Recently, the contaminated pet food scare terrorized my friends and clients, many requesting transit and timing consultations for their dear pets. Yes, a horoscope can and should be elected for animals – especially for observing health related concerns also helpful in choosing a new pet for the family. (A pet that gets along with you, your family and with your other pets.) Your 6th house from your rising sign and your 6th house from your Moon is the house of pets (those that serve you). So you can look at the transits to your own 6th houses for the current situation for your pet. 

Well, I have been happily making my own pet food, cooking chicken, veggies and basmati rice (plus vitamins) for my 4 canine companions for the last 18 years. I felt such empathy for those who were worried about their pets, and such relief that I home cook
for mine. . . and then my little rescue dog number 5 came into my life 2 weeks ago….and turned me all around. He came with canned (oh No!) dog food and seemed to be healing from his car accident very well on it – I researched the 2 brands the foster vet had him eating:

Chicken Soup for the Soul

http://www.chickensoupforthepetloverssoul.com/
and Merrick  http://www.merrickpetcare.com/

Merrick had food with no recall and has no wheat gluten (I have one dog with wheat allergies) and now also, Chicken Soup for the Soul is healthy and safe.

So here is the story of Lakota – and the shamanic timed way he came into my life:

In the last few years I have begun taking people in my workshops on dream journeys and vision quests in tune with my Cherokee and Ute Native American Heritage (I look like the Irish side though the Ute is from that side too). My paternal great grandmother was tribal Cherokee from Oklahoma. So, many of these genetic gifts of the shaman and the medicine man I figure are in my DNA. My own totem animals assisted my healing from an acoustic neuroma brain tumor restoring a good portion of my resultant hearing loss (but that is another story).

So, I am sitting on my back deck bordering on the beautiful open spaces of Colorado in meditation when the dogs (of course) start barking. There is a beautiful hawk flying with a green snake in its mouth who proceeded to drop it on my deck. No longer alive, I
guessed that this bird had dropped his dinner accidentally – still I uneasily moved the snake off to the garden. The next day, meditating again on the deck in the lovely sunset time when all is still, it happens again. Another garter snake. This time the bird dropped it in a pot of organic yellow tomatoes beside my deck chair. Not alive again (thank goodness). So, I figured (like a cat
brings you a mouse) they were trying to feed me. Well, I ate rattlesnake growing up in Oklahoma, but I am so Not interested in eating snake now!

The next day (Thursday) I related the story and commented to my chiropractor – now why did I have to get snakes and Cobras for my totem animals (I’m afraid of snakes) why couldn’t I get a cute little bear? A cute little black furry baby bear! He went on to say
because of who you are, and because of what you do. . . and lovely kudos, which I appreciated but I was just being rhetorical and trying to figure out the meaning of the strange coincidence of two snakes two days in a row.

Friday, the day following, I drop Shukra and Chandra (sanskrit for Venus and Moon) off at the vet for dental cleaning.

Shukra and Chandra

When I picked them up, I noticed all the doctors and nurses in a room with a little black dog with a broken leg. At the doorway I asked if that was a little black Pom? They shrugged and said don’t know. I went back to get my two Maltese thinking (I’m ashamed to say judgmentally) don’t they even know what kind of dog they have!

Then, everything hit the fan and broke loose if you get my meaning – an emergency arrived – – dog stung by wasps and in shock – and they put this little black broken leg dog back in the kennel where I was sitting waiting in the back office. He started to walk
towards me on his broken leg and I said no sit! He immediately sat down (Like Poppy my Pomeranian who died in 1999) and he sat so like her, with a very straight formal pose, that I said out of habit, time to meditate. . . He immediately crossed his little front legs in front of him (broken leg and all), I said put your head down, and he put his head down! Just like Poppy! …and I’m
thinking.. no it couldn’t be, I do personally believe in reincarnation to a point, and I did read Richard Bach who wrote Jonathan Livingstone Seagull  where he said to be aware of animals you meet after yours cross over, to note if they have the same tricks, mannerisms, they just might be looking for you, and don’t expect them to look the same, the might be another breed. Hmmm.

Poppy

Then it was time to leave the vet (at this point, I am thinking, this is somebody else’s dog so I need to just put these ideas out of my head) when the vet tech with this black fur ball under her arm on her way home, tells me she is just fostering him and do I want
him! I said, Well, I’ve already got 4 dogs! Do you know anything about him, his name or anything? She said, Well, we suspect he was hit by a car, then he escaped after we set his leg and when found again had a wet nasty cast with maggots and needed more surgery where he lost 2 toes and the footpad of his right foot. We don’t know his name, but we have been calling him Little Bear,
and I thought – Oh! I just wished for a little black bear yesterday at the chiropractor!

Not wanting to act without thinking (like I have done before), I went home and thought about it for 48
hours, then left a message on Sunday that I would take him.

He finds, notepaper, napkins, his blanket to cover over his food bowl when he is full, he can count with his feet – when you ask him do you want another one? he hits the floor with his foot, and many other traits that Poppy had (I have two other Poms, Luna
and Leo and they have none of these tricks. I taught them to Poppy because I didn’t want her to beg bark).

Luna and Leo

So here I am, an astrologer who knows the actual birth time of all my registered dogs, so I can follow their health and life cycles — with a little rescue dog with no birthday!

I have rectified his horoscope, based upon his broken leg, and what time period (dasa) he would be in when he found a new safe home (and new mom) and we will celebrate his 2nd birthday on August 24, 2007, using Fort Lupton, Colorado for his place of
birth,(where he was rescued.)

Lakota Bear knows his new name and is happy loved.

Some astrological days to be aware of for the month of September 2007

September 1, 2007

* * * * * * * *This day is for meditation, silent reflection, appreciation of spiritual values, chanting mantras, Vedas, and not for travel. If you have to travel do the things that help you be present and grounded, and allow extra time for departure and arrival at destinations!

So enjoy your pets and pals – and check out their charts too. You will love it! A Taurus pet will often have a tendency to eat too much, just like its human counterpart!.

Christina Collins,  Jyotish KovidJyotish Vachaspati is a 3rd generation astrologer specializing in the Vedic system. She received her honorary titles from the late Dr. B.V. Raman, former President of the ICAS (Indian Council for Astrological Sciences) in New Delhi and Bangalore, India. She is the first and sole American woman to be honored by this highly held title of Jyotish Vachaspati (Jyotish – the light bearer and Vachaspati – the one who speaks the truth and whose predictions come true.) She serves as faculty and on the board of ACVA (American College for Vedic Astrology) and is President of Celestial Resources where she serves corporate and private clients from students to celebrities. You can reach her in Lafayette, Colorado at 303-665-9996,  jyotish@indra.com or by visiting  http://www.vedicastrologer.cc

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