Living in the "Hogares"

Their name is “hogares”, “houses”
in Spanish, there are hundred just in Buenos Aires.

The family house is a busy place, a
narrow, short passage, a brief challenge.

But for 28 small men and women it's
home, the real one, where they wake up each morning to get dressed
and go out into a world that tests you out, as if no one cares for
tests you must pass.

Twenty-eight are the names, 28 the
stories, 28 the beating hearts and a whole lot the needs, hundred the
unspoken words. Like in all the true stories also this one has its
princes and princess, its small Cinderellas folding other people's
private college uniforms, its never-healing wounds and words digging
down into the deep until even hunger fades away.

There are precise, unwritten rules in
the house, there is the untouchable with the right to smash a dish on
the floor without even being scolded, and there is who cannot even
ask the salt to his neighbour at lunch because he risks the usual
public humiliation, a quite recurrent custom hereabouts.

Poor little L. cries frightened and
suffering in front of the bathroom door with her wounds worsening for
all week, not cured because she doesn't go to school anyway and
therefore she gets a bath just once in a while. She has a bad limp
because under one feet the blood soils her pink flip-flop and the
infection crawls between her dirty toes.

The house is the exact projection of a
society where the strongest, the most cunning and the luckiest
survive.

It looks like that some of them have
been stolen there childhood twice, as if coming from a wrong,
inadequate family were not enough...- From Peace reporter.

Along with the hogaras, the hard
problem of homelessness is confronting us, all over the world.

It shows the limitations and injustices
of the social system we have created,

the immense gap between rich and poor
in each country.

It is our daily confrontation, a
painful reality.

Human beings living under the open sky,
snow or sun!

What are they teaching us?

What is the deep inner meaning of
“security?”

On a more deep symbolic level,
homelessness and the “hogares”, confront us with our feelings and

ideas covering the words:” true
home”.

The transiency of our material sense of
home and security is totally questionable.

Our inner stability and inner peace lie
on the reality of our Souls. Beyond all happenings this reality
stands strong. Home, at last!

It is to-day's new of the Peru killer
-quake.

Flood, earthquakes, hurricanes, provide
us with the opportunities to learn detachment form material things
and places, breaking up crystallized thoughts and past
habit-patterns.

Home might be found, for some, deep in
their Heart, eternal and beautiful Reality.

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