What is your sign?
Your daily horoscope can be found in the Sunday paper or in the back of any Cosmo or teen people magazines. Purely for entertainments sake, we read these fortune-cookie-style predictions and advise for the future, not taking seriously the actual astrological bases of a horoscope. No, we don’t dig any deeper then the useless drivel we choose to read gaining no knowledge or facts.
The sign of the zodiac is more than a sell-out fun fact instrument of vanity. The Zodiac symbol its self is one of the oldest conceptual images in human history, dating back to Egyptian times, etched in stone and depicted in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. And believe it or not, astrology as more to do with the bible than you might care to believe. Clues in the bible and in Jesus’ words lead me to believe that the stories and characters are of mythical decent and are quite literally taken “from on high.”
So what is the Zodiac and what is it for, if not for fictional purposes? Back in earlier civilizations the zodiac was an artistic depiction of the suns passing through the 12 constellations (Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Aquarius) over a year. The zodiac also shows the 12 months of the year, the four seasons, the solstices and equinoxes.
For thousands of years the sun has been the central point of love and adoration to human kind because we knew, even before we discovered electricity, that without it, crops would fail to grow and humanity could not survive on earth. The sun was recognized then as the unseen creator, or God Sun, the light of the world.
The legend is that the sun, God, is at the central point of the zodiac, the 12 constellations are lined on the outer part of the circle representing the places of travel the sun will go through. The early ancients used this to determine and anticipate what natural events would happen during that time of year. For example, if you looked up into the night sky and see the constellation Aquarius, you would know that it meant the spring rains where coming.
In Egypt, the early people recognized this “unseen creator” and personified him as a man named Horus, the Messiah. Horus was depicted in hieroglyphics as a man with the sun circle around his head thus symbolizing him as the Son of God. Not unlike the christian depiction of the messiah with the light illuminated behind his head
Also, predating Christianity, the Pagan depiction of the zodiac symbol in its simplest form was the cross that you see in the center of the zodiac and the circle that you see surrounding the perpendicular lines at the center of the cross. With that, I can’t help but notice that this is the symbol I see all the time on the steeples of churches today.
The zodiac is not just an artistic expression. It is also a tool. If we look closely at the lines and symbols we can see specifically what the ancients would see when the sun reached a cretin point on its axes so many years ago. They personified each of the constellations giving then elaborate myths and legends.
Along with Aquarius, the water barer, we have Virgo, or Virgo the virgin also meaning the house of bread or better known to you as the virgin mother. Virgo is anthropomorphized as a woman holding a sheath of wheat. Virgo is usually seen in the sky around August and September bringing in the time of harvest. Mary, Jesus’ mother gave birth to him in Bethlehem. Bethlehem translated means house of bread. These are not the only signs that point to Mary being a mythical being. The ancient glyph for Virgo is the altered “M”. With similar characteristics to Christ, Adonis’ mothers name was Myrra who was a virgin mother. And then there is Budah’s mother, Maya. All virgin mothers all starting with the letter “M.”
The clues go even deeper with Jesus’ 12 disciples. They are believed to be the 12 constellations in the sky in which the son travels. I notice that the reference to the number 12 continues through the bible with the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve brothers of Joseph, the twelve judges of Israel, the twelve great patriarchs, twelve prophets, the twelve kings and princes of Israel, and Jesus being in the temple at 12.
There are more than enough clues that lead me to believe that there is a connection between the Christian bible and the zodiac. More of which I have to talk about in my next entries. What do you think of these coincidences? Do you think they are only just that? Or do you think that there could be something more?
