Australian Federal Election - November 24 has been called

Well the Australian Federal Election has finally been called, after what many have considered to be a long-running false election campaign over the past few months. Although I have been looking at the charts for possible election dates since earlier this year, I had thought the chart for a November 10 election looked very strong for Rudd. But now that the date is confirmed for November 24, we can finally examine the correct chart. I have learned from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) website that all federal elections start at 8 am, Canberra time (which will be AEDT). Casting the chart for Canberra, the national capital, we find 4º Capricorn rising, with its ruler, Saturn, at nearly 8º of Virgo in the ninth house. What is this event about? It is about the serious business of cleaning things up in our country, particularly our sense of morality as a people. Restoring accountability in matters of justice. Not backing out of our duty to stand and defend our rights to speak the truth.

In the blue corner, we have Mercury, the trickster. In the red corner we have Jupiter, the greater benefic.

While Mercury can be secretive, controlling and manipulative when in Scorpio, it can also be strongly persuasive and certainly unwilling to admit defeat. But in this chart, Mercury’s master, Mars, is badly (but prominently) placed retrograde in the sign of its fall; hence Mercury is not terribly happy either in how it expresses its Martian qualities. Mars is in the house of foreign affairs – a symbol of solar Cancerian Bush, the guy who has only had to say jump and Howard has asked how high? Mars ruling the houses of risk-taking and gambles, and prison camps?

Mercury is very close to perfecting a square to Neptune, and has recently been opposed by the Moon. And the Moon is a very strong one – it is in its exaltation in Taurus, and has only 11º or so to go before it reaches Full. The Moon is always symbolic of the people, the great unwashed masses, the vast sea of collective need. In Taurus, the people are strong, know what they desire, and are determined to have it. They have their minds made up. And they are about to demonstrate their power decisively.

Look at Neptune. There’s always something missing about Neptune. It gives things an aura, an atmosphere, a hint of something about to be but not quite certain. The sense of ‘things appear slightly unreal, things aren’t quite right in some undefinable way.’ Mercury is heading straight into square with Neptune, so Howard will struggle with his image, his ‘on the nose’ and ‘past sell-by date’ persona.

The Moon, however, has already perfected the square and is now moving on. The people have been deceived enough and are leaving it behind them.

At the very least, I think this t-square pattern suggests that Howard has quite seriously disillusioned the people, they are not willing to believe him any more.

Incidentally, the people are on Venus’ turf: a strong yet pleasant insistence on fairness and temperance.

OK, what about Rudd?

Jupiter is ensconced in its very own daylight domicile, beholden to nobody. Except, of course, the power that he is on the verge of entering. Its only aspect is the conjunction with Pluto. It is in the Sun’s triplicity (leadership), and Saturn’s term and face (authority).

But in the Twelfth House? OK, it’s a bit far from the Ascendant, and it’s in a different sign from the Ascendant anyway. So I don’t think it’s possible to get out of it that way. No, there’s just no other way to say it, folks: Rudd is in prison. But so is the Sun in this chart, the identity of the people, who they follow, the leadership of the nation. Almost like it is with Rudd that their sympathies lie.

Notice wi-fi iPhone iPod myspace facebook world-of-warcraft Uranus in Pisces, sitting directly on the IC (the people). And Uranus stations direct around 9pm on the night of the election! Do you reckon the people might be getting a bit restless? Perhaps in the mood for a change. A change that is yet more surprising for the media through which it is being propagated – no longer at the beck and call of journo hacks, people are sharing their own views directly with vast numbers of others on blogs, and telling each other the truth about how they really feel about things. This is such a beautiful symbol of popular revolutionary feeling.

Now the other interesting thing we can do, is compare this chart to that for Australia, i.e. the 1-Jan-1901 1325 Sydney chart. Let’s see where the chips fall, so to speak. And look at that! Rudd’s significator in the Election chart, Jupiter, is just under 2º away from conjoining Australia’s Jupiter. With Pluto sitting right on Australia’s Mercury (which is Howard’s significator in the Election Chart).

And the Moon in the election chart, is exactly conjunct Australia’s Moon. The people are deciding on their representation, what better synastric aspect describes Election Day in Australia?

These are strong suggestions of radicality in these charts.

Like so many have been doing in the last few months, I call it for Rudd.

The Jupiter-Uranus Square

A comment from Agent 12 about what's happening in Burma right now got me thinking about the current Jupiter-Uranus square. This has already reached exactitude twice, on January 23 and May 11, and the final pass will occur on October 10. As Agent 12 observes, in the chart for Burma (January 4, 1948, 4:20 am 6+E, Rangoon, Burma [16º47'N, 96º10'E]), Jupiter, which rules the chart, is placed conjunct the Ascendant in the first house, at 15º46' Sagittarius. Because the MC/IC axis is at 14º54' Virgo/Pisces, Jupiter closely squares the meridian. The degree of the final pass of the Jupiter-Uranus square will be 15º35' Sagittarius/Pisces, with transiting Jupiter on Burma's Jupiter, and transiting Uranus on Burma's IC.

Now Jupiter I feel shows the general sense of morality within the nation, the prevailing sense of justice, the sense of right and wrong, of just intervention by the gods, so to speak. I think Jupiter has a lot to do with politics, for this reason, and it is not accidental in this regard that it finds its exaltation in the sign of the Moon. Squaring Uranus, there is tremendous restlessness, a strong desire for change, a spirit of justified revolution. But it is revolution with a real sense of righteousness, of battling against the forces of evil, of bankrupt ideology. I think, given the fact that it is the closing square, there is also a feeling of 'last chance' about this time - a sense of having to kill something off, something that seems to be dead and needs burial.

So the alignment is fitting Burma's chart like a key in a lock, Uranus transiting the 4th cusp of the people, Jupiter transiting Jupiter, representative of the country's image, the monks and religious beliefs of the nation, and also the people (ruling the 1st and 4th cusps).

But it also made me think of current events in Australia too. In Australia's chart (1 January 1901, 1:25pm, Sydney), natal Uranus is at 14º19' Sagittarius, so it is being conjoined by transiting Jupiter and squared by transiting Uranus. In Australia's chart, Jupiter is ruler of the 9th (intelligentsia, media, judiciary & moral sense) and the 11th (parliament and political networks). Hence the almost unbearable tension at present in the run-up to the Federal Election. There is certainly, judging by the rock-solid polls all year, a strong feeling that there will be a change of government, but given Mr Howard's delay in calling the election, this seems to be causing considerable restlessness and impatience.

I will post a more detailed article on the transits to Australia's chart in November 2007 (when the election is likely to occur), in the next day or two.