The convoluted responses from die-hard traditionalists within the Anglican Church at the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury are of little interest to outsiders. Evidently seven serving bishops say they welcome the new archbishop but wouldn’t receive communion from her. Why are religious zealots so hung up about women/gender/sexuality? The ancient spirit versus flesh war still rages.
That apart, what is intriguing is the astrology which suggests across the board that the transition will face momentous challenges.
The Anglican Church, 3 November 1534 JC, already undergoing a seismic transformation with a 2nd Pluto Return continuing through this year and next, as well as a Neptune Return at the same time, is running into a deeply uncertain Solar Arc Neptune conjunct its Saturn as well as a panicky-failure SA Mars conjunct Neptune in 2027 and a lacklustre, disappointing, indecisive SA Sun conjunct Neptune in 2028. It will flounder and flail.
Sarah Mullally, 26 March 1962, at present the Bishop of London, is a former nurse, married with two children. She is a Sun Aries with a Scorpio/Sagittarius Moon. But what is eye-catching is her influential, can-be-controlling Pluto on the focal point of a yod inconjunct her Sun sextile Saturn in Aquarius; with her Pluto in a do-or-die determined opposition to Mars in Pisces, making her Mars a reactive (highly sensitive) point. That is a tough set of aspects, giving her the courage to face formidable difficulties but also in a curious way attracting catastrophes as well.
She’s moving through an-all-systems-change tr Uranus square her Uranus over her enthronement in late January 2026 and although she will be buoyed up by a lucky tr Uranus square her Jupiter until May 2026 nothing thereafter looks easy. 2027 has a blocked Solar Arc Sun square her dominant Pluto with tr Uranus also square her Pluto from mid 2027 which will bring considerable turbulence and knock her sideways. In 2027 as well she has an undermining tr Neptune conjunct her Sun, followed in 2028/29 by a bleak, tough-struggle tr Pluto conjunct her Saturn.
Her Archbishop Term chart, 28 January 2026, has the Saturn Neptune conjunction which does favour women but that is also conjunct the shipwrecking Scheat. It is sextile a truly difficult, hostile Mars Pluto in Aquarius conjunct Sun which is running into almost unsurmountable difficulties as tr Pluto crosses the Mars, then the midpoints and then the Sun in 2028/29. The reforming Uranus is conjunct Algol which does not feel progressive. The Jupiter is unaspected suggesting an idealistic though disconnected approach to spiritual matters.
An oddity is the similarities between her chart and that of Paula Vennells, infamous former head of the Post Office, 21 February 1959, a minister with the Church of England, who was short listed for the Bishopric of London. She is a Pisces Sun opposition Pluto in Virgo square Mars – so the same obsessive determination and tendency to attract antagonism.
[My only interest in the CoE apart from historical Henry V111 associations come from Royal funerals, coronations etc – and my hair-tearing irritation at the pomp and ceremony being ruined by weedy voice prelates – who NEED to take voice production lessons. When it is being televised to 2 billion people it is a performance and a job requirement. ]
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