Children with Uranus conjunct Ascendant

If you are used to sticking to a daily routine and you like to have things planned ahead, well, the birth of your child with Uranus conjunct Ascendant, will turn your life upside - down.

Even at the moment of birth startling things can occur and they might come sudden and unexpectedly. For instance, I have noted, that a Cesarean might be necessary to give birth to this child, which could upset him because he is unaware of the entire delivery process.

Because the character of Uranian energy is unpredictable, these children, especially in the first part of their life, can be unconventional. Free spirit, you will soon find out that they don't like anyone making claims on them.

The way they see things, their ideas, their likes and dislikes, are quite out of the ordinary.

These children are extremely interesting and exciting, they can affect those close to them (parents and educators) and encourage life to become more creative.

They are highly strung and nervous, when bored they are liable to cause problems. When this happens, the solution will be found in the ability to release their “electro-magnetic” energy.

No parent wants to see their child “short-circuit.”

Original and creative, at school, they might be perceived as a living threat for their teachers.

They are quite restless, and it is difficult, for such children, just to sit quietly for any length of time. Their sudden flashes of intuition give color to their ideas, changing events according to the sign in which Uranus is in at birth.

The sign, in other words, modifies this type of energy.

In the crowd they are able to extricate themselves, and others, from whatever emergency situation arises.

With age, they are truly the “Transmitters” of new ideas, having an innovative personality. If rightly directed, these qualities give birth to new avenues for the benefit of the collective consciousness.

Where crystallization hampers future developments, they are at the centre of any major change.

They are very much in tune with this Aquarian age, because they are naturally group-oriented children.

Their tendency to serve the others, their humanity in general, are main qualities of the planet Uranus.

But paradoxically for their well-being they need plenty of room for their sense of independence.

These children, under stress, tend to become scattered and to react more suddenly than other children. There is a continuous state of nervousness, and they are unable to relax as a high intensity of electric waves are always present.

Parents can gently help these children, suggesting they do physical exercise. Later in adulthood, meditation can harmonizes and quiet the nervous system: the quieting of the mind will follow.

Uranus is sudden in action,although it culminates quickly, and releases the owner from any given situation. Usually, it follows with a swift recovery.

Depending on the point of evolution of the individual, these children can be anywhere on the scale from egocentric to group-conscious.

The children with Uranus conjunct Ascendant are able to change themselves and their surroundings. With much fellowship ready to support them, they will be part of the vanguard for future development.

Sometimes altruistic, radiant, and creative beings can push a group towards successful change, especially if they are consciously related to their heart and the creative instinct.

Such beings can bring inspiration to many.

As evolved adults, they are able to identify and internalize the Collective, and truly embody the innovative spirit of the New Era.

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 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.

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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.

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Nearly 3 million of children are reported...

CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL FLAG

The Child Welfare League of America is the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization. Was founded in Washington DC in the year 1998.

On the 27 th of April, has been launched the Children Memorial Flag Campaign to let know ,publicly, that nearly 3 million children are reported to be abused and neglected ,every year.

The Children Memorial Flag has been designed by a 16 y.o. Californian youth and shows five doll-like figures of children standing side-by-side, holding hands against a red backcloth.

A sixth child, in the center, is represented by a thin, white chalk outline, symbolizing a child lost to violence. The “lost-child”!

April has been recognised as the Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Reports say that :”the United States leads the world in homicides against children and youth under age 15, accounting for 73% of all homicides and 54% of all suicides of children, birth to age 15”.

In the year 2002 the dead children reached the number of 1.390 .

Abused and neglected children , in Astrology are ruled by the planet Saturn, when he is in distress.

Saturn represent limitations and things that you cannot do.

Difficulties ,with this planet, turn out in the most difficult psychological problems you can have in your life.

Saturn repress the energy of the other planet when in difficult aspect, with it,in a chart. He causes a frustration and a storage in the unconscious mind., creating a very hard situation to deal with.

Saturn is related to one's father, and, in difficult aspects to other planets shows an hard relationship with the father-figure.

Often, an inferiority-complex lies dormant.

An aggressive projection from the inner to the outer world, represented in this case by a child, might be ,for some, a release for this frustration!

Saturn,on the other hand, is a testing ground to prove a person's level of maturity.

He gives to us the opportunities to grow in awareness and consciousness, trough overcoming the obstacles.

He is a most spiritual guardian, he is a Karmic choice. To take responsibilities on this worldwide problem of the abuse on children , for us all, becomes a matter of maturity!

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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PLUMPY'NUT is the magical product...

PLUMPY'NUT is saving children....

Niamey-Niger-May 2007.

The terrible famine which killed thousands of children in the worst Niger's severe nutrition crisis in his history, seems to be lessening its grip!

The sight of undernourished children is less common than it was, but chronic malnutrition still affect more than 50 percent of them.

Even when the harvests are good, still the 10 percent of them suffer acute malnutrition!

A large scale effort has been launched to face this walking- ghost, and one of the tools used to stop this

massacre, is the therapeutic food known as Plumpy'nut. Food which helped to save thousands of lives during the crisis in 2005.

Like many therapeutic health centres across Niger, the UNICEF gives Plumpy'nut to severely malnourished children.

The high-protein, high-energy, peanut-based paste, typically comes in foil wrappers, or small plastic tubs, who are practical for children, who can easily eat them.

People call it:” the magical product!”

says the Regional humanitarian Advisor Jan Eijkenaar of the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department ( ECHO ).

Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world!

Neptune in Aquarius, is high in the sky, in these years, and this planetary position gives a large vision to humanitarian actions, opening the way to new solutions.

The world is one world, and its sufferings are one; humanity is in truth a unity, but many are still unaware of this, and the events are there to awaken the consciousness of the many.

A great human family will emerge in the future, there is no room , and time, for “neutral people”.

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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SCIENCE AND MEDITATION

Three months of intense meditation can sharp the mind in such a way that perceptions of facts and details of daily life are picked up. This is impossible to reach ,in a normal living condition

It is like ,a larger world, opens its doors.

An American scientific research found, after experiments on volunteers, that Vipassana meditation, this ancient discipline, can help, control and develop the human mind. There are possibilities that can heal some problems which belong to the mind.

These problems hamper the normal behaviour and regular concentration.

It is called ADHD ( attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ) which affects from 3 to 5 % of the children.

This explanation is reported from the neuroscientist doctor Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin.

Ten years ago, the Dalai Lama ,suggested him to make a research on this matter, being Davidson

himself into this path of meditation,since years.

In the next 5 years Dr. Davidson wants to find out how Vipassana meditation ( taught by Buddha, 2.500 years ago ), acts on the brain.

He wants to reach a connection with the forensic medicine, in order to treat this illness which affects children.

In the New Millennium, meditation, under supervision and equilibrium, is steadily growing, the peace of mind, body and emotion, is a necessity.

Science is approaching this philosophy and the search for truth is taking the first , daring , steps.

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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WATER CHILDREN

Water is the element of feelings, of compassion, of sensitivity, and Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are ruled by water.

Water children are the most sensitive and emotional of all signs, they are able to capture, by their subtle understanding, what is going on ,both, in a person and in a situation. Water children can have x-ray perception, especially when the planets Pluto and Neptune (related to water) are close to the rising sign.

Because of this natural sympathy with another person, water children strongly need, more than any others, to be surrounded by gentle and positive people.

Relationships, turn out, easily for them, but this can have a down-side, water children can take on other's personal baggage and can absorb more than they can “digest”. These relationships are built on feelings rather than other qualities.

When water children misbehave parents should pay more attention to reassuring their children after an argument or storm, rather than reiterating the disciplinary point. Water children immediately sense when you are angry with them, therefore there is no need to overemphasise the point. Overwhelmed, they can overreact strongly when they are emotionally flooded by their moods. Give them time and space -- let them sort out a solution to the problem. Beware, any attack to them, is an attack to their emotional security.

Parents should be very supportive during their child's development because the water element is very much connected with the past. With the water child first impressions count more than for other elements. Therefore an infant's impressions will affect the rest of his or her life.

The generation with Pluto in Scorpio (1982-1995), marked by this water-combination, are in their 20s, right now. We can sense that they are able to cope with the violence in the society, but this can leave profound scars within.

Water is the inclusive element, it is compassionate, selfless, tending to serve others.

Is the element which can bring regeneration, bring transformation, caring, and nurturing. Water children will express these qualities, if they are allowed to grow strong in early childhood.

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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Task-force against human trafficking

On April the 7th, Cambodia launched the first national task-force against human trafficking.

Cambodian Ministry of Women's Affair, launched the kingdom's first task-force to take human trafficking effectively.

This statement has been reported by, You Ay, secretary of state of the ministry.

This is a unified campaign to combat all forms of trafficking of men, women and children for slave labour, begging and prostitution.

“ Cambodia will not tolerate exploitation”, she added!

This force comprise 14 ministers and institutions to eliminate trafficking and assist victims.

Official reports said that thousands of Cambodians are exploited to work as sex slaves in Malaysia, Japan, China-Taiwan and Hong Kong, Qatar, Somali and Saudi Arabia.

Children are used as sex-toy for tourists ,and young women, too.

Prostitution, abuse...the dark side of the richer countries.

All over Asia, a large domestic consciousness ,is taking place, as a consequence of these legal steps .

It is really important that this Cambodia's standing- position has come from this exploited country.

It should be really difficult and brave to fight corruptions, there.

Exploitation is ruled by the planet Neptune. Neptune rules, also, the United Nations.

Joining forces will bring victory in the end, and this huge problem will be seen, with the time, as a remaining of a dark period in history.

Many spiritual scientists are working together, in groups or teams, to stop effectively this plague.

The exploitation of children and its solution, will open the way for the coming New Legislation , of the New Millennium .

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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OBESITY, as a distortion of...

If we consider obesity as a sickness on both physical and psychological levels, we might say that its roots are found in the quality of “beauty”, and the consequent distortion of it.

How can beauty be the origin of a sickness?

In our society beauty covers the meaning of “quality” in life, means desire, longing for wishes, represents the appearance, aesthetics, the image; an entire business-culture , is shaped out of it.

When someone is unable to get what he believes is beauty , generates a psychological, inner imbalance, which brings forth , a bent for illness.

This friction between the ideal and the reality, causes, ultimately the illness.

The Tibetan Master D.K. says that:” Many men are sick because they run after beauty, not knowing that beauty it is a divine quality, one of the many attributes of the Soul”

The real source of the beauty is unknown, to the average man, than, the inner friction, and the gap, appear.

Obesity is related to a lack of harmony in the workings of the planet Jupiter , in Astrology. Jupiter, the planet of expansion,

of growth, when is found in stress -position, in an astrological reading, causes overeating disorders, overweights, adipose tissues and obesities.

Jupiter, in the Soul-centered Astrology ,rules the constellation of Aquarius, and we are entering into this Era, we are in the very beginning.

This is one of the conclusions, I came, in order to explain the growing problem of obesity, in the western countries.

Children ,too, are affected by it, lately. An huge problem is growing in our planet,, along with the growth of the opposite one, such as anorexia. Anorexia, for good, has to do a lot, with beauty.

If we are open to the teachings of the spiritual sciences, perhaps , a solution is found.

Beauty is related to the heart-chakra and this chakra has to do with true Love, Love found only in Universal Brotherhood, in non-separatists tendencies, the Higher type of Love,and this may be the secret key to heal!

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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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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