Yanis Varoufakis

Water takes four of his ten planets, fire three, earth two and a single one air, with five of the ten cardinal, and four of the ten were retrograde. The element that would stand back and talk a thing over is down to one planet, in the chart of an economist. The record calls Varoufakis a Greek economist and finance minister during the bailout talks.

Mercury sits directly opposite Pluto at nine hundredths of a degree, close enough to call exact, and the reading is thought turning compulsive: rumination, using knowledge as leverage, and suspicion that outruns the evidence. For a finance minister across a negotiating table during a bailout, using knowledge as leverage is not a character flaw but the stated job, and the chart puts that contact closer to exact than anything else in it.

Two grand trines close here and both share Mercury and Neptune, one adding the Moon and the other Mars, with every point of both figures in water. A grand trine asks nothing of the rest of the chart, so two of them resting on speech and image is a self contained arrangement around exactly the faculty the record is about. The Moon sits sixty degrees from Pluto at under two thirds of a degree, emotional endurance, and in mild friction with Uranus at under four tenths. Both lights are certain. Venus sits square Saturn at two thirds, warmth meeting a wall.

Jupiter came back to its Aquarius birth degree on 26 December 2020, at fifty nine, and four laps precede it. Aquarius takes its reading from whatever would not follow the usual pattern, which for a minister the record places in one set of negotiations is a question about what the refusing was for. One planet in air with speech welded to force is the fact to take from this chart.