Open Post & Kitties Update

[kimberlysteele]

It has been a month of cat drama for me. After having to put my beloved Kiki down in July, I "adopted" one of my feral kittens, Shadow, from the back yard. Since he let me touch him and pet him while eating, I picked him up in late July, put him in a carrier, and took him to the veterinarian. He had a bad flu and was scrawny. The vet confirmed he was wormy, gave him some meds and immunizations, and we were on our way. The original plan was to let him go in the yard again once his kitty flu was gone and he was old enough to neuter.

Shadow is the son of Miss Blondie Piggy, a feral who has been frequenting the house since we moved in and started feeding the neighborhood animals. Piggy was the bane of our local trap neuter release person because she had litters of kittens year after year and could not be caught. In July I bought and started trapping with a Tomahawk drop trap. It did the trick: I caught Piggy within ten minutes of setting the trap out. After I caught her, the TNR person got her spayed. We had hopes of keeping her in the house because she seems to like me. Here's a photo of her briefly in my house. She was not happy!



Piggy jumped at the window, hoping it was open, and nearly taking these blinds down in the process.



Because it wasn't working out, I set Piggy free. By the next morning she was back in the yard, eating.

Then it was time to catch the last of my colony: Shadow's twin brother, Silhouette.



Unlike his brother, Silhouette never let me come near him. I drop box trapped him about a week after his mom was returned home. All went well until I took him to the same vet where his brother had been healed. We got to the vet, he let me handle him for about a minute, then he got spooked and bit my hands severely.

Luckily I treated my hands in time, thanks again to the TNR person's advice. I soaked my injured hands in very warm Betadine water (water with lots of Betadine in it) for 20 minutes 3 times a day for several days. I also got some antibiotics from my husband's doctor the next day.

My hands healed within about a week.

Little Silhouette, like his mother, was also unfit for indoor life. I turned him over to my TNR person and she got him neutered. Within a week, he too was back in the yard, eating breakfast and dinner every day.

Tommy (orange kitty) is also Miss Piggy's son. He was one of my first captures, and was the second feral to let me touch him and pet him. The first one was a gray and white cat I named Sir Puss in Boots, and he let me pet him one day and would cry for me outside the door every morning and night after that, wanting to be fed, played with, and touched. The only reason I didn't take him inside was because Kiki was still alive and she had always been a solitary cat who wanted me all to herself. Sir Puss and Boots disappeared one day, never to be seen by me again. I believe he was one of the renter neighbor's cats and they moved away. Please keep him in your prayers.

This is Tommy, who loves to play with Kiki's old toys and to be petted.

Shadow is doing really well inside the house.  He's inquisitive, bold, funny, mischievous, and fearless.  He can be quite a brat and has gotten a few time outs.  Overall, he's a sweet boy.  He was just neutered last Tuesday.  He did calm down a bit with the neuter.  He still has mad kitten energy.  I pity the mice who try to get into the house this winter...

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[kimberlysteele]

Hi Maxxy,

The funny thing is how very atheist I was only seven years ago. I don't know if you saw my posts buried deep in JMG's Magic Monday and Coronavirus Open Posts... over there, I talked about seeing (in my mind's eye) the entity or one of the entities who has been messing with people and screwing up divinations. To me, he appeared as a gray-colored Mephistopheles, full of hatred, sly, and scheming.

Of course I always maintain I could be wrong. That said, I have reasonable confidence in my readings because I believe mine, unlike the readings of others, were not influenced by nefarious influences. I believe I may have gotten some insulation from my musical efforts with the Orphic Hymns.

My Ogham say that it gets a great deal better for the unvaxxed by late October and I am inclined to believe them. I don't agree with JMG that the vaxxed/unvaxxed are free of collective karma. I tend to think like a sociologist -- there are some broad, sweeping trends for which all the participants are culpable despite being swept up like droplets of water in a wave. To get the vaccine right now, especially if you're aware of what's happening because of peer pressure to get the vaccine, means that you play a part in that pressure, like it or not. My thoughts are that those who took that way out will have to pay for it somehow because of the immense suffering it caused, just as those who are fearful yet smug in their comfortable residences and bingeing Netflix/eating takeout as others lose their careers will have to pay for those comforts, most likely in old age or in future lives. I believe it works this way because my own fears and arrogance in previous lives have been working themselves out in the challenges of this life. Not all of those arrogances were a result of my unique soul, lots of it was me being a product of my times.

[mollari]

The really strange thing is that your Ogham seem to say things will improve for the unvaxxed and deteriorate for the vaxxed between September 20th and October 20th, if I've read it correctly. With the talk of October 18th being a deadline for a lot of things, I'm wondering if we won't see things change very quickly around then...

[(Anonymous)]

Ugg, if the 18th is important, then add to it that Mercury stations direct, after having been retrograde for a few weeks.

Usually the stationing of planets (either retrograde or direct) is when the trouble starts. October 18th might be the day of something.

Jon

[kimberlysteele]

There are some folks predicting a total implosion of the American economy around that time. If that happens, color me not shocked. Look at our economy of building new Costcos and mini-malls sometimes literally next door or across the street from huge empty buildings and tell me that can last. I drive through a hellscape of abandoned office parks and vacant FOR LEASE stores every day on the way to work. I am a private music teacher. I was the only sane adult in these kids lives before the virus and now it's 10x worse. Every day, an army of miserable executives go off to work jobs they hate with people they cannot stand so they can raise children in overlarge, over-mortgaged, overtaxed homes. They don't know how to grow a damn tomato, or how to fix a leaky pipe, or how to pick a lock. Often they can't even manage to cook a meal or clean their own house. They hire everything done. They were the first to line up for the shots, of course, because they do what the nice man and lady on TV tells them to do. If there is any form of long economic setback that makes them even slightly hungry at night, a good quarter of them will commit suicide.

[(Anonymous)]

October is, of course, a month of some of the largest stock market selloffs, and it wouldn't surprise to see one this year. The real economy would follow. Maybe this is the time when the money masters (central bankers) response to such a selloff will be muted, at best, and a major collapse will unfold. People have been conditioned to believe all selloffs, even minor ones, will be reversed. So, if that doesn't occur, it could get very ugly and a lot of fake wealth will evaporate. Usually the market stalls in September, and we may have just recently. Time will tell.

Kimberly, I did see your post on the JMG open covid thread. That thread gets a ton of responses and it's hard to stay completely caught up on it.

[(Anonymous)]

October is, of course, a month of some of the largest stock market selloffs, and it wouldn't surprise to see one this year. The real economy would follow. Maybe this is the time when the money masters (central bankers) response to such a selloff will be muted, at best, and a major collapse will unfold. People have been conditioned to believe all selloffs, even minor ones, will be reversed. So, if that doesn't occur, it could get very ugly and a lot of fake wealth will evaporate. Usually the market stalls in September, and we may have just recently. Time will tell.

Kimberly, I did see your post on the JMG open covid thread. That thread gets a ton of responses and it's hard to stay completely caught up on it.

Maxxy

[kimberlysteele]

Looking at the September 20 readings, I would say my Ogham are right on schedule.