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Goats 'drawn to happy human faces'





Scientists have found that goats are drawn to humans with happy facial expressions. The result suggests a wider range of animals can read people's moods than was previously thought. The team showed goats pairs of photos of the same person, one of them featuring an angry expression, and the other a happy demeanour. The goats in the study made a beeline for the happy faces, the researchers report in the journal Open Science. The result implies that the ability of animals to perceive human facial cues is not limited to those with a long history of working as human companions, such as dogs and horses. Instead, it seems, animals domesticated for food production, such as goats, can also decipher human facial cues. The study was carried out at the Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats in Kent, UK. Aug. 29 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45336330




New Moon or Full Moons that fall on the horizon or meridian axis at any place will often leave their stamp on events. The Full Moon of Aug. 26 at Maidstone, Kent where the Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats is located fell exactly on the IC – 4th house cusp. In mundane astrology, the 4th house rules agricultural and farm lands including such places where livestock is raised.

The Moon at 03°Pi12 has a declination of  -12°34' so that it is parallel to the stars  GIEDI PRIMA [-12°26'] and  GIEDI SECUNDA [-12°29']. Alpha (α) Capricornus is actually two stars, 3 minutes apart, in the right horn of the Goat. Alpha¹ (the star Giedi Prima) double, 3.2 and 4.2, yellow. Alpha² (Giedi Secunda), triple, 3, 11.5, and 11.5, pale yellow, ash, and lilac. These are the Prima and Secunda Giedi, or plain Algedi, from the Arabian constellation title Al Jady (Arabic jadi or jady means goat).

The Full Moon is part of a Kite Formation and makes sextile aspects to the Saturn-Uranus trine. In the present context the trine refers to the discovery mentioned here and provides a formal basis for an idea that was generally accepted only for dogs and horses.

But as we shall see here charts can provide stunning details. The Ascendant of the Full Moon chart is [15sc10]. The Sabian symbol for this degree is:

Phase 226 (Scorpio 16) : A Girl’s face breaking into a smile.
The symbol refers to a glowing warmth of feeling. Apparently even animals can detect this!


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