posted February 14, 2019 12:45 PM            

Hirundo rustica, also known as barn swallow is a type of bird.

There are frequent cultural references to the barn swallow in literary and religious works due to both its living in close proximity to humans and its annual migration.

Many literary references are based on the barn swallow's northward migration as a symbol of spring or summer.

The barn swallow symbolises the coming of spring and thus love in the Pervigilium Veneris, a late Latin poem. In his poem "The Waste Land", T. S. Eliot quoted the line "Quando fiam uti chelidon [ut tacere desinam]?" ("When will I be like the swallow, so that I can stop being silent?") This refers to the myth of Philomela in which she turns into a nightingale, and her sister Procne into a swallow.[70] On the other hand, an image of the assembly of swallows for their southward migration concludes John Keats's ode "To Autumn".

The swallow is cited in several of William Shakespeare's plays for the swiftness of its flight, with "True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings" from Act 5 of Richard III, and "I have horse will follow where the game Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain." from the second act of Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare references the annual migration of the species in The Winter's Tale, Act 4: "Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty".

The swallow tattoo was also a symbol used historically by sailors to show off their sailing experience. Of British origin in the early days of sailing, it was the image of a barn swallow, usually tattooed on the chest, hands or neck. ... It is also said that if the sailor drowns, the swallows will carry their soul to heaven.

So it seems like it symbolizes a good omen. I have it conjunct my Chiron in my Solar return, so I hope that 'll bring out the healing part of chiron..

posted February 14, 2019 12:58 PM            

I wonder how to interpret that?

[Middle English, blood-red, dominated by the humor blood, ruddy, from Old French sanguin, from Latin sanguineus, bloody, blood-red, from sanguis, sanguin-, blood.]

Sanguineous isn't the only English adjective to come from "sanguis," the Latin word for "blood." "Sanguine," for one, has been with us since the 14th century. Nowadays, it usually means "confident" or "optimistic," but it can also mean "ruddy."

posted February 15, 2019 05:53 PM            

Particularly ^
Your interpretation of the swallow Hirundo is beautiful btw!
706 Hirundo
For me, I found it trines 0° another asteroid that can relate with the aviary world:

Waldron  32561
In German Wall Raven http://surnames.behindthename.com/submit/names/letter/w

posted February 16, 2019 02:57 PM            

(music) She is Like the Swallow (Karan Casey) [3:04] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a0yvQq3FUc

706 Hirundo, in intercepted Pisces 13.25 in H(3)aqua.
conjunct 19029 Briede Pisces 12.34.
.. sextile Desiderata-Venus 12.38 Taurus H5
trine rx's 10 Polyhymnia-966 Muschi 10+, 60 Echo 15+, Saturn, Osiris, and Part.of.Love Scorpio H11 {hopes dreams aspirations}
trine 8th House Cusp Cancer with Devotional Vesta