Will the Baby Foxes be Okay? 1 by Draco Hi all, Can I get some help with this? Usually when I ask horary questions, I must admit that I often throw questions up flippantly or off the cuff, for the sake of practice. However, when I asked this question, all the energies of my heart and soul were totally preoccupied with the nature of the issue in question. I was awake in the early hours, and went and sat at the back doorstep for a cigarette. As I sat there puffing away, I looked down the driveway and noticed what appeared to be two small cats run past the gate in the street. I only got a glimpse of them, but I was sure they must have been cats, as they were about that size, albeit small. They looked odd for cats however, they didn't move like cats and weren't shaped like them. When I got up for a closer look they had gone, and I was left wondering if I had seen something cryptozoological. After coming back inside, I could hear what sounded like the barking of very small dogs, so I thought it must have been terriers of chihuahuas or something like that. I returned to the back door, just in time to see two very small baby foxes galloping up the driveway. When I opened the door I frightened them, and one run into the back yard, the other back along the drive and back into the street. I wondered what two baby foxes, so small, were doing running around without their mother. I was concerned for their welfare. I went into the back garden, hoping to coax the little fox into coming inside for a drink of milk, but it was very frightened of me, and I so wanted to help. Each time I tried to approach it, it ran around for all it's life, barking for the other, and the other in the street, barking back for it. It was during a moment at which I was trying to approach the little fox in my garden that I realised that the only thing I could do was go back inside, and allow the baby fox to go back into the street to find it's sibling, which it wouldn't dare do while I was about. I was however, very hesistant to do this because I was scared that they might come to some harm, such as being run over when it got light or being attacked by a dog. I cannot imagine that two foxes, evidently so young, would be without their mother unless something had happened to her. I should mention that it is extremely rare to see foxes where I live, I have never seen one around here ever before. I have seen visiting squirrels, hedgehogs and even a crane on occasion, but never ever foxes. In other parts of the country, such as Yorkshire for example, where there is an abundance of hills and woodland, it is quite common to glimpse them, but it is most unusual to see foxes here. While trying to coax the cub that was in my garden, I reluctantly realised that I would have to go in and leave them alone so that it would dare run back up the drive to be reunited with it's sibling and then they could go their own way, but my whole soul was filled with the question: 'Will the baby foxes be okay?'. I must mention that this was the main question, but not the sole question I had in mind. I wondered why they were not with their mother and if anything had happened to her. I wondered where they had come from and where they would go. Question asked: 7th May, 2006, 4:44am BST, St. Anne's, England, (3-W-2 / 53-N-45) I went straight for the sixth cusp to represent the foxes. However, here is my first question: Given that these are such little creatures then I gather that they should be the sixth. However, is there not a school of thought that wild animals are the twelfth, whereas domesticated creatures are the sixth? None the less, I went for the sixth, because this is just what I felt right about. The thing is, attributing animals to the sixth house or the twelfth according to something as arbitary as size feels to me slightly uncomfortable. None the less, this seems to be how it is most often done. The nature of the animal being wild or domestic somehow seems a more sensible differentiation, so here is my first confusion, I am torn between the sixth and the twelfth. I feel more inclined to the sixth simply because I have never before looked at a chart about an animal and not attributed it to the sixth, because all the questions I have asked before about animals are those in which the quesited has been both small and domestic. The Moon is in intercepted Virgo in the sixth, and the ruler of the sixth is the Sun in Taurus in the first. I feel that the Moon represents the fox that was with me in the garden, trapped, as it was, by being in the intercepted sign, and that the Sun represents the other one. It might be significant that they are represented by the luminaries, as they were after all twins. Perhaps the Moon, the one with me in the garden, and the Sun, the one which had gone out into the street, shows that they were female and male, sister and brother. Then again, I am just not sure. If I go with this, then the Sun being in the first, describes the other fox as being 'with me', which it wasn't, because this is the one which was out on the street. Am I right to be seeing them as both separate? My first notion was to see them both being represented by the sixth cusp, however, only one of them was with me at the time of my question as to their welfare. If I am to look for significator's of each animal, then should I count the third from the sixth to represent the sibling of the fox that was with me? The trouble is, even if I only look for one significator for them both, then I am still presented with both the Sun as cusp ruler and the Moon as within the sixth, which seems to be giving me them both individually. I am just confused with this. I need to know where the most appropriate significator is to be found, and then I can interpret everything else from there, but without knowing where to find the foxes shown, this one is a non-starter. There are clear answers to be found here, as exemplified by the absent considerations before judgement, I just need some help. If this was your horary, where would you be looking for the fox cubs? Draco Quote Mon May 08, 2006 11:41 pm
2 by Kim Farnell Personally, I'd take them as the sixth. But I'm biased when it comes to foxes. As I'm sick of finding them in my kitchen, sitting on my front doorstep and generally hanging around my house. I have woken up to find that they've sneaked through my catflap and are sitting at the end of my bed on more than one occasion. They come in and steal shoes etc with monotonous regularity. My cats are extremely indignant about this. These are not timid creatures. Should you want to tempt them, forget the milk, they love cat food, and for some obscure reason will lay down their lives for marmite. A jam sandwich will do at a pinch. I do't know why they eat jam sandwiches, but they do. But seriously, be careful. If you start feeding them, they tell all their friends and for the next few years you will be feeding fox cubs every spring. I've been there. Not much support for the horary I know, but I have fox cubs visiting every year and now is the season for cubs. It sounds like a family has moved near you. I must try to be more relevant tomorrow, but I have foxes barking outside just now... Kim Quote Tue May 09, 2006 12:27 am