BREXIT v.1, v.2 and v.2

Astrological Ramblings of One Perplexed

Written by Melanie Reinhart

between 16^th and 22^nd January 2019, first posted on January 25^th 2019,
and resumed on September 24^th 2019 as 'Brexit v2.0 began approaching.
And again in January 2020 as Brexit v.3 looms.

(Contributions from readers and postludes by me are dated and inset, usually in smaller font,
and see also the 'Community Contributions' page, also linked after Brexit v.2. If you have any thoughts or hunches about Brexit v.3, do email them to me and I can add them to this page!)

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Perhaps like many readers, I confess to feeling alternately compelled and repelled by the unceasing deluge of Brexit-related discussions on the radio. As I don’t have a TV, I am spared the visuals unless I hunt them out online. Rather belatedly, I decided to explore the actual chart for Brexit – set for two years on from March 29th 2016, when the UK Government invoked ‘Article 50’, the commitment to leave the EU.

At first glance, it looks to me like nobody in the Government or TPTB (‘The Powers That Be’) who made this decision back in 2016 had an astrologer on board! Truly. Of course, perhaps they did, but got one who deliberately or accidentally aligned this move with the ‘wrecking ball politics’ which is daily evident in various places across the planet. Naming no names, of course. And perhaps sometimes this is indeed ‘all in a good cause’. Or so some might say.

Brexit: March 29^th 2019; 23.00 GMT; Westminster, UK.

(Note: this is 00.00 CET on March 30^th!)

Source: Wikipedia.

In the chart above for Brexit (‘B-Day’), ruler of the Ascendant is Mars, in detriment (undignified?) in Taurus and in the 7th house of ‘The Other’, here perhaps representing the EU itself, also 'undignified'! So Britain’s sense of ‘me/us’, identity, momentum, vitality and initiative is ‘over there’, also conjunct the fixed star Alcyone in the asterism of the Pleiades, the ‘Weeping Sisters’. Oh dear. Mars weeping in the house of ‘the open enemy’. Very undignified. Anthony Louis has this to say: “Whatever the reason, your significator’s conjunction with Alcyone will give you something to cry about.”(i) A trine to this Mars is the final aspect made by the Moon (also in detriment, in Capricorn) before going VOC, and it occurs less than 2hr before the time changes from GMT to BST (at 02.00am on March 30th)!

Brexit falls through the hole in the calendar and disappears, or something? Or a gap in time itself? Perhaps symbolising ‘going over the cliff’, a phrase that I keep hearing about this Brexit date. Like, Brexit maybe exits! This Mars in the 7th house is the only planet ‘above’ the horizon, and barely so. If this was the horoscope of a person, I’d be wondering whether they took their sense of ‘me-ness’ ( Asc) from getting into ‘unwinnable battles’ (Mars in detriment) with other people (Mars in 7th house)!

Note 22.2.2019:

Frequent murmurings now from various government sources about the need to delay Brexit. To  'exit Brexit', as mentioned above? And/or to 'go to the people' with another referendum?

So the chart above might end up as the chart for 'Brexit prorogatio' (Brexit deferred or prolonged!)
Note 26.2.2019:

EU advising delay until 2021! (Perhaps someone finally consulted an astrologer?! This would take Brexit beyond all the 'End of a Cycle' energies, and, crucially, into the new Jupiter-Saturn cycle.)

Note 15.3.2019:

Delay until June 30th proposed, subject to vote next week. (Astrology of that day looks marginally better than March 29th. Although Mars will be 'in fall', in Cancer, and it's late in the Lunar Cycle ...)

Note: 18.3.2019:

At 16.13 GMT John Bercow ('Speaker of the House') has all but blocked the vote! Leaving postponement as the likely sole option remaining.

Note: 20.3.2019:

Astrologer Liz Rooke reports that at 18.10 GMT the BBC correspondent used the precise (Pholus!) phrase 'The Lid Comes Off' to describe the day's goings-on!! And that the current Chiron-Pholus square, being almost exact, is activating Pholus in the UK 1801 chart (03°AR07'). Good catch! She also points out that the next Progressed New Moon of this chart occurs in August 2021 (16°LE26'), and that the previous one (December 1991, Cancer) occurred just before the Maastricht Treaty.

Note 22.3.2019:

March 29th date nixxed! Alternatives proposed are May 22nd or April 12th, still subject to voting on a complex fistful of (non?) options next week. May 21st is the day of the Sun-Mercury conjunction, so there 'outworking' of the current Mercury Rx cycle. May 22nd, both Sun and Mercury pass over Theresa May's South Node in Gemini. And the forthcoming station of Mercury (March 28th) is very close to conjunct her Mars in Pisces. Increasingly, there are calls for her to step down.

Here ‘We The People of the UK’, symbolised by the Moon in Capricorn, are feeling ‘detrimented’, oppressed and depressed, almost ‘at our wits end’. Moon is in the 3rd house (of 'wits'?!), almost VOC (Void of Course), but applying to trine Mars. So will mass anger arise? Riots? Troops to the people? I think not, as the Moon applies to Mars, not the other way around. Will ‘The People’ apply pressure or persuasion (3rd house) to the Brexit initiative itself? This Mars is actually ruled by Venus in Pisces, one of two planets in the chart which are in exaltation. How might this show? Water cannons (Pisces) dispersing rioters in the streets? Surely not? But if Mars is placed in peace-seeking Taurus and gets riled up, the advice is … “Run for cover!”! Will the EU (‘The Other’) take pity (Venus in Pisces) and grant the UK an extension? Tranquillize (Pisces) ‘The Bull’ (Mars in Taurus) and drag it quietly away?

Note 21.2.2019:

MAJOR public march and demonstration has been called for March 23rd, noon, Central London. This is to demand another referendum ... Venus is in Aquarius (the 'People'), ruling over Uranus and Mars in Taurus; also ruling the IC. The 'outcome of the matter'. Very interesting, and perhaps indicating the hope that 'noble intentions' (Venus in Aquarius) will overcome the energies of anger and divisiveness (Mars and Uranus)? That day, the Moon will be 'fallen' in Scorpio, in the 4th house. No doubt there will be strong emotions expressed in one way or another. Mercury is Retrograde, applying to a conjunction with Neptune. Confusion? Tear gas?

I did hear an interview on Radio 4 which clearly portrayed this Venus/Mars theme. An EU spokeswoman with a smooth soft voice and manner was describing how the EU are ‘really open’ (Venus in Pisces) and the UK must learn to trust them, and not be stubborn, aggressive and mistrusting (Mars in Taurus). I was delighted! A metalogue of the chart!(ii) So will the 'kindly, open' EU (Venus in Pisces) win over the stubborn Bull (Mars in Taurus)? This Mars also completes a T-square, with partile aspects to Theresa May’s Saturn-Pluto square.(iii) The poor woman is personifying these MA-SA-PL energies. Imagine what scenarios, even worse, could be happening if she wasn’t doing this ‘dirty job’.

Note 30.1.2019:
Donald Tusk, President of the EU, has greeted the latest development concerning the Irish 'backstop' and the request for re-negotiation of it, with a resounding refusal. How is that we have two Donalds, presiding over the USA and the EU respectively, both entrenched in stubbornness?

And the surnames of 'Trump(et)' and 'Tusk'?
(Elephants 'trumpet' and have tusks. As in the trumpeting trunk and majestic tusk of an elephant!!) 
I can't help wondering who/what is really the proverbial 'elephant in the room'? In the current 'metalogue' both seem to be portraying the impending Saturn-Pluto conjunction: unstoppable force vs immovable object.

 

Prior to B-Day, Mercury does a Retrograde ‘loop’ in Pisces, from 19.2.019 until 16.4.2019.(iv) Incredibly, Mercury turns Direct the very day before B-Day, on March 28th at 13.58 GMT! But still in detriment in Pisces … the outcome of previous poor decision-making? More confusion? In the B-Day chart it applies within less than one degree to a conjunction with Neptune, ‘at home’ in Pisces. Imagine the scenarios in pubs up and down the land, B-Day itself being a Friday, day of Venus, also in Pisces! Drowning of sorrows? Displays of regret or moroseness? Hysterical expression of sheer relief? Outbreaks of chaos? All/none of the above? (Think I’ll stay at home and ‘do’ Venus in Pisces by praying with my rosary …)

A little later that same day, March 28th, the eve of B-Day, at 18.12 GMT there is an exact conjunction of Pluto (co-ruler of the Asc) with the Mean South Node. Definitely a mean one, this. Maybe I should have used the ‘True Node’ to avoid the word ‘Mean’ giving rise to a stream of puns:

“What DO you MEAN?” (an expression of indignation)

“WHAT do you Mean?” (requesting further explanation to better understand. Noooo! Please!)

“This is a MEAN TIME” (“Don’t worry, folks, the clocks will change from Greenwich MEAN Time to British Summer Time in a couple of days!”)

Note 4.2.2019:
Thanks to astrologer Shunita Godwin for the following STUNNING observation ...

The last time that Pluto was conjunct the South Node in Capricorn was in 1777!
(The USA chart [Declaration of Independence, 4.7.1776, 17.10, Philadelphia] has Pluto-South Node applying by 10°, across Capricorn and Aquarius. On 11th November 1777, the 'Articles of Confederation' were adopted (after 16 months of deliberation, according to this link). Remind you of anything?

“In the MEANtime ….”

The Capricorn planets, like so many goats nibbling around the old, cold, dry South Node, Mean or True, make me think of ‘history repeating itself’. What comes first to mind is this: during the last Saturn-Pluto conjunction, we also had a female Prime Minister who, like Theresa May, has the Sun in Libra - Margaret Thatcher. Can’t help wondering what ‘The Iron Lady’ (Mars again!) might have done with this Brexit situation. Find another ‘good reason’ to go to war in a far-flung place so as to become the “Victor-ess” and wave the Union Jack over freshly conquered territory, as she did with the Falklands War?

Note 30.1.2019:
In Venezuela, the recent crisis now threatens to invoke 'direct action' by the USA. Another strange parallel, in that South America is involved again.

Note 26.2.2019:

Trouble over remote islands again, as above, But this time it's the Chagos Islands. UK challenged to relinquish 'illegal' control. The islanders, all of whom were evacuated to make way for a huge US military base, still want to return.

The Argentinian ship ‘Belgrano’(v) was torpedoed and sunk on May 2nd 1982, almost exactly six months before the one-time conjunction of Saturn and Pluto.(vi) About six weeks after this, Prince William was born. In a curious parallel, Meghan Markle is currently pregnant, with due date for the next Royal Birth stated variously as April/May, shortly after B-Day! August 2019 is six months prior to the next Saturn-Pluto conjunction, another ‘one-timer’, on January 12th 2020 at 16.59 GMT. What kind of ‘marker’ will August reveal in the Brexit process? ‘Foreign’ ships beware.

 Note that the Brexit chart positions of Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Neptune and Pluto will later have ‘postnatal planetary returns’ as these planets ‘revisit’ their 'natal' counterparts, suggesting that far from being ‘the end’ of a process, it will have a way to run yet (assuming Brexit actually happens on the date specified ... but I do wonder ...). If you include the Centaurs (vii), there are no fewer than TEN such ‘returns’, before the forthcoming Jupiter-Saturn conjunction on December 21st 2020 at 18.20 GMT, 00°29’ Aquarius! (This reduces to five if you include only the planets listed above.) All these 'returns' end right there …

Where might ‘We the People’ be at by then? And who will be our leader(s)? This new Jupiter-Saturn cycle begins shortly after the next US elections. Will it herald an entirely new set of social/cultural/economic/political trends firming up, being made real? This Aquarian emphasis on ‘group consciousness’ (for good or ill) will last about 20 years, until the next JU-SA conjunction on October 31st 2040 (Halloween, 17°55' Libra). Jupiter is the ‘esoteric ruler’ of Aquarius in the Bailey system, encouraging us in the direction of inclusiveness and generosity, being clear enough to be able to engage both the Saturnian energies of ‘preservation’ and the Uranian energies of ‘revolution’. The ‘war’ between 'old' and 'new' gives way to a higher synthesis, opening up a welcome sense of spaciousness after the contracted quality of the current and on-going Capricorn emphasis, with its polarity of Uranian reactiveness.

May the understanding that ‘politics’ reflects our own ‘lowest common denominator’ encourage us as we attend to our own inner polarisations which tend to project one side ‘outwards’, and then to cast blame and make negative judgements. May compassion and inclusiveness become our 'default position'.

 

Although the next elections in Britain are not due until May 5th 2022, there are various possible (likely?) scenarios which could lead to an early election. But failing those, the May 2022 elections will surely be the end of the reign of the ‘May Queen’ (Theresa May). A while back, when I noticed that Donald Trump and Boris Johnson both have their Suns conjunct in the sign of Gemini, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry! The mythic image of the ‘American Twins’ (both born in NY state) ruling over the USA and the UK respectively is truly beyond contemplation, and mercifully is unlikely to happen. However, I did relish the comedic fantasy of the ‘Heavenly (or ‘Hellish’?) Twins’ competing (like Castor and Pollux) as to whose ‘Big Top’ is the biggest. (Pun intended – circus tent and hair.) This would be seriously not funny. For me, perhaps the worst thing about these two is that they are both bringing my very own Sun-Sign into disrepute. Perhaps I should sue them. On those grounds.

Picture credit: Unknown.
Last check revealed that this picture has been shared over 84 BILLION times on the internet!!

 

Note 29.3.2019:

Boris Johnson. Manoeuvring starts ... the 'seriously not funny' might just happen. Just as Mercury turns Direct again, and Pluto runs into the South Node ...

 

Speaking of the Sun, in the Brexit chart it is exalted in Aries, in the 4th house, and virtually unaspected apart from a wide conjunction with Chiron, also in Aries. Curiously, a similar pattern occurs in the chart of Queen Elisabeth II! Her Sun in Taurus is unaspected, apart from a (close) conjunction with Chiron in late Aries. What on earth might this mean?

Note 26.1.2019:

Yesterday the Queen made a speech which has been interpreted by some people to indicate that she has 'joined the debate'. Others wish she would. This has raised controversy!

Note 3.2.2019:
Breaking! Evacuation plans (from Cold War days) for the Queen have been re-activated. Fear meme alert: "Mother is in danger!"

In the Brexit chart, the Sun (‘The King’ or ‘The Monarch’) sits in quiet exaltation, at home, in the 4th house. “She rules by not ruling”, perhaps pained (Chiron) by the Brexit ‘goings-on’, but usually retaining scrupulous decorum and impartiality in public. Indeed, the ‘Aries’ signature is very interesting in the charts of the Royals. Queen Elizabeth I and II, and Prince Philip, consort to the Queen all have Chiron in Aries. Chiron will reach its aphelion degree of 11°55 Aries on 27.5.2021. This degree area resonates through many of the Royals: Prince Philip – Chiron, Prince Charles – MC, Prince William – Pholus. Plus Prince Charles also has the signature of Chiron conjunct Sun (in Scorpio!) not really aspected to the rest of the chart. So “Who shall be King and when”? 

Salutations to Astrology, which gifts us with the vision of amusing, quirky, heart-rending, interesting and sometimes puzzling connections between the disparate and often chaotic elements which make up this life in which we find ourselves!

 

Postludes:

23.6.2019: It happened. Boris Johnson got elected as Leader of the Conservative Party. Today, at 12.03 BST, Central London. Chart shows a Grand Trine in Fire with Mars, Jupiter and Moon. BUT today is also the 2nd of three exact conjunctions of Chariklo and Pluto. See here for an article on Chariklo.

So, contrary to my hopes expressed above!

Note also that there is speculation that the Queen may have to intervene. Click here.

24.9.2019: Boris Johnson is now Prime Minister, his 'mission' being to take the UK out of the EU on October 31st, 'do or die' style. In order to stifle the threat of parliament's machinations to the contrary (some say), he initiated the prorogation (adjournment) of parliament, meaning that it simply does not meet.

However, today (24.9.2019) this has been declared illegal by several Supreme Court judges! Is there a verb 'to pro-rogue'? Something done by a 'pro-fessional rogue'? Or is this 'one who is 'for' (pro) the 'rogue'? Which has provoked a movement we could perhaps call 'anti-rogue'? Yes, parliament is now in 'anti-rogation.'

BREXIT v.2.0
a.k.a. "Here we go again"

Considering the paragraph above, and with some feeling of reluctance, I post the chart of the forthcoming Brexit date. It is another 'will they, won't they' as to whether the UK will leave the EU  - on Thursday October 31st at 23.00 GMT.(viii)

The first 'standouts' ...

• THE DATE! This is Halloween, 'Trick or Treat'. Hmm. Who will 'trick' and who will 'treat' in this situation? Imagine the boogey-man masks!!! It is also the ancient Celtic festival of 'Samhain', when the 'veil between the worlds' is said to be thin, and the exchange between the spirit world and the material, physical plane is featured. Later, in the Christian calendar, we see All Souls Day and All Saints Day follow the same theme in the first couple of days in November. Indeed, the 'spirits of history', the ancient zeitgeists, do seem to be accompanying this process.

  28-9-2019: See below ('Meanwhile ...') for an example of exactly this!

• The Sun, ruler of the Asc, is in Scorpio in the 4th house, opposite Uranus in Taurus in the 10th, widely conjunct the MC. This Sun-Uranus will have been exact on Monday 28th October at 08.15 GMT, preceded by a New Moon on October 28th at 03.38 GMT.
  • Does this indicate an unexpected manoeuvre, a 'curved ball', an interception at the proverbial '11th hour'?
  • Queen Elizabeth II comes to mind, with her natal Sun at 00°12' Taurus ...
  • The Asc/Desc axis, if taken to represent the UK and the EU respectively, are already separating.
  • The Sun is in a partile trine with Nessus in the 8th house. Hmm. What might this 'Buck Stops Here' theme look like in this case? 'Backstop/buck stops?
    
• Mercury will have turned Rx (in Scorpio!) at 15.30 GMT this very day (October 31st)!
  • Intruigues, 'hidden influences', treachery, a 'change of direction'?
  • Ruling the 11th house of friends, and 'turning away' from Venus, significator of the 'UK people' (Libra on cusp of 4th house of chart).
  • Note: Mercury was SD shortly before the previous Brexit date.
• Apart from a semi-sextile to Venus, the Moon is Void of Course.
  • Will 'nothing come of this matter'?
    

    29.10.2019: Yup. Nothing. No Brexit.

• Mars in Libra (3rd) and Venus in Scorpio (4th, intercepted) are in mutual detriment, and here ruling the vertical angles (which in turn represent 'the people' of the UK and EU respectively, as the 4th house from their signifying angles).

• Venus ruling the 4th house of 'outcomes' does not look too promising, mired as she is in conflict with her partner, Mars. (See the puns above about pro-rogue and anti-rogue!)
• Maybe everyone will be left sulking (Venus in Scorpio).
• Mars again in detriment, just like the 1st Brexit date (see chart above).
• Saturn is by far the most strongly placed planet in this chart.
  • Could this indicate delay? Again?

  29.10.2019: Yes!

  • The pull of 'The Establishment' is very strong here, but at the same time, we see the authority of Parliament crumbling. (Saturn is preparing for a tryst with Pluto, and the latter has a way of 'trumping' things. I hope this is not a pun. Seriously.)

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS ...

If you have ideas, interpretations or revelations about the chart above, do email them to me and I'll post them on a page specially for 'community contributions'  - here. Puns and word-games are particularly welcome!

MEANWHILE, BACK AT 'CHEQUERS' ... (posted 28-9-2019)

Some years ago, healer Martin Jones discovered an intricate network of ancient energy lines around 'Chequers', the country home of the UK Prime Minister, currently Boris Johnson. Full access to this sacred site is intercepted by the boundary of Chequers, but of course it is still possible to work with the healing energies which travel along these ancient lines.

Click here for a map and description of these lines, plus Martin's experience of discovering them and seeing into their symbolic significance. Totally inspiring.

Click here for a video of Tori Lewis describing an event over the recent (2019) Autumn Equinox, where a group of people went to the Chequers site for healing purposes: "to open the hearts of those in power". Boris Johnson appeared, and joined in their singing. (Tori knew about Chequers from the work of Martin Jones ...)

And ... the following week, BJ's parliamentary colleagues were publicly remarking on his 'change of attitude.' Perhaps the ancient spirits of the Druids, traditional custodians of the land and those who live on it, are having a hand in this process ...

And ... the week after that ... Martin had a meeting with his local MP (Member of Parliament) to set in motion a request for access into the part of the ancient walkway which has been cut off by the borders of 'Chequers'. Incredibly, this was very well received ...

BREAKING NEWS 9.10.2019!

Live on BBC News at about 17.47 BST ... a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the German Parliament ... proposing a delay on Brexit until the end of 2020! Wow! Is 'someone' taking a sane look at the astrology of  'these times'?!? The first credible and sensible voice I've heard on 'Brexit' in ages ... pointing out that crises of this magnitude need to be given due time to resolve and time-pressure does not help. Listen here. He also fielded with grace some very insulting remarks about 'The Krauts' (Germans) which were reported by the newsreader. See my article '2020 Vision' if you've not already seen it ...)

Posted 18.10.2019: THE 'IRISH QUESTION'.

If we consider the notion of 'historical karma', the layers of 'cause and effect' which work and re-work themselves through history, the proverbial 'Elephant in The Room' of this entire Brexit saga  must surely be the role of Ireland. In 2017, Theresa May had to basically bribe the DUP (Democratic Union Party - loyalists for sustaining the union of Northern Ireland and England at any cost) to come on side with her in order to achieve the parliamentary majority she needed. See here. Latest this morning is that the DUP and other members who oppose Boris Johnson will vote against the current 'deal' on the table. This could mean a delay until the end of January 2020 - i.e. past the impending Saturn-Pluto conjunction!

So this 'Elephant in The Room' is basically holding the process to ransom. And the more I read about the past horrors of how the Irish people have been treated by the English - over many centuries - the more it 'makes sense' of some of the collective psycho-dynamics being enacted over Brexit. The past of Anglo-Irish relations includes what should be called genocide, but covered by lies passed off as truth. In an ideal world, there would be full public acknowledgement of this, with honesty, due remorse and sincere apologies.

Search on YouTube to view documentaries on this subject ... and be sure to read the public comments. Click here for one example which uses the term 'holocaust' and also
explores the mass migration of the Irish to America and Canada, and the
complex issues which arose therefrom, and which also have loud echoes in
the contemporary world of US politics.

 

Examining the charts of three past 'landmarks' in Irish history, we see Saturn and Pluto featuring. Click here for downloadable pdf of the charts. Both the 'Easter Uprising' in 1916 and the 'De Jure' Partition in 1949 occurred during conjunctions of Saturn and Pluto! And the 'De Facto' chart for Irish Independence in 1922 shows these two square each other. AND note that it took almost an entire Saturn cycle (27 years) for the 'Royal Agreement' (1922) to be passed into actual law! (Shades of 'Brexit'?)

Note that the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in December 2020 will be exactly conjunct the Jupiter of the 1949 'De Jure' chart. We can also see a very strong Aries emphasis in all three charts, with Chiron gradually activating all of them as it moves towards aphelion, and begins its journey back from outer darkness and goes inwards towards the Sun ... dare we hope and pray for release (Jupiter) and healing (Chiron)?

The threads of symbolism in this ancient conflict offer a prototype of the many conflicts we see in the world between class, culture and religion. And which also resonate within ourselves, individually. This we can attend to. The 'overlord' and the 'underling' may be found alive and well within us, regardless of how this is framed or projected. They may be found wherever 'isms' rule: rac-ism, sex-ism, class-ism, Catholic-ism, Protestant-ism, National-ism ... and so on.

May the light of consciousness and compassion shine on all this ancient suffering ...

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BREXIT v.3 ???

Watch this space!

Preliminaries for 31.1.2020; 23.00 GMT; Westiminster ... Moon is Void of Course AGAIN (as in BOTH the previous 'non-Brexit' charts!), and here about to make a conjunction with Uranus just as it enters Taurus. Saturn AGAIN is the most powerful planet in the chart, and AGAIN Venus and Mars rule the ASC/Desc axis, but the other way around fom Brexit v.I (31st March 2019). And Pluto in a partile conjunction with the IC, conjunct Saturn just into the 4th house. Hmm. The 'End of the Matter'? Might this mean the 'Brexit do or die' tauted by Boris Johnson back in October 2019?

More as things unfold ...

Brexit v.3

21.1.2020

23.00 GMT

Westminster, UK

Source: BBC

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ENDNOTES

 i)   Anthony Louis, “Horary Astrology” (1991), Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, MN., p.293.

ii)   From Gregory Bateson, meaning “That which we speaking about is also arising”. See "Mind and Nature" (1980). The radio programme was on BBC Radio 4, an early morning newscast, possibly 23.1.2019.

iii)   Theresa May 1.10.1956, time rectified by Stark.  https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/May,_Theresa

iv)   Taken from the ‘prelude’ date when Mercury passes the degree at which it will later Station Direct, until the ‘afterlude’ date when Mercury passes again the same degree at which it was Station Retrograde.

v)   The Belgrano, formerly owned by the US Navy, was sold to Argentina and renamed in October 1951. She had survived Pearl Harbour  unscathed, but in 1956 accidentally rammed a sister ship, causing damage to both. (Wikipedia). Sounds like Brexit to me!

vi)   November 8th 1982; 00.43 GMT; 27°35’ Libra

vii) Chiron, Chariklo, Pholus and Nessus used.

viii) Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32810887