{"id":10348,"date":"2024-05-01T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2024-05-01T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:01:01","slug":"dogs-instincts-and-the-importance-of-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=10348","title":{"rendered":"Dogs, instincts and the importance of balance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buddy was a rescued, fierce-looking, lovable Labrador-Great Dane cross. Friends adopted a Cane Corso mastiff responding in kind to love given. Buddy was left as nature intended. My friends\u2019 dog has clipped ears and docked tail, man-made \u2018improvements\u2019 previously done.
\nMy mother was advised to dock our dog\u2019s tail by a hunting relation. I hated hunting but when boys called to the free-roaming village dogs from the woods, they would joyfully respond. I felt sad and guilty, I knew Rowdy missed that expressive tail.
\nDogs evolved and adapted beside us. The coccyx aside, our body parts have a purpose, so has a dog\u2019s tail, the shape of its ears. Humans will butcher a girl\u2019s genitals for masculine selfishness, unafraid to \u2018improve\u2019 on God\u2019s creation if they are believers. Were women given the ability to enjoy sex equally during intercourse by divine mistake or by evolutionary wisdom to make the act of procreation enjoyable?
\nDo humans who arrogantly disfigure dogs that suffer from \u2018designer\u2019 defects due to this interference believe their \u2018aesthetics\u2019 are superior to tried and tested evolution? As our survival skills advanced in a dangerous world, did we store away unneeded instincts, perhaps even telepathic alerts to fear, danger or loss?
\nOn a moonlit swim in the sea the brush of seaweed on my legs triggered a heart-jerking predator alarm. Hairs bristled on my arms when a friend told me she woke in the night and knew for certain before the hospital called that her husband\u2019s life had ended. Other family members shared that sensation. When my husband died, before the phone call, I strongly felt his presence, those closest to him also sensed his final breath.
\nAnimals retain that hair-bristling reaction to danger. Astrology states that the moon has positive (sensitivity, practicality) and negative (loss of contact with reality) influences on us, its pull influences tidal movement. In life much depends on balance, our negative presence on earth that melts ice caps and creates warmer, sluggish oceans may interfere with that ancient duality.
\nBlurry stars observed with my glaucoma eyes bring Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s paintings and his sad life to mind. We say, thank your lucky stars. Yet neither Vincent\u2019s oil-crafted ones nor his heavenly bodies were lucky for him. His horoscope shows genius status but planetary positions at birth brought bad luck.
\nFaux horoscopes draw disdain, yet astrology is considered the most cerebral of the occult sciences. The \u2018true\u2019 tropical Zodiacs and the star groups \u2018constellational\u2019 ones differ. Often ridiculed as idiocy and superstition now, sigils and symbols abounded in ancient times. And 13th<\/sup>-14th<\/sup> century builders were influenced by highly sophisticated Arabian astrology entering Europe.
\nNotre Dame and other historical constructions bear sculpted witness to the importance of astrology over time. Our planet established a perfect seasonal balance that our induced climate change is altering to the detriment of many species, including us. The sky stays the same but we can now read it better than the ancients, or can we? \u00a0<\/strong>
\nIn his Secret Knowledge Charles Walker writes about the wisdom of antiquity in the I Ching, one of the few books allowed to survive destruction by Emperor Hwang-Ti in 213 BC. \u201cIn simple terms, a yin represents the dark, unyielding feminine element in the world. This by its very nature is striving to become its opposite, the yang, which is light, unyielding and masculine. Just as Yin strives towards its opposite polarity, so the yang strives to become the feminine yin.\u201d
\nIf primordial, meteorite material helped life evolve here perhaps that stardust ingredient draws us spiritually to the universe as ancient, buried earthly instincts still activate in spite of us. Astrologers may have stars in their imaginative, studious eyes but space scientists also have them in their heads. Ultra smart, Irish-Briton astrophysicist Rosemary Coogan was chosen from thousands for a European Moon mission. We explore our future in space, but we stem from a past that has always wanted to reach for the stars and ask our questions of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Dogs’ tails and ears have a purpose and should not be altered for aesthetic reasons.
\n– Humans have interfered with nature by altering dogs’ appearances, similar to how they have altered women’s bodies.
\n– Humans may have lost certain instincts over time, such as telepathic alerts to danger.
\n– Astrology and the influence of the moon on human behavior are discussed.
\n– Climate change is altering the balance of the planet, affecting many species.
\n– Ancient wisdom, such as that found in the I Ching, is still relevant today.
\n– The connection between humans and the universe, possibly stemming from primordial stardust, is 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