Most everything that is going on now is because of Neptune and Chiron

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15. I am getting stronger- not physically

but emotionally - less fearful and more free to speak truth and hold my space.

A coyote has been attacking my sheep in the daytime (it ate three of my bottle fed lambs and over 6 others so far) and I have been looking and looking for a guardian dog to chase it away. The dog has to have been raised with the sheep so that it loves them and guards them and wants to be with them. So, pet dogs cannot be turned into guardian dogs. And only special breeds like Great Pyrenees and Maremmas, etc bond like this to sheep and chase away coyotes, but stay with the flock in general. And they can't want to eat the chickens that free range with the sheep. Finally tonight I may have found one to rescue and I am thrilled. He is only a few hours drive away with a foster person who already has three livestock guardians herself, but this dog is just pinning away for her sheep, and her guardian dogs won't let him near them. He was dumped on the highway with 4 others, but the others were run over and killed. The dry winter here put a lot of livestock people out of business it seems, so the rescue woman said that people just dump the dogs like that once the sheep are sold.

She says that he is a real sweetheart and is already gaining weight. She has taught him to walk on a leash and she can brush him, too. He is now up to date on all shots (except I need to get him started on the rattlesnake vaccine) and already neutered. And so I feel a bit elated and also as though things are working out.

In other areas I am also feeling less easily frightened and just altogether on more solid ground. So, for me, it seems like a time where for every problem a solution is around...the trick is to look for it in a sort of deist style.