Creatures of prey have their protections against predation, ways they can harm what is trying to hurt them, just as big predators have their weapons of aggression that could turn agains those who would hunt them. Hunting is more of a voluntary activity for many humans these days, and it is one of the fundamental relationships from which civilization emerged. There is no helpless prey that lacks some skill, some poison or venom, some shell to give itself a chance for success against those who would consume it. And if you would survive as a predator, your work is to overcome those obstacles and destroy them.

I find myself curious as to why this message comes to me today, other than noting that Mars is in Leo and evokes the archetype of the lion and the big game hunter who goes after lions for ego rather than nourishment. As I sit with this, I remember that all of us have power, even those we’d claim are marginalized, voiceless, or powerless. Putting those words upon a people or population is in its own way an effort to defang them, to make them pathetic, but it is usually an error. All beings have a measure of power, and it is a mistake to think they could be easily hunted and defeated.