Rachel Reeves, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, is facing flak from all directions as she is poised to make £5 billion welfare cuts and hack back the civil service at a time when inflation is rising, borrowing costs are up, the economy is flatlining and defence costs are rising.
She does have tr Uranus square her Aquarius Sun exactly at the moment and moving to square her Mercury in Aquarius from mid May so the over-wrought, excitably irritable mood will roll on. On top of that tr Neptune will oppose her Saturn/Pluto midpoint throughout April which is associated with shattered nerves, instability and evasiveness. The mood around her will worsen from late May when tr Saturn opposes the Saturn/Pluto midpoint; and even more so from July as tr Uranus is opposition her Mars/Saturn midpoint bringing catastrophes, calamities, high insecurity and will test her nervous strength. That last repeats Oct/Nov and into 2026 as does the assault on the Saturn/Pluto midpoint. So the good times won’t be rolling along any time soon for her.
She does have a confident tr Pluto opposition her Jupiter returning September to early December for a confidence surge so she may brass-neck out a deteriorating situation.
Her relationship with Starmer at best is built on high hopes that will inevitably lead to disappointment and is very (karmically) tied together with a composite yod of Pluto sextile Neptune, Sun inconjunct Mars. Their destinies will be intertwined for good or ill – and will be under serious stress from this July with tr Uranus opposition the composite Neptune – extending into 2026 with a separating tr Uranus opposition the Sun and Venus on one leg of the yod so something will blow apart. The composite Uranus this year at 11 degrees Libra is catching both Solar Eclipses in hard aspect – for a change-or-else choice.
Reeves’ relationship with the UK is more than fraught this year and next – with tr Neptune Saturn conjunct the composite Mars, tr Pluto conjunct the composite Sun, and tr Uranus in a jolting square to the Saturn in 2026. Even if she goes early, she’ll get the blame for subsequent problems.
The Starmer Government chart, 5 July 2024 12.19 pm London, with an explosive, insecure Mars Uranus in the financial 8th and Saturn Neptune in the health and employment 6th house fits the current trends.
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