Greece
has successfully completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth
€61.9bn (£55bn; $70.8bn) to tackle its debt crisis. It was part of the biggest
bailout in global financial history, totalling some €289bn, which will take the
country decades to repay. Deeply unpopular cuts to public spending, a condition
of the bailout, are set to continue. But for the first time in eight years,
Greece can borrow at market rates. Aug. 20 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45243088
Greece and Turkey are fairly close to each other so that an
eclipse which falls on the horizon at Ankara is more or less also on the
horizon at Athens. This news should serve as a good example of how the July 13
eclipse can have negative repercussions (Turkey) [1] or positive ones (Greece) .
In both cases, the eclipse was opposite Pluto and aligned with the horizon axis, implying that its energy was going to be felt
strongly at these places.
Pluto is related to the sign Scorpio. It is the natural
ruler of the 8th house of shared resources so that it is has a major say in
international finance, credit and debt. Pluto
is also a pattern disrupter and deprogrammer. When worked with consciously,
it frees one from antiquated behavioral
patterns and teaches one to claim the power within self (integrity) and not be dependent on money and resources of others (Greece). When
individuals or nations become dependent on others they are vulnerable to being
controlled (Turkey).
Eclipses are about endings and new beginnings. Since Pluto rules credit and debt the eclipse is signaling the end of a debt
crisis (Greece) or the beginning of one (Turkey).
Now let us transpose
the eclipse on to the chart for Greece.
The eclipse opposite Pluto formed a T-square with the radix Sun [22cp] –
Saturn [20ar] – Jupiter [21ar] square. A
simple delineation for Pluto-Saturn-Jupiter is:
Pluto – Saturn – Jupiter : One endures difficulty (Saturn-Pluto) to achieve something positive(Jupiter) at the
end.
In this context, let us remember that Pluto transits to
Saturn can help us overcome our greatest weakness. These transits are often
associated with a threat of loss in some area of life. It could be a creative
destruction in that it opens the way for a new beginning, but nevertheless it
feels formidable. Steven Forrest refers to Pluto-Saturn as “the cosmic paycheck”. His implication was
that under this transit, we all "get what we deserve". Greece is certainly getting what it deserves
after a period of hardship and a return to integrity.
Finally, let us transpose the eclipse to Greece’s solar
return chart. Notice that here it aligns with the meridian making harmonious aspects to the solar return
Jupiter bringing a fortunate end to the crisis. But it is the star Zubeneschamali
[19sc] that Jupiter [18sc] conjoins that
gives us a clue as to why Greece was able to evolve out of its past patterns.
There are two stars here - Zuben-el-genubi and Zuben-es-chamalli, about which
Nick Fiorenza writes:
The two "Chelae
of the Scorpion," Zuben-el-genubi and Zuben-es-chamalli lie at 15° and 19°
tropical Scorpio respectively , the karmic seat for incarnating souls, lies
upon the ecliptic. This location in the ecliptic is also the exalted seat of
Saturn--lord of karmic retribution, keeper of time. Zubenelgenubi reveals past
patterns that keep us entrapped in the reincarnational clutches--from attaining
our highest destiny and evolutionary freedom. Karma does not mean something
bad, it simply means our past experiential path, one that must be reconciled by
moving forth from our past into our dharma. Zubeneschamali, the dharmic seat,
lies slightly north of the ecliptic. Zubeneschamali embodies our responsibility
to complete our chosen paths of incarnational involvement so we may claim our
evolutionary freedom and spiritual awakening.
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