Jesus was NOT born on 25th December

[wayne penner]

In the West we are about to celebrate the birth of the spiritual leader Jesus by spending lots of money and getting drunk.

Astrologers know that Jesus was almost certainly NOT born on 25th December.


We celebrate the birth of the Persian God of Light (or Sun) Mithradates (or Mithra), who was born of a virgin on 25th December, the last day of the Feast of Saturnalia in Roman culture. Mithra was the highest of the Hellenic gods.
The Roman emperor Aurelian first brought all the holy days into one day, 25th December. Later, in 426 AD, the emperor Constantine (who was the first to convert to Christianity) proclaimed that Jesus was born 25th December knowing that the people were used to celebrating the birth of gods on that day, and a few decades later everyone had forgotten about Mithra and celebrated Jesus’ birthday instead.


Historically the 25th December makes no sense. Jesus was born during the Roman census, probably in 4 BC, and the Romans, being practical people, did not hold the census in late December when the roads were frozen and commerce was almost at a standstill. The Roman census was taken just after the harvest, in late September or what we now call October (the months refer to the 7th and 8th months respectively but the Roman year started in March not January).


There were no shepherds shivering on the hills “watching their flocks by night”.


Ho Ho Ho …

[Pisceanfool]

Christianity is wierd...

I found a site that said he was born most likely on march 1 soemthing like 4 BC like u said. I hope so cuz that's my bday! :p

Accourding to the site, he had a crazy pisces stellium with tons of trines to neptune.

[Liquid Green]

I agree.....christianity is bloody crazy.....!

I have also heard that Jesus was a piscean......

Does anyone know what that bright star in the sky that the three wise men followed, could have been........?

[wayne penner]

I agree.....christianity is bloody crazy.....!

I have also heard that Jesus was a piscean......

Does anyone know what that bright star in the sky that the three wise men followed, could have been........?

In 6 BC there was a Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces, which some consider to be the "star" that the three wise men, or Astrologers from the East, followed to find Jesus. The Great Conjunction would have appeared as very bright in the night sky, but of course could only been seen if the Sun were in the day sky, Virgo, or perhaps Libra, September or October. The consensus is 4 BC.
I don't know one way or the other, although there was probably a person born Jesus the Nazarene during that time since a lot of the old writers like Josephus and Tacitus referred to such a person.

Something of interest though. King Herod killed all the children born around his time. So he was the only child who actually had that horoscope.

[Liquid Green]

In 6 BC there was a Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces, which some consider to be the "star" that the three wise men, or Astrologers from the East, followed to find Jesus. The Great Conjunction would have appeared as very bright in the night sky, but of course could only been seen if the Sun were in the day sky, Virgo, or perhaps Libra, September or October. The consensus is 4 BC.
I don't know one way or the other, although there was probably a person born Jesus the Nazarene during that time since a lot of the old writers like Josephus and Tacitus referred to such a person.

Something of interest though. King Herod killed all the children born around his time. So he was the only child who actually had that horoscope.


Wayne,

Your last sentence is very worthy of pondering...............

[Kingsley]

http://lh5.google.com/thoaknek/R2tIh-UqfPI/AAAAAAAAAes/kF9mOscDs_c/jesus.jpg?imgmax=512

This is the chart I have for Jesus. I think its the one "Moby Dick"
rectified. I will check on that now.

kingsley

[wayne penner]

Yes there are some indeed amazing charts to be seen in that time period that Jesus was born.

There were no birth certificates issued in those days so we're stuck really.

Jesus was called "The man of sorrows", so perhaps a heavy Saturn aspect to Venus or Moon or both would be expected. I would opt for a Venus/Saturn Conjunction square Moon. He was undoubtedly immensely charismatic so Sun would be sextile or trine Uranus. Mars would be active, perhaps with an affliction to Mercury as Jesus was nothing if not outspoken. Jesus' Mercury would be badly afflicted, especially by Neptune. Pluto would be beautifully aspected especially by Sol.
I expect Jupiter and Saturn would interplay and have some relation with Uranus.

Who knows ...

[Draco]

Of the rare triple conjunction in 7 BC of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces, the middle conjunction was the brightest, and I consider personally that it might have made sense for Jesus to have been born under the middle and brightest of this sequence of conjunctions, the first announcing a messiah and the third consolidating his arrival.

As for to what point in the period of the second conjunction he may have been born at, I like this proposal from Andrew J. Bevan. This places the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction directly overhead in Bethlehem, while right in opposition to the Sun in Virgo upon the IC.

http://www.astronor.com/birth.htm

However, I also like this from David Plant, set for September 15th, and the acronycal rising of Jupiter with the Sun setting in the West, placing Jupiter/Saturn and Sun on the ascendant/descendant axis.

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/bethlehem.html

If you feel comfortable with the notion that Jesus would have been born under the rare triple conjunction, and at the middle and brightest of these conjunctions, then I feel that a horoscope set for some time at which the grand conjunction opposes the Sun upon angles would seem a fair choice.

I also like the latter chart, because it is my own birthday.

I do think that this is the vicinity of time in which Jesus was born though, and that he was a Virgo.

[rahu]

wayne
you are technically incorrect.the 25th of december was celebrated by the romans as the rebirth of Sol Invictus.the day was known as Dies Natalis Solis Invicti.the god sol invictus has connections to the sun,the god El Gabal and Mithras.mithras was a zorasterian diety who preceded sol invictus by several hundred years,so sol invictus is most likely a romanized mithra.
it is interseting to note that a sign of sol invictus divinity was a halo around his head.i'm sure most christians don't realize they worship saints with a pagan icon over their heads.
legend has it that constantine the great had the labarum,chi ro [greek abbreviation for jesus christ] painted on his soldiers shields at the battle of the Milvian Bridge by which he took control of rome.but it is interesting to note that when he built a Arch of Triumph of the victory,chi ro appears nowhere but Sol Invictus is the main diety commemorated.
rahu

[wayne penner]

wayne
you are technically incorrect.the 25th of december was celebrated by the romans as the rebirth of Sol Invictus.the day was known as Dies Natalis Solis Invicti.the god sol invictus has connections to the sun,the god El Gabal and Mithras.mithras was a zorasterian diety who preceded sol invictus by several hundred years,so sol invictus is most likely a romanized mithra.
it is interseting to note that a sign of sol invictus divinity was a halo around his head.i'm sure most christians don't realize they worship saints with a pagan icon over their heads.
legend has it that constantine the great had the labarum,chi ro [greek abbreviation for jesus christ] painted on his soldiers shields at the battle of the Milvian Bridge by which he took control of rome.but it is interesting to note that when he built a Arch of Triumph of the victory,chi ro appears nowhere but Sol Invictus is the main diety commemorated.
rahu

Rahu, there is considerable disagreement as to the origin of Mithradates or Mithra. Mithra was certainly an Indo-Iranian god and was worshipped in Hinduism as early as 1000 BC as Mitra (Varuna), perhaps much earlier (Wikipedia states 1400 BC). I believe the Iranian prophet Zoroaster (the Zarathrustra referred to by Neitzsche) reformed Persian polytheism and relegated Mithra to being just another of many gods, but Mithra was extremely popular among the Romans was restored with some of his powers, notably as the God of the Sun or of Light. He was born on 25th December from a rock (or a cave or egg).

By the 4th century in the east Jesus' birthday was accepted as 6th January, but this was not accepted in the west and the emperor Constantine established Jesus' birth as 25th December, the last day of the feast of Saturnalia, and Mithra was given the day of the Sun as his holy day. 25th December was also the Winter solstice in the Julian calender.

As for pagan symbolism in Christianity you will find no argument from me - it is full of pagan worship icons. Indeed a lot of superstitions also stem from Christianity, such as walking under a ladder bringing bad luck because you are breaking the Eternal Triangle of the Son, Father and Holy Ghost. Also, 13 is unlucky because Judas was the 13th to appear at the last supper, and Friday 13th being especially unlucky because Christ was crucified on a Friday.

Although the eating of fish on Friday is lucky - it is the celebration of the exaltation of the planet Venus in Pisces. Friiday (Fria's day in Norse) or Vendredi (Venus' day in French) and fish (Pisces) ...

And so on.

[wayne penner]

Of the rare triple conjunction in 7 BC of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces, the middle conjunction was the brightest, and I consider personally that it might have made sense for Jesus to have been born under the middle and brightest of this sequence of conjunctions, the first announcing a messiah and the third consolidating his arrival.

As for to what point in the period of the second conjunction he may have been born at, I like this proposal from Andrew J. Bevan. This places the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction directly overhead in Bethlehem, while right in opposition to the Sun in Virgo upon the IC.

http://www.astronor.com/birth.htm

However, I also like this from David Plant, set for September 15th, and the acronycal rising of Jupiter with the Sun setting in the West, placing Jupiter/Saturn and Sun on the ascendant/descendant axis.

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/bethlehem.html

If you feel comfortable with the notion that Jesus would have been born under the rare triple conjunction, and at the middle and brightest of these conjunctions, then I feel that a horoscope set for some time at which the grand conjunction opposes the Sun upon angles would seem a fair choice.

I also like the latter chart, because it is my own birthday.

I do think that this is the vicinity of time in which Jesus was born though, and that he was a Virgo.

Draco it would not surprise me if Jesus was Sun in Virgo, perhaps a Virgo/Libra cusp. Certainly if the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was in fact the Star of Bethlehem it ocurred in Pisces and could only have been seen at night if Sun was in Virgo or Libra.

It does seem that he was born at night.

One other point. The style of the day was for men to have short close-cropped hair. Jesus is often depicted as a long-haired hippie but he would certainly have looked odd at the time, rather like you or I walking about today wearing spats and a bowler hat ...

[rahu]

he great american pyschic,edgar cayce,in the 1920's said jesus was an Essene and that evidence would be uncovered in 1946 of this fact.the Essenes were mentioned in only 2 or 3 places in history with virtually nothing known about them.at the time.in i946 .the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered.these turned out to be part of a vast library,hidden by the Essenes when the romans wipe out israel in 120 AD.part of the essence's beliefs was that the messiah was to be born from them.the essence community at qumran was established circa 150bc and was totally destroyed as mentioned above.but curiosily a major earthquake devastated the site in 4 bc and it was abandoned and not repopulated until circa 30ad.so the life of jesus can be speculated to fill in this void of time.some of the phraseology and themes used by the essenes were very silimiar to phraseology used by the early church of jerusalem.
all ancient civilizations have acknowleded the precession of the equinox which is responsible for the various "Ages",i.e. the aquarian age etc.so it was at the time of jesus that the world was awaiting the piscean age .the association with jesus and the sign pisces can be interpreted in this light.the magi traveling to worship him would indicate that he was thought to be a messiah of the piscean age.the association with the sign pisces is not by his birth but because he was a transcendant messiah of a change of the Ages,as the piscean age began around 2000 years ago.
i believe jesus was born under the sign gemini.the 12 disciples,esoterically are each associated with a sign of the zodiac just as ech of the 12 tribes of israel are associated with a sign of the zodiac.so with 12 disciples taking the 12 signs what could have been jesus's sign?i believe a clue is with the disciple thomas,as thomas means twin.when the story of jesus was put into greek the greek word didymus was sometimes appended to thomas[john 11:16,20:24,21:2.this makes little sense as it means the twin who was a twin.the question being whose twin was he.one solution is sinse this was the story of jesus then it went without mention that he was the twin of jesus.hence jesus was a gemini,the sign of the twins.
rahu
rahu

[rahu]

edgar cayce also had a interesting version of jesus birth.his divinity came not from his father but his mother.she was a high priestess.the essene's had a ritual where the spirit of god would come into the body of a high priestess.but there was a problem as mary was the 12th high priestess and not the first.the spirit of god entered her instead of the first and this lead to problems.
this sound outlandish until one realizes the from the time of moses until the maccabbean revolution[circa 150bc] the house of zadok controled the temple cultus of judaism and they had both high priest and high priestess.after the maccabbees regain control of the temple at jerusalem[which they had not controlled since the 5th century bc] the house of zadok demanded to be given control of the temple,but the maccabbees gave control to a secular family,the hasmoneans.then according to the book of maccabbees "the house of zadok disappeared into the desert".this occureed circa 150 bc.circa 150 bc the essenes appear in the desert knowing all aspects of the temple cultus and observing all holy days.they referred to the priests in jerusalem as the accursed and the usurpers.so if jesus was an essene,it is posible that mary was a high priestess off the essenes.
rahu

[Liquid Green]

Wayne,you said, One other point. The style of the day was for men to have short close-cropped hair. Jesus is often depicted as a long-haired hippie but he would certainly have looked odd at the time, rather like you or I walking about today wearing spats and a bowler hat ...

They say jesus was a nazarian(spelling again?)........after reading Jesus lived in India (that i mentioned on the other thread), I am convinced he wasnt and was an Essene.....He fits the description of an Essene more......

I strongly recommend trying to get hold of the book.......

have a look at this link...http://www.essenespirit.com/ (http://www.essenespirit.com/)


google ing THE ESSENES will bring up heaps of valid info.......

[Liquid Green]

ok so now after reading more I have some mix up with the nazarians and essenes ..........he certainly was a long haired hippy type though (and good on him!).......and different from the norm.

wish i had that book handy.......makes alot of sense but it has been YEARS since i read it.....

All i know, is that he DIDNT DIE ON THAT CROSS.........anyone who believes that is......................????????

[rahu]

just a note on nazarene.this can mean a person from nazerth or it can indicate that he was a member of the nazarenes who were a zealot entity bent on violent rebellion against the romans.anyone named judas in those days would immediately be assocaiated with rebellion as judas maccabbeus was one of the more influencial fighters who over threw the secleucid dynasty in 150 bc.iscariot is also a unresolved named.it could be a place name or it could mean daggerman or assassin thereby making him a zealot ,most likely.
rahu

[Liquid Green]

Thanks Rahu,
I reckon i can safely assume that Jesus was not hell bent on rebellion......He definitely had some new thoughts but He only lived them and people followed without him having to make them.....
Perhaps the Authorities wanted to put him in that category though.................

(i dont understand what you were trying to say with the bit ' assassin thereby making my a zealot ,most likely.'..............sorry,I'm feeling a bit weird today with the moon and all!)

[wayne penner]

I found this at some Christian site ... I thought it was interesting enough to post here ...

"The paintings of Christ are simply artists' conceptions and have no Scriptural authorization. At least one historian of His day described Him as being a tall man with chestnut-colored hair, parted in the middle, with short hair which turned up at the end.
In the book, THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIFE OF CHRIST by Irving Vollmer, published by Fleming H. Revell, the author says, "Archeologists object to the conventional pictures of Christ because they are not true to history." A German painter, L. Fahrenkrog, says, "Christ certainly never wore a beard, and His hair was beyond a doubt a closely cut. For this we have historical proof." The oldest representations going back to the first Christian centuries and found chiefly in the catacombs of Rome all pictured Him without a beard.

All the pictures of Christ down to the beginning of the first century and even later are of this kind. Students of the first century and of Roman history are aware of the fact that the time of Christ was characterized by short hair for men.

This author has seen many coins and statues which bear the likenesses of emperors who reigned during and after the time of Christ. Such likenesses reveal that the Ceasars and other rulers and emperors had short hair, and of course, the subjects followed the example set by the emperor. The plain simple truth is that during the life of Christ, short hair was the acceptable style. That Jesus wore the conventional style of His day is proved by the fact that Judas had to kiss Him to point Him out to the soldiers. Had Jesus been somewhat different, as a long-haired freak, Judas could have simply told the soldiers that Jesus was the One with the long hair. This, of course, is not true, as Judas had to place a kiss on Him in order to identify Him."

[Liquid Green]

Then why is there the idea that he was long haired......perhaps he was at some point.....?

Time , with information like that, is like chinese whispers......

There are lots of things that dont make any sense.....at that time Jesus was crucified, it wasnt actually practice to nail the hands......they actually tied them.
Also, i would like to mention something again from that book "jesus lived in India'...........they mention in the bible (apparently, as i dont have a copy to go and check) that when Jesus was on the cross, a soldier passed up a sponge of sorts on the end of a sword and wiped his brow.....after this he apparently yelled out (from memory) and "gave up the ghost"........in those times opium was given to relieve pain and the sorts....it is quite possible that that sponge had something on it to allow Jesus to rest, go into trance, whatever it was that made him look like he was dead( he could have had friends as soldiers!)...... then they said that they poked him with a sword or knife to check if he was dead, blood spirted forth........Of a dead man that doesnt happen.....

Sorry i cant be more thorough of my research here on this topic as i dont have the materials to check what i am saying.....its all from memory.

The whole story about the guy has been lost on the grapevine and lost in translation......I just cant believe that millions of people around the world dont question it........

As long as we get a holiday or two though........................!;)

[Carole]

It's not my intention to hurt some people's religious feelings, but there is something that not many Christian people know. In one of the first books on Paganism I studied, I learned that almost every Christian celebration has a pagan origin.

Christmas is a celebration that has been always more pagan than Christian, since it's closely related to Celtic fertility rites, Roman Mithraism and Nordic divination. No wonder the Puritans refused to acknowledge it, let alone celebrate it, and it was abhorred by Martir Luther and John Calvin. It was even declared illegal in Boston.

Christmas was originated in the pagan celebration of the lesser Sabbath Yule that was held on the actual winter solstice, around December 21st. (The longest night and shortest day of the year) when the King Sun, the son of God (whatever name you want to call him) is born again.

Long before Christians claimed it to be the celebration of the birth of baby Jesus, there had been a tradition in the west half of the Christian Church that Mary bore him on the twenty-fifth day, but nobody could decide on the month, so in 320 C.E. the Catholic Fathers in Rome agreed to make it December, trying to overcast the Yule celebrations of the Celts and Saxons and the Mithraic celebrations of the Romans. This is how Christmas started.

This celebration is plagued by inconsistencies as we know that shepherds don't tend their flocks by night in winter. In addition, there is historical evidence in the New Testament that points to spring time as the time of baby Jesus' birth. The lambing season occurs in the spring and that it's when shepherds are likely to watch their flocks by night, to make sure that everything goes well.

Well, long before the world heard of Jesus, pagans celebrated the day of the winter solstice bringing in a Yule log made of Ash, lighting it from the remains of last year's log after wishing on it. They sacrificed animals and ate them along with lots of liquor, performed rituals, magick and divination; they also carried corn dollies from house to house while carolling, and the girls who stood under a sprig of mistletoe were subject to a bit more than a kiss, as this was part of the fertility rites that were practiced.

Later the Yule tree took the place of the Yule log and instead of burning it, burning candles were put on it. This Yule tree should be cut down instead of purchased, and then it was disposed of by burning, the proper way to dispose of sacred objects. Christians claim that this is a custom invented by Martin Luther and Catholics say it was Saint Boniface, but the truth is that it can be traced back through the Roman Saturnalia to ancient Egypt.

I could keep going on for hours writting about this subject, but I think this is enough for now. Of course, when we learn these things, we know that Jesus was not born on December 25th. Spring seems a lot more logical.


Carole

[rahu]

hi green
the centurion offered a sponge of vinegar to jesus which he drank from.
speculationis that it contained a drug to simulate death.also of note is that it takes much longer to die on a cross than it took jesus.in fact pontius pilate makes reference to this sudden demise when he signs to give jesus body up.

my references about judas point to jesus being part of a violent insurrection.
the jews were in near constant rebellion from before jesus was born til 120 ad when the romans wiped them out.the book Wilderness Revolution by deceased bishop pike make a excellent case that jesus was not pacific but part of a violent insurrection.
rahu

[Liquid Green]

Rahu, i'll put that book on my ever growing list!

Going to look up INSURRECTION.......never heard of the term.

I know i wouldnt have wanted a drink of vinegar;).......wine sounds more the go......it must have contained something!

[tsquare]

http://www.viking-z.org/stephen03.htm

Interesting Link. Not an area I want to personally persue at this time, but there is a email address there....I wonder if there is a date there as well as a time.....Do as you will.
Tsquare

[tsquare]

Anyone have any thoughts on this link describing christs chart.

http://www.aloha.net/~johnboy/sitemap.htg/sitemap.htm#links

It seems someone has done their research here.....but my brain melted while reading it......I've been busy lately with other things and havent been able to dig into this without getting swallowed.
Interesting sight......some info on Zacharia Stichen(spelling) as well...who is said to have discovered some old piece of evidence on the outer planets being known back in the day....I haven't looked into this.......just posting the link.
Lots of stuff here......others may have an easier time with this then I...

[Ekim86]

i was watching some thing on tv about this. Some dude pretty much said that the bright light in the sky was jupiter conjuncting venus. Along with some other planets in what he said aries. Which seemed werid. It was some guy that i forget the name, i'll get back to you on that if i can, that pretty much combined the worshipping of the sun, which is around dec 22 every year. The winter solice (dec 22) with jesus's birthday. Something I heard, just letting you in. Pagans were raw with the cycles and ALOT of chistianity and other religons seemed to rip bit and pieces from it. Easter for example is symbolic of the spring equanoxs. I know my spelling ***** hardcore sorry.

[tikana]

of course, he wasnt.. 25th of dec was picked to represent the Roman festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, which pre-dates christian era.

T

[wayne penner]

of course, he wasnt.. 25th of dec was picked to represent the Roman festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, which pre-dates christian era.

T

Of course this is true and the present Christian Church, in its furtive need to feed the believers, promotes the myth that Jesus was born on 25th December. Ridiculous, but just think that had I said that 200 years ago anywhere in Europe I would have been burned alive for my opinion.

Truth is tenuous my friends. Don't ever ever forget there are powerful forces that want to stamp it out.

[tikana]

Wayne penner

i dont really agree with you even though i do see where you are coming from..No one fed anyone with a belief that Jesus was born on dec 25th. it was adopted to merge ancient empires and faiths into christanity. IT might have backfired ... could be but does it matter when Jesus was born? Eastern churches were the first ones to celebrate christmas in december.. everyone else came after. Besides it doesnt matter what people think of true Jesus'birthday. The main point is it is what christinanity did to RomanEmpire. Would you like to be sitting and cheering people being tortured in the Forum *not this one even though sometimes it reminds me of great Forum*? I dont know how we would be if not Chrsitianity. So you cant just bash christanity for lies and deception. There is plenty of that going on to this day esp coming from Vatican. People were alreayd on a brink of being tired/revolt from brutality of Roman regime. Roman empire has been collapsing long before Jesus from having emperors like Nero, Calligula, Claudius, Domitian, Commodus and a couple of other creeps i forgot... Rome was at one point religion tolerant state but when people were getting burned alive and tortured for days in the arena then murderd, the multigod beliving roman citizens foudn themselves asking questions like "those new christian believers they are not harming anyone, they are not a threat to our empire, why are they being mistreated?"
so the romans started looking into this new christian religion as something to be taken seriously or at least to looked into. By that time Constantine got o0n the throne and he saw the mess and chaos and he had to make a move, which way to go..his mother got obsessed with christianity. Constantine himself was already exposed to christianity at early age but did not declare himself a christian until he was 40, ironically enough when Rome was ont he brink of a complete collapse. So he figured lets use christianity to unifying substance. He was not outlawing pagans .. that was other peopel's deeds. i can see where pagans and other believers of other religions have a problem with christianity. Personally, i dont have a problem with christianity itself but i just hate how the message is being disturbuted and forced to this day on people who chose not to be hardcore christians. I am 100% agnostic. Unlike other religions, women were the bearers of christian message which did not rub well with other religious figures. Most women's faces had been scratched out of church in the caves somewhere. I forgot where the location is. Most testaments of bible had been erased, lost, long forgotten.

Since we have touched pagans, even their tales like Poetic Edda, have been altered to suit christian message "convert or die"

Conversion by force WAS NEVER christan intention. Original Christians knew that because they saw brutality of Roman repression.

back to you
T

[wayne penner]

Actually it wasn't really like that.

True that at first the Romans disregarded Christianity, and they were not irreligious any more than they were racist. They were Hellenic. The ancient Romans were a pragmatic people above all, they couldn't care less about your religion, your race or your background.

Jesus' followers caused some problems in Palestine and he became suspect as anti-Roman, which was a bad place to be in those times.

Pilate had him executed in a grudging sort of manner and although Jesus was executed for sedition there is no evidence that Pilate believed the charges. In fact Pilate wanted nothing to do with the execution feeling that it would do nothing but arouse feelings among the masses, cause more chaos than was already going on at the time, and boy was he right.

The myth of the 25th December birth was restarted in 326 AD I believe but it was probably already whispered among Christians for a couple hundred years. I don't know, I wasn't there ... Wish I had been though ...

[tikana]

Actually, the movement to protect christians came after I FORGOT that woman's name. The army was sent to protect Roman Empire from christianity because it was a threat. Civilians had nothing to do with prosecution. WHY? because for the first time in history, a religious message was calling for peace without violence and to complete halt of worshipping the emperor and multigods, which is a big THREAT to Roman state since christians were not paying a dime to Roman govt. Basically, the roman soliders captured one woman she was in her late teens. They raped for 3 days straight, whipped her in the center of the forum. To everyone's surprize she was still alive.. at the end she said something about dying with faith. and out of anger, the roman emperor ordered the soldiers to nail her body to hot rods or something like that .. It just was the end of everyone's tolerance.. all hell broke loose the following day..

if i remember the name, i will post it .. No, it wasnt Lucretia. There was another guy .. god dammit .. i cannot think of his name either.. i do remember he was a black knight he was ordered to ambush some kind of revolt or army. After the battle, he walked through the plain and saw that all of the dead soldiers were christians. He was ordered to kill the prisoners or something. He refused. his army and himself were killed by the orders of roman general. If i memory is not playing tricks part of his spear is in spear of fate or so the tale goes.

it wasnt just Jesus who put christianity on the map.

ohh I remember.. his name was St Maurice. he was under Maximillian's rule.

T

[Carole]

That "lost capstone" theory is surely interesting. The use of "Pi" to cast those charts makes a lot sense as it's said that every mystery can be solved through mathematics...And the final heliocentric chart with The Star of David or Seal of Solomon configuration is what I would expect to see in Jesus' Chart. It might well reflect the impact his life would have on the world, who knows? A number 6....the most balanced of numbers, but I have always associated Jesus with a number 9.

All of that brought the phrase "As above, so below" to my mind.

Thank you for the link. It was worth reading.;)


Carole

[wayne penner]

Tikana I think Jesus was executed under Tiberius' reign. Tiberius, who was of course a half mad pedophile did not regard Christianity as an important movement at all. Caligula was completely insane, and he probably killed Tiberius, and succeeded him, but he had no special prejudice against Christianity either - he simply killed people for fun.

It was really only during Nero's reign that the persecution of Christians began in earnest, around 60 AD. That particular insane asylum on two legs used to have Christians burned alive while he dined in order to provide light so he could see his dinner.

I would love to see Jesus' birth-chart. I could certainly learn a lot from that one ...

[tikana]

Wayne

There is Jesus' chart .. lol http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3695

Tibirus was one a**hole yukes

it is a good thing i wasnt there!

T

[wayne penner]

Tikana ... lol ... fun talking to you ...

But it's hard to believe that Jesus would be born in the Spring.

Remember that he was born during the Roman census, which is why Mary and Joseph couldn't find any room at the inns. Bethlehem was crowded with people to be counted, which was manditory under Roman rule.

The census was ALWAYS held AFTER the harvest never before and certainly not during the planting season. Whatever else they were Romans were at least pragmatic.

So Jesus had to have been born in late September or October. Any later would have been impractical as the roads were frozen and prior would have interfered with the harvest.

[tikana]

Wayne

right back at ya..a feeling is mutual.. i guess uni days come in handy after all

I have merc/uranus/sun/moon in 3rd house with uranus/merc conj and sun/uranus conj

Virgo sun would be interesting!

lol
Tik