{"id":1037,"date":"2013-03-15T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cosmiccandor\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2013-03-14T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T21:32:59","slug":"beware-its-the-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cosmiccandor\/2013\/03\/beware-its-the-ides-of-march.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware! It’s the Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ok, you don’t really need to beware the Ides of March. But I got your attention, didn’t I?<\/p>\n

That’s just how the saying goes, you know? But what I’ll bet you don’t know is where that saying came from in the first place. And did you know it has an Astrology connection?<\/p>\n

The saying dates back to sometime in early March of 44 B.C., when an ancient Roman astrologer named Spurinna predicted the death of Julius Caesar. She told him to “Beware the Ides of March” and that he would be in great danger on this day — March 15, as \u201cides\u201d is derived from the Latin meaning \u201cto divide\u201d\u00a0 and falls exactly mid-month.<\/p>\n

Caesar ignored Spurinna\u2019s advice, thinking it was just superstitious foolishness, but on March 15 Caesar was stabbed to death in the Theatre of Pompey by the Liberatores of the Roman Senate and elite. (Most history books would agree he kind of had it coming, by the way.)<\/p>\n

Later, the line \u201cBeware the Ides of March\u201d was made infamous in Shakespeare\u2019s Julias Casesar play, and we often hear it bandied about on March 15.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think of March 15 as a reminder to always listen to our astrologers, right?<\/p>\n

Get more fun Astrology facts at Tarot.com \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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