The Ides of March (March 15th)

Today (March 15th) is known as the Idea of March. People associate the day with dread but it is round backward as many things are (see below).

From Wikipedia: “In the Roman calendar March 15th is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated, in 44 BC, the story of which was famously dramatized in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar”.

Death of Caesar

“A certain soothsayer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides, and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: “The Ides of March has come”, to which the seer replied: “Aye Caesar, but not gone”. As the Senate convened, Caesar was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of senators who justified their tyranny on the grounds that they were preserving the Republic from Caesar’s alleged monarchical ambitions”. (Wikipedia)

SW: The Ides of March are associated with dread “beware the Ides of March” because Shaekespear said so in his play. But like most things it is all backwards. Caesar was an evil tyrant, the head what became known as the First Reich (empire.) The Second Reich was Charlemagne and the Third Reich was Hitler. There were evil empires before his time like those of the pharaohs, but these three listed are the Reichs of the more modern era.

The death of a tyrant is not to be celebrated but one can see the wrath of Gaia in action as a blessing, and today is a good day to close off your feelings to anyone that has hurt you or treated you unjustly. Not by bumping them off or causing any harm but by using the Ides as a way of closing your feelings to that hurt and to that person once and for all. (sw)