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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Taurus versus Scorpio - "The dance of the Signs"

TAURUS VS. SCORPIO

257- “How should one understand the benefit of obstacles when one is told that psychic energy, acting as a magnet, attracts all possible advantages? Truly, when a large ship increases its speed the resistance of the waves increases too.

Similarly, many obstacles are brought about by our own striving. It is this process that attracts to us unexpected actions by an opposing will.

If they are very strong, our own counter-stroke will develop accordingly. Most important the currents opposing us should be strong, because then our flame is ignited.

Consider this inflaming useful; a conflagration would be dangerous.

By inflaming I mean when the crystal form of the flame of the centre is retained ; conflagration is when the centre flares up in a blaze.

When someone is said to be depressed by circumstances, be assured that he lives unignited, and that any encounter with an obstacle confuses his consciousness...but when the step is firm, the counter forces are beneficial... Agni Yoga

This Sutra inspired me so much because Agni Yoga is the Yoga of Fire, and as such, It gives impetus to the Astrological Science.

If we consider the opposite signs in the Zodiac we find out that they interact each-other constantly.

This pressure springing from different “currents” generates a deep awareness or objectivity in how to “sail” in life, using Astrology as a Tool.

If, for instance, we take into consideration the currents between Taurus and Scorpio we can experience the fixed strength of both signs. Taurus is “preserving”, Scorpio is “regenerating.”

In its highest essence, Taurus represents the Mother nature, the stability of beauty and life upon the planet Earth. Scorpio is the cycle “death and rebirth”of the same principle: the seasonal cyclic law.

The former brings to us the stability of values, the latter forces the same values to be constantly re-polarized. Through the draining of the negative energies on the surface, Scorpio transforms them into a new stream of healing and strength.

Both currents face each other, they are confronting energies which result, ultimately, in “flames of growth.” An extremely creative and artistic talent springs out of these intermingling forces; the titanic confrontation, Taurus versus Scorpio sparkles in action.

This is really the type of struggle between Rajas (activity) and Tamas (inertia), and they are so equal in proportion that the combat is flaming. “Tamas induces love of ease and pleasure, Rajas, on the other hand, is fiery, impatient, ever urging to action” - Esoteric Psychology – A.A.Bailey.

If these signs belong to the earth and water elements, fire and air are always present in the final synthesis. It is this type of Energy which gives birth to the appearance of colours, and inspires artists.

Serenity, confidence, self-control, purity, unselfishness, accuracy, and mental and moral balance, are the virtues to be finally acquired when the smooth flow between the two signs is reached.

It is indeed a beautiful confrontation, the confrontation between Taurus and Scorpio. It is the “Fascinating Dance” of the Zodiacal opposites. Evolution develops not through harmony alone, but it is the alternation of conflict and harmony. Without conflict, harmony becomes stagnation. Evolution is movement, and conflict ensures movement. That's why the synthesis between the currents of Taurus and Scorpio are ruled by “Harmony through Conflict.”

Let us “set Sailing,” wherever in our chart Taurus versus Scorpio is, let us push to find the joy spreading from this confrontation, because, where there is dark, there lies much more light.

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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In 2008 Saturn opposition Uranus

In 2008 the planets Saturn and Uranus will make an aspect of opposition between each other.

What is interesting is that it happens around the time of the American election.

Saturn in the sign of Virgo, around 17 degrees will oppose Uranus in Pisces, marking a real strong, controversial political campaign.

Saturn in Virgo shows over concern for the details because the tendency of Saturn towards perfection puts too much weight on Virgo's natural sense of order.

It can brings obsessive concern for undue details. What is essential and what it is not, will be a main issue on the individual and national level.

Saturn is conservative, limiting, structuring, stabilizing the form-aspect in life.

Uranus in Pisces, on the other hand, can act in both directions scattering the two fishes on opposite side, or trying to synthesise the two in a common orientation.

Often the results are in a “washing away of the status quo”.

The Old versus the New - Consolidation versus Intuition.

It is very much expected a strong activist protests, all over the world, challenging the prevailing social conditions.

Trying to reach the cause acting behind the effects, we might say that the real challenge, here, is to find the right orientation of the reformatory drives, stabilizing, later, them.

I think this a main key in the 2008's political and economical scene. This will be a period marking a turning- point for the entire world.

Another main issue has to do with priorities, the “essentials” to deal with, both on the individual and social level.

Uranus brings an energy of intuition which can be found in scientific research work.

On the other hand, the individual can have the opportunity to find his place in society, being more aware of his or her influence on group-interactions: being more active than passive.

Society will find new avenues for evolution and new experiments will be launched with much responsibility for the both the individual and the nation.

With Uranus in Pisces the area of the services for ameliorating social conditions,is much sensitised.

But also Saturn in Virgo puts the emphases on social-service.

By the end of 2008, much selection will be made on taking actions to promote Service at any level.

At the same time, on Nov. 26 2008, the planet Pluto is taking steps and will enter in the sign of Capricorn for a long while.

This will happen just before the new American president takes office.

At the day of the entry of Pluto in Capricorn there will be a stellium in the hopeful sign of Sagittarius, showing concern for religious issues.

This stellium can bring deep reforms in the area of philosophical and religious attitudes. Pluto is slow and relentless in his action, and we really understand and realise his action years later.

If we take into consideration the planets by their signs: we find that this entry of Pluto in Capricorn concerns leaders and government, and Uranus is a leader indeed!

At the zodiacal level the two signs: Virgo, Pisces , are connected with Capricorn by a sextile and a trine aspect.

Making a symbolic “resolution” of the opposing Saturn and Uranus combination.

Pluto can have a deep seated effect on intuitive reforms in structuring anew social channels.

Especially on a new political scene.

If right direction will further this configuration, a tremendous elevation of consciousness, inventiveness and a potential seed in economic growth, can be the result of this “ Cosmic Suggestion”.

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.

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.

Leni Sibilio

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NEPTUNE IN AQUARIUS

With Neptune in Aquarius, within your psyche the jagged will become smooth. This is done by the continuous, subtle wave of Neptunian pressure.

These gentle waves affect us in a silent way: they bring revelations about our true nature.

The soft power of Neptune erodes the hard edges either in an individual or at a social level.

With the help of the sign Aquarius, Neptune is able to dissolve walls between different groups of people, speeding up the process of global unity. We can call Neptune “the Dissolver” of the Zodiac, and the alignment with Aquarius, produces a new vision of the future society to come.

The subtle influences of Neptune are often imperceptible, they infuse the consciousness, bringing insights.

Spiritual Sciences, arts, the angelic world, the electromagnetic field, as well as pollution and intoxications ... are really Neptunian issues.

Because all these issues surround us in our daily life, they are able to produce a flow of awareness and a greater sensitivity within us. Neptune in Aquarius stimulates this sensitivity to all our surroundings. This is consciousness in action. Global warming,etc.

With the help of Neptune in Aquarius new ways of healing are taking place. For instance in treating schizophrenia and mental illness, Neptune shows a more experimental way of dealing with these ailments.

Where the split from reality and illusion lies, there in this chasm, is the point where Neptune can make the difference.

By strengthening the spiritual self, the mundane self becomes the servant, rather than the ruler. Neptune is compassion, and has to do with the super-consciousness, and it is the development of the super-consciousness the key to spiritual consciousness in humanity.

It is this spiritual comprehension that advances the spiritual self and demotes the mundane self to its rightful role of servant and thereby removing the internal conflict. Neptune is both the cause of the glamour-illusion that can lead to mental illness, but if it is used in a spiritually scientific way, it also a cure.

It is no coincidence that this configuration appears in this dramatic period of human history. Neptune in Aquarius smooths the hard calcifications of built up materialism. The public flowering of compassion, although some is still very egoistical, is influenced by the subtle waves of Neptune in Aquarius

Neptune in Aquarius inaugurates a period where the urge for spiritual life will counteract much materialistic tendency. The intellect will be more influenced by intuition. Whereas the waves of Neptune and Aquarius are operating at their higher potentials, the Music of the Spheres will be heard.

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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BLESSINGS OF THE BUDDHAS

What is the Maitreya Project?

The historical collection of more than 1,000 Relics will be enshrined in the heart of a statue of Maitreya Buddha being built in Kushinagar, India.

The purpose of the Maitreya Project is to bring as much benefit to as many people as possible for as long as possible. This is achieved through the practise of loving-kindness towards oneself and others.

His Holiness the 14^th Dalai Lama explains:-

“When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighbouring communities and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others it not only makes others feel loved and cared for but also helps us to develop inner happiness and peace.”

“This Project is really wonderful and is the result of great courage and determination, and from the depth of my heart I appreciate and applaud this wonderful project and all those people connected with this project-the benefactors and all the others who have contributed and are contributing to it.

You should realize that this is a very holy and sacred Project”.

Who is Maitreya Buddha?

Maitreya is known as the Buddha of living-kindness. He will appear in this world after the time of Shakyamuni Buddha and teach the dharma.

It is just about building a huge statue?

No. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said:”The statue itself is not the goal, it is the method for achieving the goal.”

The Project's ultimate goal is to create peace and harmony throughout the world. To achieve this, we offer a way of life based on the attitude of loving-kindness. The central, focal point embodying this loving-kindness is the beautiful, golden Mitreya statue with the sacred relics inside.

What is the Maitreya Project Heart Shrine Relic Tour?

A collection of more than 1,000 sacred relics of the Buddha and other Buddhist Masters is now touring the world. These relics will be permanently enshrined inside the heart of a magnificent Maitreya Buddha statue being built in Kushinagar, India due for completion in 2010.

How does the Project promote loving-kindness and peace?

*By providing immediate, direct, muche needed support for the local Indian people including schools, a network of local clinics offering free medical treatment, local jobs and resulting economic growth. There is already a school in Bodhgaya offerinf free education and health care to local children.

*By giving visitors the tools to develop their loving-kindness within a center for spiritual development and academic excellence-including monastery, nunnery, sacred art, meditation/lecture halls, peaceful pavilions and spiritual sanctuaries with information on the study and practice of metta or loving kindness.

*By being a dynamic example of loving kindness in action to the world. People can find a source of inspiration by watching the growth of the Project via the world media.

Whwrw can I find out more about the Relics and Maitreya Project?

Visit www. maitreyaproject.org or email relictour@maitreyaproject.org

“FROM LOVING – KINDNESS, THEN YOU CAN ACHIEVE FREEDOM”

The Aquarian Age is really began!

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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THE SUFFERINGS OF TIBET

CHINA DESTROYS GIANT BUDDHIST STATUE IN TIBET

Published by the Canada Tibet Committee

In a demonstration of tightening controls over religious freedom in Tibet, the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) destroyed a 30-foot high statue of the Buddhist figure of Guru Rinpoche, or Padmasambhava in Samye Monastery, the oldest monastery in Tibet.

Guru Rinpoche is worshipped by Tibetan and Chinese Buddhists alike as the founder of Buddhism in Tibet in the 8^th century.

Chinese authorities claim that the statue, which was constructed using funds from two Chinese Buddhists, violated regulations passed in January 2007 stating that “organizations and individuals not belonging to religious organizations or places of religious activity may not erect or construct large-scale outdoor religious statues or mani lhakhang (prayer wheel temple).”

After the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1949, over 6.000 monasteries, nunneries, and temples were looted of precious religious artefacts or destroyed entirely.

Over 110.000 religious leaders (including monks, nuns, and others) were tortured and put to death; an additional 250.000 were forcibly dis robed.

Thousands of refugees continue to flee Tibet each year in search of religious freedom they can no longer enjoy in their own country.

If we trust in the Law of Karma, Reincarnation can provide some answers into the question if exists justice in the world.

We have to look deeper in the past, to find out if, presently, the law of cause-effect is in action.

This as to do with individuals, as well as groups because conflicts, wars, genocide, sufferings, have a lot to do with “group-karma”.

Souls reincarnate in groups to learn some spiritual lessons, or like the case of the Tibetan, to carry out an higher spiritual purpose for humanity.

The Dalai Lama pointed out that the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the destruction of Tibetan monasteries caused the spread of the Buddhists monks to the West and its growing popularity.

This state of things would not have happened if all the monks had stayed in Tibet.

The Dalai Lama pointed out in an interview with The New York Times, that the present invasion from China has to do with hidden causes stretching back into the previous lives of both countries.

Has been said that when a country hates another, chances are that their people will reincarnate into the nation which is the object of hate.

I herd, in a meeting of spiritual sciences in Canada, lately, that the needs of the Young Chinese people, are suddenly changing.

Seems that they are searching and looking for spiritual direction.

Their minds and hearts are going in the direction of the “Tibetan path.”

So, not only the western countries, but the young Chinese too, will benefit from this “group karma'. Karma which links China and Tibet. Karma which the Tibetans carry out with a spiritual purpose.

May the young Chinese -people be strong enough, one day, to change the Tibetan suffering!

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

http://.astrominds.com

leni@astrominds.com

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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JUPITER IN SAGITTARIUS

Jupiter in Sagittarius, this is Jupiter's own sign: it gives a great enthusiasm in life: large ideas, big schemes and an open generosity. It is a position which favours the mental body and an intuitive perception of life. The transit of Jupiter in Sagittarius will continue up to the end of 2007 and portends positive attitudes towards world's problems.

Jupiter displays an energy which brings fusion: it blends different polarities, and different point of view. The planet produces a type of activity in humanity which pushes both individuals and nations, to experience directly different situations, giving birth to wisdom. Which, ultimately means true understanding. It blends mind and love, head and heart, spirit and matter, both individually and in social issues. Jupiter is a synthesising power wherever it falls in a chart, it shows where this fusion is most likely to happen.

Jupiter in Sagittarius has much to do with Love and Wisdom, with the abilities to sense the perspectives and motivations beyond the apparent.

In the Soul-centred Astrology, Sagittarius is ruled by the planet Earth, giving a practical touch to his wisdom.

I noticed that, in this period, many petitions has come to me via e-mail: reinforcing the vision and hope brought up by this configuration. These Petitions cover global warming, peace, animal issues, etc. These petitions come from all distant countries. With Jupiter in his own sign, we can figure out that practical solutions can be expressed by wisdom (which is a mental quality). Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, Africa -- we are all linked to their conflicts. What happens in the farthest galaxy has repercussions in our planet, that is why the fusion quality of Jupiter is so important is so important in world-affairs.

Many groups and individuals are aware of the pressing need of this fusion. That is why the use of the internet is such a catalyst to solve problems, both national or individual. This is a diplomatic labour fuelled by Love. Much contribution to this effort is given by Jupiter in Sagittarius.

Intuitive thoughts in religious disparities can mould separative philosophies; however, spiritual principles are universal in their nature! In this way all religions are interconnected to one another.

The sign of the Archer points to the diplomatic solutions which enlarges the vision of a fused-society, and Jupiter adds the enthusiasm and the zeal to make it happen!

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

http://.astrominds.com

leni@astrominds.com

HUMANITY
One Humanity, one world! This is the final task of the Aquarian Age.
This Age will last 2500 years. This time will be a time of non-stop challenges. This is an age of growth, a time of growing up: humanity has to develop, to improve, to evolve. The Aquarian Age is a time for spiritual growth. It will be during this Age that human consciousness will reach an awareness we can hardly imagine right now.
In this new social order: new archetypes will be born, new crisis solving ideas will arrive, new world- cooperation will develop. All of this and more will be the blossoming promises for the Humanity to come. The Aquarian changes are on the way, we are just entering into this great Era.
Still, Humanity is not yet ready for it! Many people are unaware of the potential a conscious mind and a compassionate heart. They can bring the elements to heal and solve conflicts and sufferings.
Freedom, the real freedom which this Age heralds, is the freedom from the entanglements of matter.
Matter is more than form, it can be conventional habits, and concepts.
We need new avenues to solve conflicts between brother and brother, between country and country. We need to reduce the distance between spirit and matter.
Neptune is a planet of dreams, of images, visions. Neptune's passage through Aquarius is bringing the inspiration, and Aquarius is bringing the audience. For most of us, the vision of being able to feel and sense the energy of belonging to a Greater Whole is still a dream, a surrealistic reality.
It will be the scientists and the economists that will ring the changes in the Aquarian Age. It will be these specialist that will find a way of lessening the disparities in international trade. Interconnectivity and Collaboration will extend beyond trade into culture, education, and into a new breed of politics.
The power to change will be “world-good-will.”This power is the healing element.
Such a power has been inaugurated during the Age of Pisces, when the quality of Love has been introduced for the first time in human history. It will be in the new age when Love will be fully understood and practiced. Love is a quality of the Soul.
By now, we have the first world-wide organisation, the United Nations, which is the result of the entering in this Age. This organization, is young, but with experience, with time, it will grow stronger to solve all international-problems.
Parallel to nations and organizations there are a growing number of “servers”, women and men of goodwill, who are acting all over the planet for the benefit of the Earth.
These people do not belong to any one party, nor to a sect, they have an open-heart. They are inspired, they have the vision which links them all.
The future of Humanity lies in their hands.
Spiritual Impersonal Love for Humanity is their contribution!
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
http://.astrominds.com
leni@astrominds.com

Clash of Faiths

Islam and Christianity: clash of Faiths

On 9/11, the Middle East was catapulted to the forefront on news programs around the world.

Suddenly, what was happening thousand of miles away could affect people regardless of where they lived.

The entire world awakened to the reality of how the Middle East impact us all.

It was clear that the Middle East's problems were going to have a greater impact on our lives than our own domestic disputes.

Sept. 11 was the climax-point when accumulated problems of thousand of years came, suddenly, on the surface. Now we are all affected by it. Oil is hidden in the Middle East deserts, our economies depend largely on it.

To this reality we must add the creation of many new countries which complicated the political area.

Endless violence started at the time of the birth of one nation in particular.

This territory, which is not holy any more,because of the sufferings, is the birth place of the world's three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

And it is here that the big “Armageddon”, takes place.

Each of these groups want to control the territory because they believe it is their “holy land”.

In spite of the clashes, history teaches us that in the past, Jewish and Arabs, have not always been enemies.

European culture was influenced by Arabs and Jews, leading, eventually, to the Renaissance.

Europeans, Arabs and Jews, could gain much from cooperation.

-June 16, the Palestinian President M.Abbas swore in an emergency Cabinet on sunday and outlawed the militia forces of the Islamic Hamas movement, deepening the violent rupture in Palestinian society.

Brothers against brothers.

In Gaza the situation among Hamas and Fatah movements has arrived to a declaration of war.

An Israel fuel company cut off deliveries to gas stations, worsening the situation...

_ Each nation tends to project its shadow on other people who are different, separative tendencies are rooted, deeply, in human nature. They are the inheritance of a conditioned growth and wrong mass-education.

• the law of reincarnation, if you trust, teaches that in one life we are born in a country, in the next one, we are born in a totally new environment.

So the Jew could have been born as a Palestinian in prior lives, and a Palestinian might have a Jewish family, in the future.

Everybody must experience different places of birth, different period of history, different people, different sexes, etc.

-All religions are waiting a new spiritual period herald by the sacred texts in the past.

Period in which ,finally, peace on earth will prevail!

Will be the public opinion strong enough for launching constantly right human relations?

Will be able the minorities to obtain what they rightly ask without bloodsheds.

In which way to abolish “walls” among races, countries, communities?

In which way to build, finally, “One Humanity?”

The answer is simple, so obvious, so difficult still:

to install right human relations through the quality of “world-good-will”.

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 planet Earth

The planet Earth is the Soul-centred ruler of the sign Sagittarius. We can find the Earth's position on a chart if we count 180 degrees from the natal position of the Sun.

For instance, assume you have the Sun positioned on 21^st degree of Leo, than Earth will be found 21^st degree of Aquarius. It is an opposition.

The Earth's position, in a chart, represents the concrete path the individual has to pass along in each incarnation. With each incarnation you learn, from practical experiences, which areas you are able to influence others.

Earth is the synthesis between our animal nature and the Soul.

The big conflict between the two takes place where his position in a chart lies.

The field of experience, where she falls, show us the battleground to be redeemed.

The arrows of Sagittarius target the field where Earth is found!

The Sun represents the “creative d.n.a”, we bring into each incarnation in life. The Earth, opposite to him,by position, points where this creativity has to be expressed.

In the area where Earth is placed, we find in which way to service humanity.

Saturn works in parallel with Earth, being both of the same mental nature and linked by the Law of Karma.

If we find Earth in Pisces, it means the Sun is in Virgo, this position will indicate the outer field of service of Virgo. It will give, to the visionary and idealistic Pisces, a touch of practicality.

It will clear up the glamorous desires nature and establishing more equilibrium in the Loving nature.

True Love might be experienced with Earth in Pisces. Our duties, our responsibilities, our dharma in life, are hidden in the Earth's position.

Where the arrows land, is where his field is revealed.

The Earth's environment, which is the physical side of the planet Earth, must be ameliorated, the majority is aware of it! Sound actions must be taken to save the planet, as soon as possible.

What most of people doesn't realize, is that our behaviour,our negative thoughts, negative emotions, especially angriness, produces a violent reaction on the ethereal field of our planet.

All negativities are stored in the ethereal shield which wraps the cortex of our planet. At a certain point

these negativities become concrete, producing disasters, cataclysms, earthquakes, etc... Ponder on this!

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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How to react with depression

Saturn rules this state of unbalance, we call depression. Nowadays, depression is an illness that is manifesting itself all over the world. The planet, rules all types of material forms. This influence includes the mineral world as well as our planet Earth. Saturn's connection with the law of gravity and the principle of responsibility are well known to the astrologers.

Saturn gives us, blocks and delays and also makes us free: it is a paradox. These blocks must be seen as opportunities to grow and prove ourselves as maturing individuals. In this way we grow and in growing we get rid of past entanglements. Saturn represents time and karma. Time and karma, if rightly used, gives stability. Saturn is a severe spiritual teacher, as Saturn sends us the difficulties that we need to overcome to enlighten ourselves. We can come to terms with his energy, only if we are able to reach a spiritual level, otherwise we find ourselves in the quicksands. Like physical quicksands,

the more the you move into the saturnial problem, the more you sink: it is only by using spiritual resources that you can escape from the problem. Depression is very much linked to the state of the mind, and Saturn has a mental vibration.

All the fears, emotional upsets, anxieties, and splinters from the collective DNA, etc., form what has been called in spiritual sciences the Dweller-on-the-Threshold. It is by facing the Dweller-on-the-Threshold that we progress. If we do not struggle with the Dweller-on-the-Threshold we will remain inert and lost. Everyone has to be reckon with it.

The Dweller-on-the-Threshold has the nature of a gigantic thought-form or factor, which must be faced and dissipated in order to further development. Its characteristics are big illusions-glamour-maya.

Illusions, glamour, and maya are states so frequent in our daily life are mental and emotional distortions of the true reality. At this point, to face this “ huge cloud” meditation, study, and service to mankind are able to dissipate all this accumulated glamour of ages.

The mind with the omniscient help of the Soul, can break through, and clarify the dark spots. In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna had to face his despair which was caused by an overwhelming depression.

Krishna, came to help him to overcome and win the Illusion which was real cause of his despair.

Krishna gave to him some simple rules to follow:

a- Know that you are Immortal

b- Control the mind, because this is the tool to know the Immortal

c- Know that the form veils and hides the divine reality

d- Realize that there is only one Life pervading all forms, so, death does not exist, nor does anxiety, nor does separation.

e- Detach yourself from the form and come to Me in the place of Light and Peace, so the Illusion disappears.

On a more scientific- spiritual angle, depression is a lack of good-will. When the quality of good in life, is not expressed, the negation of good turns itself against the owner, causing an attrition which can cause illness. Depression acts especially on people who has a predominance of the mental nature.

Saturn is a sever Teacher, but Saturn holds the keys to open your doors!

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

http://.astrominds.com

leni@astrominds.com