The last wolf in the UK was shot centuries ago, but
now a "rewilding" process could see them return to Scotland. Adam
Weymouth hiked across the Scottish Highlands in the footsteps of this lost
species. In Glen Feshie there stand Scots Pines more than 300 years old, and in
their youth they may have been marked by wolves. It is beguiling to think that
now, camped beneath them, boiling up water for morning coffee. Last year I
walked 200 miles across the Highlands to see how those that lived there would
feel about the reintroduction of the wolf. The wolf's population has quadrupled
in Europe since 1970, and the fact that they remain extinct in Britain is
increasingly anomalous. Oct.14 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33017511
The good
news about a wolf "rewilding" program in Scotland comes just a day after the New Moon of Oct.13. At Glen Feshie,
the New Moon is on the IC opposite
Uranus on the MC and part of a T-square with Pluto. On the Ascendant are stars
of the Great Bear and her cub which
Diana Rosenberg links to “protection of children, animals and the environment”.
Among other things, a Uranus-Pluto square is associated with an attitudinal change after
a transformation or collapse of old ways of seeing things. Here Saturn[2sa] is
anchored to the T-square through hard aspects and conjunct gamma (γ) [2sa] and chi (χ) [3sa] Lupus, the Wolf [1].
In the
picture above notice that the centaur is shown carrying a spear that impales a
wolf. The wolf has long been a symbol of
evil. At an early stage of the evolution of consciousness, man sees evil
outside himself. A wild animal impaled on a lance becomes a symbol of his
immature desire to eradicate evil in the world. Over time man begins to
understand that what he terms “evil” has
an important function in life. At this stage of his mental evolution, the centaur is ready to carry the “wolf” to an altar for sacrifice, in other
words giving up his immature understanding of what constitutes “evil”. Diana Rosenberg associates this act with
“redemption”.
The word
“redemption” is defined as “the action
of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or
clearing a debt”. Redemption is the buying back of something. You might try for
redemption by attempting to buy back a bike you sold, or you might attempt to
buy back your soul after you steal someone else's bike. Redemption comes from
the Latin word redimere, a combination of re(d)-, meaning “back,” and emere,
meaning “buy.” Here the wolf rewilding
program is an act of redemption for what we as humans have done to a wonderful
animal. In most Native cultures, a wolf was associated with courage, strength, loyalty, and success at hunting.
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