Paolo Bashir Ansaloni, born in Bologna, Italy, has always been fond of science and music. At 21 he follows the aspiration to an inner search that led him to a first trip to India to study Indian music and practicing yoga.
He travels later to other Eastern countries including Philippines, where for a period he practices with a shaman healer.
In the seventies he undertakes ethno musicological studies and simultaneously starts in Bologna a violin making workshop. In that period his interest in astrology begins, but as a personal study, with readings only addressed to friends and acquaintances.
In the late eighties, disappointed by poor economic feedback of artistic craftsmanship, he changes completely his professional direction working as a broker and starting his own real estate agency.
At the beginning of the nineties the meeting with a Tibetan Lama, Lama Zopa Rimpoche, completely changes the address of his life. In ‘94 he is one of the promoters and responsible for organising the visit of His Holiness The Dalai Lama in Bologna. That same year he moves to Nepal where he remains four years practicing with the master and working for the foundation (Foundation for Preservation of Mahayana Tradition).
In '98 from the Nepal he travels to India and reaches Pune… in a moment he find himself Sanyasin!
It’s in Osho’s world that his quality in astrology is recognized. This starts a period of practice and reading sessions. In the same period, thanks to the direct observation of the sky, Bashir realized that the traditional western astrology, ignoring, or rather, obscuring the precession of the equinoxes, has remained to the same representation of the sky as it was 19 centuries ago, the Ptolemy’s time.
In India, on the other hand, Vedic astrology follows, yes, the real reference to the constellations in the sky, but uses a very special and extremely pragmatic method of interpretation, moreover it ignores the outer planets.
In 2001, in Pune, Bashir participates in a intensive sat-sang held by Dolano, after this period of silence and inactivity in the astrological field.
Later, deepening the Cyril Fagan’s studies, elaborates an astrological model of representation of the sky which, while keeping the traditional western method of interpretation, respects the correct calculations and includes the outer planets, including Chiron, defining this new model as Neo Sidereal Astrology.
Years of practice and verification have confirmed the relevance and validity.
After a period of eleven years lived in East returns to Italy to share with anyone who is interested.

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