Having forgotten my phone, I bumped up the dirt road to my home when I saw it sitting, looking my way. I stopped and returned the gaze of the fox. Four racing dogs from my right suddenly turned it to a blur of fur lowered to the ground running zigzags to the field’s edge, across the road, and then out of sight. 
The second time I saw the fox, it was already in flight ahead of two dogs. One stopped, appearing unbothered, and sat out the chase. The other followed its smaller relative into a depression where, from my vantage point, the fox came out to the right and stood between two bushes on their far side.The dog came out straight ahead and not seeing any fox, stopped, sat, and began shifting its head. The fox sat down, looking occasionally at the thwarted dog. And the four of us waited. When, in a bolt of escape, the fox took off well ahead of the now tearing dog, I concluded by their distance apart, that the fox would remain free.
Margaret Koolman, an astrologer from England, explained that my chart showed I am impetuous at times, rather than spontaneous: my action ill-considered rather than a natural impulse toward a worthy opportunity.In Ayurveda medicine, my body type is vata and characterized as the wind, so I have an inherited inclination toward haste. Practice has brought improvement, but as I watched the fox outwit the dog, I sensed a teacher showing me the wisdom of waiting before acting, and started up the car, feeling instructed by these offered moments.
My realization is, “Answers surround us when we live with open eyes, open minds and hearts, and are willing to learn.”