Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

March 15, 44 BC, hour unknown, Rome, Italy (41N53'43" 12E28'37")

This pivotal event shifted the Roman Empire, by overthrowing the proclaimed Perpetual Dictator of Rome. It is surely the most famous assassination in history.

We don't have an exact time. Caesar arrived late to the senate. Though it probably doesn't affect our purpose here, I'll pick 10 AM as a reasonable "late arrival" time for the Senate. Coincidentally (I see upon calculating the chart), this was the hour Mars crossed Midheaven with Pluto not far below Ascendant and Saturn about to set.

UPDATE: In the Roman Republic, the Senate normally convened at dawn, which on the day in question was 6:18 AM. Though it is still speculative what it means that Caesar arrived late, the time probably was closer to 8 AM than 10 AM, and could have been as early as 7 AM. When I recalculate this, I will use 8 AM as a working time, which makes sense and also is the time that Caesar's Venus-Saturn opposition crossed the meridian and his Pluto rose.

And in other examples of ancient events, these charts are wonderful! This sort of thing, in particular, confirms that the point we call 0°00'00" Capricorn isn't simply an undiscovered physical body with proper motion, but that the zodiac is inherently sidereal, and locked to something unmoving with relation to the whole of space.

Year: Capsolar {+2}
Jupiter sq. Asc 0°54'
Uranus & Pluto more widely foreground
-- Uranus-Pluto sq. 2°07'
-- Uranus sq. non-angular Sun 2°07'
Moon-Saturn conj. 2°33'
Moon-Mars conj. 2°34'
-- Mars-Saturn conj. 0°01'

Bridge {+3}
CapQ Moon conj. s/p Saturn 2/4-4/7
CapQ Moon conj.s/p Mars 2/5-4/14
Event window: Feb 5 to Apr 7

Month: Caplunar {+3}
Venus on Dsc 2°16'
-- Venus-Neptune sq. 0°29' PVP
Mercury widely foreground
-- Mercury conj. non-foreground Sun 2°05'
-- Mercury sq. non-angular Saturn 1°35'
Moon-Uranus sq. 0°31'
Moon-Pluto op. 3°00'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+3}
p Moon-Mars conj. 0°05'
p Moon-Saturn conj. 0°15'
p MC op. s Uranus 0°35', sq. t Pluto 0°18', sq. s Pluto 0°32'
p EP conj. t Pluto 0°08'
-- t Pluto sq. s Uranus 0°53'

Day: Cansolar {0}
t Mercury sq. s Asc 1°12'


SUMMARY
Year (+2): Jupiter (Uranus Pluto). Moon-Mars Moon-Saturn Uranus-Pluto (Sun-Uranus).
Bridge (+3): Mars Saturn (Cap).
Month (+3): Venus (Mercury). Moon-Uranus Moon-Pluto Venus-Neptune (Sun-Mercury Mercury-Saturn).
Day (CapQ, +3): Uranus Pluto. Moon-Mars Moon-Saturn Uranus-Pluto.
Day (Cansolar transits, 0): Mercury.

This is already an excellent timing. This morning, I checked the Arisolar and its quotidian, and had my mind blown a little bit, a reminder that the lesser charts sometimes have very loud voices.

The Arisolar itself (from nearly a year earlier on March 19, 45 BC) has a 0°04' Sun-Jupiter conjunction with both less than 2° from aspecting Pluto - a Sun-Jupiter-Pluto T-square. Sun is foreground (also opposite Uranus 0°16' in mundo, not 5° apart ecliptically). It's a decent chart except nothing is close enough to an angle ti displace dormancy, which is probably why nothing happened a year earlier.

As the year went on, Uranus continued to move forward that 5° gap until it opposed the Sun-Jupiter, then, with Pluto, rotated to the AriQ angles in an impressive statement of revolutionary forces acting against rising imperial power:

0°00' Ari - s Sun
0°04' Cap - s Jupiter
0°24' Lib - t Uranus
0°58' Ari - p Sun
1°40' Can - s Pluto
1°49' Ari - AriQ Asc
2°20' Can - Midpoint s Pluto / t Pluto
2°43' Cap -AriQ MC
3°00' Can - t Pluto

BTW, though the Libsolar didn't have a Sun-Jupiter square to assault, its angles were similar, the two quotidians tied together through the year. LibQ MC was 1°45' Cancer, Asc 2°02' Libra, bringing the Uranus-Pluto transits and ingress Sun to its angles the same day.