JUPITER and PLUTO in CAPRICORN

The influence of Capricorn becomes more significant to the world with the entry of Jupiter and Pluto in 2008. Most interesting is that Jupiter will enter the sign at the beginning of the year, opening, so to say, the path to the next flow of energy of Pluto. Jupiter, along with Venus, are the most beneficial of the planets. Therefore, the entry of Jupiter in Capricorn is most favourable for the energy of Pluto.

Jupiter in Capricorn can bring a tendency towards a growing sense of expansion and influence, both on lower and higher levels of achievement. If we consider the lower level of its energy's work we will find that the philosophical and materialistic outlook of some political leaders will be structured in a way to fit their own selfish ambitions, on personal and national levels. This is political power for the leader's own ends.

On the other hand, if we take into consideration the higher level represented by this this configuration, we can find evolved and far-sighted leaders combining politics with spiritual views.

In the world-arena, the crystallized, materialistic ambitions of the former type will give the way to the new and hopeful avenues represented by the latter.

This energy will affect the individual as well as nations as a whole. Time will be a major factor with Capricorn because Capricorn's influence is slow to take effect. However, the slowness allows the development of perfection, along with deep motivation to reach some heights and expansion in this configuration.

On a more subtle-level Pluto in Capricorn will display a dynamic energy which eventually destroy forms that hinder the free expression of the pure life-force and impediments to the birth of a new culture and civilisation.

On the other hand we will find the “voice” of the masses throughout the world.

Their sound, “the sound of the Nations”will be herd. The sound of the masses is rising.

Benazir Bhutto has been killed what will be the next political step in Pakistan?

In a far-future the masses will take the lead.

If we take into account the situation in China , we find out that China is ruled by Libra.

When Pluto will be for many years ahead in the sign Capricorn, it will be square to China's ruling sign.

For sure the 2008 Olympics games will be very open challenge for this country. The challenge will be to find relentlessly new avenues for a better, peaceful, and educated state of things, in China, and in restructuring the socio-economic scene.

The square aspect in Astrology, indicates internal conflict of interests in the Chinese's arena.

But, paradoxically, because of this tension, things finally will have a way out.

Pluto in Capricorn is forceful and if the energy is locked it will cause deep psychosomatic disturbances in the long run.

A Jupiter conjunct with Pluto can bring expansion and deep regeneration to Capricorn, insuring success to perfect some expectations in the global political-scene.

The awareness and consciousness of being part of a Greater Whole will make us “world-citizens” insuring the seeds of harmony will blossom in the future.

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

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Myanmar, Uranus and Neptune

In Burma the bloody repression by the dictatorial military junta, began the same day of the full-moon in Libra. During the day of the full-moon high energies are released as well as destructive ones.

We are confronted in this historical upraising with a deep, strong challenge between loving-kindness versus violence and ignorance.

Monks, nuns, students, and peaceful crowds, fighting for democracy and freedom , were beaten and shot dead, and the fighting is not over yet.

It has happened before: there was a bloody upraising in 1988 in Burma, but with a different scenario, it was almost unseen. Today, thanks to the Media and Internet, thanks to the bloggers, photographers, video makers, the bloody suppression of the protesters was seen across the globe . In spite of the military junta which blacked out the Internet connections, there will be always some brave individual who will get the news out, sending abroad photos, e-mails or videos.

We can recognise now, that we are witnessing an historical moment:”Spirit versus Matter at its lowest level”.

This explosion of independence, mysticism and the powerful mass response has to do with Uranus in the sign of Pisces as well as Neptune in Aquarius. This, in Astrology, is called a “Mutual Reception,” meaning that these planets are in each-others sign and, they strongly interact one another.

The unexpected joining by the nuns in this scenario, put much emphasis on Aquarius and Uranus and on equal human rights. Brothers and Sisters acting together.

The subtle power of Neptune has penetrated minds and hearts of the whole world and the colour “bronze”, has flooded the international media. This situation is “impressing” a new sensibility on peoples consciousness, taking everybody by surprise and involving everybody.

This mystic-political upraising has happened suddenly (Uranus in Pisces).

With the help of the international net-work of the media, each of us has been catapulted into a far distant country (Pluto still in Sagittarius). Bringing us into the protest, and we grow in compassion and awareness.

Very recently attitudes have changed to spiritual and religious persecution. Where was the outrage when Mahatma Gandhi was fasting, or later, when the Tibetan monks were being persecuted. Today attitudes have changed – today the wall between politics and the spiritual world has fallen. This is a huge step towards a greater level of social consciousness, throughout the societies of the world.

The news is now showing the entire world how interrelated we all are. The combination of Uranus, Pluto, and Neptune, is driving this collective power: politics (Pluto/Uranus) and spirituality (Neptune).

Monks and nuns are responding, with an unexpected determination, to the effects of the Uranus in Pisces, which is able to synthesize the two Pisces (Spirit and Matter) in a totally new formula.

The effects of the planets go with the evolution and growth of the entire world. They are able to give birth to new forms of spirituality, improving the collective human conditions. They are releasing an immense inner power and strength, breaking old ways of living spirituality in the masses, and putting it to work in daily events. The uprising in Burma will be an inspiring and motivating movement towards freedom. Joy, courage and strength are involved.

This mutual-reception between planets and signs, occurs when a status-quo has suddenly broken.

Thousands monks are already in prison, beaten and tortured, but they say: “We are happy because the Light is coming!” The torch of impersonal Love, represented by Neptune in Aquarius, embodied by monks and nuns, is able to be anchored in a political and social protest. This is totally a new approach which dawns the Aquarian Age.

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

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The child with Pluto conjunct Ascendant

Very often, as parents, we don't understand our children's' behaviour, especially if it is an “unexpected” or disruptive behaviour. As soon as we have a chart's reading, Pluto conjunct Ascendant, can help us to learn how to use this powerful effect in our life, and our children. Unless we learn how to use this type of energy responsibly, it could create deep problems .

I think one of the most “intriguing” astrological charts is the one which shows Pluto close to the Ascendant. This aspect can leave parents quite upset forcing changes which are totally new and unplanned. When this happens, the child born with this planet in the rising sign is a force to be reckoned with, both in the environment and in our personal life. With Pluto conjunct the Ascendant, your child will show an unusually intense approach to life.

Since birth, and with the passing years, the personality, character and temperament of this child, expresses power and intensity, no matter in which sign the Sun is in.The Ascendant has very much to do with the first part in life, and to have such a position in the astrological chart makes quite difficult for such a young life to be able to deal with such potency, without experience.

The child is an adult in becoming, he will learn later, hopefully, how to deal with such force.

But right now, in childhood, he tends to succumb to this dominating influence.

Pluto has to do with the Collective energies, not with the personalised ones. Unless these energies are used for social benefit, Pluto tends to be very selfish and destructive when hindered.

These are the lessons the child will learn with age, lessons which will mark big changes in life.

Pluto in Ascendant is difficult to deal with both in childhood and adolescence: Pluto is a manipulative power. Too much intensity in their child makes the parents feel lost.

A strong reaction from the parental side both in childhood or adolescence, can make things worse, leading to the damaging of the relationship between parent and child.

Such a child unconsciously or consciously, is able to read your mind, he, or she, has a kind of “x-rays”. It is impossible to hide feelings from such a child. This capacity produces a tremendous impact in the surroundings. In the action of transforming each situation and, in consequence, causing you to transform, Pluto at the Ascendant reveals to be a karmic agent for its environment. The possessor of this planetary configuration needs changes throughout their life.

Its work is above all on the Astral plane, on the psychic level. The desire-principle must be accomplished, or upsetting consequences are created.

When this type of child loses his temper, it can be quite dramatic and spectacular, the piling up of the explosion starts hidden and with a broody attitude.

The parents must be aware of this underlying process because they can have the chances to rightly reorient this strong energy in their children:

Teaching him/her the compassion and respect for the rights of others.

Trying to leave him/her alone to give them time and space to sort out by themselves the problem. If possible.

Trying not to resist changes in their lives. Parents feel that changes should only their decision not influenced by their children, but such changes cannot be avoided with such a child. A child with Pluto in the Ascendant is a karmic effect for themselves, and the family.

Always using Love and Wisdom.

Being prepared that this child likes to take risks, the experiences are always very intense.

Their approach to life is quite serious, either black or white, do-or-die-attitude, no half-ways.

Emotions can run high, changes are likely to happen during crises-periods, and if rightly handled, they produce a regenerated being, after each crisis.

On the Soul-centered level, Pluto in Ascendant, can produce a charismatic aura around the individual tending the person to become a Reformer.

The expression of dominance in the environment must be turned from the egocentric to the selfless in order to express good will.

Pluto in Ascendant, if rightly used, produces miracles! It is a strong Healing Vibration.

Indeed, Pluto is the spiritual ruler of Pisces.

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

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The Education in the New Era

Germany, Xenophobic Wave. Three teenagers shot at London...

After the racist attacks, the social democrats ask to ban NPD

Extreme right at bar. After the violent attacks against immigrants of the last few days, in Germany, the political debate about a possible ban of the neo-Nazi party NPD has fired up again.

The aggressions in various German cities against a Senegalese, an Iraqi, an Egyptian and seven Indians, the last ones violently beaten up by about fifty neo-Nazis in Muglen, have outraged German public opinion.

To the extent that the Social Democratic Party (SPD), a member of the coalition guided by Angela Merkel (Grosse Koalition), has taken, trough its President Kurt Beck, legal action to ban the extreme right wing party, responsible, a few days ago,to promote racial hatred through the ludicrous and grotesque words of its president Udo Voigt.

Voigt has recommended Hitler's right-hand man Rudolph Hesse as a Peace Noble Prize candidate!

Most of NPD' supporters are young Germans, aged 14 to 25, half of them think that Nazism had “its positive aspects”.

On the other hand three teenagers, including a 13 years -old boy, have been shot outside a house party in north London, days ago.

Police say a large number of people were outside in the street when a group of youths with their faces covered turned up and fired a handgun.

A 18 years-old girl is being treated in hospital after being hit in the back.

A boy of the same age was wounded in the chest - the 13 years old in the leg.

And the list is growing...

“What the West has tolerated, but secretly and with a slight sense of shame ( the diplomatic lie, systematic deception, veiled threats ), come back into the open and in full measure from the East and ties up in neurotic knots.

It is the face of his own evil shadow that grinned at Western Man from the other side of the Iron Curtain.” - Carl Jung

The “shadow” represents our emotions and behaviour that are incompatible with our own self-image, so they are repressed into our subconscious.

The “shadow-projection” occurs when someone projects his own guilty-complex, outside on individual or national level.

These young people, as a group, project what they deny inside themselves onto other people, so nations project what is called as” Collective Shadow”.

This is very much an aspect of the planet Pluto which is entering in the year 2008 in the sign of the leaders and political issues: Capricorn.

This configuration will challenge the status quo.

The basic dynamic underlying group hatred and violence asks for a turning point in handling a New Education at schools.

The political leaders must figure out what went wrong in the educational field.

To reorient the child's consciousness in a way that he might be able to recognise, since childhood, that all the teachings are targeting towards the others' good , rather than his,it requires a totally new vision in the teaching-area. New Teachers, with a loving-kindness awareness, are blossoming, right now.

With this perspective, the child will learn to look forwards, in a peaceful direction.

The teachings regarding the past, will be given to uplift, positively, the racial consciousness, instead on being based on facts such as material conquests and aggressions. This is what is happening, now.

In the mind of the child, the past connects with the present.

In the New Educational future, the capacity of the child to unify, to connect, different aspects of his life, will be developed.

He will be more in tune with the whole, rather than with separative tendencies

The concept of “Relationship” with all the living beings, will be enhanced.

Children will be able to see and lived out the “Brotherhood and Sisterhood” in their lives, better than the adults, educated with old and outdated methods. The new world-citizens are already born and are in our society, right now.

In the New Educational School, will lie the hope for the future generations, let's make it happen, soon. West and East want it and need it, badly!

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

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Pluto in the chart of U.S.A.

The transit of Pluto in the chart of U.S.A.

If we look at the U.S.A.'s national chart, cast on July 4, 1776 for Philadelphia, we find, since 2003 , the transit of Pluto in her seventh house. This is a pivotal moment for all the world's affairs.

The chart of U.S. shows the sun in the sign of Cancer and her rising sign 20 degrees Gemini.

In 2004, Pluto, being 20 degrees Sagittarius, made an exact opposition with the conjunction Mars and Ascendant in the national chart. With Mars in this position, the chart shows a strong martial, aggressive attitude, both at home and in foreign affairs. It attracts wars, strikes, riots.

Pluto rules psychotic outbreaks in the collective unconscious. This can bring an obsession with wars, because the seventh house depicts, traditionally, the open enemy.

This area, in Mundane Astrology, rules relations with other countries, all foreign relations, treaties, alliances, wars and all related aspects of national affairs.

With the position of Pluto, in the chart of U.S., we can see the type of projected enemies. Enemies which are lived out as “scary shadows” for the whole nation.

Psychologically this configuration powerfully indicates anxieties and deep rooted fears of destabilization. Because projected enemies are a psychological projection, as when the nation perceives threats from other countries, it attracts, magnetically, what is feared. To identify with our own national fears, can be a very difficult task, because the nation must assume, in the end, their own fears.

Threatening issues from foreign countries are dealt with deep paranoia, whenever this astrological configuration appears in a “mundane chart”.

But the Plutonian energy, when positive and harmoniously dealt with, brings purification and fresh starts in life. Pluto ends old schemes which stand on the way to evolution, and clears the way to reforms.

This aspect is still active right now, because the effect of Pluto is very deeply ingrained.

We can say that, realistically, Pluto is pushing the U.S. capacity to regenerate human relations. If we can turn this opposition into a more harmonious aspect such as the trine aspect, we might learn an “interpersonal“ way to deal with world-conflicts.

Pluto in opposition to Mars suggests a tendency to use more power than necessary to accomplish goals. If we turn it into a trine aspect, we can find creative ways to use vital energies: transforming energies.

A trine can also transform the national drive to win at all costs, into a regenerative dialogue between the two countries: finding a healing synthesis.

Between 2009 and 2010, Pluto will cast again, another opposition: from the first to the seventh house.

This time Pluto will be opposite to the conjunction Venus and Jupiter in Cancer, in the first house.

Which could result in ending relations, philosophical and religious mass-persecutions. Again, if we are able to turn the opposition into a trine, the problem can be partially solved by using profound understandings among the opponents. The contributions of past lessons can bring light in this shadowy projection.

Instead of violent ends, a larger and intense sense of beauty, along with a sense of interaction, can release a “fusion-quality”, which is Jupiter main task.

New avenues to find diplomatic intercourse.

A regenerative way of developing fraternal relations in the U.S.'s chart, is around the corner which not only will be a benefit for the rest of the world but also for their entire nation. Pluto is slow moving planet, but restless in reforming old conditions.

From separation to fusion: this is the planetary task!

The ladder of evolution is endless, as the minds and hearts of people, their potentials are infinite.

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

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Pluto in Capricorn

The planet Pluto represents the deeps, the bottom of the well, the unexplored depths of darkness. Pluto in the year 2008 will enter in Capricorn, and its passage will last until 2024.

It 's interesting to note that this planetary combination shows the depths with Pluto, and the heights with Capricorn, the sign of the “Mountain Goat”.

It is a vertical movement, either from above to below, or, the other way around.

Vertical is a very spiritual direction, if it points upward! The inferior opens up to the Superior.

Both deal with the right use of power, and the right use of the will. The enormous potential of this combination can have a regenerative effect on the masses.

The process will be slow in motion, Pluto is a slow-moving planet , and because Capricorn is a cautious, patient, target-oriented sign, we can figure out the reformer and structural impact.

Both are working in alliance, to ameliorate the social scene.

Capricorn rules political leaders, the government, and people in positions of social power. Pluto's power is polarized. It is extreme, tending either to the harmonious or to the disharmonious. This will make politics more black and white but whichever political wing gains power, the masses will exercise more active participation.

Distorted Plutonian power, has to do with money, sex, abuse, etc. Pluto is raw power wherever it is used for selfish ends it will have a boomerang effect upon selfish individuals, or nations.

Pluto in Capricorn can break crystallized old concepts, structures, and outlived forms of government. It rules the homoeopathic principle in medicine, and will bring purifying change to whatever needs to be cleared up. The generation of children born under this configuration can well be called: ”The Reformers”.

We are entering into the period of 2500 years of the Aquarian Age, this will introduce a general growth of consciousness. This combination of Capricorn with Pluto can challenge the status-quo of those who hold unequal power. Ultimately, we are referring to power unequal to their Soul's development. So, for the individual, so for a nation.

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

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Afghan children

AFGHANISTAN, improvements are on the way...

I remember the night when I arrived, to the Afghan border, it was in the '72.

Two rocks an a log, this was the marking-border.

A hot night, full of magic and mystery in the air, our passports were checked, under the lights of some candles...

An entire generation fell in love with this country.

We saw what we wanted to see.

In this torn- apart-land, finally, are arriving, the very first signs of marked improvement in the health sector, it is a beginning to life again, for this country.

Independent evaluation suggest 40,000 fewer infants deaths per year, compared to 5 years ago.

United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan ( UNAMA )

Kabul -may '07

Infant mortality rates in Afghanistan ,declined from an estimated 165 per 1,000 live births in 2001 to about 135 per 1,000 in 2006, according preliminary findings of Johns Hopkins University household survey

This means that 40,000 fewer infants are dying each year compared to during Taleban rule.

An overall improvement of 25 per cent is indicated from 2004.

Dr.Fatimi, Public Health Minister of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan , quotes:'There are clear signs of health sector recovery throughout the country!”

Afghanistan is ruled by the sign Capricorn, you can see it in the proud behaviour of the people.

This is the sign of “the goat”, symbol of the animal which is able to climb mountains.

Capricorn has to do with directed will , dealing with political and economic power.

Pluto, the planet of deep reforms and drastic changes, will enter in the year 2008 in this sign, marking strongly this country, for more than a decade.

In spite of all the difficulties , and the domestic struggles, there are already, signs of rebirth; we all hope, that the education of children and women, will be soon, a further step , to take.

Rise up with your beauty, Afghanistan, in peace and love, in the world's geography!

Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

Leni Sibilio

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Right Human Relations and Internet

*** Right Human Relations and Internet ***


We, are now, entering into the Age of Aquarius. We are moving step by step, towards a growing expression of collective impersonality.

By “collective impersonality” I mean people that in all dealings will find the right central point, between the two poles in any matter, without being bogged down by too much subjective involvement. People who tend towards being self-less rather than selfish.

The 'personal garden” (the sphere of personal interest) becomes increasingly less important than the collective one: considering the whole of society and not just a part of it, is the response of this coming new age.

Through using the mass-media and the Internet, we are constantly aware of what is going on in the world at any time. We are not just spectators any more, but participants in the flux of world society.

Now with the Internet we have net-related-interconnections, that did not exist, until recently, with such effect on so many people over such a vast space and such a short time. This energy that flows through the Internet demands an impersonal state of mind, and heart.

This basic transformation, of our attitudes and thoughts, seems to have happened when two of the slower planets, Uranus and Pluto, entered in the sign of Libra ( Uranus entered in Libra by the end of 1968- till 1975; Pluto entered in 1971 and went out by the end of 1983 ).

Libra it is the sign of The Law, and as a consequence of this quality, the right human relations (the inclusive nature of humanity) began to flourish in the hearts and minds of people.

Uranus tends to revolutionize, it rules archetypes, so new archetypes were born, old habit-thoughts were abandoned suddenly, and a new way to relate within marriage and within groups, took place.
It was the Uranian intuition which stimulated humanity towards unity, instead of separative attitudes.

The term: “citizen of the world” is and was, a reality!

Pluto brought the end of old social, and personal, patterns, so, transformation and rejuvenation took place. In Libra, an artistic sign, Pluto brought up a period in which the creativity became an essential part of relationships, and, this along with the Uranian inputs, these were the seeds for right human relations.

These changes took place, and we found each other related in a totally new prospective.
The new Astrology, the Astrology centered in the Soul, deals with this enormous transformation which marks a new historical period on Earth.

The Earth is definitively bringing the message into the open, that the old intellectual approach towards internet it is ending. Now the shift, is towards a progressive, intuitive, capability to understand the meaning of the news, not just a superficial understanding.

One big family, means that many religious and political walls will not be able to withstand the flow of social evolution, and the Internet will change equally dramatically with the flow of the new Age.


Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.
Leni Sibilio
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CHILDREN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM

We can see, in Astrology, that children born in the same period (within a decade), have some general characteristics which in later years, will be shared, and will mark periods of historical changes, either towards civilizations expansion or decline.

Sometimes also “the uneventful-silent periods” in history, show a certain generational characteristic.

This is mostly due to the signs and aspects that the planets Neptune, Pluto and Uranus occupy in the birth charts. These planets are so slow in motion, that they are prominent in signing periods or cycles which will affect the collective trends. The identity, of an entire generation of youth,will be affected by particular credo, ideas, ideals and beliefs.

For instance if we take the generation of “baby-boomers”, those people born immediately after the war from 1946 until 1956, we find a generation with Uranus in late Gemini, Neptune in Libra and Pluto in Leo, we have a generation who are keen in new ideas, who are brilliant and intuitive,pioneering in science and literature, media, communications,etc.

The boomers sought, and continue to seek new ways to deal with the family, breaking with old standards and finding excitement on a more emotional level, very creative and, somehow, self-centered and exhibitionist. The children who created the 60s!

The children of today, for instance, those from 1996-2003, (with Uranus in Aquarius, Neptune in late Capricorn and Aquarius, Pluto in Sagittarius) will be very outgoing, exuberant, independent and always questioning conventionality, and will be reformers in philosophy, and able to break and broad old religions and dogmas.

From 2003 until 2010 this generation it is similar of the previous one, but more poetic, more morbid, very brilliant, and very artistic!

Children will be relate towards each others in a more compassionate way, and will be aware of humanity in general. They will express the dream of the present period: a new world where human rights are on the first line, where the good of the one must be the good of the many!

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Leni provides a large variety of astrological services, workshops, readings and is an accomplished lecturer and writer, in both English and Italian. She has appear on television and radio, and is much in demand for the both traditional and soul centered astrology.

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