Re: Birth chart of Jesus?/Aries 12
Oh really? Your chart's Jesus Sun is
Aries 12 Sabian Symbol: A flock of white geese in flight overhead.
Well, I know enough about geese to know they have nothing to do with Jesus. I'd be hardpressed to even find geese mentioned once in the Bible or in Jesus' life, or on his 2 major holidays.
The best practice when using the Sabian Symbols is to consider ALL of the words in the symbol rather than just one. The first step in doing so is to consider the meaning and origin of each word and second to consider the relationships they have to one another. Had you done so, here are a few things about
wild geese and
flocks thereof that you might have discovered:
The collective noun
flock descends from the Old English
flocc (a group of persons, company, troop) and is related to the Old Norse
flokkr (crowd, troop, band) and the Middle Low German
vlocke (crowd, flock, sheep). The word itself means “a group of animals that live, travel, or feed together”, “a group of people under the leadership of one person, especially the members of a church”, and “a large crowd or number.”
The word
wild descends from the Indo-European root
welt- which means “woods, wild.” Other derivatives include
weald (an area of open or forested country),
wold (an unforested rolling plain),
vole (a rodent),
weld (the yellow dye obtained from dyer's rocket),
wilderness, and
wildebeest (African antelopes).
The word
geese descends from the Indo-European root
ghans- which means “goose” and from which are derived
gander,
goshawk,
gunsel (a hoodlum or other criminal), and
gonzo (an exaggerated, highly subjective style; bizarre, unconventional).
The most obvious unifying theme here involves animals—both wild and domesticated. Specifically, the paronyms of
flock refer to animals in general and sheep in particular. The paronyms of
wild include
vole (rodents resembling rats or mice) and
wildebeest (African antelopes). Finally, the paronyms of
geese include
goose,
gander (a male goose), and
goshawk.
A second unifying theme concerns
wildness as an attribute of human beings. The keyword
wild has many definitions including “uncivilized or barbarous; savage”, “lacking supervision or restraint”, “disorderly; unruly”, “full of, marked by, or suggestive of strong, uncontrolled emotion”, and “risky; imprudent.” Among the paronyms of
geese is
gonzo which means “using an exaggerated, highly subjective style” and “bizarre; unconventional.” According to
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus,
wild and
gonzo are synonyms.
With the above information in hand, we are in a far better position to ascertain if and to what degree the symbol in question applies to what we have been told of the life of Jesus. Here are a few points that support piercethevale's position:
flock--> sheep--> Jesus as "The Good Shepherd"
flock--> a group of people under the leadership of one person, especially the members of a church --> Jesus and His disciples, Christ and His Church
geese -->
gonzo --> Jesus as an unconventional leader, perhaps one who employed a "exaggerated" and/or "highly subjective style"
geese -->
gunsel --> Jesus was no "hoodlum" but he was treated like and punished as a criminal and was crucified between two of them.
wild --> a synonym of
gonzo which in turn is a paronym of
geese.
Now you might, after all of this, still hold to your original assertion that "I know enough about geese to know they have nothing to do with Jesus" but as you can surely see, there are better ways to support that conclusion than to merely count the number of times the word
geese appears in the Bible.
thoughtfully
sdh3