So, after all the brouhaha Nick Griffin will appear on Question Time on the BBC, representing the BNP's first appearance on the programme. His birth time isn't known but his birth date and birth location is now known from his official European Parliament website. Here's his chart:-
Ignore the house cusps, and treat the Moon's position with caution - it could be in Scorpio, or it could be in Sagittarius.
Interestingly, his Jupiter is in Sagittarius conjunt the Moon - irrespective of the Moon's Sign - showing an involvement with internationalism and multiculturalism, the home and ethnicity. But it's square Pluto in Virgo, a symbol of what is sometimes called 'ethnic cleansing' - a desire to forcefully eradicate impurities and contamination, expurgating wrongs, and setting things aright. In other contexts, Pluto in Virgo corresponded with the environmental protection movement in the 1960s - banning the pesticide DDT, for instance.
One wonders what, in Nick's mother, his childhood, and his ancestry, is forbidden, perceived within the family as 'dark' and therefore inadmissible. Foreigners, presumably, given the involvement of Jupiter and possibly Sagittarius.
Nick's Sun is in square to Mars in Gemini, symbolising someone action-oriented with a tendency towards using aggressive will-power, always seeking his own advantage and looking for ways to win at the expense of relationships, bonds, ties, and perhaps ethics. People with Sun-Mars aspects like this are often very selfish, narrow-minded, and intent on achieving a goal no matter the human cost, because their ego feels like it will die if it loses. Imposing oneself onto the world and being in a dominant, leading role is usually very important to people with this aspect. They tend to be quite provocative, oppositional, adversarial, and trouble-making. The Pisces-Gemini involvement leans it towards 'sly and shifty' rather than open and transparent - speaking with a forked tongue to impose his will.
Star-planet Parans
Not having Nick's time of birth, it's impossible to calculate all of his star-planet parans, but it is possible to list the ones that might apply, and the ones that definitely do apply.
IMPORTANT - these paran interpretations are not made by me, but are lifted directly, unedited, from pre-written (not by me) interpretations from software designed to calculate and interpret star-planet parans.
First, the ones that might apply, depending on if he was born before sunrise, or after.
If born before sunrise:
Sun
with Bellatrix
Successful, but via the hard or physical route
with El Nath
To strongly and physically focus on ones goals
with Sadalmelek
An optimistic, but uncompassionate, attitude
with Sualocin
Physically talented, vital and alive
with Murzim
The desire to make a statement
Moon
with Alcyone
Insightful into the darker side of life
with Procyon
Changes in ones passions, shifts in likes and dislikes
with Zosma
The pacifist or the warmonger - to hate, or enjoy, the suffering of others
with Zuben Eschamali
To feel responsible for social, or ecological, problems
Mercury
with Capella
A lateral thinker, a far-sighted person
with Rigel
Strong personal views, to be strong-minded or stubborn
with Ras Algethi
Inquisitive about the nature of objects, people, or the laws of creation
Venus
with Arcturus
A leader in the arts or in humanistic politics
If born after sunrise (statistically more likely - obviously most of the 24hr period occurs after sunrise):
Sun
with Alphard
A person of strong passions who can become angry, violent or aggressive
Mercury
with Acumen
Difficult, or tedious, mental endeavours; stressful financial dealings
with Bellatrix
The craftsman and a person with alternative interests
with El Nath
The satirist, the one who comments
Venus
with Alkes
Someone with strong social values
with Alhena
The desire to reform, either as a social activist, or in fantasy and art
with Facies
Anger at injustices, seeking a different order
Mars
with Denebola
To champion the non-establishment cause
These parans apply no matter what time he was born:
Mars
with Antares
To act, fuelled by inspiration or obsession
Jupiter
with Acumen
A person who puts themselves at risk in response to their social conscience
with Sadalsuud
To benefit by the fortunate turn of events
with Acubens
Joy from ones children; to be blessed with fruitfulness and vitality
Saturn
with Facies
To be the outsider by beliefs or action
with Markab
Seeking respect by endeavouring to build reliable structures and ideas
Chart comparison with the United Kingdom
Here is the UK's chart with Nick Griffin's chart placed alongside it - the UK's is the inner wheel, Nick's is the outer wheel.
(NB Sorry, the blog doesn't allow larger graphic sizes)
His Pluto is almost exactly opposite the UK's Pluto - something deep is being constellated between these two. If you believe that the UK is inherently racist in nature then you might interpret it that way - racism is going head-to-head with racism. However I see it differently.
Jungians will talk about the Shadow, and of the Collective Unconscious and the Personal Unconscious. I think that's closer to the crux of it.
Currently the world is experiencing Saturn-square-Pluto and Uranus-square-Pluto; the darker sides of humanity are having to be acknowledged, or conversely are being suppressed, sublimated, repressed, and so on. The UK is having direct chart contacts with those global configurations. The connections between the charts of Nick and the UK are part of that microcosmic process.
With Pluto we're dealing with all things visceral - disgust, darkness, unrefined, unreformed raw energies of the psyche, hatred, revenge, blood feuds, and so forth.
Nick Griffin's Venus is conjunt the UK's Descendant, the part of the chart that symbolises not the 'I', but the 'not I', or in the chart of a nation it is the 'Not us' in relation to the 'Us'.
Venus is the planet not only of attraction and love, but replusion of what is not wanted. What is not wanted is the 'not us'.
But Venus and the Descendant are about that which is required for balance, wholeness, and completeness. Denial is unsustainable, imbalance is unsustainable, and refusal of completion can lead only to atrophy and demise.
Looking in the mirror, microcosmically for Nick, and macrocosmically for the UK, is what is being constellated here, to refine that which remains unrefined, unwhole, unintegrated, unlovely in the truest, deepest sense.
