February 28, 2006

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  Hilary had a new litter of kittens yesterday.  When I identified
  her as “our climber” here previously someone, NFP I think it was, asked
  if she was named for the mountaineer.  Yes, we named her after Sir
  Edmund because as a kitten she showed a strong preference for vertical
  movement, especially up the Navajo rug hanging on the wall, clothes in
  the closet, trees in the yard….

  Before she weaned her first
  litter, she was fiercely protective of them, all hisses and growls and
  swatting at Koji when the kittens came near him.  He learned very
  quickly to avoid the kittens, but they persisted in trying to snuggle
  up to him for naps or swat at  his wagging tail.

  After
  weaning them, Hilary was as likely to growl and swat at them if they
  came near her as she was with the old lady cats or withKoji.  As
  her latest pregnancy progressed, she was increasingly cranky, but now
  that she’s a new mother again she is mellow and sweet.

  One
  kitten, the one at far left in the first photo above, was born early
  yesterday morning, and none of the others was born until sometime late
  last night.  By the time I was up today we had four of them.

  The
  coloring and markings of the two on the right in that top photo
  resemble Potemkin, the stray tomcat who has been making himself at home
  here long enough to eat, drink and get warm several times a week for a
  month or two.  Po was very skittish and wary of Koji when he
  started visiting us, but no so much any more, now that he has
  spent  time around the dog and survived.

  Doug hauled the
  kittens out of Hilary’s nest in the corner of his closet, the same
  place where she had her first litter, so I could take these
  pictures.  Hilary came out immediately and started taking them
  back, so I didn’t have a lot of time to arrange kittens artistically or
  get insurance shots.  What you see is what I got.

  Doug helped Hilary return the kittens to her nest, then got the shot at left here. 

  Last
  week, when Hilary was all grumpy, hostile, and dangerous, I would have
  cheerfully taken her to the pound, but now that she’s her old sweet
  self again, I don’t think so.  Doug and I have been agonizing over
  what to do with the two “extra” kittens from her first litter that we
  feel are really more than we can support and certainly more than we can
  afford to spay and neuter.

  The economics and logistics of the
  neutering are the reasons we have this new litter.  There’s a
  clinic on the edge of Anchorage that offers the services considerably
  cheaper than any of the ones here in the Valley, but they have backlogs
  a month or more in length and charge extra for cats in heat or
  pregnant.  We failed utterly to make a workable plan to transport
  our cats in there at the right time before the first litter was
  conceived, and again between litters.

  Now, Doug and I are faced
  with the certainty of becoming emotionally attached to four more
  kittens.  We’re also faced with the difficulty of formulating and
  executing a neutering plan for the ones we can afford, and all we have
  done toward figuring out what to do with the others is say to each
  other plaintively, “What are we going to do?”  It’s humbling, and
  it’s frustrating, and they’re cute, darnit.

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  Anyone else
  been hit as hard by this New Moon as Doug and I have been?  I’m
  not going into excruciating detail about it.  Suffice it to say we
  have had a stressful and painful day.  I haven’t looked at his
  chart to see how this stuff is impacting him.  When I found the
  new celestial weather report
  in my email today, I’d already had a frustrating, difficult headache of
  a day, so I looked to see if Rich Humbert had any explanation. 
  Did he ever!

  On this New Moon Monday afternoon, every planet is connected with another planet (or planets) in a highdegree of exactitude. Mars and Saturn, high in the chart, are both at 5 degrees of Gemini and Leo respectively. [This aspects my Libra Neptune.] The
  Sun, Moon, and Uranus are grouped in less than two degrees of arc at 9
  and 10 Pisces.  Mercury is in the number 26 degree of Pisces,
  Pluto is in the 26 degree of Sagittarius, and Venus is in the 25 degree
  of Capricorn. [All of these connect with my curse/blessing pattern.]   Jupiter is at the 18 degree of Scorpio square to Neptune at 18 degrees of Aquarius. [My Venus is at 18 degrees Libra.] 
  There is an extraordinary degree of exactitude in this chart. 
  This suggests that the lunar cycle that begins with this New Moon will
  make urgent the need for clarity with no gray areas of ambivalence.

  The
  New Moon takes place on the 10th degree of Pisces, and this degree
  bears the symbol of an aviator flying through the clouds.  He’s
  flying on instruments or on intuition but not on normal visual
  perceptions.  This suggests we will need to look through and
  beyond the fog of information that washes over us nowadays via the
  media and Internet.  We will need to listen to our own truth
  sensors amidst conflicting and confusing reports.  This is
  combined with Uranian energies since Uranus aligns with the New
  Moon.  Uranus acts suddenly to shake up the status quo…it’s his
  job.  The Pisces experience reveals to us the crack between worlds
  - places where realities intersect like the surface of the sea. 
  So expect to gain a sudden insight that causes a re-evaluation, new
  knowledge, something hidden coming to light.

  Well, I told
  Greyfox I’d call him back when I was done with what I was doing, and if
  I wait too long I’ll just get his voicemail.  G’Nite.
  

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