her overwhelming. His prominent Neptune (in a Water Grand Trine) is conjunct her Saturn in Scorpio on her Ascendant – which may be a large part of the problem. Sakoian & Acker remark: “The individuals can have an oppressive or depressing influence on each other.”
Their relationship chart has the signature composite Jupiter opposition Pluto; with the composite Sun conjunct Neptune square Saturn engendering doubt and suspicion; plus a gritty, aggravated composite Saturn trine Mars.
What is intriguing about Starmer’s chart is the close Jupiter Chiron conjunction opposition Sun Pluto.
Jupiter Chiron can hint at messianic tendencies, the impulse to follow a vision. And it can suggest a wound to a sense of hope, confidence and optimism.
Pluto Chiron suggests the wound centres around power and powerlessness, gives an attraction to danger and darkness which his legal work would certainly fulfil; and can bring a fear of death.
Sun Chiron can be afraid to shine as a personality.
He was such an odd colourless personality before stepping up – with no birth time but Neptune on a Scorpio Ascendant for a 12 noon birth looks feasible. A self-protective, private, creative though not always realistic Water Grand Trine channeling its energy into that reforming and very, very determined (and power hungry) Sun Pluto (Uranus) opposition Jupiter Chiron. More will no doubt emerge.
I wish Sue Gray would admit to a birth date – September 1957 is all that is known so far.
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