“How can you believe in
astrology?” my devout Christian friends have asked me.
I tell them, “Astrology is not a belief system, but an
archetypal, poetic language. I don’t ask you
if you ‘believe’ in Japanese. I ask if you
speak it. I don’t ask you if you ‘believe’
in music, I ask if you play it. I happen to
speak the heavenly tongue of astrology along with thousands of
other highly intelligent, inspiring, spiritual, and even
scientific astrologers.”
Their skepticism persists due to
what they’ve been taught about the Bible and so I decide to go
into their home field and initiate the conversation about
Biblical insights into astrology, one of my favorite topics.
“The Bible totally supports the
practice of astrology,” I boldly claim staring into horrified
eyes.
“That’s crazy,” they say.
“Astrology is the work of the Devil.
You don’t need the stars to direct your life, you just need
Jesus.”
“But, even Jesus respected the
wisdom of the heavens,” I say. “Let me see
your Bible. I’ll show you proof that
astrology is a divinely bestowed gift to humanity.” I open to
the Psalms and begin reading verse 19:1-3, “The heavens declare
the glory of God. The skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day
after day they pour forth speech. Night
after night they display knowledge. There is
no speech or language where their voice is not heard.”
“That sounds to me like the
heavens are supposed to speak, to declare insights, reveal
knowledge, and that no language even exists that does not
contain the voice of the heavens.”
“Okay, so one Psalm by King David
says the heavens speak. God can speak
through anything: people, places, events.
It doesn’t mean we have to govern our lives by the stars.”
“But, it does
indicate that we can have a conversation with eternal being
through the motions of the heavens. The
Bible speaks clearly about the purpose of the sun, moon, and
stars.” I open to Genesis 1:14-18.
“And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars
also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw
that it was good.”
“There you have it. Even in the King James
Version. When I interpret charts I
illuminate for clients their potential, both shadow and light,
to help them accept their whole being and to help them live the
full expression of their gifts. We also
probe and improve on their weaknesses. When
I look at the transits and progressions, I explain the qualities
and potential of the seasons, days and years, giving guidance
based on the motions and cycles of heavenly bodies reflecting
psychological states and the flow of events.
My aim is not to predict the future, but to help people live
more fully in the present, navigating the currents of life with
skill. We all have heard that to everything
under the sun there is a season (Ecclesiastes 3:1-10).
In Psalms 104:19 it says, ‘The moon marks off the
seasons, and the sun knows when to set.’
When I read a chart, whether it’s for a person, city, nation, or
event, I am using the heavens as the Bible says, to read the
signs.”
“Wow,” the person says, still dismayed by my intense faith in
astrology. “That’s interesting.”
“That’s just the beginning,” I continue.
“Let’s see how deep the rabbit hole goes. My
study of astrology has given vital proof of divine intelligence
behind the universe.”
In
Job, God asked his humble servant a series of questions
involving the wondrous miracles performed.
In Job 38:31-33, God asks, “Can you bind the sweet influences of
the Pleiades or loose the bonds of Orion?
Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their seasons?
Or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
Do you know the principles of the heavens?
Can you set their dominion over the earth?”
Thus, God is proclaiming that there are principles in the
heavens and that they govern life on earth.
Furthermore, God is responsible for bringing forth the Mazzaroth
in their seasons. Most Bibles avoid
translating this sacred word, ‘Mazzaroth’, because it literally
means, ‘the twelve signs of the zodiac’, in Hebrew.
So, God created the zodiac and brings them forth in their
seasons. He explains that heavenly
constellations like the Pleiades and Orion have ‘influences’
that can be unleashed.
We
don’t have to be afraid of signs from the heavens.
God speaks through them. In Judges
5:20 it describes the ‘stars’ in battle, “They fought from the
heaven. The stars in their courses fought
against Ciceria.” In Jeremiah 10:2 it says,
“…do not be dismayed by signs from heaven.”
We need to be open to the realization of messages in the
heavens. In Psalms 136:7-9, it says, “Who
made the great lights? His love endures
forever; the sun to govern the day, the moon and stars to govern
the night.” In Psalms 147:3-4 it says, “God
heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of stars and calls them each by
name.” The Hebrew word ‘shem’ means ‘name, a
mark of character, individuality, honor and authority.’
Stars have all that, according to the Bible. Again, in
Isaiah 40:26 we hear, “Lift your eyes on high and behold who has
created these. He who brings forth the
starry hosts by numbers one by one and calls them forth by
character.”
In
Daniel 1:20 it says, “Daniel was given divine insight by God,
even the ability to understand visions and dreams.
In every matter of Babylonian wisdom and understanding,
they (Daniel and his friends) were ten times better than all the
magicians and enchanters in the whole kingdom.”
Thus, the followers of the Eternal One imprisoned in a
land of astrologers cultivated the wisdom of the heavens that
was ten times better than the average astrologer of the day.
In
Psalms 89:35-37 God says, “I will not lie to David that his line
will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the
sun. It will be established forever like the
moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” God
describes the moon here as the faithful witness in the sky.
In astrology the moon governs daily emotional tides and
colors events and moods by its changing position.
In
Job (one of the oldest Biblical texts) 26:12 it says that by,
“God’s wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.” Rahab
is the ancient planet between Jupiter and Mars, which is now an
asteroid field. The ancients recorded this
planet in their star charts and created many myths about its
mysterious destruction. The content of
these stories always concerned the loss of the sacred feminine.
In modern astrology we are attempting to heal this gap in
consciousness by reintegrating the feminine archetypes into our
work. In the original Hebrew language both
the masculine and feminine archetypes are equally respected and
integrated into the symbols of their language.
The Hebrew the word for light used when God says, “The sun,
moon, and stars were created for giving light on the earth,” is
‘aur’. The Hebrew writers were well versed in the
sacred language of archetypes. They were able to contemplate
truth through symbol as each letter of their alphabet held an
archetypal meaning. Aleph, the beginning letter of aur
symbolizes unthinkable vibration, the sacred spirit of life,
infinite potential, and eternal possibility. Vav, the middle
letter, symbolizes the process of divine fertilization emanating
from the creative void. Raysh, the final letter, symbolizes the
hidden movement of cosmic possibility as creation. Hidden in
the letters of Hebrew light we discover its deeper meaning, the
infinite potential of the sacred spirit fertilizing
creation.
The first
line of the Bible says, “In the beginning, God created the
heavens and the earth.” When you break it down into archetypal
Hebrew it means, the first fruits of the spirit aspiring to
express eternity through a fountain of divine wisdom were the
creation of the celestial dimensions and the manifest world.
Now that casts a whole new light on Biblical translation. The
Hebrew word for astrologer is 'ashaph' which breaks down to ‘the
spirit communicates through the sacred flames.’
The word
‘aur’, for light, means illumination, but also radiance,
happiness and joy in the original Hebrew, just as night ‘layil’
also means adversity, challenge and resistance. You hear the
ancient root of light in words like aura, aurora, our own
Uranus, the planet of divine intuition, and in Ur, the ancient
city, of light, home of the legendary Abraham, father of the
Hebrews in the land of Chaldea.
According to Berosus,
a Chaldean historian and priest, in the tenth generation after
the Biblical flood there was a man among the Chaldeans
(astrologers) called Abram (later changed to Abraham) who
mastered skill in the celestial language of the heavens.
Close to the beginning of the Age of Aries, two millennia before
Christ, God called Abraham to migrate west to start the Hebrew
civilization.
The Old
Testament, from which I’ve been quoting, describes the Age of
Aries from the perspective of the Hebrews. Terah, who was the
father of Abraham, left Ur at that time. Ur was a flourishing
port city, a center for trade between India and Egypt. To
symbolize the Age, Abraham sacrificed God’s provision, the ram.
Across the world, bull sacrifices from the Age of Taurus were
giving way to ram sacrifices as the equinoxes processed and the
quality of times changed. God became known as Jehovah, the
warrior God, as Aries exemplifies the archetype of the warrior,
pioneer, and leader. It was a militant age of sacred ram
veneration.
Abraham
was a wise spiritual seeker, but also a brave warrior. Moses
later became another fiery leader of this Age. They both
studied the ancient sciences of the Egyptians and understood
that the twelve signs of the Mazzaroth were the immortal
thoughts of God that penetrate creation. The twelve tribes of
Israel (Abraham’s grandson) are associated with the twelve signs
of the zodiac. According to Jewish astrologers, the Hebrews
accepted Deuteronomy 32:8 as proof of the fact that people are
divided into twelve distinct personality types. It says, “When
the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the people
according to the number of the tribes of Israel. In astrology
twelve archetypal forces divide people.
The characteristics
of the twelve tribes were given both by Jacob in Genesis 49 when
he blesses his sons and again in Deuteronomy 33 when Moses
blesses the tribes. They correspond to the basic meanings of
the twelve signs used today. God ordered Moses to have the
twelve tribes camp around the holy tabernacle in the exact order
of the zodiac with the entrance to the temple facing east. The
four gateways to the camp were Judea, Rueben, Ephraim, and Dan.
These four tribes correspond to the exact description in Ezekiel
and Revelations of the four living creatures before the throne
of God, which were the lion, the bull, the man, and the eagle.
These four ancient symbols correspond to our own astrological
signs of Leo, Taurus, Aquarius, and Scorpio which contain the
four royal stars of Persia, Regulus in Leo, Aldebaran in Taurus,
Formalhaut in Aquarius, Antares in Scorpio.
God even directs Moses to have the tribes march through the
desert starting with Judea (Leo) and going backwards towards the
camps of Rueben (Taurus), Ephraim (Aquarius) and Dan (Scorpio).
This is the exact motion of the equinoctial precession that
gives rise to the flow of the astrological ages, a 26,000-year
cycle.
Moses,
like Joseph, was well versed in Egyptian astrology. As the
adopted son of pharaoh’s daughter he was well educated in all
the mystery school wisdom of Egypt. The Hebrew word for Egypt
is ‘mitsuri’, the land of mystery. In Acts 7:22 it says, “Moses
was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful
in speech and action.” He was the perfect warrior prophet for
the Arian age.
Aaron’s
breastplate was set with twelve sacred stones each symbolizing a
Hebrew tribe, and thus, a zodiac sign. Joshua 4:6 says, “God is
remembered by twelve stones in a circle.” The Hebrews created
elaborate rituals based on a lunar calendar. In astrology new
moons symbolize beginnings and the sacred feast of Israel
instituted by God’s commands to Moses through visions, were
based on the phases of the moon. The day of the new moon was a
day of feasting and blowing trumpets (Numbers 10:10). Psalms
81:3 says, “Sound the ram’s horn at the new moon, and when the
moon is full, on the day of our feast.” The seventh new moon
was the time of the holy convocation feast and the full moon of
this month was the Feast of Tabernacles to celebrate harvest.
The seventh sign in astrology is Libra, symbolizing balance and
love, and the full moon symbolizes illumination, vision and
fulfillment, the time when emotional response is highest.
Passover was observed from the full moon to the waning quarter,
a period symbolic of illumination and the dissemination of
truth.
The Age
of Aries gradually gave way to the next sign of the zodiac,
Pisces, the archetype of universal love and compassion through
selfless service. The three Chaldean Magi followed the star
across the Arabian Desert in search of the incoming
spiritual master of love. Three astrologers
utilized the language of the heavens to discover the
long-prophesized Hebrew Messiah. Modern
research has revealed that Jesus may have been born closer to 7
BCE around the time of the Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus
triple-conjunction in Pisces. Every
astrologer inspired to research the illusive chart of Christ has
a pet theory as to the exact birth date. My
own research lead me to conclude that he was born on September
16, 7 BCE around midnight in Bethlehem. In
any case, the ultimate spiritual mystic arrived to teach the Way
as High Priest of the Order of the Melchizedek (as the Bible
refers to him in Hebrews 6:20).
Jesus embodied the Piscean archetype, linking the first sign
Aries with the last sign Pisces, the alpha with the omega,
starting not just one new age, but a whole cycle of twelve ages.
People began spiritually cleansing themselves through the
baptismal rites, as Pisces is a water element sign.
Suddenly, water was sacred (as opposed to fire) and the
fish became holy. Early Christians would
identify themselves by drawing the sign of Pisces in the sand.
Jesus spoke often of the age of his birth as a
preparation age for the Age of Enlightenment to follow.
He was referring to the Age of Aquarius that is
symbolized by the cosmic man bearing the pitcher of the living
waters of life, pouring it throughout the universe.
At Jesus’ first Jupiter return (age 12) he began
instructing the Priests at the temple, saying to his parents,
“Let me be about my work.” After his first
Saturn return (age 30) he became intensely devoted to teaching
and demonstrating the way of unconditional love.
He selected twelve disciples each with a character
similar to one of the twelve signs. At the
Last Supper Jesus washed the feet of the disciples.
In astrology each sign governs a part of the body.
Pisces symbolizes the feet.
The Bible is strangely silent on
the so-called ‘lost years of Jesus’ between ages 12 and 30.
Some sources like
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus,
channeled by a Christian minister at the dawn of the 20th
century, tells a marvelous story about how Jesus journeyed
throughout Persia, India, Greece and Egypt walking all paths of
life. The Christian’s maintain that he
stayed home and humbly served as a carpenter all his life until
he got the call to begin his ministry.
The New Testament is full of
clues and insights that point to Jesus’ respect and reverence
for astrology. The most obvious quote is
Luke 21:25 when he says, “At the end of this Age there will be
signs in the sun, moon and stars…the heavenly bodies will be
shaken (lit. the heavenly forces will be agitated).”
It’s in the red print. Jesus said it.
He tells his twelve disciples that the age to come will
be foreshadowed by signs in the heavens.
That is what God said they were supposed to be used for.
Signs give directions and guidance to help us navigate
life.
The Age of Aquarius is surely on
the rise! Astronomically, the Aries Ingress
won’t reach the first stars of Aquarius until around 2376 CE,
but the symbols of Aquarius are actually alive in the
imaginations of the people. Ever since the
discovery of Uranus in 1781 the world has been struggling for
freedom, independence and human rights in addition to great
inventions and advances in science. In the
year 2080 Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus will align in the sign of
Aquarius similarly to the Piscean configuration of 7 BCE.
On the solstice of 2020 Jupiter and Saturn will conjunct
in Aquarius. The times are ripe for a new
dispensation focused on creative originality, cosmic vision and
universal awareness. The next time your
religious friends start bad-mouthing the celestial language of
astrology you’ll be armed with Biblical insight.
Astrology asks for a realization
of our connection to space, divine being, and the process of
eternal change. As an intuitive, symbolic
language, and art of celestial cycles, it not only helps you
navigate change, but also teaches you to tap your creative
potential. Most people think astrology is
about predicting the future, but really it is about diving into
the unknown and living the mystery each day.
Astrology opens the gateway within so you can discover the
sacred silence and encounter the archetypes of creation.
This unified spectrum of twelve images symbolizes the
image of eternal being.
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