Mark, how will you keep up with the charts? :-)

The London Ingress should cover the General Election in the UK. The incumbent ruler is represented by L10 with 21 Gem on MC. Mercury is in the 7th but in Aries whilst the cusp is Pisces so not really angular. Fast in motion but only in the 7th degree from the Sun.

The opposition therefore is L4. IC is 21st degree of Sag. and Jupiter is closer to DSC than Mercury. The DSC is the Derived MC of the 10th so its place here has an advantage over Mercury and is essentially well dignified.Not quite close enough to guarantee outright victory.

Capricorn occupies much of the 4th house so Saturn is co-ruler. He is in the first, retro and opposing mercury and the Sun, natural significator of rulers.

I interpret this as the Conservatives have most votes but not enough MP's for a majority. The Liberals are conservative Saturn in Libra so they go against ther natural instincts to support Labour. So the next government is a Lib-Con coalition.

Next I looked at the Ingress chart of the year for England. I know it is very common for people to assign the 4th to ?opposing? candidates. However I have never found this thought to be true and secondly all the candidates are in fact a part of the current government and not enemies to the government, which is what the fourth signifies. I believe that the various political parties are denoted by the rulers of the Midheaven. Gemini has no exalted ruler so we have Mercury as the ruler and nocturnal triplicity ruler, Saturn as the diurnal triplicity ruler, and Jupiter participating triplicity ruler. In this scenario I find it far more fitting that Saturn is the conservative party and Jupiter the Liberal Democrats. There are other parties of course but it is these three which generally make or break a majority government.

I then wanted to find the LoY and significator of the ?king? or ruler. There is only one planet suitable for LoY in this chart and that is the Moon. All the other rulers of the Ascendant all fall cadent of the ascendant and in aversion to the ascendant. The Moon is the nocturnal triplicity ruler and the only one aspecting the sign of the ascendant. In fact her aspect is co-present with the ascendant degree. The Moon is also the natural significator of the commonality or general public. She is determined most strongly to signify the people.

It is my judgment that the significator of the ruler is Mercury. It is true in a diurnal chart that the Sun could have this signification but as a rule it only assumed that authority if the ruler or exalted ruler of the Midheaven somehow fell amiss and particularly fell in aversion to the Midheaven. Then if the Sun was well placed and aspected the Midheaven it would assume that role. Otherwise the choice of significators for the ruler was the authority of the ruler of the Midheaven. It did not fall by default to the Sun. I might add that in a nocturnal chart the Moon also had the natural authority to assume the role as significator for the ruler in the same way as the Sun in a diurnal chart.

Now I consider the joining and separations of these significators. The first I noted was that Mercury is VOC. It will not join with Venus until it leaves Aries and the Moon must also change signs before she joins Mercury. I deem him VOC and the signification of that should be obvious. It is separating from the reception by the ruler of its sign and its motion is void. Mercury for me signifies nothing coming to the ruler. The Moon however is joined to Mars and it should be distinguished that she ?beholds? Mars as well. She is also joined to the Sun and Saturn but she does not ?see? them since she is in a sign in aversion to Aries and Libra. I felt this indicated the desire of the people for change (and this would be a radical change from Labour who have ruled for 10 years) and Mars renders the light of the Moon to Saturn as well as the Sun because he does ?see? both. I?ll get to the Sun/Mars signification in a moment. But I see the trine to Saturn as a strong indication of the people towards a conservative government. I also feel one of the strong motivations in this election is going to be the people?s economy which has really suffered. Saturn in its exaltation, must also be noted is the exalted ruler of the 2nd and holds a promise of a better economy for the people being placed in the ascendant by division. But Saturn has its problems also. One, it is opposed to the Sun, ruler of the 12th:

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?The misfortune of the planets is if they are in conjunction with the malefics or in their opposition or in their quartile or their trine or their sextile ... or if one of the malefics is raised above them in the tenth or in the eleventh place from their place. This is most harmful if the malefic does not receive them ... or is in conjunction with the Sun or in quartile aspect or in opposition. With regard to the weakness of the planets, it is if they are slow in their motion, or in their first station or retrograding.?


While Saturn makes a great promise being in the ascendant and in its exaltation it is made misfortunate and weak and I fear cannot live up to the promise it ?appears? to make. So I am of the opinion the people will give their disposition to a party making a promise that it cannot keep. In fact when the Moon does ?change? signs and is joined to Saturn committing its disposition to Saturn, Saturn will ?return? it to the Moon and the only ?upside? to that return of light is that Saturn is in an angle.

Sahl writes:

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?The explanation of return is when a planet or the Moon is joined to another planet that is retrograde or under the Sun beams, and it returns to it whatever it receives from it, and it destroys the matter.?


The moons? disposition is corrupted because although Saturn is in an angle by division, it is cadent to the ascendant sign and the Moon is cadent to an angle. It signifies the matters of the people promises to have a beginning but in fact has no beginning and no end, i.e. they come to nothing.

Now looking at the Poll chart Mark produced in the beginning and keeping in mind what the planets signify in the Ingress chart and the election it is quite remarkable that we find Saturn conjunct the Midheaven and Jupiter (also lord of the ascendant here) applying to Saturn and committing its disposition and power to Saturn. That very likely signifies a coalition government between the conservatives and the liberal democrats. We will note that Mercury is once again VOC and now retrograde and falls in the 6th by whole sign and cadent to the Ascendant once again. It is also interesting to note that the Moon is VOC as well.

Those are just a few of my thoughts for what its worth.

- Venus is separated from Mars (lord of the 2nd). If the lord of the lot of rulership was separated from the lord of the place of wealth, it indicated his waste of that wealth; in other words, fiscal incompetency having a derogatory effect on the peoples wealth from their livelihoods.