Andy Burnham: Making the Weather

Andy Burnham courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Thoughts on his Ascendant?

Ex-Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham has stormed to victory in the super-consequential bi-election in Makerfield. His bid for the seat was the first move in a process to oust Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Burnham did not just win, he won resoundingly; trouncing the right-wing Reform candidate and demolishing Conservatives, Liberals and Greens in an area which had turned out for Reform in the last election.

We don’t have a birth time for Burnham, but I am pretty certain he’ll be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and what’s more that he will bring be the change that so many have promised and failed to deliver.

Why? Simple. Compare his chart to the chart of the UK.

UK has 7° Libra Rising; Burnham’s powerful Uranus, the planet of change, is at 8°. He is the change.

Also, his Uranus is only a few points away from the UK Uranus at 1° Libra. That UK Uranus and Ascendant are receiving big energy right now, opposed by Neptune and Saturn, but trined by Pluto and transiting Uranus.  The country is also due for a Jupiter Return in July — which generally seems to coincide with an upbeat mood, so something’s going to change. Maybe we’ll win the World Cup. (I know, I know.)

Take another look at Burnham’s chart with the UK, and you can see his stellium in practical, ambitious Capricorn works ultra smoothly with the UK’s Sun and IC. That stellium in is powerful, executive and gets the job done — as Burnham has already proved in Manchester.

With the electrical wind of the sky god Uranus, Andy Burnham has the potential to change the political weather. Let’s hope he does so, because the only other politician who currently has the same emotional impact is Nigel Farage, who is, frankly, the devil.

Change is coming whether we like it or not, and it may be stormy, so it’s better to have someone with his hands on the wheel driving the change, rather than a person, like Keir Starmer, who appears to be a passenger.