"When
beggars die there are no comets seen;
The
heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
Julius
Caesar (II, ii, 30-31)
We are only four months in, but it's already been a
dark, dark 2016. It now seems rare for a week to pass without a significant
celebrity death being reported - from David Bowie in the second week of
January, to actor Alan Rickman a week later, to comedian Victoria Wood and
Prince this week. "Enough, 2016" and a more vulgar alternative are
phrases people are uttering more and more regularly. So is this wave of
celebrity deaths the new normal? The answer is yes, according to the BBC's
obituary editor Nick Serpell, who ought to know about such things. He says the
number of significant deaths this year has been "phenomenal". http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36108133
Not that
everything important happens during Solar and Lunar eclipses, but many major
events in our lives do. Numerous important people have died during the eclipse
times. Shakespeare in Julius Caesar reminds us of just that.
However, the
most recent solar eclipse of March 9, was even more special in this regard
since it was conjunct Neptune and the asteroid Orpheus and formed a T-square
with Jupiter-Saturn. Martha Wescott links Orpheus [1] with death as well as with music
and since Neptune rules films among other things many of these deaths are
related to the music or film industry.
ORPHEUS: Sad,
sweet or haunting music, lyrics or poetry; dirges; sense of mourning and loss;
grief (for what you don't have—what has gone out of your life-- “might
have been” or what was); contact with death.
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