The Virgin Mary (August 5, 22 BC – c. 41 AD)

I’m going the whole nine yards, here. Mary is another figure in history who might (or might not) have lived during the first half of the 1st Century AD. Her Saint Day is August 5th, and according to some traditions she was a young maiden (12-14 years) when she became betrothed to Joseph. One astrology site suggested her birth year as 22 BC, which totally coincides with her being almost 16 when she brought Jesus into the world. A young maiden equates to a virgin in those times. But I’m not here to prove or disprove a virgin birth.

Where the astrology site got 5:05 pm from is a mystery, but I suspect that the chart was rectified so that the Moon would line up with her being 12 years old when she gave birth. Therefore, the chart is slightly skewed, being later than it should be, perhaps by as much as half an hour. Still, that Yod pointing at Uranus (formed from inconjuncts to the Moon and Venus) is informative. There is also an inconjunct linking her Sun and the Ascendant (but I’m not relying upon that one).

According to Cayce, Jesus’ mother Mary was chosen by the Essenes at the age of four to begin intensive spiritual training lasting three years in preparation for the conception of the Messiah. Her election as the mother of the Messiah occurs during a special ceremony in the temple at Mount Carmel in which an angel leads her by the hand to the altar. Remarkably, this Cayce reading agrees with an apocryphal book entitled the Infancy Gospel of James where Mary is presented to the Lord at the age of three when her father Joachim “set her on the third step of the altar, and the Lord God gave grace to her … and she received food from the hand of an angel.” Cayce and the Infancy Gospel of James agree that Joseph was chosen to be Mary’s husband by lot. They also agree that Joseph was much older than Mary. Cayce gives their ages at the time of their marriage as thirty-six and sixteen, respectively. Cayce and the Infancy Gospel of James agree that Jesus was born in a cave.

Edgar Cayce on the Past Lives of Jesus Christ