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Piscean freedom fighters turned politicians - George Washington and Robert Mugabe
Should Pisceans go into politics? I don’t see why not. Jupiter, the ruler of Pisces, has strong opinions, and often has a powerful sense of justice. At the same time, Pisceans tend to be very sensitive. They can pick up the currents swirling around them, and they know what the populace are thinking and feeling. And one of the most successful Piscean politicians was the first American president, George Washington, born on February 22 1732 . In the run up to the War of Independence, against the British, he could see which way things were going, and he surely wouldn’t have signed himself up to a hopeless cause? George Washington, having first been a soldier, spent eight years as president, before retiring gracefully, with his honour and prestige in tact.
In the context of British politics, we can think of Harold Wilson, who was Prime Minister on and off between 1964 and 1976. A lot of people couldn’t stand him, but he was a master politician, who was known for his ‘bedside manner’. In other words being able to talk to the nation, via the television, and making everyone feeling comfortable. It has been said that one of reasons he retired from politics was because he became aware that his formidable mental facilities were coming off their peak, and after his retirement he developed Alzheimer’s Disease. So arguably Harold Wilson the Piscean was sensitive to his own mental and physical state, and there’s certainly no way he can be accused of clinging on to power.
Robert Mugabe, like George Washington, was a freedom fighter. He’s also a Pisces, born on February 21 1924. These two leaders surrendered themselves to a cause, and in the process took major personal risks. However we’re looking at two types of Pisceans. George Washington was a Fish who had the freedom of the oceans, who was able to move with the global currents. He fought the British, he made peace with the British. And when president, during the Anglo-French wars of the 1790s, he enforced a policy of strict neutrality. Many Americans wanted to support France against the old colonial power, but George Washington, being a wise Piscean, was keeping pace with a changing world.
So what happened with Mugabe? Some Fish stay in a one place, a stagnant pool that’s water quality is declining by the moment. Put another way, Pisces is an emotional sign, but there’s a danger that it gets trapped by its own feelings. I would guess that Mugabe is a man who has powerful emotions, but he’s somehow stuck in the past, fighting old battles. In a way you can’t blame him. He had a tougher time than George Washington, and endured years in a Rhodesian prison. Worse still, his young son died of malaria while he was in prison, and he wasn’t allowed to go to the funeral. And then Harold Wilson’s government refused to grant his grieving wife political asylum in the UK, in spite of Mugabe’s desperate personal pleas.
The evening before Robert Mugabe’s birth, on February 20 1924, there was a Full Moon. In fact, this Full Moon was so tightly aligned that it was actually a total eclipse; and that evening, when the Moon rose above the horizon in the village of his birth, it would possibly have had a reddish hue. Traditionally eclipses herald the birth of great men, and it’s therefore not surprising that for many Africans Robert Mugabe is an enduring hero, who helped complete their continent’s liberation from the colonial yoke.
At the time of the eclipse the Moon was in the first degree of Virgo - to be precise, at 0 degrees 46 minutes Virgo. On April 18 1980, when Zimbabwe became independent, when Mugabe became Prime Minister, Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, was also in the first degree of Virgo, at 0 degrees 20 minutes of the sign. Then, a few decades later, in early September 2007, Saturn, the planet of restriction and Karma, moved onto this same degree. Surely the end of Mugabe’s reign was close? Mugabe remained in power, but Saturn went backwards, and on May 3 2008 it comes to a standstill at 1 degree 41 minutes Virgo. It’s certainly symbolic of an end, and if Mugabe was sufficiently aware of the big picture he’d take the hint.
Interestingly, Robert Mugabe’s big rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, is also a Pisces, born on March 10 1952. And he was born the day before a Full Moon. So both men are not only Pisceans, but they were also born close to a Full Moon. Two freedom fighters, prepared to suffer and risk their lives for their cause, involved in a major and perhaps epic struggle - with apparently little room for compromise. Saturn’s movement through Virgo is creating problems for Mugabe, but it’s not going to give Tsvangirai an easy time either, and I think it’s going to be a long year for him. In fact the growing influence of a Saturn-Uranus opposition could present Tsvangirai with some serious challenges.
As far as a resolution is concerned, I’m inclined to look forward to the total eclipse of the Sun, on August 1 of this year. This eclipse is directly on the meridian in a number of African countries, including Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa. In the following months it could bring changes of leadership, and also changes of influence. For example, how easy will it be for China to maintain and enhance its economic influence in the region? I know, it’s a complicated world, and you perhaps need to be a flexible Piscean to keep pace with it.