As we draw closer to the 2025 Canadian federal election, it’s time to look at Pierre Poilievre’s astrology chart. I promised to do this to accompany the article I published recently on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s chart.
In case you missed that, you can read it here. This is a deep dive into Carney’s chart and was the second article I wrote on him. I published the first article only to discover, thanks to one of my readers, that we do actually have an exact birth time for Carney. Classic Mercury Retrograde shenanigans – I had to start all over and rewrite it based on that new information.
We don’t have an exact birth time for Pierre Poilievre, and it is extremely unlikely that we will get one. I’m tempting fate by saying that – watch, I’ll publish this and then find out two days later that we do have an exact time for him, so I’ll have to rewrite it again. (It would be worth it, to have an exact time!)
However, I’d bet money on us never getting an exact time for Poilievre because he was born to a teen mom and placed for adoption immediately after his birth. There was no birth announcement. I checked the local newspapers around his birth date just to make sure.
I spent the last few days rectifying his natal chart. I read a recent (published in 2024) biography on him: Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life by Andrew Lawton. That helped me build a portrait of him and also gave some dates on his key life events.
Here’s my summary of his personality, based on what I learned in the biography:
- Intelligent and well spoken
- Large network/circle of friends/acquaintances; often took charge as the leader
- Confident, cocky
- Feisty, aggressive, headstrong; likes to argue and debate
- Intense but fun; good sense of humour
- Contradictory nature
- Some people love and others hate him
- Private about his personal life
I initially planned to write a post describing my rectification process in detail, but I realized that would be pretty boring for most people, other than hardcore astrology enthusiasts/practitioners.
Instead, I’ll just state that I favour fixed angles for him. Leo is at the top of my list for rising signs, however I can also see a case for the other fixed signs (Taurus, Scorpio and Aquarius).
For the purpose of this article, I’m sticking with a noon chart – which happens to give a Leo rising. I’m not going to really consider the house placements in this, however, because rectification is always just a guess, no matter how thorough you are.
So, here’s Poilievre’s chart – again, pay attention to the planets and their signs and aspects only, not the houses:
There are a few key aspects that I will focus on in this analysis. First and foremost, Poilievre has two sign-based T-squares:
- Mutable T-square with Sun-Mercury in Gemini, Saturn-Moon in Virgo, and Neptune in Sagittarius
- Fixed T-square with Mars-Venus in Taurus, Jupiter in Leo and Uranus in Scorpio
These T-squares contain all the planets in his chart except for Pluto in Libra. They deliver a lot of opposing and conflicting energies. There’s so much chafing and discomfort in his chart; it’s no wonder he has been so driven to rise up to the top of Canada’s political ladder.
Having all that opposing and conflicting energy really matches up with the portrait of Poilievre as told in his biography. He’s described as serving up various contradictions. This also resonates with his strong Mercurial influence: Poilievre has a very dignified Mercury in Gemini ruling his Gemini Sun, as well as his Saturn-Moon conjunction in Virgo.
He expresses his dignified Mercury well, being well-known for his intelligence and eloquence. His biography mentions that when he was a child, he favoured reading the dictionary instead of fiction books. That’s one of the most literal Saturn in Virgo traits I’ve ever heard of!
Poilievre’s Mercurial nature also speaks to the apparent contradictions that others have observed in him. Lawton’s biography describes Poilievre as follows:
“He’s both everyman and the poster boy for career politicians. He is both loved and hated (with arguably similar levels of intensity). He is authentic and full of conviction, and yet every decision he makes—even the most mundane—is the product of calculation. He rails against the “gatekeepers” but is fiercely guarded by those around him. He intimately understands the plight of the middle class, but also laments that no one knows how to make a proper cappuccino. In public, he is a bulldog; in private he is insular and contemplative. He challenges conventional political stereotypes in Canada by refusing to fit neatly into the oft-cited Red Tory/Blue Tory dichotomy. He has sound instincts on both policy and politics, capabilities that conventional political wisdom indicates are usually mutually exclusive.”
– Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life by Andrew Lawton
Of note, Poilievre’s Mercury is pretty closely opposed by his Neptune in Sagittarius. This underpins him with some idealism, but also opens him up to fantasy, illusion and delusion. He has no doubt built up a strong vision that he strives towards, but the risk with Neptune is always that what seems to be real turns out not to be, and/or that the foundations you are trying to build turn out to be shifting and transitory.
Poilievre’s dignified Venus in Taurus conjunct debilitated Mars in Taurus is also a large part of why he comes on strong with a “love him or hate him” vibe. Having Mars in Taurus is a huge indicator of his feisty, aggressive, headstrong nature. Combine that with the Mercury and you get someone who loves to argue and debate, and won’t take no for an answer.
Poilievre’s T-squares also mean that when planets transit Aquarius and Pisces in particular, his chart lights up. Regardless of specific house placements, in March and April 2025, Poilievre’s mutable T-square got activated by the pile-up of planets in Pisces. Currently, retrograde Venus is conjunct Saturn and a recently-direct Mercury in Pisces. All of that is pinging his chart like crazy.
The fact that Mercury was retrograde for the first part of the federal election campaign is a big reason why Poilievre has seemed to lag at the start. He’s so Mercurial that when Mercury is in poor condition, he’ll accordingly not fare so well. Things improved slightly when Mercury stationed direct on April 7, though Mercury is really still not in a very strong spot for a little while yet. Things should improve for Poilievre more meaningfully when Mercury ingresses Aries on April 16 – which is the day of the French leaders’ debate.
Poilievre is coming up to a reverse Nodal return (exact in early 2026), with the Lunar Nodes in the signs opposite of his natal Nodes. These are usually fateful periods in one’s life. Like eclipses, they can bring fortune and ruin in kind.
Speaking of eclipses, the lunar eclipse on March 14 – the one that occurred just hours before Carney became Prime Minister – was very close to Poilievre’s Moon. It might have actually been right on his Moon, depending on his birth time.
Eclipses are king makers, which means they often correlate to old leaders falling and new leaders stepping into power. We only get a new king when the old king dies. This happened very literally with Canada’s leaders. Carney became the leader of Canada under an eclipse, while Trudeau quietly and quickly resigned and disappeared. As well, Poilievre went from being the person everyone assumed would be the next Prime Minister by a landslide, to potentially losing it all to Carney.
The thing about eclipses is that they are extremely chaotic and unpredictable, and often things that happen under an eclipse are obscured and their true meaning are only understood much later.
So, I don’t think there’s a sure bet either way – both Poilievre and Carney were strongly influenced by that lunar eclipse, and Carney was again quite impacted by that solar eclipse on March 29. Only time will tell whether they made Carney the king for the long-term or not.
Venus just stationed direct on April 12, which will give Poilievre a boost. He has natal Venus in Taurus, which is a nice strong, dignified Venus. She’ll be able to help tame the snarlier aspects of his Mars in Taurus. This will be even more impactful if Poilievre actually does have fixed angles like I suspect.
However, Venus will also station very close to Carney’s Sun, which should help him out too since he has a Venus Ascendant. However, Venus is very close to Saturn as well, which is right on Carney’s Sun, so that acts as a restrictive influence. Again, neither candidate is obviously favoured or hindered by these transits.
One of the most positive transits for Poilievre is Jupiter, which is currently conjunct his natal Mercury. This will heighten his already strong Mercurial nature, ensuring he’ll continue to deliver his signature incisive, powerful speeches throughout the rest of the campaign. The debates are scheduled for this week and Poilievre is likely to come across very well in those.
I’ve been finding it basically impossible to predict a clear winner for the 2025 Canadian federal election. I’m too close to this issue, so my own biases and personal preferences are clouding things. But there’s also so much uncertainty and instability in the skies right now that making a bold, confidence prediction about literally anything seems foolish.
I keep coming back to the mantra I’ve been repeating for the last several months, when looking at the astrology of March-April 2025: nothing is what it seems. Whatever you think is going on, and what seems like a sure thing, will actually turn out not to be. The foundation is made of quicksand and shadows. Things will slip away and disappear as fast as they appeared.
The polls have favoured Carney’s Liberals from the beginning of this campaign. However, polls are famously incorrect. Consider who actually takes the time to complete those polls, and how big the sample size is.
CBC has a round-up of polls on their site. At the time of writing, the Liberals are ahead in all. However, the sample size of all these polls is only between 1200 and 1500 people. Canada has approximately 32 million people over the age of 18 – so these polls represent 0.005% of the voting population. I would not place any bets on these numbers. Things could shift very quickly in either direction.
I also think we are in ~unprecedented~ times so there could be crazy things that happen in the lead-up to the election and/or afterwards. I hesitate to voice some of the things that have been rolling through my brain, but suffice to say that given how unpredictable and volatile Canada’s relationship with the US has become, it seems entirely possible that it might be used as an excuse for some truly astonishing events in Canadian history.
Then again, maybe we’ll just have another boring federal election, and elect another boring Prime Minister, and go back to living our boring Canadian lives. Given how chaotic everything has been, this actually sounds kind of nice.
So, I will end this not by predicting the winner of the 2025 Canadian election – sorry – but by saying whoever does win has an unenviable position. Canada’s problems are many, and severe. Canada and Canadians are in a bad spot, and it’s going to take a long time to recover.
Cover photo attribution: Humberland, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons