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Greek voters defy Europe







Greece has delivered a resounding No to its creditors, in a move that has stunned the eurozone tonight and may shake the financial markets. In the last few minutes, the last ballot papers were counted. And No campaign has exceeded all expectations by securing 61.31% of the vote. Every area of Greece has voted to reject the proposals of Greece’s creditors and seek a better deal. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has declared that it’s a historic day for Greece, which shows that democracy cannot be blackmailed. The Guardian









Today, June 6,  as the results of the referendum come in, there is an exact Sun-Pluto opposition. A chart for this opposition at Athens has the Sun in the 8th house linked to national debt. The following extract from Robert Hand’s Planets in Transit  about the meaning of a Sun-Pluto opposition gives the most perfect advice that Greece appears to have followed in the context of its national debt:

This can be an extremely difficult period for relationships, because you are likely to get involved in power struggles with others. It may be that you will try to force others to take a certain course of action against their will, or others may try to do this to you. In either case you may have to take evasive actions in order to avoid real difficulties. If you are attempting to dominate others, you should stop, no matter what your motives are. You may think you have the best reasons in the world for dominating people, and perhaps you believe that you are only doing it for their own good, but that is probably not really true. It is more likely that you simply cannot leave well enough alone. An excessive desire to meddle and interfere is one of the negative effects of this influence.


If you are the victim of someone else's meddling and interfering, the problem is more difficult. In some way, probably unconsciously, you have given out a signal that you will allow yourself to be treated this way. And having set off this reaction, it is hard for you to stop it. On the other hand, you may gain something by fighting back. It is often useful to experience a test of wills with someone, and it is much less dangerous to you when you are asserting your independence of someone else rather than the other way around. You may need to prove to yourself that you are stronger than your opponent.

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