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Dalai Lama’s spiritual light shines in ‘darkness’ of violence







Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has made a renewed call for Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to cease violence towards the countries' Muslim minorities, in an address delivered on his 79th birthday. Speaking before tens of thousands of Buddhists, including Hollywood actor Richard Gere, the exiled Buddhist leader implored the faithful in the majority-Buddhist countries to refrain from such attacks. "I urge the Buddhists in these countries to imagine an image of Buddha before they commit such a crime," he said in the Indian town of Leh. CNN July 7


In the previous post [1] we saw how  a Grand Trine involving Neptune and TNP Poseidon  created a rare phenomena of ‘night shining’ clouds. But each astrological symbol represents a spectrum of possibilities. Celestial forces and the human will can interact in ways  whose outcome cannot be foretold. In this post we will see how the same Grand Trine brings spiritual light shining through the darkness of human ignorance.







Here too we look at the current  sidereal Cancer Ingress chart and progress it to July 7, the date of the news. The progressed Ascendant reaches a conjunction to Saturn and Posidon – part of the Water Grand Trine.

The Ascendant [3sc] is conjunct the star Princeps, delta Bootis [3sc21] and Syrma, iota Virginis. Bootis [4sc] – the Herdsman as  “good shepherd” gives a potential for idealistic, inspiring leadership and there are here consistent efforts to organize collective activities that bring people together in projects that promote peace (the Virgin is peace loving) and help those in need [2].

Looking for more details we notice that the asteroid Siwa [7sc39] is on the  Ascendant along with the TNP Poseidon [9sc50]. Martha Wescott provides the following keywords:

POSEIDON: Spiritual influences; religion; enlightenment. [3]

SIVA: also SIWA: The Far East (inc. Vietnam, India, China, Malaysia, Japan) [4]

The combination can easily refer to Buddhism so that it is not surprising that the news refers to the Dalai Lama – the head of Tibetan Buddhism.


Writing about the Water Grand Trine astrologer Sherene  Schostak says:

There is a very beautiful spiritual component to this Grand Water Trine where we can pick up on the subtle layers of divine essence both within and around us…Saturn helps us crystallize the vision of Neptune and to give concrete form to the wisdom of Jupiter. The purpose of the Grand Water Trine is to connect us to something greater and remind us to get out of our heads and into the flow of feeling and sensitivity. The potential for empathy and compassion is tremendous now if we use this Grand Trine to tune into the magic of the Water element. http://bit.ly/1tlj7FM


This is exactly the message of the Dalai Lama. He was appealing to his audience to cultivate sensitivity and compassion for their brethren.



[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2,p.158-160) 

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