Winston Peters fully intends to be part of the 2023 NZ General Election -almost a decade after the last coverage here - confirming both his stamina and determination -as well as the potential he still holds to be impactful on NZ politics.
You don't get named "Winston" for nothing.
Looking at October-November 2023 transits for Winston there is potential for him to have a spanner in the works role in resolving a tightly competed election.
Winston has the strategic vision of a Chess Master and politics is the perfect theatre for his game plan
Winston Peters has been a part of the New Zealand political fabric since 1975 which will give him the gong for 40 years service if he can sustain his edge into 2015.
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Mars is the generator of Aries' driving force and it operates best when in the fire signs -Aries, Leo or Sagittarius - but in Winston's case his Mars is channeled into covert mode -he has Mars in Pisces, the least marsy position versus typical impulsive impetuous activity. Pisces makes Mars want to do a lot of behind the scenes stuff and to be somewhat tricky.
So Winston is getting his obvious marsy personality from a different source - along with the Sun in Aries, he has Mercury in Aries positioned close enough to the Sun on the day of his birth to endow him with a sharpness of mind and somewhat cutting speech - a lot goes on inside that head -and considerably more than he outwardly expresses.
Mercury was in retrograde phase on his birthday which creates a lot of internalising of the mental functioning -a lot of cogitating, reviewing and rehearsing.
Venus too is in this Aries mix, near to Mercury and also retrograde. Venus is what you get pleasure from and how you relate to others. Winston loves a good stoush and he refuses to play by the normal relating rules.
[Sun 21, Mercury 25, Venus 28 = all conjunct in Aries -and Mercury -his mind - being central is the conduit for the Mars stuff rather than through Mars itself]
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| A generic layout and hypothetical Moon position due to lack of birth time Planets otherwise reflect actual positions for Winston Peters |
These two positions also explain why Winston is such a puzzle -he thinks and relates in a manner that is more internal than external and the signals and wires get rather crossed when others try to probe his mind - he falls prey to the Aries irritability and impatience when pressed to explain himself to bewildered media.
Winston thinks he is being clear and obvious but he's broadcasting mostly to himself.
Having the unconventionally oriented Uranus in Gemini makes his thought processes and communication style rather unusual as well
His capacity for detailed legal analysis and argument comes from Jupiter in Virgo.
Without a time and place for his birth a fuller personalised analysis is not possible but it is easy to wonder what potential Winston has to rise up again in the context of the 2014 NZ elections.
The common political indicators include Saturn and its related sign Capricorn.
What is known about Winston's birth energy is that he has Saturn at 5 Cancer giving him a more nurturing intention as a politician -eg his looking after the elderly reputation and the SuperGold card for seniors
If the election proceeds on September 20 2014 Winston is enjoying a considerable number of engagements based on analysis of finer points on Sun 21 and over the fornight afterwards the Sun, Moon and Venus in Libra will all activate his political [Saturn] positioning as the nuts and bolts of political marriages, engagements, alliances and betrothals are thrashed out
Being touted as the Kingmaker necessitates many encounters.
Other NZ political Aries: the standout is Paula Bennett. Her ambitions are high, & further opportunity to climb has been delivered nicely by the mis-steps made by Pisces-under-Pressure Judith Collins.
More on Paula Bennett to come.......in July outlook for a range of candidates
Further Reading
Political Report on Winston Peters
Updates and addendum:
Election 2014
Winston could take a knock and a blow to confidence due to prevailing adverse effects.
By-Election 2015
Winston knows how to revive his political capital.
Standing in the Northland seat vacated by National's Mike Sabin, he is set to give the apparent shoe-in Mark Osborne a cracking race.
Peters has some significant activations around the voting date of March 28 but without any comparative data for Mark Osborne it is not possible to say who has the edge.
updates:
March 28 2015 saw a resounding, historic upset to the delight of many, with Peters taking a 4,000 vote lead over Osborne.
Winston turned 70 in April 2015 the oldest MP in the NZ parliament and reaching a 40 year career
2017
Peters remains in the fray yet again for another round - decided on september 23 2017
