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Pet Astrology

August 2011

By Christina Collins

Picking your pet using Jyotish can help you choose a healthy, strong companion, and even help you avoid adopting a neurotic, fearful friend. Animal�s horoscopes can of course be challenging to obtain. If you go to a breeder with registered puppies ( or kitties ) you can likely obtain not only a birth date, but also a birth time (and in some cases, even a birth order).

Sometimes you should ask if any litter mates did not survive, or if they passed away soon after their birth. If the answer to this question proves to be a yes, then you must look more deeply at the chart(s) of the survivor(s) of the litter. Some astrologers feel that if one dies, it takes on the karma for the other�s as well. So, it does not preclude adopting from that same litter.

Often when clients ask me to do the charts of potential pets under consideration, it is often requested that I look for a specific health problem (as I am also a medical astrologer). They may have lost a previous pet to a specific disease or ailment, and do not want to go through that specific experience again. (Like feline leukemia, or canine collapsing trachea or hip dysplasia in larger dogs.) Details can slightly differ from human charts, but problems in Sagittarius, or the 9^th house can still produce hip problems, just as planets in a 6/8 axis, especially Pisces / Libra tend to manifest diabetes, just as it does incarnated in the human condition.

Quite often you will find that a good birth time for an animal is unable to be produced. Taking the Moon of the day of birth and reading from the Chandra Lagna (Moon rising sign) can provide a valuable chart. Sometimes I use the pet adoption day as the birth day for a pet. Other times, especially in the case of a rescued pet, when even the year of birth is not necessarily known (my vet guestimates age from the teeth � as she did for my rescue Lakota Bear) or you can use your own transits to your own birth chart for clues to the health of your animals. Sixth is the house of pets. If you have many difficult placements relating to the 6^th house, you might be better off either not adopting pets, or getting an aquarium � otherwise the continual loss of pets is likely.

A poignant quote -- �Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.� (William Shakespeare) is why I decided to write about my dear little heart chakra dog � Luna Tune. She had her 8^th birthday on June 2^nd and she died on August 3^rd. Even though I rescued her from a failing pet store at a mall (spontaneously, on my way to a movie), she did have AKC registration papers and so I know her place of birth and date. I use her Chandra lagna of Moon in Gemini in Ardra nakshatra because I do not have a stated time of birth. (Lord of the 4^th, Mercury is in the 11^th with Venus, lord of the 5^th with 35 ashtakavarga points � which quite describes why I called her my heart chakra dog)

I also used (for her) my own chart(s) as I have a sandi lagna between Scorpio and Sagittarius (29°46). My Grandfather was a sidereal Astrologer, but of course he was not present to time the seconds of birth.

Luna�s Gemini moon was both in my 8^th house (misery, chronic disease, legacy, transcendence) and my 7^th house (partnership, contracts, and potent maraka) . For Scorpio rising (as it is for Libra rising) the first house ruler is also the eighth house ruler. Even so, the lagna lord is always considered a �benefic,� for an individual. Classically. So, you can look at a thing from many sides. I still believe that this is a challenge to the Scorpio. Philosophically you can always say � suffering is good � it works off karma � �oh, your heart is breaking? Good, it�s breaking its boundaries! (This is one of my favorite quotes from my Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi). However, I expected some personal challenge as Mars moved into Gemini. Luna had exalted Mars (in close degree to the degree of my natal ascendant), exalted Jupiter (as I have in the Navamsa), and exalted nodes. With Jupiter in the 2^nd and a Taurus Sun � you will not be surprised that she loved to eat!

So late in July, I took her to the Vet for a complete physical � to rule out any health problems for her. House six is the house of pets (because it is the house of those that serve you, and pets represent service) So, for me, Mars rules the lagna, and also rules the 6^th, the house of pets � and it was just about to transit into Gemini � to be literal � the house of death. I was sad to hear from the Vet that she had a very bad heart murmur (a 5 out of a possible 6). They scheduled her for a heart ultrasound (expensive too) from a visiting canine cardiologist from the Fort Collins animal hospital. (One of the best in the world, people fly their horses and exotic pets there for treatment). Luna had her ultrasound on August 1^st. That night her lungs became very congested (coincidence � as the heart test was not invasive, and she was not medicated for it), she had difficulty

breathing all night, and early in the morning as I drove her to the Vet, she passed away in the car, with me petting her and telling her it was okay.

The example charts below are her chart on the left and the transition chart on the right (called Muhurta � though not an electional chart). The ascendant is Leo (6^th house from my Pisces Moon), from Scorpio, the Lord of my 6^th Mars was transiting my 8^th, near the degree of her natal Saturn and the Ascendant I have used for her. Sometimes people, and often animals die or transition when Mars or Ketu transits over their natal Saturn

Her natal Sun conj. Exalted Rahu was experiencing a transit of the debilitated nodes (I call this a nodal reverse) A nodal reverse is when you have the opportunity to do something that you always wanted to do, but never did � or a time for a second chance. Very often, in the charts of animals, there will be some conflict to the Sun and / or the Moon. Sun rules Father and Moon rules Mother. A pet generally loses their birth �parents,� when they are adopted by a human family. You will see in Luna�s chart that her natal Sun is conjunct Rahu (though exalted) and her Navamsa Moon is conjunct Rahu. (Keep in mind, that I have rectified her chart, and that the Navamsa cannot be completely relied upon.)

I am hoping that she comes back to me in another form � and even hoping that the fact that all the years of meditation with me (she loved to hang out in the meditation room, and she had the fortune to be blessed in person by many spiritual masters and teachers) could elevate her to a higher birth.

She is missed.

�You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Luna Tune

I walk a little slower now
Without your pulling at the leash

I turn a bit to look behind
Without having to unwind your leash
That twists about my legs

And there I look but do not find
My furry friend, I�m left behind.

Instead I look upon the Moon
For whom I named you, Luna Tune
From now on, no man I�ll see
Instead your eyes, your wag, your tail
You wish to stop my filling eyes,
My breaking heart, my wail.

I remember when I realized
That I'd named two dogs for the skies
Chandra whose name means Moon
And you too, Moon - my Luna Tune

My God, I thought I�ve named two Moon!
My Chandra and My Luna Tune!
Sanskrit, Spanish � where�s my mind?
Now both Moon�s gone � I�m left behind.

In heaven now Two Moons shine
Chandra first, now Luna�s time

Goodbye my friend I cannot fail
To think when now I watch the skies alone
Recalling that long and distant June
When you became my Luna Tune.

Other losses left their grieving mark on me
Other dogs await arrival there � somewhere
Loyal and devoted all � and all held humor
Joy and wit
Yet you alone bowed down to humble me
Devotion worn simplicity.
Always willing to be last
To take a treat or taste a drink
when other dogs rushed in

We will see you once again
Maybe not tomorrow
Or even someday soon
But we will see you dearest one
Our little Luna Tune.

Christina Collins Biography:

Christina Collins, Jyotish Visharada, CVA, Jyotish Kovid, ICAS and CVA, Jyotish Vachaspati, ICAS is a third generation Astrologer specializing in the Vedic system. She received her honorary titles from the late Dr. B.V. Raman, former President of the ICAS (Indian Center for Astrological Sciences) in New Delhi and Bangalore, India and from CVA (Council for Vedic Astrology, Seattle, WA USA). She is the first and sole American woman to be honored by this highly held title of Jyotish Vachaspati (Jyotish - the light bearer and Vachaspati - the one who speaks the truth and whose predictions come true. (In Sanskrit, Vac = speech and Brihaspati is a name of Jupiter the planet of wisdom and truth. She serves as faculty and on the Board of Directors of the American College for Vedic Astrology

(ACVA online), as former Editor of the ACVA News. President of Celestial Resource (The Timing Coach) where she serves corporate and private clients from celebrities to students. You can reach her in Boulder CO at [email protected]:

Christina's consultation contact information:

Christina Collins, J.K., J.V.
Editor in Chief The Jyotish Star
Lafayette, (Boulder County) CO, USA
web site: http://www.vedicastrologer.cc
email: [email protected]
phone: 303-665-9996



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