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Chaitaly
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posted September 30, 2019 05:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chaitaly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm going to work as the support teacher of this young 10 years old girl that has an undiagnosed mental illness; I think she could have some form of autism, she seems very absent in the classroom, lacks expression and seems always sad.
But she's such a beautiful little girl, she embodies all her Sun in Libra pure beauty; she has a twin sister, who has problems too, but she's far more active than her sister and more
engaged during the lessons.

Her natal chart clearly shows a series of patterns associated with mental illness and life difficulties. Her parents left her and her sister without a diagnosis, since apparently they have never brought their daughters to see a doctor, a neuropsychiatrist, to understand what their problem is. And it's such a shame that they went through all the primary school like this.

I think that in the natal it's clear that they are not getting the appropriate treatment from family (or this girl in particular doesn't feel like she's loved and accepted for who she is, if she's aware of that) or from school/teachers (what's worst). It seems to me like the world will demand her to be someone she's not and could not ever be.

Since we -teachers- don't have a medical diagnosis at hand, it's not possible to intervene properly because their problems are fundamentally unknown to us in this situation.

There are a lot of Chiron aspects in the natal of this little girl, that point to the pain/wound she experiences both in the family context and at school, with parents (Sun-Moon) and also other educational figures (Jupiter) and due to her mental state (Mercury).

I just posted this charts to know if I can be beneficial for her in this situation.

>>>> I don't know her TOB so just aspects count here.

There are very interesting aspects, such the nodal contacts. Her Sun is on my South node and her Moon on my NN, there are a lot of mutual soft Chiron contacts, and this is encouraging for healing and teaching (she's going to teach me something too I think).

But what "worries" me is her Saturn squares on my planets (will she put up a "wall" with me?).
And my natal Pluto-Venus conjunction is square her Chiron. What do you think of this?
What about her Mars conjunct my Pluto and Uranus on my Mars? How are they going to play in this situation?

Her luminaries on my nodes could explain why as soon as I saw her I told her teacher that I wanted to be the one who helps her in class.
The first time I saw her I couldn't do nothing but staring at her all the time and wanting to help her somehow.

The quantity of flowing aspects in synastry is impressive to me; it could seem I could communicate with her somehow, but I still don't know how much she speaks or interacts with people.

Thank you in advance.


I'm the inner (my TOB exact, her unknown)
SYN http://imgur.com/a/Y2CysPF

COMPO http://imgur.com/qMh0mz6

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Stoika7
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posted September 30, 2019 03:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stoika7     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi dear Chaitaly, this is very interesting... I see she has a few harsh ones natally, but certainly the ASC and houses placements would be more helpful to understand how Saturn, Mercury, Moon and Chiron play out in her psychological and subconscious world... are those Venus/Neptune and Sun/Jupiter/Moon exact squares and Chiron opposite Uranus exact in her natal chart?
Nessus placement could show whether she was abused somehow? I mean... have you ruled out the possibility that she, or both sisters, went through some kind of traumatic experience? Did any teacher ever learn how come the family dont have a medical diagnosis?
By the way, the synastry Grand Square looks transformative (I'm not considering the Grand Cross cause we dont have her ASC) but the Saturn/Saturn/Chiron t-square looks stressful and discouraging for you, i.e. your support task might take you to question yourself and your skills at times... even though actually the main aspect I noticed is her Sun conjunct your ASC/SN sextile her Sun/Uranus/trine her Neptune/opposite her Moon, and the Mars/Pluto conjunction sextile your Neptune, so it seems she would actually take you as her reference teacher where also an emotional connection can be established cause of her Moon and Mercury placements and her Venus trine your MC, so she might develope devotion and trust towards you. Then there are other challenging aspects as the Mars/Pluto square her Chiron/NN and Mercury square Neptune, so on the other side you might have a strong impact on her subconscious and the way she might cope with her wounds that likely needs to be handled with much caution, cause the Mercury square Neptune might signal that she can have rejection and closure and might not always understand your intentions, and you might not always understand her reactions (or absence of reaction).
My take on the Composite is that the Neptune square Saturn and Mercury (Saturn/Mercury clearly showing the "teaching" and supporting relationship) can be highly challenging, she might refuse your support somehow and you could feel frustrated as you might feel you are failing your "mission"... even though she might actually develope affection and sense all your caring and good intentions that certainly can have a positive impact on her with the NN trines to Sun and Venus, and the Jupiter sextile Chiron... so it seems to me that she would "feel" your support more on an emotional/subconscious level than on the logical/intellectual one.
If we had her TOB, we could certainly better understand this dynamic, especially based on the ASC.

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Chaitaly
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posted September 30, 2019 04:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chaitaly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you dear!
Yes of course having the TOB would be great...
She is lost in her world; during the first lesson (when I saw her the first time) she stared at her bracelet all the time (she wasn't wearing it, she took it with one hand and was caressing it with the other).
The other classmates where writing (and then presenting their written text to the teacher) but she didn't anything of this for a whole hour. Her sister did it well instead.
For sure if there's no abuse, there is some kind of neglect from the family... It's so clear that a diagnosis is needed. But sometimes it's so hard for parents just to admit that their children have a problem.
I have no experience in these matters (I have already had autistic children in a classroom but I didn't have to support one in particular) but I'm expected -as other teachers- to provide some help in extra hours (I have my own classes too) to students that need it.
So it's going to be challenging for sure, and I don't know this kid... I've heard another teacher mocking her and her sister (yes!) because of their strange behavior... and I really disagree with that - it's a plain horrible thing to do!
She also bangs things (like books) on the table sometimes. It was heartbreaking when her twin sister said in class (children were talking about their families) that she would like her sister "to stop banging things."
I don't want to be another person in this girl's life who doesn't understand her or wounds her, even if I'm going to help her just on Saturdays.

I'm going to run the chart with Nessus as soon as I can.

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posted September 30, 2019 07:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for todd     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
hi Chaitaly

I have similar feelings as Stoika7 has.
though the tsquare of venus/sun opposed to the moon and square to Jupiter shows you and the child have an excellent mental/emotional rapport, the mercury/pluto midpoint is conjunct to venus/sun which could severly inhibit the expression of the emotional support.
in addition the Saturn/Neptune square's midpoint is conjunct the node which indicates it may be very difficult to understand of ferret out the actually reasons for her behavior.
I agree ,the childs chart would be every helpful as the mercury/pluto block might keep these dynamics hidden.

though as mercury is square to Uranus, your emotional support might break through this silence.this suggests that you expect her to understand everything,as this aspect shows a extreme intelligence .so talk to her as a adult from the beginning.
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posted September 30, 2019 10:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stoika7     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cha, I can only slightly imagine how hard the whole situation and environment is !
I am aware, from personal experiences, how families have a sort of "denial" in coping with such issues, but it's a shame, if I can dare to say... as much as it's a shame that a teacher would behave as the one you have described... let alone the fact that you as a teacher are not given any qualified support (I mean specialized people to support you) in such cases, but it's like that pretty much everywhere, I assume :-(

I agree with Todd and especially with his last sentence, that is a great suggestion, to talk to her as an adult. These kids are very sensitive to your consideration of them as your equal.

Btw, I am sure that your caring and big heart will be felt and will certainly impact her, even though she likely might not show it much, but you might learn to know her and her reactions with time... I would not underestimate that "neglect" from the family as a form of abuse either, as she could actually feel that clearly :-(
Whether you might find out her TOB, let us know! And please give updates :-) ❤️

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posted October 07, 2019 01:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Chaitaly
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posted October 12, 2019 06:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chaitaly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So I had my first lesson with the little girl!
She is absolutely lovely!
I was with her and other 2 male kids; they were writing their homework, since they had to write some text and they hadn't still written a word at home so I had to support them during this hour in this task.

The little Moldavian girl started talking with me as soon as I asked her about her (she had to write a text where she introduces herself); she talked a lot for the whole hour!! And she told me how she has been bullied at primary school, and that she had learned Italian before coming to Italy at 8 years old watching animated cartoons in her country. So she is very smart indeed!
But most of her teachers think she is stupid or doesn't get it, I don't know. Not only she was bullied by her classmates, but she said that at the primary her teachers didn't do anything for that and didn't intervene or stop the bullying. So she has a wound -as we saw- with these figures since she didn't feel protected. Then she moved to another house with her family and changed school as well, and everything went better.
But what impressed me is that she says that at home she is totally alone with her twin sister. Her parents work all day, and they told their daughters that they are "old enough" to take care of themselves when they at home (they are only ten!!), so there's no adult figure that can look after them after school.
It's so strange that the parents leave them in this situation! She told me also: But we have our pets that look after us, and our dog.
That's probably what the parents told them.

She talked a lot but she had also to write, but she had already said so many things that I had to remember what she said about herself and made her write something. Many things cross her minds in such a short time and I think she can't catch up the thinking with her writing.

She's not stupid at all, but very insecure, in fact she was writing with the pencil and when I asked her why, she said: "It's because I'm insecure, I fear that I make mistakes and then I cannot change them". Poor girl! She must have been scolded a lot for her mistakes. She writes very well instead, with almost no mistakes, so I told her and encouraged her to write with the pen. I'm very happy for this little step.

I think she just needs encouragement and support and company, think about a 10 years old girl who stays alone all day at home and the next day she goes to school where none involves her in class because they think she can't do it.

I confirm that I feel a lot of care for her and it's something really overwhelming. I would like to hug her for no reason, but I can't obviously. I'd like to look deeper in the charts for what may indicate these feelings.
She seems to want to talk with me a lot, and I don't want to stop that, I let her talking, so we can create a relationship. She gets easily distracted by the way, and I would like her to do more - hence the frustration that we saw in the charts. She has still a lot of homework to do and 1 hour per week is not enough for us to do it all.

I will see her again the next Saturday. On Monday it's her birthday but I don't work on Mondays and I regret not being there to wish her a happy b.day.

I'm totally in love haha.

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posted October 13, 2019 03:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chaitaly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Stoika7
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posted October 16, 2019 10:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stoika7     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you for the update Chaitaly! It sounds like a good start, well done! ❤️❤️❤️

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posted October 18, 2019 02:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for todd     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
hi Chaitaly

I reverse engineered the composite to find the childs natal. the composite I have found is within few arc minute of the composite you posted.
so the child's natal is correct to the day or so.

I am working on the theory she has been emotional abused at the least.
she has eros conjunct the sun and opposed to eris. this is a very emotive aspect and seems to follow how you have described her.actually very loving and outgoing by nature .but the pluto/chrion and Pluto/node midpoints are square to this opposition which are aspects of emotional abuse at the least. in this situation, it seems she had to hide her buoyant personality because when she was herself, she only elicited abusive reactions.

in addition ,the Saturn/Pluto midpoint is square to her Neptune. this would place the onus on a abusive father. Neptune indicates abuse accompanied by alcohol abuse. so it is very likely the father has no conscious memory and the child likely has blocked the pain out herself

psyche is conjunct to true Lilith showing a truly loving innocent nature, but the Eros/psyche midpoint is square to nessus which again points to severe abuse or a physical or more destructive nature.

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posted October 18, 2019 02:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stoika7     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by todd:
hi Chaitaly

I reverse engineered the composite to find the childs natal. the composite I have found is within few arc minute of the composite you posted.
so the child's natal is correct to the day or so.

I am working on the theory she has been emotional abused at the least.
she has eros conjunct the sun and opposed to eris. this is a very emotive aspect and seems to follow how you have described her.actually very loving and outgoing by nature .but the pluto/chrion and Pluto/node midpoints are square to this opposition which are aspects of emotional abuse at the least. in this situation, it seems she had to hide her buoyant personality because when she was herself, she only elicited abusive reactions.

in addition ,the Saturn/Pluto midpoint is square to her Neptune. this would place the onus on a abusive father. Neptune indicates abuse accompanied by alcohol abuse. so it is very likely the father has no conscious memory and the child likely has blocked the pain out herself

psyche is conjunct to true Lilith showing a truly loving innocent nature, but the Eros/psyche midpoint is square to nessus which again points to severe abuse or a physical or more destructive nature.

todd


This, unfortunately, makes a lot of sense to me... from Chaitaly description of the child, I felt she is more affected by a post-traumatic event than by autism... of course, what do I know ? but this would also explain the family behaviour and the fact that she was never diagnosed as autistic...

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posted October 21, 2019 04:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chaitaly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you so much to the both of you!!

Actually we've found out recently that she has Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with other problems such as reading disorder and other language-based learning disabilities.
At first she seemed autistic because she was lost in her world, but I didn't know her then; she's very outgoing and talkative, even too much because of her hyperactivity, and her teacher is very impatient with her and it's always screaming at her.
What's strange is that her family has been pushed by teachers to take her to see a neuropsychiatrist, and this is her 1st diagnosis in 11 years!
And her mother, who is a teacher as I found out, apparently hadn't noticed her problems throughout all her childhood! Exposing her to the teacher's mocking and impatience, and the sad thing is that even now that she has been diagnosed (in these days!) there are still some teachers in the school who don't know what ADHD is...
She can do her homework but only if constantly supported, because she just talks and talks and can't concentrate on anything. And she is still alone at home so she won't do anything at home neither.
By the way, I love her even more, and I even dreamt of her last week the day before I had to see her!
So strong!

But she has got a diagnosis now, at least.

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posted October 21, 2019 06:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stoika7     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Chaitaly:
Thank you so much to the both of you!!

Actually we've found out recently that she has Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with other problems such as reading disorder and other language-based learning disabilities.
At first she seemed autistic because she was lost in her world, but I didn't know her then; she's very outgoing and talkative, even too much because of her hyperactivity, and her teacher is very impatient with her and it's always screaming at her.
What's strange is that her family has been pushed by teachers to take her to see a neuropsychiatrist, and this is her 1st diagnosis in 11 years!
And her mother, who is a teacher as I found out, apparently hadn't noticed her problems throughout all her childhood! Exposing her to the teacher's mocking and impatience, and the sad thing is that even now that she has been diagnosed (in these days!) there are still some teachers in the school who don't know what ADHD is...
She can do her homework but only if constantly supported, because she just talks and talks and can't concentrate on anything. And she is still alone at home so she won't do anything at home neither.
By the way, I love her even more, and I even dreamt of her last week the day before I had to see her!
So strong!

But she has got a diagnosis now, at least.


Thank you again for the update!!
Oh, well... if you're talking about Italy, I'm not surpirsed about such ignorance on ADHD (I'm italian too) !
The awful thing is that those behaviours you describe "against" her are exactly the opposite thing her problem would need to improve her situation :-(
So maybe she wasnt "abused" as we suspected, but she was psychologically abused somehow, just by the fact that her real problem was ignored and "mistreated" !

But, it's so good to hear those other teachers actually cared and pushed the family for taking care of this !

And, of course, she has you now :-)

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posted October 24, 2019 04:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for todd     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Chaitaly:
Thank you so much to the both of you!!

Actually we've found out recently that she has Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with other problems such as reading disorder and other language-based learning disabilities.
At first she seemed autistic because she was lost in her world, but I didn't know her then; she's very outgoing and talkative, even too much because of her hyperactivity, and her teacher is very impatient with her and it's always screaming at her.
What's strange is that her family has been pushed by teachers to take her to see a neuropsychiatrist, and this is her 1st diagnosis in 11 years!
And her mother, who is a teacher as I found out, apparently hadn't noticed her problems throughout all her childhood! Exposing her to the teacher's mocking and impatience, and the sad thing is that even now that she has been diagnosed (in these days!) there are still some teachers in the school who don't know what ADHD is...
She can do her homework but only if constantly supported, because she just talks and talks and can't concentrate on anything. And she is still alone at home so she won't do anything at home neither.
By the way, I love her even more, and I even dreamt of her last week the day before I had to see her!
So strong!

But she has got a diagnosis now, at least.


I have some misgivings about the childs diagnoses as having ADHD.. for one thing ADHD is a indeterminate diagnoses. by that I mean there are many different "symptoms "that are called ADHD. so even though there is a diagnoses ,it does not mean she will be treated properly. this puts her in a arbitrary category but ignores her individuality.

I main problem I foresee is that the "authorities " will want to put her on some type of drug to alter her behavior.
I think this is a big mistake.
I don't know how much latitude you have with her, but I suggest you try to make her understand that she need to try to alter the behaviors she has that are objectionable. I know this may be too much to expect a child to understand but you might let her know that if she can't alter herself then "they " will give her drugs that will deaden her spirit and joy.
as I mentioned, talk to her as an adult, hopefully she will understand she need to control her own impulses. I only suggest this because you and she have the mercury/Uranus square.

todd


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