November 2011 Stars
Sun – Scorpio – moves to Sagittarius Nov 22
Mercury – Scorpio – moves to Sagittarius Nov 2, retrograde from Nov 24
Venus – Scorpio – moves to Sagittarius Nov 2 – then Capricorn Nov 26
Mars – Leo – moves to Virgo Nov 11
Jupiter – Taurus (retrograde)
Saturn – Libra
Uranus – Aries (retrograde)
Neptune – Aquarius (retrograde – direct Nov 9)
Pluto – Capricorn
“You must not regard a claw or a hoof as though it were formed by the physical matter which the animal eats somehow finding its way into the hoof and being there deposited. That is not true at all. In actual fact, cosmic matter is absorbed through the senses and the breathing. What the animal eats is merely for the purpose of developing its inner forces of movement, so that the cosmic principles may be driven right down into the metabolic and limb system— into the claw or hoof, for instance. Throughout these parts, it is cosmic substantiality.
Therefore we should not merely shut our animals in dark stables, where the cosmic forces cannot flow towards them. We should lead them out over the pastures. Altogether, we should give them the opportunity to come into relation with the surrounding world by sense-perception too.
Think of an animal standing in the dark, dull stable, and receiving — measured out into its manger — what the wisdom of man provides. Such an animal, getting no change in this respect, and it can only get the proper change in the open air — how different it will be from one that is able to make use of its senses, its organ of smell, for instance, seeking its food for itself in the open air; following its sense of smell, following the cosmic forces through its sense of smell, going after the food, choosing for itself, unfolding all its activity in this finding and taking of the food.”
Rudolf Steiner – The Agriculture Course