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The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head




Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen's hatchet that day didn't behave like the rest. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390








The cardinal ingresses of the Sun are held to be of great importance in mundane astrology. Shown here is the chart for the Sun’s entry into sidereal Cancer in 1945 drawn for Fruita, Colorado.  Here Mars [25ta]  on the descendant  is square Mercury and the TNP Zeus.






 If we progress the chart to 10 September 1945, we find the square straddling the meridian axis thereby triggering whatever it implies. In the progressed chart  the Sabian symbol for the Zeus-Mercury [20le17] refers to chickens in a barnyard while Mars is conjunct the star Algol – the decapitated head of Medusa!



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