The Eternal Lovers of Leicester

Eternal Chinese lovers - Niulang and Zhinv

University of Leicester archaeologists uncover a trove of relics and remains at Chapel of St Morrell in Leicestershire.  Some relationships last a lifetime – and University of Leicester archaeologists have discovered that they can last even longer after unearthing two skeletons at a lost chapel in Leicestershire that have been holding hands for 700 years.

The happy couple refused to be parted by death when they were discovered by a team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) working with local volunteers during an excavation at the Chapel of St Morrell in Leicestershire, a site of pilgrimage in Hallaton during the 14th Century. http://bit.ly/1saQE5n ; http://huff.to/1mmBZRS

The Lunar Eclipse of April 15, 2014 will help us understand this news. The chart for the eclipse at Leicester shows the Moon in the 5^th house of love and romance in hard aspect to  a Venus-Neptune conjunction in Pisces – a combination that stands for a yearning for a love that is not of this world. Neptune [6pi17] is conjunct the star Deneb of Cygnus [5pi32] . This star figures in a Chinese story.

The story of the cowherd and the weaver girl is an ancient Chinese romantic legend of two lovers, Zhinü and Niulang that has been celebrated in the Qixi Festival since the Han Dynasty. The two lovers were forcefully separated by the Heavenly Mother. But once a year all the magpies in the world would take pity on them and fly up into heaven to form a bridge ( "the bridge of magpies", Que Qiao) over the star Deneb in the Cygnus constellation so the lovers may be together for a single night, which is the seventh night of the seventh moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qixi_Festival

In the Grand Trine, the Jupiter [12cn] leg is conjunct the stars of the Twins as well as the Greater Dog. Both these constellations are known for faithfulness, in fact the Twins are often shown in an embrace so that the corpses of the lovers holding hands can also be understood by star placements.

Progressing the eclipse chart to September 18, the date of the news, brings the Grand Trine involving Poseidon-Venus-Neptune-Jupiter to the Ascendant linking the day to the story of the eternal lovers.

P.S. The Qixi Festival in China is the equivalent of Valentine’s day. Here in the eclipse chart the asteroid Valentine [21ge] is on the Ascendant [22ge] while Lacrimosa [17le]  – the asteroid associated with death – is on the IC [15le]. Lovers whom death could not separate or a love that conquered death?