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Push-Me-Pull-You

Let us now discuss the fact that Jesus was born in the Chinese year of the Goat. According to Suzanne White in The New Astrology, the combined influence of Capricorn and the Goat on an individual gives a “push-me-pull-you” effect which causes a lot of internal anguish, because the Goat is so sensitive and Capricorn is ambitious.

I hesitate to say that this person is a born leader. Yet, despite all the whimsy and the flimsy, this character is a veritable monument of magnetism. Properly applied, the blend of wise Capricorn and sensitive Goat is unbeatable. There’s something about the very disparity of characters involved that creates a synergy capable of uncanny attraction. The inventiveness of Goat can best be put to material use by the steady Capricorn. If the combination works, that is if Goat is controlled most of the time by Capricorn, the charge is electric, to say the least.

Capricorn-Goat

Two separate issues about Jesus are resolved by understanding the conflict between the oriental Goat nature and the occidental Capricorn personality:

What’s most delectable about this person is that although he is an almost religiously strict Capricorn, he knows better than all other Capricorns how to let loose. In his off-duty moments, you would guess him to be a wild-eyed Taurus/Dragon or at least a murky Scorpio. He loves to dance and sing and generally carry on. Capricorn/Goats have huge reserves of charisma.

Now the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.” (Luke 15:1-7)

The Dancing Savior

An alternative source about the other side of Jesus’ nature can be found in Stephan A. Hoeller’s Jung and the Lost Gospels, Chapter 7 “The Dancing Savior”:

All of the {bewildering number of characterizations of Jesus today} demanding our attention are based on what until recently constituted the only evidence concerning this mysterious figure, namely the New Testament. And the New Testament evidence itself is confusing and contradictory. Some of the canonical Gospels portray Jesus as quite human, even sensuous: “The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘behold a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners’” (Matt. 11:19). His association with women is represented as causing a scandal: “And they marveled that he was talking with a woman” (John 4:27). “There were also women looking on from afar…and also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem” (Mark 15:40).

This contradiction, the author explained, could be best understood if the idea of the Gnostic Christ is accepted as the basis of Jesus’ behaviour: The task of the messianic messenger was to help human beings discover who they truly are, and to assist them in overcoming the inimical cosmic powers and rejoin the fullness of the true light. “Salvation” thus became synonymous with “liberation,” and the way to this state was envisioned not as consisting of faith but of interior liberating experience facilitated by the teachings of the Liberator and by the sacramental mysteries he entrusted to his followers.

The Five Initiations

So, liberation from the earth required a Sun in Capricorn individual to demonstrate, by example and teaching, the five initiations. According to Errol Weiner, from Transpersonal Astrology:

A human being has to undergo five major initiations to achieve Mastery over nature. This was the deeper significance of the life and teachings of Jesus, for the birth, baptism, transfiguration, crucifixion and resurrection represented these five initiations.

From Jung and the Lost Gospels: It is perhaps no exaggeration to say The Gospel of Philip is primarily a manual of Gnostic sacramental theology, in other words, an account of the Gnostic mysteries. The fountain of these mysteries, according to this gospel, is Jesus himself:

The Lord worked all things as a mystery; a baptism and an anointing and a eucharist and a redeeming, and a bride-chamber. (68)

I believe that the above listing of the five mysteries in a more accurate rendition of the initiations which Jesus’ chart represents as the points of the pentagram:

1) baptism = primordial water (birth) = Moon/Cancer;
2) anointing = spiritual fire (baptism) = Mars/Aquarius;
3) eucharist = transforming earth (transfiguration) = Pluto/Virgo;
4) redeeming = sacrificial fire (crucifixion) = North Node/Aries;
5) bride-chamber = revivifying water (resurrection) = Venus/Scorpio.

Five-Pointed Star

I intend to utilize the five-pointed star on Jesus’ birth chart to show the actual path of the spiritual initiate as a human being. But in order to do so, may I remind you that the “normal” method of drawing out a five-pointed star involves a series of lines beginning at the top, connecting to the right “leg”, then the left “hand”, then over to the right “hand”, back down to the left “leg”, and then returning to the top position? This will prove to be significant later when we discuss Venus.

Once a person receives his energy from the Sun, it must be used. That is where Mars comes into the picture, the subject of our next chapter.

Picture Credits

Linked page: Star: 6 – The Sun: The Local Star

Picture credits:
Capricorn Goat courtesy of bestofcapricorn.blogspot.com;
Jesus Dancing courtesy of http://www.pinterest.com;
Mystery Religions courtesy of slideplayer.com;
Star of Bethlehem flower courtesy of http://www.houseplantsguru.com.

Selfhood

As a concept, a person’s birth chart represents the soul’s blueprint for the building of that life in the three dimensional reality of earth. The Ascendant is therefore symbolic of the individual, the goal of the personality; or as the Encyclopedia of Astrology puts it. Representing Selfhood, its primary significance is Action: Destiny in the making.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We have seen his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” (Matthew 2:1)

The phrase “seen…when it rose,” an alternative to the more usual translation of “saw…in the east,” is given in the footnotes of the New International Version. It seems to me this signifies two different but connected ideas: one, that the physical image of a Star had appeared on the horizon prior to their visit; and, two, that the Magi were astrologers who had drawn up his birth chart based upon the timing of that Star’s appearance.

Jupiter and Saturn

In his book, The Star of Bethlehem Mystery, David Hughes used the investigator’s process of elimination to narrow down the margin of error inherent in searching for the historical timing of an event from the past:

From our historical investigation of the time of the birth of Christ we can conclude that the second appearance of the star, which led the Magi from Jerusalem to the newborn baby Jesus at Bethlehem, occurred in 7 BC. If we consider all the possible errors inherent in this calculation we must extend the possible birth period to one between early 8 BC and late 6 BC…

One suggestion is that the star of Bethlehem was a triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. These two planets, which are members of the Sun’s solar system just as our planet Earth is, occasionally appear to come together in the sky. This is a slow process: they approach each other. Usually stay together for a time and then separate. When they are together they are said to be in conjunction. On more rare occasions Saturn and Jupiter come together not once but three times, in about a year, to make a ‘triple conjunction’. One of these occurred in 7 BC, between May and December, which is exactly the time when we think Jesus was born.

Furthermore, as the year passes, the planets rise earlier and earlier in the morning and spend longer and longer in the sky until by mid-September they rise in the east as the Sun sets and then they stay in the dark sky all night, setting in the west at dawn. After September the planets are not seen to rise, for they do this in the afternoon when they are invisible on account of the daylight. They also set earlier and earlier until eventually, by March 6 BC, they set at dusk and again can hardly be seen… The 27 May 7 BC conjunction has a separation of 0.98 degrees. The planets then part, reaching a maximum separation of 2.9 degrees by about 28 July. The second conjunction occurs on 6 October and the third on 1 December, and between these two the planets only separate slightly. These conjunctions have a separation of about 0.98 and 1.05 degrees respectively and the maximum separation of the planets between these two occurs about the end of October and is only about 1.2 degrees. There is a distinct possibility that the Magi and any other astronomer of those times would simply not notice this slight parting and would conclude that there was just one conjunction during October and November, followed by a speedy separation of the planets.

In the chart I have erected, Jupiter and Saturn are still about 2° apart, but soon after they separated further and to the casual observer the “Star” would have seemed to disappear.

Libra is the balance…

Returning to the concept of the Ascendant’s role, there is contained in the birth chart information which, correctly interpreted, can assist the individual to return to a state of equilibrium. This I believe is the kingdom of God: perfect balance, combining the qualities of goodness and evil, while existing simultaneously in heaven and Hell.

Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come visibly, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:20-21)

The Ascendant of Jesus’ birth chart is Libra, the Balance Scales, used to weigh the souls of the dead to see if they have lived perfect lives.

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48)

…between Virgo and Scorpio

Errol Weiner, in his book Transpersonal Astrology –– Finding the Soul’s Purpose, states that: Libra is the sign of rest for it exists in between the two conflicting signs of Virgo and Scorpio. Bringing spirit/higher consciousness into matter (Virgo) and transforming and raising up matter into spirit (Scorpio) are both labors of struggle, conflict and pain. The 4th Ray has strong rulership in Virgo and Scorpio. In between these two signs sits Libra, for its energy is that of balance itself. This does not mean that Librans (Rising or Sun) are always in a state of peace and harmony, but that these qualitative energies are available to Librans…

Venus and the 5th Ray are the outer rulers {Uranus and the 7th Ray are the inner rulers.} It is interesting to note the difference between Libra Rising and Sun Libra. Libra Rising people (when awakened) are highly intuitive and revolutionary in their thinking and activities (Uranus), whereas Libra Sun people are very logical and pragmatic, and desire traditional security in their relationships (Venus and the 5th Ray of the concrete mind)… Astrologers must therefore look to the placement of Uranus in the chart in interpreting the inner significance of Libra and the 7th house.

We will be doing just that in the next chapter, but first let us discuss this Virgo/Scorpio connection. Originally, these two signs were joined together as one, when there used to be only ten (10) signs in the Zodiac. When we look at a larger view of each of their respective glyphs, it is visible how they joined together…

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To be continued.

Linked pages: The Star of Bethlehem – Introduction (part 1)
The Star of Bethlehem – Introduction (part 2)

Picture credits:

Jupiter Saturn conjunction courtesy of http://www.timesofisrael.com;
Virgo symbol courtesy of http://www.virgozodiacsign.net;
Scorpio symbol courtesy of http://www.scorpiozodiacsign.net

The Shepherd King

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. (Luke 2:8-19)

The Moon is also symbolic of how the individual views his own mother. In Jesus’ case, he would have seen his mother as very nurturing and maternal because his natal Moon is in Cancer, the sign it rules. The symbol of Cancer may be representative of the joining together of a male and female spermatozoa. And as his Moon resides in the Tenth House, his career was mapped out for him in advance, by his mother. As she was of the lineage of David, he was to be a new Shepherd King.

Overcoming family dependency

The Encyclopedia of Astrology states that: From this arc {tenth house} one traces the native’s business or professional life and affairs, his honor, preferment, fame, credit, reputation, career, and position in society; hence his standing before the world. From this arc inferences may be drawn concerning his relations with those who are more or less in authority over him … ordinarily his mother in that here racial consciousness and what may be termed the “national soul,” becomes an entity.

Also, because Jesus’ Moon is in Cancer, he can be seen as having come from the Primordial Water of life, with definite links to the past. In Spiritual Astrology, the authors have stated that the Moon in Cancer person, working dynamically, needs to sacrifice emotional demands. This is because of past lives:

Past lives spent in situations of enforced dependency on family members have resulted in a basic insecurity and fear of needing to be taken care of by others. You fear needing someone else’s sympathy to survive. There are active subconscious past life memories of having sustained a physical injury or handicap that prevented you from being able to take care of yourself…; or you fear becoming too old to take care of yourself or having to rely on family members to do things for you.

Such memories lend urgency to your need for an emotional “parent” figure to rely on for protection and care. Thus, family is extremely important in this incarnation and is subconsciously related to basic survival. This insecurity results in unhealthy patterns of manipulation through dependencies, clinging, and controlling family members by being overprotective.

The lesson here is to enjoy the nourishment of intimacy and empathy without accompanying debilitating bondage. To do this you must learn to rely on authority within yourself. Past tendencies to cling need to be redirected to “clinging” to goals and ideals that are larger than your personal life. Then the sense of dependency will shift to depending on yourself to hold true to your goals and ideals.

Since you are learning that there is a “higher authority” you can depend on to take care of your needs, you are able to release family members from these debilitating dependencies. In this way you open yourself to experiencing true intimacy and loving closeness because the clinging attachment has been replaced by an atmosphere of freedom, support, and confidence in your family member’s ability to achieve great heights and to take care of themselves.

Jesus’ comments about family

As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

He said to another man, “Follow me.”

But the man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.”

Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:57-62)

The authors of Spiritual Astrology also decided that a Moon in the 10th House individual needs to know that: Emotional security can be gained by involving yourself in public activity that will bring personal recognition and a position of authority, and by acquiring positions of authority where you can organize others.

“Anyone who loves his father or mother than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” (Matthew 10:37-39)

The Gospel of Thomas sayings

Here Jesus is specifically saying that if someone dies for his sake, it shall not mean death, but life eternal. This seems to be contrary to our normal thinking which makes us hang on for dear life no matter what. The matter may become clearer if we examine a number of secret sayings of Jesus as quoted in Jung and the Lost Gospels, in particular these ones from The Gospel of Thomas:

I took my position in the midst of the cosmos and in the flesh I did appear to them; I found them all drunk, I found none among them thirsty. And my soul was afflicted for the children of men, because they are blind in their hearts and do not perceive that empty they have come into the world and that empty they seek to exit from the world again. But now they are all drunk. When they have shaken off their wine, then will they turn around. (28)

If those who lead you say to you: “Behold the kingdom is in heaven,” the birds of heaven will enter therein before you. If they tell you: “It is in the sea,” then the fish will enter before you. However, the kingdom is within you and it is also outside of you. If you know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the children of the living father. But if you have no knowledge of yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty. (3)

If the flesh has come to be because of the spirit, it is a wonder, but if the spirit has come to be because of the body, that is a wonder of wonders. But I wonder how such a great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty. (29)

He who knows the all but fails to have self-knowledge lacks everything. (67)

If you bring forth what you have within you, that which you have will redeem you. If you do not have it within yourselves, that which you do not have will kill you. (70)

Again, I am reminded of the fact that the horoscope is the plan of each individual’s “kingdom of heaven”, and ignoring what is “written in the stars” there could be disastrous: because ignorance, in this instance, is not bliss. To live outside of your own understanding is like being separated from your ‘higher self’ — a kind of living hell. There is a purpose to life: to me every day represents an opportunity to integrate my little “I” self with my higher self, a chance to regain the state of being we call ‘Paradise’. Because the Moon represents the Unconscious, it is our lifeline to the past. And because the Birth of an individual (the first Initiation, esoterically Baptism), viewed from the ‘other side’ of life, is actually the death of the spirit, I have used the same term in the title of this chapter about the Moon.

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Linked page: Star: Chapter 3 – The Moon: The Death Star (part 1)

Picture credits:
Shepherds in the field abiding courtesy of http://www.rokmusic.co.uk;
They are family courtesy of quotesgram.com;
Gospel of Thomas courtesy of gospel-thomas.net

The First Initiation

The Moon is symbolic of the first initiation, Birth, and traditionally, the Archangel Gabriel is connected with the Moon. According to A.T. Mann’s Life*Time Astrology scale, the Annunciation would have taken place about six-and-a-half months before Jesus’ birth.

In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her,“Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:26-33)

But when was Jesus born? There are many theories. John Chrysostom (345-407 AD, as reported in The Star of Bethlehem Mystery, was the first to inaugurate Christmas as the 25th of December in 386 AD:

Chrysostom assumes that John the Baptist was conceived in September and he counts six months forward to arrive at April as the month of the conception of Jesus. From here he counts nine months to December, the birth month of Jesus. This of course assumes that Jesus was a nine months baby, but this is not certain. The early writer Epiphanius, for example, was convinced that Jesus was only in the womb for seven months. The Egyptians held the same view, Jesus being in this respect similar to Osiris, who was also said to have been born seven months after conception.

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken for the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luke 2:1-7)

When was Jesus born?

According to Edgar Cayce in his Story of Jesus, the details of his birth can be read in the Akashic records:

Yes, we have the information that has been indicated respecting some of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, the son of Mary, in Bethlehem of Judea.

The arrival was in the evening — not as counted from the Roman time, nor that declared to Moses by God when the Second Passover was to be kept, nor that same time which was in common usage even in that land, but what would NOW represent January sixth.

In the evening then, or at twilight, Joseph approached the Inn, that was filled with those who had journeyed there on their way to be polled for the tax as imposed by the Romans upon the people of the land. For, those had been sent out who were to judge the abilities of the varied groups to be taxed. And each individual was required by the Roman law to be polled in the city of his birth.

Then there was the answer by the Innkeeper, “No room in the inn”, especially for such an occasion. Laughter and jeers followed, at the sight of the elderly man with the beautiful girl, his wife, heavy with child.

Necessity demanded that some place be sought — quickly. Then it was found, under the hill, in the stable — above which the shepherds were gathering their flocks into the fold…

Just as the midnight hour came, there was the birth of the Master. (5749-15)

Why the 6th of January, 6 BC? Actually, the answer is quite simple with respect to the date: according to tradition, Jesus was born at midnight of the 25th of December, which means that we still celebrate Christmas at about the right time, date-wise, but when the British calendar was converted from the Julian to the Gregorian, 11 days were suppressed in 1752. It is probably this fact that accounts for our continuing to refer to the 12 days of Christmas. The Greek Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar and Christmas is celebrated by countries under its sway as the 6th of January.

The year is not as simple: evidently, the Star of Bethlehem must have been a conjunction of two visible planets, Jupiter and Saturn. The only year around that time in which this conjunction took place three times was 7 BC. Originally, I had a theory that the “Star” appeared after the conception at the Vernal Equinox (21st March) and carried on until a short time after Jesus’ birth, effectively the nine months of his gestation period to 25th December, but reading David Hughes’ book, The Star of Bethlehem Mystery, has made me realise that the first appearance of the “Star” was on the 27th of May, and that it stayed visible for seven months, Jesus’ actual gestation period.

Proof

In addition, the “proof” of the correctness of the date (originally, 25-12-7 BC) can be shown through the use of Numerology: the digits of the date add up to the number 17 (2+5=7, 1+2=3, 7 alone; 7+3+7=17) which, according to Linda Goodman’s Star Signs, represents the Star of the Magi. When these two digits are added together, the result is 8, the number of the Christ, seen as a man (head, feet, and two arms) on an equal-armed cross. And the figure 8, turned on its side, is a symbol for infinity.

Furthermore, 8 has always been associated with the Egyptian Goddess, Isis. According to David Wood, in his excellent book, Genisis: The First Book of Revelations, 8 is: the number of the body of the supreme goddess Isis, daughter of the spirit-entity Nut, but born of flesh. Symbolized by the entwined serpents forming the double womb of infinity. The spiral lemniscate.

The legends of this deity indicate that she is the most perfect of all creatures of animal flesh. Every ancient culture recognized and revered her under one name or the other. She sustains life, and her number is also the atomic number of the element oxygen, an essential of any life process. When oxygen unites with hydrogen, water is formed, giving us 18, the number of her active principle. The goddess of a thousand names, the most abundant, as Oxygen is the most abundant element on earth.

Her star is eight-pointed and is identical to the star of the beast, but it is rotated to bring single points to North, South, East and West, a movement of 22.5°. This figure conceals many secrets, including the enigmatic 17… The star is seen to contain 17 enclosures.

The five-pointed star

However, the image which appears almost subliminally within Jesus’ birth chart is a five-pointed star. David Wood goes on to discuss this very powerful symbol which he discovered in the landscape near Rennes-le-Château:

The reader will recall that the complete pentagram, by Christian standards, is a symbol of evil, whereas to Gnostics it represented not only purity but supreme power. As a body with only five appendages it is female, as are all things associated with this number. The Hebrew number 5 (Hé) is symbolized by the womb. It would be difficult to give any logical reason why Christianity went to such lengths to degrade the female image while at the same time showing reverence for the mythical Virgin Mother, but most students would readily agree that she was the Christianized version of Isis. It seems that the authors of this story placed themselves in a very awkward position of having to produce a human body for Jesus without admitting to a human sperm having been used to fertilize a virgin in the first place.

Once we accept the possibility of any form of ‘seed’ being used, we automatically accept the presence of a father and to cast the Creator in this role would be ridiculous. IT would require no auxiliary equipment to create anything IT chose. To suggest that the Creator would need the womb of a woman to bring forth a birth, places a limitation on its powers, which reduces IT to the level of a gynaecologist performing an artificial insemination. Considering the abundance of religious connections, I wondered if the birth of Jesus was in any way connected to the diagram of Rennes and those things which we have examined previously. I also reasoned that the contents of the Ark of the Covenant probably held the key to the secrets which I sought.

We shall be returning to this theme many times before we finish, but now we must concentrate on the Moon. In Jesus’ birth chart the Moon is located at 16° (8 x 2) in Cancer. According to the Dictionary of Astrology:

In a chart, the Moon represents the imaginative, reflective side of the native, and is justifiably linked with the subconscious element in the modern image of man. It is an index of the receptive, withdrawn, secluded part of the person. When the Moon is emphasized in a chart, it is usually an indication of a highly sensitive, impressionable and changeable nature, often linked with a personality associated with the past, or with childhood.

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To be continued.

Linked pages: The Star of Bethlehem: Introduction (part 1)
The Star of Bethlehem: Introduction (part 2)
The Star of Bethlehem: Chapter 1 – Prologue
The Star of Bethlehem: Chapter 2 – Mercury: The Winged Star (part 1)
The Star of Bethlehem: Chapter 2 – Mercury: The Winged Star (part 2)
Star: Chapter 2 – Mercury: The Winged Star (part 3)

Picture credits:
The Nativity courtesy of DailyPS;
Trinity College Library Dublin courtesy of reddit.com;
Pentagram courtesy of Wikimedia.Commons

We cannot tie the position of Mars (age nine years) with a major event in Jesus’ life, but we can speculate that it was an instruction, or realization he received directly from his “higher self”, relating to his “mission” with the understanding of his eventual “sacrificial” death.*

From Jung and the Lost Gospels: Tradition is always rooted in experience. Behind every structure woven of theology, philosophy, and revealed ethics there lies a fundamental bedrock of transcendental experience. Moses climbs Mt. Sinai and by experiencing the reality of Jehovah receives the tablets of the Law. The Buddha achieves enlightenment under the sacred Bodhi tree and then goes forth to proclaim the Dharma. Muhammad discourses with the angel Gabriel in a cave before beginning his prophetic mission. Yet it is undeniable that the mainstream religious traditions, inasmuch as the former tend to enshrine the results of revelatory experience in belief and commandment, and the latter strenuously resists the metamorphosis of experience into theology and moral preachment. The Gnostic tradition descended from the Essene and continuing within the Christian dispensation has always resisted the turning of experience into a theological-ethical construct and opted for a different course instead.

The Mythologization of Self-Experience

As noted earlier, the Gnostics engaged regularly in what G. Quispel called “the mythologization of Self-experience.” The same author explains this procedure in greater detail in the following manner:

In my Gnosis als Weltreligion (1951), I suggested that Gnosticism expressed a specific religious experience which was frequently turned into myth. An example is the story when <a class="external" style="color:#002fb5;text-decoration:underline;padding-right:13px;background:url('http://static.wikinut.com/images/site/external.png&#039;) 100% 50% no-repeat;" title="Mani” href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_(prophet)&#8221; target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Mani, the founder of the Manichaean religion was twelve years old, God sent an angel to him to inspire him. When he was twenty-four the angel came to him again and said, “The time has now come to make your public appearance and to proclaim your own doctrine.” The name of the angel means “twin” and he is the twin-brother or “divine self” of Mani.

The Manichaean myth expresses the encounter between the I, the ego, and the divine self. In the system of <a class="external" style="color:#002fb5;text-decoration:underline;padding-right:13px;background:url('http://static.wikinut.com/images/site/external.png&#039;) 100% 50% no-repeat;" title="Valentinus” href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinus_(Gnostic)&#8221; target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Valentinus we find the similar concept of the guardian angel who accompanies a man throughout his life, who reveals the gnosis to him and is not allowed to enter eternal bliss without him.

Did Jesus study in India?

The position of Uranus is Life*Timed to his coming of age at twelve and the annual family visit to the temple in Jerusalem, at which time he conversed with the teachers about astrology.

From Edgar Cayce’s Story of Jesus again: And Josie was among those who went with Mary and Joseph when they went to the city, or to Jerusalem, at the time of the age of twelve. It was thought by Joseph and Mary that it was in the care of Josie that He had stayed, when He was missed, in those periods when there was the returning to find Him in the temple. (1010)

The significance of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction is hidden by whatever may have happened to him when he was seventeen. Several writers have speculated that Jesus went to Persia, Egypt and India to study spiritual truths, and I believe this completely consistent with the energy connected with these planets.

And yet again from Edgar Cayce’s Story of Jesus: Hence much of the early education, the early activities, were those prompted or directed by that leader in that particular experience, but were administered by — or in the closer associations by — Josie. Though from the idea of the Brotherhood the activities of the entity were no longer necessitated, the entity Josie preferred to remain — and did remain until those periods when there was the sending or the administering of the teachings to the young Master, first in Persia and later in India, and then in Egypt again — where there were the completions. (1010)

Final “guardian angel” action

The final “guardian angel” action concerns his crucifixion and the preparations for his death which occurred when he was thirty-six, as seen by the position of the North Node, according to A.T. Mann’s Life*Time Astrology scale.

From Edgar Cayce’s Story of Jesus once more: Josie was with Mary throughout those activities. And is it any wonder that when there were those preparations of the body for burial that Josie was the one who brought the spices, the ointments, that were to consecrate the preparations of this body for whom it had cared through those early periods of its experience in the earth? (1010)

If viewed from the position of Jesus’ “angelic” messages, its internal symbolism is being presented to us in a very graphic manner: the Annunciation happens 6½ months before his birth, therefore the bearer must have an origin between he Sun (6) and the Typhon-Set (7) – we will discuss this later; the first dream by Joseph occurred 2 months before Jesus’ birth, symbolizing division/dual creation; the warning to the Magi was when Jesus was 8 months old, representing Isis; the warning dream to Joseph to flee to Egypt was when Jesus was 1 year old, demonstrating the power of Herod (and his ultimate destruction), the rod/phallus; the dream telling Joseph that Herod was dead, occurred when Jesus was 3, referring to the Moon and love (the Holy Family were three); the next dream warning Joseph to go to Nazareth occurred when Jesus was 5, signifying feminine power; the understanding Jesus received when he was 9 indicates the symbolic number of birth and death; the visit to the Temple in Jerusalem at 12, demonstrates his “understanding” of astrology; the unknown event at 17 could signify a special “rebirth” in Egypt; and the culmination of his life at 36 corresponds to the combining of the values of 12 and 3, 4 and 9, 2 and 18. this last one being the number of inches in a cubit…In other words, we are being given numerical hints all through his life, as calculated with a base 10.

But that is not all there is to it: even the degrees of his birth Ascendant, Midheaven and natal planets tell a similar story. The fact that both the Ascendant and Midheaven are at 5° brings a pointer to the feminine power contained in his birth chart as a five-pointed star. I will note several times through this book that the ‘death point’ position of Mars at 17° leads us back to the significance of the pentagram, but more on that later.

Parable of the Sower

Mercury, like the Sun in Jesus’ birth chart, is in the “earthy” sign of Capricorn. If his life’s purpose is to manifest the Word by becoming ‘flesh and dwelling among us,’ then the medium is the message. From Spiritual Astrology: When you focus on the informational needs of others, you can effortlessly share ideas relevant to the situation. When your motive in giving information is to support others, you automatically communicate true knowledge and eliminate pretense.

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop, a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. He who has ears, let him hear.” (Matthew 13:1-9)

He has disguised a hidden message in this story, but you need to look at the cabalistic “Tree of Life” to see what he means: 100 relates to 10 x 10, the perfection of animal reproduction — signified by the rigid {1} and tail-swallowing {0} snakes; 60 relates to 6 x 10, the reflection of the Creator by the Sun; 30 relates to 3 x 10, demonstrating that it originates in the Holy Trinity. I think he was trying to tell us that there are three specific types of “good” seeds which will yield a spiritual harvest.

According to the author of Jung and the Lost Gospels: The three cosmic regions…have their corresponding portions within the nature of the children of men. Within every human there is the material part (hyle), derived from the kingdom of Pan and carrying the instincts and urges of material life with its intentionality of survival and physical continuity by way of offspring. There is also a portion embodying mind and emotion referred to often as soul (psyche). This portion is derived from the realm of the Demiurge, and thus contains more than one dangerous feature. While it is the seat of ethical awareness and calculating reason, it is also susceptible to the influences and blandishments of the rulers with their obsessive commandments, fanatical ideologies, pride, and arrogance of soul. Third is the human spirit (pneuma), which belongs to the fullness, although it is the gift of Sophia. In most humans this spiritual spark smoulders and dreams, unconsciously awaiting the breath of the emissaries of the fullness to be fanned into effective action. This spirit is Sophia, and through and beyond her, it is of the identical essence of the supreme King and Queen, Depth and Silence themselves.

Depth and Silence: our Heavenly Father and the Great Mother, symbolized by the Sun and the Moon in our solar system. Depth and Silence: the idea and the creation; the concept and the conception. Depth and Silence: Life and Death, the subject of our next chapter.

Picture Credits

Linked pages: The Star of Bethlehem: Introduction (part 1)
The Star of Bethlehem: Introduction (part 2)
The Star of Bethlehem: Chapter 1 – Prologue
The Star of Bethlehem: Chapter 2 – Mercury: The Winged Star (part 1)
The Star of Bethlehem: Chapter 2 – Mercury: The Winged Star (part 2)

Picture credits:
Gnosis als Weltreligion courtesy of abebooks;
Jesus Lived in India courtesy of http://www.amazon.com;
Angelic Numerology courtesy of grooverment.blogspot.com;
Qabalistic Tree of Life courtesy of http://www.koshomind.com