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The Year
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by Diana Stone |
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Dateline February 1, 2003. This marks the final day of the Year of the Horse according to the Chinese zodiac. I would like to share this article I wrote earlier in honor of our equine brothers and sisters. Watch for next month's column acknowledging the beginning of the Year of the Goat: "Mercury Retrograde: Astrology's Scapegoat."
When I moved to Portland, Oregon in 1973, I drove my cat, Mrs. Moony (a Cancer) and myself twenty-two hundred miles in a U-Haul truck. I was pretty exhausted as I crossed the Oregon state line. However, I saw a sight that sent my spirits soaring. I spied a herd of wild mustangs galloping at top speed across the high desert country. I pulled off to the side of the road and watched them for a while. Ever since then I have horse consciousness.
The dog is called man's best friend. Maybe the horse deserves that title more. Think about the contribution the horse has made to humanity for thousands of years. Horse has carried us on its back, plowed our fields, fought in our wars, pulled our covered wagons, not to mention all the great Westerns we wouldn't have without horse.
Astrology has its version of horse. Chiron (pronounced KIGH-ron) was discovered in 1977 and was named after a half-horse half-man centaur in Greek mythology. He was the archetypal teacher-healer to Greek heroes and physicians. Horse is now hanging out with the Olympian gods.
My brother and I had a horse named Julie when we were kids growing up on a farm in Iowa. My brother decided to smoke a magazine one summer afternoon. Most Iowa farm boys hid behind the barn and smoked corn silks. A magazine was bad enough, but he got up on Julie before he lit up. One puff and the magazine went nuclear. Julie reared up and bro went flying. I can still see him flying through the air with a blazing magazine. He was knocked unconscious. It was not the first or last time, but it was the most dramatic.
There is one more sacrifice made by horse that was not listed above. Across the United States and Canada some 700 "horse pee farms" are set up to create one of the nation's leading blockbuster drugs, Premarin. The drug is derived from PREgnant MAre uRINe. That is where the name comes from. It is used to treat hormonal imbalances in women.
At any given time, 80,000 mares are strapped into a tiny stall where they cannot lie down or even turn around. For seven out of the eleven months of pregnancy the mare is hooked up to a catheter to collect her urine. To make the urine more concentrated and effective, she is given little water. Shortly after delivery the foals are slaughtered. The mares are impregnated and again imprisoned in their tiny stalls. After twelve years of this terrible life, the mares are sold for dog meat. This cruel treatment of over one million horses has gone on for fifty-six years. (They must have sad eyes.)
I think back to that day in 1973 when I saw the wild mustangs running free across the high desert
Yeah. The year of the horse.
Oh, come magical Pegasus and free these noble mothers and we will fly, fly away to a distant mountain top forever.
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Diana Stone,
Astrologer
& Huna Shaman
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Diana Stone began astrological studies in the 1960s under the tutelage of Charles Luntz, author of Vocational Guidance by Astrology.
In 1973, she established a private practice in Portland, OR. She serves a clientele that includes an extensive network of telephone clients.
Her book on the U.S. horoscope was published in 1976. In the early 90s she contributed to three anthologies published by Llewellyn Publishers and edited by Noel Tyl.
Diana has lectured extensively and is a popular keynote speaker. She delivered the keynote address at the United Astrology Conference in Orlando in July 2002.
She has been a student for over 30 years of Huna shamanism, the system practiced by ancient Polynesian kahuna. Huna Research, Inc. certified her as a teacher of the ancient lore.
Diana serves an extensive international clientele as a shaman specializing in soul retrieval. She and her brother formed a publishing company, Crystal Triangle Publishing, and the book they co-authored, The Lightbody Activation Manual, will be released in February 2003. Diana now resides in Vancouver, WA.
Diana Stone
12005 NW 14th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98685
DianaS@SpirtitOne.com
www.DianaStone.com
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