Post by blueorchids on Jul 16, 2006 14:59:17 GMT
All my life, I have been particularly fond of using the phrase "crossing the Rubicon". I don't know where I first heard it but I suspect it was in my girls Catholic high school either in my Greek/Roman History class or Sister Helen Marie's Latin class.
My teen often laughs at me for whatever monumental step, decision or risk he takes in his academics, violin playing or social life, I am known to reach for those words.
I was sort of shocked and amused to see it on my asteroid list. And in digging found the following. Note after the description the tie in my chart with D.
[glow=red,2,300]The Rubicon[/glow] (Rubico, in Italian Rubicone) is an ancient Latin name for a small river in northern Italy. In Roman times it flowed into the Adriatic Sea between Ariminum (Rimini) and Caesena (Cesena). The actual modern identity of the river is uncertain; it is usually identified as the Pisciatello in its upper reaches and then the Fiumicino to the sea.
The river is notable as Roman law forbade any general from crossing it with a standing army. The river was considered to mark the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south; the law thus protected the republic from internal military threat.
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, supposedly on January 10 of the Roman calendar to make his way to Rome he broke that law and made armed conflict inevitable. According to Suetonius he uttered the famous phrase alea iacta est [glow=red,2,300]("the die is cast").[/glow]1 Suetonius also described how Caesar was apparently still undecided as he approached the river, and the author gave credit for the actual moment of crossing to a supernatural apparition.
The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any person committing himself irrevocably to a risky course of action, another way of saying passing the point of no return.
To me it would be fascinating to chart the Transit of RUBICON for what might be monumental occasions tied to critical choices or circumstances (quitting or choosing a career, having children, marrying, falling hard in love...)
I pulled the 1995 Chart of my first Meeting with D.
At the minute of our meeting RUBICON was transiting at 23/17 PISCES hand in hand with SATURN at PISCES 23/44. This means:
The tight twins of Saturn and Rubicon were poised to cross over Doc's PISCES SUN at 24/24. And His PISCES SOUTH NODE at 24/38. The same tight twins had just passed over my SOUTH NODE of PISCES 22. Note in the birth chart of D. The Rubicon is 26 Cancer which sits atop his 27 Cancer Ascendant and my 8th house 27 Cancer Vertex.
Apart from its mililtary aura, RUBICON plainly implies this is the point of no return; there is no turning back. The risk here while it may be glorious or a crushing defeat, there is no changing in midstream. Rubicon and Saturn travelling as twins in aspects to our nodes that eventful first meeting gives me serious shivers, more so with the natal Ascendant and Vertex contacts.Can you think of a point of no return, relationship or work? Where was Rubicon for you?
My teen often laughs at me for whatever monumental step, decision or risk he takes in his academics, violin playing or social life, I am known to reach for those words.
I was sort of shocked and amused to see it on my asteroid list. And in digging found the following. Note after the description the tie in my chart with D.
[glow=red,2,300]The Rubicon[/glow] (Rubico, in Italian Rubicone) is an ancient Latin name for a small river in northern Italy. In Roman times it flowed into the Adriatic Sea between Ariminum (Rimini) and Caesena (Cesena). The actual modern identity of the river is uncertain; it is usually identified as the Pisciatello in its upper reaches and then the Fiumicino to the sea.
The river is notable as Roman law forbade any general from crossing it with a standing army. The river was considered to mark the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south; the law thus protected the republic from internal military threat.
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, supposedly on January 10 of the Roman calendar to make his way to Rome he broke that law and made armed conflict inevitable. According to Suetonius he uttered the famous phrase alea iacta est [glow=red,2,300]("the die is cast").[/glow]1 Suetonius also described how Caesar was apparently still undecided as he approached the river, and the author gave credit for the actual moment of crossing to a supernatural apparition.
The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any person committing himself irrevocably to a risky course of action, another way of saying passing the point of no return.
To me it would be fascinating to chart the Transit of RUBICON for what might be monumental occasions tied to critical choices or circumstances (quitting or choosing a career, having children, marrying, falling hard in love...)
I pulled the 1995 Chart of my first Meeting with D.
At the minute of our meeting RUBICON was transiting at 23/17 PISCES hand in hand with SATURN at PISCES 23/44. This means:
The tight twins of Saturn and Rubicon were poised to cross over Doc's PISCES SUN at 24/24. And His PISCES SOUTH NODE at 24/38. The same tight twins had just passed over my SOUTH NODE of PISCES 22. Note in the birth chart of D. The Rubicon is 26 Cancer which sits atop his 27 Cancer Ascendant and my 8th house 27 Cancer Vertex.
Apart from its mililtary aura, RUBICON plainly implies this is the point of no return; there is no turning back. The risk here while it may be glorious or a crushing defeat, there is no changing in midstream. Rubicon and Saturn travelling as twins in aspects to our nodes that eventful first meeting gives me serious shivers, more so with the natal Ascendant and Vertex contacts.Can you think of a point of no return, relationship or work? Where was Rubicon for you?
Kim
