June 21, Mars, eclipses

[Lear's Bastard]

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to
us....



This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we
are sick in
 fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make
guilty of our
 disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were
villains by necessity,
 fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and
treachers by spherical
 predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an
enforced obedience of
 planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a
divine thrusting on: an
 admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the
 charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under
the dragon’s
 tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it
follows I am rough and
 lecherous. ’Sfoot! I should have been that I am had the
maidenliest star in the
 firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar—

Lear's Bastard