Dutch town faces rogue owl attacks at Hyades Moon

Hyades

Residents in the northern Dutch town of Purmerend have been advised to take umbrellas out at night after a spate of attacks by an owl. Dozens of residents have suffered head injuries over the past three weeks at the claws of the rogue European eagle owl. Two runners were attacked on Tuesday, with one requiring stitches for five separate head wounds. Feb.25; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31628508

This news comes at the First Quarter Moon, a chart for which is shown here. Notice the very significant placement of the Moon on the MC as part of a T-square with the Sun-Neptune conjunction on the descendant and Saturn on the IC. The Moon [6ge] was conjunct the stars of Hyades in the constellation of Taurus.

Taurus, the Bull,  is a very ancient figure dating from the Magdalenian epoch (ca.19,000 to 10,000 BCE) or even earlier: the Lascaux cave paintings of southeastern France include a bull (actually, an aurochs, now extinct) with the tilted “V” shaped Hyades cluster in his muzzle. About the huge and highly aggressive aurochs bulls, Julius Caesar wrote in his Gallic War “those animals..are little below the elephant in size and of the appearance, color and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied.” That this constellation was originally a very belligerent animal is interesting because issues of aggression are constant themes under the Bull [1].

About the Hyades, Robson writes:

They give tears, sudden events, violence, fierceness, poisoning, blindness, wounds or injuries to the head by instruments, weapons or fevers, and contradictions of fortune. [Robson*, p.189.]

It, therefore, appears that the foregoing explains the owl’s strange behaviour. But why an owl?  The answer to that comes from the Sabian symbol [2] for Saturn [4sa41].

4-5 deg Sagittarius

An Old Owl Sits Alone On The Branch Of A Large Tree

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.219-20)

[2] http://www.cafeastrology.com/sabiansymbols_degreemeanings.html