Exhausted

Dalai Lama cancels world trips

DHARAMSALA, India (AP) -- The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was suffering from exhaustion and has canceled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests.

The Tibetan spiritual leader and 73-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner had been "experiencing some discomfort in the past couple of days." His doctors had diagnosed him as suffering from "exhaustion."

The Dalai Lama spends several months a year traveling the globe to highlight the struggle of Tibetans for greater freedom from China and to teach Buddhism.

He canceled two upcoming trips to Mexico and the Dominican Republic and would rest over the next three weeks, said Thupten Samphel, the spokesman of the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile.

Samphel said the holy man would travel to Mumbai for medical tests before returning to the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala to recuperate.  The Dalai Lama has had his headquarters in Dharmsala since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after an abortive uprising against China.

The Dalai Lama is taking 3 weeks off his busy schedule for health checks after admitting to discomfort due to exhaustion. The majority of the astrological influences on his chart at the moment involve Mars and in a highly restrictive way.

His Solar Arc Mars at 28 Sagittarius now in his 6th house of health has transitting Pluto exactly conjunct at the moment till late October.

Tr Pluto (earlier this year) squared Moon/Mars, conjunct Mars/Saturn, trine Sun/Mars and square Mars/Neptune - all of which point to impacted anger (Pl on Moon/Mars, Sun/Mars), acute frustration about situations about which he could do little and mourning those who had been killed or injured (Pl conj Mars/Sat).

Most of these will clear by the end of 2008 though November (Pl on Mars/Sat and Moon/Mars again) and December (Pl on Sun/Mars, Mars/Neptune) will be difficult months. He also has transitting Saturn conjunct his Moon and Neptune opposition Saturn (late Aug into Sept 08) which also has a dampening effect emotionally & physically & throws up worries.

There will be good news and relief from tension in October as Uranus opposes Jupiter/Pluto with some positive developments coming suddenly. Also by December Pluto will be sextile Mars/Jupiter which could seem him undertake a new initiative perhaps to offset the real difficulties which arise in November which do not look pleasant.