A little Spring time story..
..A Star in the East
Yesterday I bought a nice, though worn little coin off of an online site. Coins of this 'type' are highly sought for, and yet the price ($25) was much lower than the usual going rate. So even though I have several of these coins, I didn't waste any time using PayPal to acquire this little gem.
Coin of Syria - Antiochia on Orontem (Antioch), Time of Nero: 55 CE
So why is this little coin so highly sought? Well, the obverse shows the City Goddess Astarte while the reverse has a ram (Aries) looking back at a Crescent Moon and a "Star".
In the worlds of Michael Molnar....
Jupiter underwent two occultations ("eclipses") by the Moon in Aries in 6 BC. Jupiter was the regal "star" that conferred kingships - a power that was amplified when Jupiter was in close conjunctions with the Moon. The second occultation on April 17 coincided precisely when Jupiter was "in the east," a condition mentioned twice in the biblical account about the Star of Bethlehem. In August of that year Jupiter became stationary and then "went before" through Aries where it became stationary again on December 19, 6 BC. This is when the regal planet "stood over." - a secondary royal portent also described in the Bible. In particular, there is confirmation from a Roman astrologer that the conditions of April 17, 6 BC were believed to herald the birth of a divine, immortal, and omnipotent person born under the sign of the Jews, which we now know was Aries the Ram. Furthermore, the coins of Antioch and ancient astrological documents show that there was indeed a Star of Bethlehem as reported in the biblical account of Matthew.
Yes, THE Star of Bethlehem - of Magi and Biblical Fame.
..And Now you Know the REST of the story.
Yesterday I bought a nice, though worn little coin off of an online site. Coins of this 'type' are highly sought for, and yet the price ($25) was much lower than the usual going rate. So even though I have several of these coins, I didn't waste any time using PayPal to acquire this little gem.
Coin of Syria - Antiochia on Orontem (Antioch), Time of Nero: 55 CE
So why is this little coin so highly sought? Well, the obverse shows the City Goddess Astarte while the reverse has a ram (Aries) looking back at a Crescent Moon and a "Star".
In the worlds of Michael Molnar....
Jupiter underwent two occultations ("eclipses") by the Moon in Aries in 6 BC. Jupiter was the regal "star" that conferred kingships - a power that was amplified when Jupiter was in close conjunctions with the Moon. The second occultation on April 17 coincided precisely when Jupiter was "in the east," a condition mentioned twice in the biblical account about the Star of Bethlehem. In August of that year Jupiter became stationary and then "went before" through Aries where it became stationary again on December 19, 6 BC. This is when the regal planet "stood over." - a secondary royal portent also described in the Bible. In particular, there is confirmation from a Roman astrologer that the conditions of April 17, 6 BC were believed to herald the birth of a divine, immortal, and omnipotent person born under the sign of the Jews, which we now know was Aries the Ram. Furthermore, the coins of Antioch and ancient astrological documents show that there was indeed a Star of Bethlehem as reported in the biblical account of Matthew.
Yes, THE Star of Bethlehem - of Magi and Biblical Fame.
..And Now you Know the REST of the story.