A man has been trampled to death by
a herd of cows in a field in Wiltshire. The victim, believed to be aged 66, was
out walking his dog when he was attacked by the animals. His brother, thought
to be in his 70s, was also seriously injured as the herd stampeded. The pair
were out walking near Winsley when they were crushed by the animals. Daily Mirror
14 May 2013
A strange
and what appears to be inexplicable animal behaviour begins to acquire meaning
when we see it in backdrop of stars. We begin by looking at the eclipse of May
10, 2013 just four days before the incident. The eclipse was in Taurus – a sign
associated with cattle and agricultural land. The eclipse [19ta] is placed
opposite the MC [25sc] forming hard aspects to Pluto-Uranus
Pluto-Uranus: To see disruptive behaviour based on emergent
(formerly repressed) psychological content; to encounter psychological
volatility; unexpected reactions based on resentment [1]
The MC is
conjunct beta Lupi [25sc] – the Wild Beast Lupus. For this area Diana Rosenberg lists "animal encounters and animal attacks" [2]. In ancient texts Lupus was
the Sumerian Ur-Idim (Mad Dog), in
Akkadian Ligbat (Beast of Death), to Turks, Al-Sabu, the Wild Beast always combined with Centaurus – a figure
shown as half human and half animal. The
unexpected resentment shown by the animals is a reminder that the balance between “wild nature” and “civilized
man” needs to be corrected.
“The first man who, having fenced in
a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough
to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many
crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any
one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and
crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if
you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth
itself to nobody”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality,
Rousseau asserted that the stage of
human development associated with what he called "savages" was the
best and most optimal in human development, between the less-than optimal
extreme of brute animals on the one hand and the extreme of decadent civilization
on the other. "...nothing is so gentle as man in his primitive state, when
placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes and the
fatal enlightenment of civil man."
[1] The
Orders of Light; Martha Lang-Wescott
[2] Secrets of the ancient skies; Diana Rosenberg [v.2, p.242]
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