- Star-crossed means unlucky, i.e. not favoured by the stars
- Star-crossed lovers trying to find their way back to each other
- "Star-crossed" or "star-crossed lovers" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers, whose relationship is said to be doomed from the start. It is a reference to astrology and the phrase was first coined by William Shakespeare in his play Romeo and Juliet.
Origin
This phrase originates was coined in the prologue of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 1592: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers, take their life"
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