It's hard for someone to understand how difficult my position is - being an astrologer - to listen of others every day in my office, to console and encourage people this hard period of time. But I have to do this. At the beginning I was wondering from where I should take inner strength to face up all this negativity around me, except my knowledge? Next to my bed there is always a book of Socrates or Plato or Thoukidides.I read over and over again about the Greek s mistakes through the times, just before I go to bed. Not so romantic...Books everywhere...Herodotus, too, history books on the shelves and books of Psychology and Parapsychology from my student days. Books ...all over the house...books everywhere. Whoever, believe that Greece will fade out woefully mistaken fallacy. Of course, we must take our lesson now. Be careful who you vote, who we chose to rule and respect and count on.2012 is hard enough, but also a sunbeam will shine us again in 2013.

I sit here and write my thoughts before I fly for Christmas Holiday in Hesse of Germany, Nidda, where I will spend a few days with dear friends of mine. What a year! 2011, is leaving us behind, it wasn t just a difficult year, there were 365 days of continual redefinition, where everything overthrow into a new reality. We bend, but we are not buried under the ground yet and that is positive. We are terribly being pushed and still being pressed, but resist, and that are the point. We bend but we didn t break and that s optoimistic.We forget a lot but now it's time to remember ,to search into our DNA,all these things that helped us in the past to survive through the ages. An antidote to the crisis the family, friends, smiling...stubbornness...pride...solidarity. Our shield. The faith, faith to ourselves. It's time for us to change the codes, because I always believed that in every human being there tremendous powers, where the time comes to energize those and let them come on the surface. I think that is what the year 2012 will bring!

I wish in 2012, we all make new beginnings, to find the strength to make a new beginning with new fresh soul and remember that that for years we ve been convinced that we should spend money on things we don t really need, to create impressions that do not last forever, on people we don t really care. Socrates was saying:" If someone wants to change the world, must change himself first ".Materialistically, we were fine...at least those were the rules of the lifestyle imposed. According to the new values entering our lives now, I would suggest to do things that would make others happier. To do things for others, to create real relationships with people, to love and take care of yourself, to appreciate what you have, to be open at new things and try for the better, to have targets and work methodically in order to accomplish what you want, to have positive approachment to life, to feel comfortable with yourself, to participate into something greater.

The financial crisis was a great lesson for everyone. I think we learned to stop blaming others for what is happening, through observation. Stop what you do and watch. That s a procedure that brings global change in consciousness and leads us to peace and compassion. Spiritually and psychologically, compassion is the way where through this we can drain strength and a better life with others. Sharing and compassion means that me and the other is equally important like me.People all these years were acting with the " I" or "you".The word "share " indeed is not hiding any motive or some kind of interest. Sharing is happiness. Our happiness depends on this ability, to share your mental charismas with others. The same is about politics and socially. The Western World and Greece together, will not manage to achieve long -termed prosperity, if that prosperity will not exist in other places of the planet Earth, there where people die from hunger, suffer from poverty and war. When people will obtain a common level of prosperity- and I'm sure that this will occur at the century we live now, where people at least will not suffer physically, and then only we can have peace at the world.

I wish and hope things will change and people not lose their hope and optimism. I hope for all of you, the New Year will bring new opportunities, new beginnings and become stronger.People, in Greece, find strength the one from the other, through tight family and friends were taking care of the members of family, we offer to others, we are willing to stop conflict and negative energy. The sun, the beauty of the nature, simple everyday things, we just spend them with our friends. I hope the New Year will help us find our identity; we lost all these years, and create something completely new. The poet Giorgos Seferis was saying that the Sun, the Sea and our Spirit are those that keep us standing up on our feet thousands of years now and these are leading us into the future. The global crisis, is just a part of our lives, not our whole life. Everything is in our hands. It's not the end of it.We can make it.

In this new year of 2012, I would challenge you to resist consciously at the reality that media will present. Deny to play the game is lost, before it will begin. Accept problems as challenges that will make you stronger. Dare for changes that will improve your lives, get rid of fears, bad habits and negative thoughts. Smile as much as you can and maintain your mind healthy, recognize the blessings of the universe, forgive...forgiveness is spiritual freedom. Visualize a better wold.Being a volunteer is a spiritual action.