Alexis Tsipras

Water takes four of his ten planets, fire three, air two and a single one earth, with five of the ten cardinal and only one fixed. Mercury, Venus and Saturn fill eight degrees of Cancer, and Mars sits on the first half degree of Virgo. The record is six words: Tsipras was Greek prime minister during the debt crisis.

The Sun sits sixty degrees from Pluto at under four tenths of a degree, and the reading is power that is usable rather than overwhelming: resilience, the ability to start again after a loss, and an instinct for what is really going on beneath a situation. For a prime minister the record places inside a national debt crisis and then does not follow to any outcome, all three of those are plausible and not one of them is checkable, and this entry is not going to turn a chart into a judgement on a government.

Mercury sits in easy contact with Jupiter at under nine tenths of a degree, learning that comes easily: breadth, genuine curiosity, and an ability to make complicated things sound simple. That last clause is most of the job of a politician inside a debt crisis, which makes it either the most useful line in this chart or the most flattering, and six words of record give no way to tell. Mercury also sits in mild friction with Mars at under four fifths, thought and drive colliding: impatience with slower thinkers, and saying the true thing in the most damaging available way.

Those two Mercury contacts pull against each other at almost the same orb, one of them about making things sound simple and the other about saying them damagingly, which is a fair description of the two halves of public speech. His Moon sits on the second degree of Sagittarius at noon with Scorpio still possible, so it is left out, and that costs the closest contact in the chart. Venus sits at an awkward angle to Neptune at a degree and three quarters, love and illusion. Jupiter and Neptune were the two retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Pisces birth degree on 14 March 2022, at forty seven, and three laps precede it.