Bill Shorten is the current Labor leader, and Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament. When the party voted to elect a new leader in 2013 following their loss in the general election, Anthony Albanese was on the short list with Shorten. The Labor party did an internal vote, and Shorten won.
Shorten has a Sun-Neptune opposition and a Sun-Uranus trine in his natal horoscope. These aspects don’t provide him much ‘cut through’ with the public. Prime Minister Tony Abbott (Sun-Uranus square), for all his faults, seems to have a more robust ‘presence’, politically.
Would Albanese be the better man to ‘take on’ Abbott? Let’s take a quick look at his horoscope.
According to Wikipedia, he was born on 2nd March, 1963, in Sydney. Setting up a horoscope (aka ‘chart’) for noon on that day (because we don’t know the birth time) gives us the following.
The short answer is clearly ‘yes’.
Albanese has a robust Sun-Pluto opposition, with a wide Sun-Uranus opposition as well. Like Shorten, he has a Sun-Neptune aspect, but here it’s a trine, not an opposition like Shorten has. The trine is less of a ‘problem’ than the opposition in Shorten’s chart, because trines are much more ‘dormant’ aspects.
Simply in terms of ‘cut through’ or the ability to wield ‘power’, Albanese has a stronger and more resilient chart.
How his and Shorten’s charts stack-up against Abbott’s is another story, which I might examine at another time. But just in terms of ‘presence’ and being about to ‘get the message across’, I think Albanese has an advantage over Shorten. Shorten’s Sun-Neptune opposition may give him empathy and compassion, but on the other hand it indicates that ‘who he is’ is not clear to the public – it’s all rather vague and Neptunian!
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