As Pluto is the Planet most associated with Power, this Glyph appropriately includes the letter 'P'. (At least in English.)

I think the Glyph symbolizes a Human - the oval of the 'P' represents the head, and the bottom fork of the 'L' represents the feet. Thus, Pluto rules with the head - intellect - and the feet - common sense that provides a firm, steady base of support.

The foot of the Pluto Glyph is long and stable, creating a solid base or platform upon which to stand. It's the same length as the head, indicating that the intellect does not supercede its platform. Or rather, analysis and theory does not supercede reality and known fact.

The long, upright stem of the 'L' represents the body - in particular the heart. As this area is under emphasized, the Power of Pluto does not primarily operate with its emotions or heart, but instead with the intellect as its base of operations. Pluto uses logic and rationalization to give its ideas a steady platform on which to be released to the world.

This may seem like a contradiction, considering that Pluto is associated with Scorpio, a Water sign. However, Pluto is the master of control and not one to be driven by fleeting emotion. Pluto keeps its emotions in check, and uses the power of its intellect - and a firm grasp of reality - to rationalize emotions into logical, reasonable explanations.

As a Water sign, Pluto starts out with a hunch - an intuition - then uses intellect and common sense to explain the emotion and make it rational and believable. This gives the emotion credibility, as there is scientific proof to substantiate it. This separates Pluto from the other Water signs.

The other Water signs - Pisces and Cancer (and their rulers Neptune and the Moon) - are primarily intuitively and emotionally driven; they are not known for being very factual or intellectual. Thus, their hunches or conclusions are dismissed by some as 'flaky' or 'strange', as they often cannot explain to others why they feel the way they do. Pluto, however, explains its emotions, intuition, and hunches with a logical, rational, step-by-step process that helps the 'left-brained' signs understand how and why Pluto reached the conclusions it did.

While Pluto is down-to-earth and full of common-sense, the strong, heavy bottom leg of the 'L' implies a willingness to muscle through life with a certain amount of brute force. This is great when one is pioneering through new territory (after all, Scorpio's secondary ruler is Mars), as Pluto has enough force to forge (and pave!) a path through the thickest forest, crushing underfoot anything that inhibits its forward motion.

Used indiscriminately, this power does more harm than good. Others don't like those heavy-handed tactics, and can be hurt by them. It becomes matter of whether the end justifies the means. So it's back to the intellect to discriminate whether the end does justify the means... and if not, what other acceptable means exist to reach the desired end.

As the foot in the Pluto Glyph is the same length as the head, the foot does not supercede the intellect. Pluto has the intelligence to recognize when its tactics are too strong or inappropriate, and the objectivity to pull itself away and turn in another direction - even when it's emotionally caught up in the current outcome. Pluto uses intellect to recognize when its feelings are faulty or inappropriate to the situation and thus can weed out appropriate feelings from inappropriate ones - and control them all.

Pluto seeks to master its emotions ~  To not be mastered by them.

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This is a good astrology article (pdf file) on the 2009-2012 Cardinal T-square by Patricia M. Hanus. The fact that Uraneous and Saturn are at odds and play a major part underscores my message about the Capricorn-Aquarius Age shift (as detailed in my 2012 Shift articles). Adding Pluto to the mix gives extra impact as to how serious this transition is.

The writer's website is http://astro-vision.org/astrology_services.htm

Indian Prophecy and the Galactic Alignment

Indians are rising in popularity (and rightfully so), largely due to the Mayan Calendar and other prophecies such as the Hopi Prophecies.

More links can be found on my Kimberly Keown website .

Gene Simmons is in the mood to share again.

The Kiss bassist recently revealed the troubled state of his relationship on "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," and visited half-siblings in Israel he never knew he had.

But this time, it's not his family that he wants to share with fans and viewers, but his love for the U.S. of A. On Tuesday's episode of the reality show, titled "The Demon Salutes," the rocker and longtime love Shannon Tweed chat with his therapist about his feelings for the United States.

Tweed told Dr. Ann Wexler, "He feels emotion for his country because his country saved his mother."

"From the concentration camps of Germany," Simmons explained. "I owe America everything."

The Kiss rocker talks about why he loves the U.S. and visits troops stationed at Fort Hood in Texas on the upcoming episode of "Family Jewels."

To honor the country, the pair traveled to Dallas to attend the Aces & Angels "Salute to the Troops" charity event to thank the troops for all that they do.

"No matter what sacrifices we make, no matter how hard we work, it's dwarfed by the amount of sacrifice and dedication and loyalty that our troops have," Simmons said.

Simmons and Tweed also paid a visit to the troops stationed at Fort Hood, where they got some training and gave those deploying a send-off.

Watch it all happen when "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" airs on July 5 at 10:30 p.m. on A&E.

 While some DO give back to the USA as well as foreign countries, they don't publicize it very well because it doesn't bring as much attention. In general, they seem to minimize the need to give back to the country that made them great in the first place.

I think it's very important to help other countries. But let's help our own first. Then there will be more people ABLE to give to other countries.

When I hear of celebrities recognizing & acting on the need to help the poor in our very own United States of America, I like to help spread the word.

This is a reprint of a story posted on the Huffington Post website 2011.

Bon Jovi Opens Charitable Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant In NJ

RED BANK, N.J. -- In three decades as one of the world's biggest rock stars, Jon Bon Jovi has eaten in some of the world's best restaurants, savoring the best food the planet has to offer.

Yet there's no place he'd rather have dinner than The Soul Kitchen, a "pay-what-you-can" restaurant he and his wife Dorothea established in a former auto body shop near the Red Bank train station in central New Jersey.

The restaurant provides gourmet-quality meals to the hungry while enabling them to volunteer on community projects in return without the stigma of visiting a soup kitchen. Paying customers are encouraged to leave whatever they want in the envelopes on each table, where the menus never list a price.

The restaurant is the latest undertaking by the New Jersey rocker's Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, which has built 260 homes for low-income residents in recent years.

"With the economic downturn, one of the things I noticed was that disposable income was one of the first things that went," Bon Jovi told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday before the restaurant's grand opening ceremony. "Dining out, the family going out to a restaurant, mom not having to cook, dad not having to clean up - a lot of memories were made around restaurant tables.

"When I learned that one in six people in this country goes to bed hungry, I thought this was the next phase of the Foundation's work," he said.

It started several years ago when Dorothea Bongiovi (she uses the legal spelling of her husband's name) and Jon started helping out at a food pantry at nearby St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church. They later moved their focus to the Lunch Break program, which feeds 80 to 120 people a day, dubbing it "The Soul Kitchen."

They brought that name with them to a former auto body shop down the street from the Count Basie Theater, where Jon and his self-titled band have played many fundraising shows for local charities.

It took a year and $250,000, but the restaurant now rivals any of its competitors in trendy Red Bank, with entrees like cornmeal crusted catfish with red beans and rice, grilled chicken breast with homemade basil mayo and rice pilaf, and grilled salmon with soul seasonings, sweet potato mash and sauteed greens, many of which were grown in the herb and vegetable garden right outside the restaurant's doors.

Bon Jovi, who has a home in next-door Middletown, is adamant about one thing.

"This is not a soup kitchen," he emphasizes. "You can come here with the dignity of linens and silver, and you're served a healthy, nutritious meal. This is not burgers and fries.

"There's no prices on our menu, so if you want to come and you want to make a difference, leave a $20 in the envelope on the table. If you can't afford to eat, you can bus tables, you can wait tables, you can work in the kitchen as a dishwasher or sous chef," he said. "If you say to me, `I'm not a people person,' I say, `That's not a problem. We'll take you back to Lunch Break to volunteer with those people. If you don't want to volunteer with that, we'll take you to the FoodBank."

After volunteering at one of those places, a person will be given a certificate good for a meal at The Soul Kitchen.

"If you come in and say, `I'm hungry,' we'll feed you," Bon Jovi said. "But we're going to need you to do something. It's very important to what we're trying to achieve."

That includes making people feel part of a larger community that cares about them, while still expecting them to contribute to society at large.

"This is not an entitlement thing," Bon Jovi said. "This is about empowering people because you have to earn that gift certificate."

He and others at the restaurant want those who can afford to dine out to patronize the restaurant as well and pay what they consider market prices, or even a bit more than that, to help sustain The Soul Kitchen as a true community resource.

Bon Jovi said he is currently writing songs for his band's next album, due out in 2013, along with another typically massive Bon Jovi tour. He said many of the songs are inspired by the current economic downturn and the struggles of everyday people to make ends meet without losing hope.

In the meantime, he and his wife plan to stay active in the restaurant, where he estimates he has worked at least once a week in recent months. The Soul Kitchen is open for dinner Thursday through Saturday, and offers Sunday brunch.

How important is rolling up his sleeves and working in the restaurant to him?

"Last Friday, I was at the White House, serving on the Council for Community Solutions, got on a train, changed in the bathroom and got here in time to wash dishes Friday night," he said. "I'm the dishwasher, for real. I can't cook a lick."

I found that the key to good eBook conversion seems to be to make a good HTML version of your text. The easiest way I've found to do this is to use Google Docs.

OpenOffice and Microsoft Word (while great processing programs) do not seem export the same clean HTML versions Google Docs does.

Convert HTML to .mobi (for Kindle) in Calibre   

Calibre is a great open-source book conversion software you can install on your computer.

Convert .mobi to .epub (for Nook)

Once in a while Google Docs will not accept your file. Perhaps you have a photo or strange formatting in the original text that Google Docs just cannot handle. The workaround method I've found is to convert your text to a PDF file (instead of HTML), then use Calibre to convert it to eBook.

Why not just use PDF files all the time instead of HTML docs? You can try it, it may work fine for you.

However, Calibre states in its help files that there can be numerous formatting problems when converting from PDF. For instance, I have not been able to figure out how to make a Table of Contents work using a PDF File.

Therefore, I recommend using the PDF method as a second choice.

Training horses was too dangerous & hard for Kim to think of doing it forever. And since her clients were mostly backyard horse owners who didn't have thousands of dollars to spend on training, the income potential was limited. Kim used to have nightmarish visions of training hoses at 50 years old, getting a broken leg, and being SOL in business and money.

So she slowly shifted her interest to modeling. In the process of doing this Kim became very interested in digital media, found her inner web geek, and developed considerable web tech skills. And she discovered something surprising... online horse training. Instead of divorcing herself from being a trainer, Kim found a way to incorporate training horses into her modeling / internet ventures by writing horse-training articles. She's currently in the slow process of writing & narrating articles and building a library to sell in her online store alongside her modeling posters.

The reason for Kim's interest in modeling to begin with? Two reasons.

Reason one, Kim was tired of the proliferation of what she calls 'wanna-be cowboys'. These are people who conspicuously dress up as 'cowboys' or 'cowgirls' for show, soley to gain attention. By wearing the clothes, they convince themselves they are the real thing.

In reality they are not good animal-handlers or good horsemen; do not have a strong work ethic; have not shouldered great responsibility; have not developed unusual talent, intelligence, or nerve; have not done courageous deeds; have not displayed fortitude, independence, adaptability, or ingenuity; have not faced hardship or sacrifice... and simply have little or no qualifications for portraying themselves as real cowboys. (See the Close-Up page of Kim's Cowgirl Image website.)

They are like ordinary people dressing up in a superman costume and calling themselves superheros. But clothes alone do not make the man. It's experience and what's inside that counts. It's not about what you're born with. It's about the principles you stand for, and what you develop into as you grow throughout your life.

Kim's mission is simply to provide images of a real cowgirl and do what The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly did for westerns... present reality - good, bad, and ugly. Her horse-training articles are a terrific complement to this goal, as they provide techniques that are truly effective and emphasize safety for both horse and handler.

The second reason Kim gravitated toward modeling was that she disliked the lack of morality and positive values in society (particularly in the modeling industry). She quickly got tired of being bombarded with images of bikini-clad women with fake tans and plastic surgery every time she turned on the tv or saw an internet ad on her social network pages.

In addition to finding the sheer volume of this type of media offensive, she noticed the absence of values it engendered. These 'models' were truly leaving the 'role' off their profession and being the worst of examples. While their appeal was (and is) valid and appropriate for certain niches and types of media, it was not appropriate for daytime viewing or a family setting. This type of media sent out negative messages that made others (including Kim) feel less than or unimportant because they had a less glorified job or didn't look a certain way. And the worst part was the message that women should mutilate their bodies in the name of beauty, instead of accepting themselves and using healthy methods to improve their physiques.

Kim decided that if she was offended by this unhealthy, unrealistic portrayal of women in our society, others probably were as well.

Kim is a purist and a realist. She doesn't believe in plastic surgery or artificial means of altering one's self. She feels that every job requires a certain amount of moral responsibility and that our society needs real role models to look up to; not people who are in-it-to-win-it simply for money and ego.

Our culture today glorifes and gives riches, fame, and fortune to people who sing, dance, or act. These are things hard to do and it takes a tough, talented person to perform in public. Many deserve their wealth and are solid personalities. Many tell inspiring stories about their lives and truly are caring, positive role models we can look up to. Many use their celebritydom to give back to society, and use their wealth to give others a hand-up.

But many people honored today have no character, morals, personality, or accomplishments actually deserving of the glory and reward given them. Many are drug addicts. Many go to prison for DUI, then fight their sentences - completely ignoring the fact they could have killed someone while driving repeatedly under the influence (duh!... that's why it's illegal to drink and drive). Many have out-of-control tempers, unhealthy relationships, and commit domestic violence. And these often are people our society upholds as winners and shining examples of success.

Kim feels we should honor people who have actually done something positive, selfless, or real: firefighters, war heroes, policeman, those who fight abuse and cruelty for humans & animals, those who fight for freedom and quality of life.

Kim feels she has a moral responsibility to provide a positive message in whatever field she is in; and that makes her a good role model... someone people can respect and look up to. As a horse-trainer who actually invented her own methodology of training, she has proved her worth in a dangerous and difficult industry that in reality few succeed. (See her article Code of the West and Morailty in Horse-Training.)

Kim takes her moral responsibilities seriously and feels she has done something to deserve that respect. She doesn't feel she loses anything by spreading a positive message on her climb up the ladder of life.

Caption: This picture was taken on the banks of Sumatra Island (the height of waves was of approx. 32 m = 105 ft). It was found saved in a digital camera, after the disaster. We cannot know for sure, but very likely the one who took the picture is not alive any more (it was just a matter of seconds).

According to http://www.hoax-slayer.com/tsunami-wave-sumatra.shtml
The photograph does not depict a tsunami wave nor was it taken in Sumatra. In fact, the "wave" shown in the photograph is a large dust storm that hit the town of Griffith, NSW Australia in 2002.

The photograph is featured as part of a Sydney Morning Herald news article that was re-posted on the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website in November 2002. The photograph includes the following caption:

The residents of Griffith rushed to seal their houses at dusk yesterday as a fierce dust storm raced into the town with warning, propelled by winds of up to 90 kilkometres (sic) an hour. The dust cloud moved across the state and into Sydney today. Photo: Denis Couch

True story: I was reading tarot at a ritzy party when an older, well dressed man sat down at my table, eyed my tip jar and sarcastically remarked “I’m going to get me a deck of cards so I can make as much money as you”.  He dropped a dollar into the tip jar and casually tossed his business card at me.  The card said “neurologist”.  In the back of my mind, I was stunned at his incredible rudeness.  But my face didn’t register one iota of reaction. I simply got down to the business of doing my job.

It’s scenarios like this that make me laugh.  Easy work? Not on your life.  Easy money? Believe me, you earn every penny when you are in the tarot trenches.  Easy to learn? You never stop learning.  Fun and glamorous?  At times….but like any job, tarot reading has a very unpretty side to it.

Before you “get a deck of cards” and start living your full time tarot dream, let me clue you in to a few hard truths:

These are wise truths to consider before you toss that neurology degree in the trash and pick up the cards.  You must approach this work with a thick skin and positive intent.  And although these warnings may sound discouraging, know this: this work is rewarding.  Every day, you have the opportunity to help people and transform lives.  And you can’t put a price tag on that.

Blessings!
Theresa
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