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Cow attack and what it means




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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