Light on Vedic Astrology Newsletter January 2005

		January Light On Vedic Astrology Newsletter

In This Issue:

January 1, 2005

•	New Years on the Heels of the Tsunami

•	Amazing Tsunami Story

•	January Sidereal Ephemeris

•	The Double Transit Moves into Pisces

•	New Year's Resolution Story

•	Namaste & Happy New Year!

New Years on the Heels of the Tsunami

Namaste Friends,
It's interesting how this year we are beginning the New Year on the heels of a major tragedy. We all feel tremendous sadness at the lost of innocent life and so much devastation. It's so apparent how life is so fragile and every day so precious.

I'm inspired by the stories I've shared in this issue and also by the relief work of so many humanitarian organizations. I'm especially impressed with Ammachi's relief efforts and her donating 1 billion rupees (23 million dollars) toward tsunami relief. I recommend donating towards her tsunami relief fund. (Link below)

Where to send Tsunami donations

January Sidereal Ephemeris

Here's this month's sidereal (Vedic) ephemeris. This gives you everything you need in order to see exactly where the planets are on any day of the month so that you can follow the transits in your own chart or oher people's charts.

PLANETARY INFO:

FULL MOON (Purnima):
Jan 25 10:33 am GMT
Jan 25 5:33 am EST

NEW MOON (Amavasya):
Jan 10 12:03 pm GMT
Jan 10 7:03 am EST

Click to View Sidereal Ephemeris

New Year's Resolution Story


On the first Monday in January last year (2004) a friend of mine's sister-in-law was car pooling with co-workers to work. They saw a heavy set woman jogging and they joked with each other saying "yeah right, I wonder how long that New Year's resolution will last?!!!!" The next day the same woman was jogging at the same time during their car pool and the day after that. After several weeks they stopped joking and started commenting how "wow, she's sticking with it" and "hasn't she lost some weight?!" Every day for months they saw the same lady jogging. In November they saw her picture on the front page of the sports section because she'd won a 10k race. This is the kind of focus and determination we need to make real changes in our life.

Amazing Tsunami Story

About 20 minutes before the first wave hit in Phuket Thailand nine elephants who gave tourist rides broke free from their chains and started climbing a hill bellowing loudly. The the waves hit. After the waves subsided, the elephants charged down the hill and started picking up children with their trunks and running them up back up the hill. When all the children were taken care of, they started helping adults.

They rescued 42 people. Then they returned to the beach and carried up dead bodies and moving wreckage.

Their 6th sense saved them and because of that they were able to save many people. How much more helpful can we (humans) be if we followed our intuition!

The Double Transit Moves into Pisces

The double transit of Jupiter and Saturn (the sign that receives the aspect of both Jup and Sat) moves into Pisces until the end of May 2005. You will notice that whatever house Pisces represents in a person's chart will become emphasized during these five months.

Here's a short list of the effects for each house:

1st house – Body, one’s identity, self-confidence, overall success.
2nd house – Earned income, acquisitions, food/diet, speech.
3rd house – Communication, advertising, hobbies, writing, siblings, short journeys, short-term goals.
4th house – Home/residence, real estate, mother, vehicles, general happiness.
5th house – Creativity, children, romance/dating, investments, education.
6th house – Health, disease, acute illness, daily work, litigation, debts.
7th house – Relationship, marriage, partnerships – business or romantic, foreign places.
8th house – Other’s money – loans, inheritance; litigation, chronic illness, sexuality, transformation, occult knowledge.
9th house – Long distance travel, spiritual teaching and teachers, good fortune, father.
10th house – Career, employer, work/action, outer achievements.
11th house – Monetary gains, side incomes, major long-term goals, groups, friends.
12th house – Distant places, introspection, debts and expenditures, isolation.

Namaste & Happy New Year!

Wishing you a Happy New Year!

Thank you for reading this newsletter. I enjoyed sharing it with you. If you want to share this with friends please feel free to do so. To forward this you can click on the "Forward" link below. If you have any comments I'd love to hear from you.

Namaste,

Vaughn Paul Manley, M.A.

(808) 573-6577
vaughnpaul@yahoo.com

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