Some human and dog mothers will compete with their
offspring under certain circumstances, and now a new study presents evidence
that such infighting likely compelled the earliest dogs to leave their selfish
moms for a life with people. … “What we would like to suggest is this: human
camps would be a source of rich resources for ancestral dog populations,”
senior author Anindita Bhadra of the Indian Institute of Science Education and
Research told Discovery News. “Since richer resources can induce higher
conflict, it can eventually lead to individuals defecting from their groups to
follow the resource hubs, i.e., humans.”
Dec.8 http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/selfish-dog-moms-fueled-domestication-151208.htm
As we have
reiterated several times on this blogsite, no event can take place without the
stars allowing or perhaps facilitating it. This news item provides us another
opportunity to prove our point. Like no
other New or Full Moon, eclipses often help us in connecting threads that
eventually lead to a new paradigm. Here
we begin with the chart of the last
solar eclipse of Sept.13 drawn for Calcutta where the research study was
carried out. Since the eclipse was
placed square the horizon axis, by the rules of mundane astrology, it is
delivering a significant message at this place.
If we now
progress the eclipse chart to Dec. 8, the date of the news item, we find that
the eclipse reaches the progressed descendant and is thereby triggered on that
date.
The eclipse was
conjunct alpha (α) Canes Venatici, Cor Coroli, a double star on the Southern
Hound, Chara. The usual illustration of the constellation, Canes Venatici, is
of two dogs or greyhounds straining at the leash held in the hand of Bootes. The
eclipse is square the TNP Cupido [1] and
quincunx Uranus. Cupido stands for family or group unity while Uranus is often
considered selfish because it looks after its own interests.
On the descendant
of the chart and opposite Cupido is the star Capella. Alpha (α) Auriga, Capella, is a white star and
the 6th largest star in the sky marking the mother goat that the Charioteer is
carrying on his left shoulder. Roman
astrologer Manilius writes that Capella is the “foster-mother of mighty Jove
(Jupiter). She gave the Thunderer (Jupiter) sound nourishment, satisfying with
her own milk the infant's hungry body and giving him therewith sufficient
strength to wield his bolts”. What he does not state clearly is that in the process she abandons her own
kid goats.
If the
readers now merge the various elements in the chart, they will begin to see the
news story emerging. This eclipse is a warning to caregivers, especially those
who commit the error of “too much responsibility”. These are people whose
duties turn into a kind of voracious blackhole, never satisfied. Devoted,
caring parenting…but still a guilty sense that you are failing your kids. Such
people give so much without replenishing their own batteries that they sooner
or later reach that depressed state called “burnout”.
Here the
symbol of the dog which stands for faithfulness and unwavering blind commitment
conflicts with the image of the mother
goat who has decided to abandon her kids to follow her own personal goal.
Should we pass a judgement and look upon her as guilty or is she doing the
right thing?
All of
us have had dreams in which characters from various parts of our lives
seem to come together and appear to be
asking us to make sense of an emerging new story. In much the same way the
archetypes which form the psychic contents of all human experiences are brought
together by a horoscope. As we refuse identification (or even rejection) with
the flaws of any one character (or element of the chart) and continue in our effort to merge the characters
to produce a new personal mythology, we are able to successfully reincorporate
the shadow side of each archetype resulting
in a stronger and wider consciousness than before.
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