Gordon Brown, Prime Minister - CORRECTION

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Politically, with L6 Sun in H12 and L12 Saturn strong in H7, he

has made a name for himself as an advocate and leader of the working

man

 

SAMVA , " cosmologer " <cosmologer wrote:

>

> Dear friends,

>

> The birthtime for Gordon Brown is based on official records.

> http://www.astrodatabank.com/NM/BrownGordon.htm

> If he were born at 8:51, 11 minutes later than recorded, he would

> have 0° Aries rising. This chart would represent a stronger leader.

> That said, the 22° Pisces rising chart seems to fit his personality

> and politics.

>

> Politically, with L6 Saturn in H12 and L12 Saturn strong in H7, he

> has made a name for himself as an advocate and leader of the

working

> man.

>

> " On a personal level, he [brown] is regularly caricatured as a

> private, introspective, moody and self-sufficient individual whose

> ideal team consists of just one and who, when crossed, bears a

> grudge. " Nick Assinder, BBC correspondent, on the BBC website on

May

> 11, 2007.

>

> Let us now consider the following facts about his life in terms of

> the Pisces rising chart:

>

> 1962: on basis of high IQ test score is entered in special fast

track

> school program for next five years

> Astrological reason: Me/Sa period running. Natally, L7 Mercury on

H11

> MEP is in mutual aspect with L5 Moon on H5 MEP. This aspect is the

> cornerstone of his abilities, giving academic brilliance and a

> creative and analytic mind. Brown later complained about having

been

> subject to a brutal academic experiement which isolated him from

his

> peers. He was advanced by two years in his studies over the five

> years until he graduated.

>

> 1967: becomes blind in left eye from a sporting accident at school

> Astrological reason: Natally, L2 Mars is in advanced old age and

> badly placed in Aquarius H12. L6 Sun is also badly placed in

Aquairus

> H12. Ke/Ra period running. Transit Ketu in H8 aspected natal Sun in

> H12 during summer of 1967.

>

> 1982: After graduating from Edinburgh University with First Class

> Honours M.A. in 1972, Brown stayed on to complete his Ph.D. which

he

> gained in 1982. Ten years is considered a long time to complete the

> doctorate.

> Astrological reason: Ve/Ju period running. Jupiter is natally weak

in

> the chart, being in H12, and afflicted by its conjunction with Rahu.

>

> 1983: elected to Parliament on his second attempt as a Labour MP

for

> Dunfermline East in general election.

> Astrological reason: Ve/Ju period running. Transit L10 Jupiter in

H9.

>

> 1997: Becomes Chancellor of the UK Treasury following the UK

general

> election on 1 May, in a power sharing agreement with Tony Blair,

who

> became Prime Minister.

> Astrological reason: Mo/Mo period running. Moon is a powerful

benefic

> in the chart.

>

> 2000: married Sarah Macaulay on 3 August 2000.

> Astrological reason: Mo/Ju period running. Marriage was much

delayed

> due to weakness of several planets in the chart. However, Moon is

> strong and so is L7 Mercury. Venus is also exalted and well placed

in

> H1 although in infancy.

>

> 2001: First child, a girl, died at birth on 28 December.

> Astrological reason: Mo/Sa period running. Transit L12 Saturn in H3

> aspects L5 Moon in H5.

>

> 2003: birth of first son, John, on 17 October.

> Astrological reason: Mo/Me period running. Transit L7 Mercury

> conjunct L7 MEP.

>

> 2006: second son, James Fraser, born on 17 July 2006. On 29

November

> 2006 it was reported his second son had been diagnosed with cystic

> fibrosis.

> Astrological reason: Mo/Su period running. Natally, L10 Jupiter is

> conjunct Rahu. L6 Sun is badly placed in H12. Transit L10 Jupiter

in

> H9 combust and aspected by natal L12 Saturn in H7. L2 Mars in

> advanced infancy in H9.

>

> The Pisces rising chart, although unusual for a political leader

> could fit. As Brown has entered Mars major period in April 2007,

with

> natal Mars so weak and afflicted by the nodes in H12, this period

> will likely see his political position weaken radpidly, especially

in

> the Ma/Ra period which runs from September 2007 to September 2008.

>

> Best wishes,

>

> Thor

>

> SAMVA , Cosmologer <cosmologer@> wrote:

> >

> > Dear friends,

> >

> > I share with you the horoscope of Gordon Brown who was

appointed

> to the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on June 27,

2007,

> after Tony Blair had stepped down. On June 24, Brown had been

elected

> leader of the UK Labour Party. Prior to this, Brown had been a

> successful Chancellor of the Treasury for ten years. It is said

that

> he has for a long time been waiting to replace Tony Blair as Prime

> Minister.

> >

> > Gordon BROWN was born February 20, 1951 at 8:40 AM in Govin,

> Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom). The cited birthtime, 8:40 AM,

> gives 22° Pisces rising. Four planets are in Aquarius H12: L6 Sun,

L2

> Mars, Rahu and L10 Jupiter. This is surprising to see for someone

> reaching such an exalted position, as L2 and L10 are both in H12,

> with also Sun, as natural karaka of political power. On the upside

L7

> Mercury is strong in Capricorn H11 MEP in mutual aspect with L5

Moon

> in Cancer H5 MEP. L12 Saturn is strong in Virgo H7, giving support

to

> the planets in its house. L8 Venus is infant but exalted in Pisces

H1.

> >

> > The next parliamentary elections in the UK need not be held

until

> 2010.

> >

> > Best wishes,

> >

> > Thor

> >

> > Biography of Gordon BROWN James Gordon Brown MP (born 20

> February 1951) is the 52nd and current Prime Minister of the United

> Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the

> Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, the current Member of

> Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and the Leader of the

Labour

> Party.

> >

> > Brown was the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2 May 1997 to 27

> June 2007, making him Britain's longest serving Chancellor since

> Nicholas Vansittart (1812–1823).

> >

> > Run up to succeeding Blair

> > In October 2004 Tony Blair announced he would not lead the party

> into a fourth general election, but would serve a full third term.

> Political controversy over the relationship between Brown and Blair

> continued up to and beyond the 2005 election, which Labour won with

a

> reduced parliamentary majority and reduced vote share. The two

> campaigned together but the British media remained – and remain –

> full of reports on their mutual acrimony. Blair, under pressure

from

> within his own party, announced on 7 September 2006 that he would

> step down within a year. Brown was the clear favourite to succeed

> Blair for several years with experts and the bookmakers; he was the

> only candidate spoken of seriously in Westminster. Appearances and

> news coverage leading up to the handover were interpreted as

> preparing the ground for Brown to become Prime Minister, in part by

> creating the impression of a statesman with a vision for leadership

> and global change.

> >

> > Brown is the first prime minister from a Scottish constituency

> since the Conservative/SUP Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964. He is

also

> one of the few university-educated Prime Ministers not to have

> attended Oxford or Cambridge, along with the Earl of Bute (Leiden),

> Lord John Russell (Edinburgh) and Neville Chamberlain (Birmingham).

> Several Prime Ministers were not university-educated including

> Winston Churchill, James Callaghan and John Major.

> >

> > On 9 September 2006 Charles Clarke in an interview in The Daily

> Telegraph said the Chancellor had " psychological " issues that he

must

> confront and accused him of being a " control freak " and " totally

> uncollegiate " . Brown was also " deluded " , he said, to think that

Blair

> can and should anoint him as his successor now.

> >

> > By the start of 2007, prospects of any significant current or

> former Cabinet-level contender to Brown receded significantly, and

> Brown's odds with major bookmakers became as short as 1/10 on. A

> number of those tipped as potential rivals ruled themselves out –

> notably Education Secretary Alan Johnson, who declared he would

> contest the deputy leadership, and Environment Secretary David

> Miliband, who stressed his support for Brown to close down

> speculation of a possible challenge. Despite his disavowals,

attempts

> to draft Miliband to run continued, with the launch of a website by

> former Ministers Alan Milburn and Charles Clarke, obstensibly to

> debate policy, but widely viewed as an attempt to test the water.

> However, this widely-covered initiative was also a seen as sign of

> weakness in that the project appeared to have no credible champion

to

> carry the banner in a leadership contest. Only candidates from the

> left of the party, John McDonnell and former Environment minister

> > Michael Meacher declared their willingness to contest the

> election; each needed to gain 44 nominations from Labour MPs

required

> to be successfully nominated. Either would have been rank outsiders

> in a contest. With growing realisation that both could not be

> nominated and that both standing was likely to lead to neither

being

> nominated, they agreed that when Blair stepped down they would

> compare nominations and the candidate with the lower number of

> nominations would withdrew and urge his supporters to nominate the

> other.

> >

> > From January 2007 the media reported that Brown had now " dropped

> any pretence of not wanting, or expecting, to move into Number 10

in

> the next few months " – although he and his family will likely use

the

> more spacious 11 Downing Street. This enabled Brown to signal the

> most significant priorities for his agenda as Prime Minister -

> stressing education, international development, narrowing

> inequalities (to pursue 'equality of opportunity and fairness of

> outcome'), renewing Britishness, restoring trust in politics, and

> winning hearts and minds in the war on terror as key priorities -

> speaking at a Fabian Society conference on 'The Next Decade' in

> January 2007.

> >

> > On the eve of the 2007 budget, Brown's character was attacked by

> Lord Turnbull who worked for Brown as Permanent Secretary at the

> Treasury from 1998 to 2002. Turnbull accused Brown of running the

> Treasury with " Stalinist ruthlessness " and treating Cabinet

> colleagues with " more or less complete contempt " . This was

especially

> picked up on by the British media as the comments by Turnbull were

> made on the eve of Brown's (expected to be last) budget report.

> >

> > In his resignation speech on 10 May, Tony Blair made clear of his

> intention to stand down as Prime Minister on 27 June. On the

> Wednesday following this announcement, it became clear that no

other

> candidate would gain enough nominations to get on the ballot paper

> with Brown. He therefore formally became Leader of the Labour party

> at a special Party Conference held in Manchester on 24 June.

> >

> >

> > Bid for Labour Leadership

> > After months of speculation, Gordon Brown formally announced on

11

> May 2007 his bid for the Labour leadership and replaced Tony Blair

as

> Prime Minister on 27 June 2007. On Channel 4 news on 16 May 2007 it

> was announced that Andrew Mackinlay had nominated Brown giving him

> 308 nominations, sufficient to avoid a leadership contest.

> >

> > Since Blair's announcement of his resignation and Brown's bid for

> leadership, the Labour Party has gained a bounce in the polls,

> gaining three points after months of low polls trailing behind the

> opposition, the Conservative Party.

> >

> > Brown launched his campaign website the same day as formally

> announcing his bid for leadership " Gordon Brown for Britain " .

> >

> >

> > Brown as Prime Minister

> > Main article: Premiership of Gordon Brown

> > Brown became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 27 June

2007.

> Like almost all previous Prime Ministers, Brown concurrently serves

> as the First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil

> Service, is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and,

hence,

> also a Privy Counsellor. He is also Leader of the Labour Party and

> Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kirkcaldy and

> Cowdenbeath.

> > Source : Wikipedia

> >

> >

> >

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