Is there fate? Destiny? Are we just a swirl of chemicals bouncing on incalculable trajectories? Nay, we are spirits trapped between the destiny of heavenly bodies and the unpredictable realm of the micro-cosmos. Somewhere between the predictable path of the planets and irrational quantum realm of probabilities, our lives unfold. Love, life, sadness, and grief. Sometimes we can make sense of these ethereal yet tangible objects. However when the inner chant of the atomic cosmos with its ratios of reality, plucks certain fibers, all those random chances become a song of destiny. It is at these movements the Heavens become a random state of quanta, and the atom steers its course straight.
Romeo and Juliet are of that that song, the chance of destiny, that rules our lives. Additionally, on the conceptual level (more easily understood by the blind) the names of flags of the international maritime standards reflect a certain kind of concordance. A concordance of labels, rather than design.
Like salt and pepper, cats and dogs, night and day, or the up quark and down quark, the international maritime flags reveal that ever so present semi-duality of things. In this case Romeo and Juliet are the first pair of International Maritime flags presented. Romeo is the name of the letter R flag and Juliet is the name of the letter J flag.
Amazingly, both flags were a part of the first original class of signal flags created for general international use in 1817. In 1817, Fredreick Marryat of Westminster, London (July 10, 1792-August 8, 1848) created a numerical code for flag signaling. The flag we know as Juliet-Letter J was coded to the number 2, while Romeo-Letter R was coded to 7.
Why do Romeo and Juliet make a pair? Is this a property of the collective unconscious? Their colours and designs of the flag differ, but the idea of Romeo and Juliet match like Yin and Yang. Or dare one say...Adam and Eve? A mind that hath never heard, seen, nor read the tale of these two imaginary star crossed lovers would be ignorant to that conceptual concordance, as to feel its deeper truth. Further, the impact of these two fictionally fated lovers, has had a real and lasting impact on life as we know it...so much more, than the 10,000 stars that have fallen to Earth, commonly known as meteorites.
Finally, those touched by this story and simultaneously touched by ill fated love that lost its way, will know, verily, that Romeo and Juliet make a pair like the Sun and Moon.
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