Shakespeare’s prologue sonnet of Romeo and Juliet gives us the famous words star crossed lovers. Star crossed is not about failing to meet a soulmate. It is about the inevitability of coming together but also being forced apart. Walking toward the crossroads, there to meet but precisely at the moment of meeting, there to seperate. It is there in your grasp but just out of your reach. Denial. Squares are karmic. They are a call to action to resolve an old conflict.
“Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”
-Opening Sonnet in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Into a family feud, two young people find love but are torn apart by family and fate. Romeo Montague finds his love Juliet Capulet dead, so kills himself and she awakens to find Romeo dead and so drinks poison and dies herself. This after a lot of fateful bad luck.
Shakespeare as the astrologer was refering to a real star cross. Romeo and Juliet includes a riddle that gives the date and time of Juliet Capulet’s birth. Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet gives the date as a fortnight and odd days until Lammas-eve. Her nurse says Juliet was born on Lammas Eve, July 31 at night and she is turning 14. She further says it is eleven years after the earthquake. The earthquake she appears to refer to is the December 25, 1222 jul. earthquake. This gives us the date of Lammas-eve that year as July 31, 1234 jul. Juliet was learning to walk and being weaned during the earthquake which confirms the date of her birth as July 31, 1220 jul. in the night.
The classical planets of Juliet Capulet say she was a noble young women, still in the nursery, whose marriage would be ruled by the Scorpio Saturn in the seventh. Count Paris is the older, powerful man destined to be her husband but he fails to win her love. This chart says she is star crossed with Count Paris. Her karma is to meet Romeo Montague where things go sideways.
Romeo is more closely seen in the modern chart as the Libra Uranus. The married rebel. Romeo and Juliet get married in the play. In the ancient chart, he is the Virgo Mars. The young man. This only son of the Montagues marries a daughter of his family’s sworn enemies. The enemies were on different sides of an imperial grudge between the Guelphs and the Ghibelines. Holy Roman Emperor against Pope. Capuleti against Montecchi. Capulet against Montague. The love affair of rebellious teenagers was no match for the arrayed forces against such a pairing. The Scorpio Saturn comes into play to block and restrict the lovers. Romeo kills Paris and then dies himself upon which Juliet dies.
These violent delights have violent ends.
-Friar Laurence upon his presiding over the marriage of Romeo and Juliet.
The small learning triangle of Sun-Jupiter-Moon to Saturn thence to Uranus tells us the basic tale. Juliet is in crises. The place where the red and blue aspects meet is the crises point. She is confronted with marrying Paris. She must make a decision. Before her she has honorable marriage to the Scorpio Saturn Count Paris or a risky elopement with the rebellious youth and murderer Romeo. She decides on Uranus. This unleashes the violence that the Montague and Capulet feud represents in the play. Romeo is exiled for the murder of Tybalt. His mother dies of grief. Juliet takes a potion and pretends to die. Paris mourns her and then is slain by Romeo. Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and so kills himself. Juliet awakens to find Paris and Romeo dead and commits suicide. The feud then ends with no young members of either family left to continue it.
The retrograde Taurus Neptune rising. Retelling an old tale of loss. Count Paris named after Paris of Troy who kidnapped Helen of Sparta. For impetuous love, countless warriors were slain and an ancient nation destroyed. The karma of Paris. Shakespeare told us over and over again about the star cross of Paris of Troy and Helen of Sparta. The Count Paris is the real lover denied. Denied his bride in the form of Juliet Capulet. Confronting himself as Romeo, the rebellious youth, willing to slay men and destroy his family and their kingdom to steal another man’s wife. Slain by that young man. For impetous love, countless family members were slain and two ancient families destroyed. These violent delights have violent ends.