When foxes discovered little penguins on a small
Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. But a farmer came up with
a novel way to protect the birds - and the story has been made into a hit film.
As a premise for a film, think Lassie meets Babe meets Pingu. What's not to
like? Middle Island, a beautiful, rugged and windswept outcrop off the coast of
southern Victoria is home to a colony of the world's smallest penguins. Originally
known as fairy penguins, before some pen-pusher deemed that politically
incorrect, they've now been given the far more dreary sounding title of little
penguins. To be fair, they are just that - little, standing at 30 to 40cm tall.
There used to be hundreds of them on Middle Island - but that was before the
foxes got to them. Dec. 14 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35039105
Shown here is
the chart for the Waxing Crescent Moon of December 15 drawn for London where
the story was published. Both the
luminaries form hard aspects to Jupiter
and the nodal axis which are conjunct the star Cor Caroli. Alpha (α) Canes
Venatici, Cor Coroli, is a star, on the Southern Hound, Chara.
The usual
illustration of the constellation, Canes Venatici, is of two Greyhounds
straining at the leash held in the hand of Bootes. The Moon is conjunct the star 13 Vulpecula of the Fox. On the Ascendant is Alpha (α) Bootes,
Arcturus, a golden red star in the
constellation of Bootes, the armed Shepherd also referred to as the Protector. And
finally, the Sun is conjunct the star Ras Alhague, alpha (α) Ophiuchus, the healer.
Ophiuchus is also referred to as the medicine man. Its stars are connected with
healing, mending, restoring or revivifying
people or situations that have declined or deteriorated in any way.
So do the
pieces fall together? We have the Shepherd or the Protector’s dog chasing the
Foxes who had nearly wiped out the penguin colony! The dog’s role helps in restoring and regenerating a
situation that was in serious decline.
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