Just looking at Gordon Brown's Transit Maps and seeing that at this very moment his chart brings the Saturn-Neptune opposition down to Earth right through Baghdad. Click this image to view the full-sized version in a pop-up window.
Transiting Jupiter near Baghdad suggests Gordon has an opportunity here at the moment, but it can also be indicative of a haughty attitude that glosses over facts and details, makes bad judgements, and overcommits. The choice is Gordon's alone which it will be.
The transiting Saturn-Neptune midpoint isn't far from Gordon's Pluto through Iraq, which means that here is where he meets his limits to power, and has his influence undermined. It can also point to self-undoing, and is another warning not to bite off more than he can chew.
More positively, it could signal a growing awareness of the need to limit the destructiveness, and to re-envision the situation in a constructively influential way. Yeah yeah, fat chance I know, but the potential is there, alongside the potential for further quagmire. The choices Gordon makes will make all the difference between 'heaven' and 'hell', for the Iraqis first and foremost and most importantly, but also for Gordon.
Gordon's transiting Neptune will stay in Baghdad, conjunct his MC and thus reflecting a need to re-imagine his goals in this area, for quite some time yet, so he surely has work to do in this location. We can expect a lot of his focus to be here. Neptunian experiences can include deceit, of course, and objectives slipping through your fingers. The power of Neptune is not one that politicians are in the habit of harnessing at the higher levels of expression.....
His transiting Pluto is currently hovering around the border between Iran and Afghanistan, which is interesting. It will, over the next few months and into 2008, wander back and forth, and then move into and through Afghanistan. Presumably that will reflect an increasing focus by Gordon on Afghanistan - the more or less 'forgotten' war (forgotten by most of the people of the UK, that is) - but which the Ministry of Defence last year wanted to move troops into from Iraq. It also perhaps suggests that Gordon might see Iran as less of a menace (Pluto's location can be where we feel threatened) and thus he might not be such a menace to Iran, in time, but that needs to be researched with other techniques to confirm or contradict it before floating it as anything other than a suggestion.
Gordon's transiting Saturn will soon move from Iraq into Iran. Serious work to be done, limits encountered, reality faced up to. Before arriving there it will cross Basra, where many UK troops are based, suggesting the same sort of experience. A sense of obligation prevails here....cleaning up Tony's messes? Finishing what Tony started? Or being duty-bound to the commitments to the USA? It's tough at the top, but it's tougher on the ground.
