Virgil (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC)

His nose had taken a bit of a beating, but this image looks like it had been re-plastered. Maybe someone cut off his nose to spite his face. (Check out the cover of his book.)

Now, you must be wondering why I should even look at this individual from the mists of time. It’s simple: he was the one who made Rome an continuation of Troy, through his main character, Aeneas.

The Aeneid (/ɪˈniːɪd/ ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenē̆is [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the Aeneid comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half tells of the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas’ wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and his description as a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned the Aeneid into a compelling founding myth or national epic that tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimised the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy.

The Aeneid is widely regarded as Virgil’s masterpiece and one of the greatest works of Latin literature.

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So, in other words, Virgil was a propagandist for Augustus Caesar.

This chart is totally randomized. But I’m not surprised to see the following aspects: Sun conjunct Mercury, both in opposition to the Moon; Jupiter inconjunct Neptune and the Moon (forming a Yod); Uranus conjunct Pluto (both as the apex of Yods, formed by inconjuncts to Venus conjunct the Midheaven and the Capricorn Ascendant.) Of course, some of these aspects are speculative, due to an unknown birth time. However, you couldn’t ask for a clearer image of a publicist for the burgeoning Roman Empire.

What does Virgil have to do with Me?

I’d be glad to answer that question…

Probably not very much, but my natal Saturn conjunct his natal North Node could be a hint at ‘something’. Also, Virgil’s ‘fatal’ Pluto is within 3° of my natal Pluto. My natal Uranus is conjunct his natal Part of Fortune. Finally, my natal Mercury is conjunct his natal Saturn. But is that enough?

To me, having to study the Aeneid in high school was a memory bank ‘thing’. I ‘knew’ it was a legend and not necessarily based on reality, but I also knew that it was important for the Roman population to be able to boast that they were the inheritors of Trojan blood. That’s how ‘histories’ are created.