The 21 August 2010 Australian Federal Election between Tony Abbott and Julia Giillard will decide who rules as prime minister for the next three years. Current prime minister Julia Gillard should win the election.
She has transiting Pluto sextile her Mercury, just as David Cameron did for the UK election earlier this year. I will post something more in depth about Julia at some stage, but for now I want to look at the opposition leader, Tony Abbott’s chart.
Like Julia Gillard, we have no time of birth for Tony Abbott. It does make chart interpretation and prediction a little more difficult, but we can still get a rough idea of what’s going on. The recent solar eclipse was square Tony’s Jupiter which does make it more difficult for him to personally succeed in this election.
A solar eclipse represents a major focus for the months ahead, and Jupiter in the natal chart describes religion, beliefs, morals and philosophy. Because of the square aspect, Tony’s religion and beliefs are going to face scrutiny and be the source of tests and challenges.
Tony is a very religious man. Educated at Catholic schools, he has studied at seminary college to be a priest, written for The Catholic Weekly as a journalist, and during his political career has always worn his religion on his sleeve. In a secular country like Australia, it is understandable that he will face scrutiny over his overt religious beliefs as they effect his politics. His nickname “The Mad Monk” will follow him through his political career.
The solar eclipse square his Jupiter explains the uphill battle he has to win the election because of his religious beliefs, but his natal Jupiter does not explain his religious devotion. This devotion is explained by his natal Sun placement. Tony has his Sun in the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross. Both his Sun and North Node are conjunct the brightest star in the Southern Cross, Acrux: “It gives religions beneficence, ceremonial, justice, magic and mystery…A deeply religious nature connected with mystical and theosophical interests.”
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Well I hope you are wrong as Tony Abbott would be a great and generous leader, with passionate clear views and yes he ‘is a man of our times’, not forgetting he is a Rhodes Scholar. Quite refreshing actually.
Where as Gullard is a devious cold cunning witch, an athiest and worse of all a FABIAN SOCIALIST. So.. why not crucify Gullard for being an ‘atheist’? with no spirituality, no religion, no soul. It was clear from the debate last week that there is a divide with voters, but moronically and predictably the troglodytes spout Gullard for what? being a woman? for ‘hating’ on Abbott for his conviction! how odd. Please people look through the smoke screens and look at the policies, the critical decisions about Australia’s future. I bet you don’t know what an ETS is and how much it is going to cost. I bet you don’t know the hell New Zealand has been is since 1st July with it. With Abbott we will avert a slide into a 1984 Orwellian future. Does Gullards chart show her incompetence over the BER the lies and cover ups, the back stabbing nature ousting Rudd? This week alone 2 scandals hitting Labor embarrassing Gullard… are these rats in her chart?
@Sassy
God help us. Have you read the socialist greens manifesto-charter?
Emissions Trading Schemes have been running in the EU for the best part of the last decade – after some adjustments they have been shown to be effective and provide a priced based method that supports producers and consumers in the medium to long term.
Yes, consumers appear to pay the cost initially, but the longer term benefits far outway the short-term pain to the pocket – If the price based cut in emissions is as successful as appears it will become the strongest market based tool for the India China emissions lobby – this is essential.
New Zealand’s ETS is actually a ‘lite’ version – the price impact has been reduced, mainly after negotiation with Maori reps.. The main argument against New Zealand introducing ETS at all is that its own emissions amount to about 0.01 of the global output – any reductions would be almost unnoticable.
However, regardless of the cynical nature of the prevailing political and economic double standards that so often have the person on the street on their backs, it is the political, moral and ethical gesture counts. This is not to reduce the fact that there is not a single country in the world that can argue effectively for exemption or be absolved of responsibility for contributing to greenhouse emissions – why should NZ be the exception? Rather it is showing, as a nation, a fine example.
Please do not be so naive as to expect for any of us to escape the effects of our own over-polluting consumerism without paying some cost. ETS are immediate, achievable and carry the corrective process forward – which is also absolutely essential, even if it does not provide the perfect solution.
Gillard has her Chiron return ongoing with DM Lilith conj her natal Chiron
It wil not come as any surprise that righteous accusations of scandal, backstabbing and backlash are to follow her emergence at this time – she will be the obvious target for the barbs of misogynistic conservatism – personalised opportunistic flies around a predictably contrived s..t heap or legitimate political agenda? Where exactly is the alleged smokescreen originating one wonders.
Either way, Rudd’s time was up and Women will now be heard.
That would be very interesting. Pluto could bring more power to Bob. Will check out the transit dates closer.
Just checked Bob Browns transits for the election:
Transiting Pluto square his Chiron and transiting Saturn conjunct his Chiron. If he does well that might relate to the healer/teacher role of Chiron. Pluto and Saturn in transit do relate to politics more than any other planet.
The last solar eclipse was on his North Node, but the Venus Mars conjunction around election day is square his Mars, maybe not so good.
@astra
Thanks for all that detailed analysis, very interesting. My first vote as a teenager was for the Greens, Peter Garret back then.
Hi, Julia Gillard has transiting saturn in libra on her natal Mars and natal sun in libra. she chose a bad day to call the election…21st August with a retrograde mercury and a saturn square pluto. She will lose and Tony Abbott will win. He is a Scorpio and has better luck.
@grace
Hmmm…Grace, while we all have our preferences, if anything, the astrology says that it is too close to call. Jamie’s analysis’ gives the overall tenor of the confrontation perfectly.
Looking at election day, when you look at both the natal charts against the election day chart it is very complex, almost overwhelming.
Both have electrifying transiting aspects, both have the lowside highlighted as well as the high, both have immense planetary energy at their disposal.
If it comes down to Saturn I favour Gillard – Saturn is exalted in Libra and will have a much more crystallizing, magnetic and prismatic quality on her Sun (direction).
However, I feel that this is going to be very close, especially with Gillard’s Sun opposite Abbott’s Moon, lack of birth times not withstanding. This means the Saturn aspect you highlight affects Abbotts Moon equally, in opposition.
Abbott’s saving grace is the election day NN sextiles his natal Scorpio Sun conj. NN. A push in the right direction if luck is to be on his side. Luck in politics, however, often comes as the result of someone else being made unlucky.
So I hope that there is a clearly defined vote that wins the day and not underhand dealings. It is the incentive to vote that counts after all. As I have said before I hope that issues around sexuality (and gender) do not mar the day – if they did, who do you think this would favour?
I’m not a trained astrologer, but I rather feel the closeness of the election fits in with the Saturn-Uranus opposition which has been working out in the cosmos. We are facing the past and the future (sort of) in that Abbott represents conservative values (however much he’s trying to hide them) while the Labor Party to a limited extent represents at least some sort of forward vision, ie, building infrastructure, setting up the National Broadband Network. But the Greens sort of represent the balance between the two – a moderating influence which hopefully will ensure that whoever wins will sit up and take notice of the need for action over climte change.
@Cath – yes, I’ve looked at Abbott’s policies, and I’m applled, a giant leap backwards. And as for his views on asylum seekers – appalling, no sense of compassion or spiritual tolerance there. I couldn’t care less about Gillard being an atheist – I’d rather she governed from a position of neutrality than Abbott’s dreadful pursuit of religious views which disadvantaged so many women.Not that I approve of the Labor Party’s views on asylum seekers either.
@Mo Davies
What you said about Saturn opposite Uranus and the Greens being in the middle is a lot like what happened in the UK election. There it was the Liberal Democrats who bridged the gap between Saturn conservative and Uranus Labour, however in Australia, the Greens siding with the conservatives is extremely difficult to ever imagine.
It’s not just this event but the whole shooting match that has got my goat.
The process of telling us repeatedly that Good is Bad and Bad is Good is mind numbing. Perhaps it is directed to TV audiences who are used to this sort of value transfer – Big Brother is Reality TV.
The Libs are “stable: (after 3 leaders in less than 3 years). Labour is unstable after one change of leader.
BER is a ripoff and waste of funds when ALL evidence by objective parties says otherwise. At 97% efficiency it would put almost all other Government programs to shame.
Government debt is “out of control” when all the world wishes they had debt at just 6% of GDP.
The list goes on and on.
No one seems interested in facts.
The PR machines have as their focus the problem of how to present the unelectable as electable.
Despite all the known faults of Abbott, he is being presented in a cloak of prudence and sound behavior. Anyone who has examined his history of public contact knows this is not how he operates and will operate when the artificial situation of an election campaign is over.
We are being sold something that is NOT true.
It is said countries deserve the governments they elect.
If the Libs get up on 21st August, then there will be some very sorry people soon after.
If the world economies slow down again, recession in Australia will follow as the Libs will not spend to stop it. For the new home buyers who will be out of work in the recession, remember which political party got your votes on Saturday 21st August.
Alice Portman has found a birth time for Julia Gillard:
“Australian Astrologer Jill Amery knew someone who knows Julia’s parents. When asked the time of her birth Julia’s mother said 12.00 noon.”
Alice has rectified this time to 11.52 am. Alice Portman