Don’t be surprised of dog fights or cat scratch fever, for today is Ides of March, and Brutus might be around the corner!
As you might know, Brutus is famous for having assassinated his adoptive father, Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor in 44 BC, day known as the Ides of March, March 15th on the Roman calendar; Idus Martii or Idus Martiae in Latin.
Combine that with the Mercury retrograde, and it’s the perfect recipe for a catastrophe! So even if you’re not a Roman emperor, be careful!
In the original Roman calendar, March was the first month of the year. Holidays were observed by the Romans from the first through the Ides as New Year celebrations. Plus, the Ides of each month was sacred to Jupiter, the supreme deity of the Romans, equivalent of Zeus for the Greeks.
In modern times, the Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate, as mentioned previously. 60 conspirators were involved, led by Brutus, Caesar’s adoptive son, and Cassius, a Roman senator. According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theater of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, “The ides of March have come,” meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied “Aye, Caesar; but not gone.”
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