Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (Died: July 10, 1099)

We know the story from the movie El Cid, starring Charlton Heston.

Coming on the heels of Ben-Hur, this film made an even greater impression on me.

Legend of posthumous victory

After his demise, but still during the siege of Valencia, legend holds that Jimena ordered that the corpse of El Cid be fitted with his armor and set on his horse, Babieca, to bolster the morale of his troops. In several variations of the story, the dead Rodrigo and his knights win a thundering charge against Valencia’s besiegers, resulting in a war-is-lost-but-battle-is-won catharsis for generations of Christian Spaniards to follow. It is believed that the legend originated shortly after Jimena entered Burgos, and that it is derived from the manner in which Jimena’s procession rode into the city, i.e. alongside her deceased husband.

Wikipedia

Here’s El Cid’s death chart for that fateful day in 1099.

I set the clock for noon, the usual method when the exact time of death is unknown. The final battle was obviously set for the late afternoon, as shown by the shadows in the movie. The rest is history.

Last night, as I was going to bed, I asked who Diaz returned as in the present time. I got the answer this morning.

Dan Millman (February 22, 1946)

It makes sense: the Peaceful Warrior, himself. Then I realized that I had never done a birth chart for Dan Millman.

Hmm. A Yod is pointing at Venus. How appropriate! But was I grasping at straws? Obviously, many lifetimes have passed in the almost 847 years since El Cid’s death. All I needed to see were some connections between his death chart and Millman’s birth chart.

Happily, the 6° conjunction between Dan’s South Node and Diaz’ ‘fatal’ North Node in Sagittarius is enough for me. There are other close links between the charts, but I’m content with the connections, as they are.

What do you think?