Christianity is the story of a god who is born and lives as a man until religious and political leaders kill him allowing his body to be a sacrifice that restores humans to a relationship with god. He then comes back to life but afterward ascends to heaven. Tomorrow, very nearly the shortest day of the year, we will celebrate the ancient pagan ceremonies that have been rebranded as the nativity of Christ. Sol Invictus means the unconquered sun. It makes complete sense that a celebration about the invincibility of the sun would take place on the Roman date marking the winter solstice when the Sun begins to shine longer each day. The Saturnalia would take place in the zodiac sign Capricorn. The merger of all of these myths has created our modern Christmas.
In many ways the iconography of Christ placed on top of these Roman festivals which are about completing your responsiblities (Saturn) or conquering adversity (Sol Invictus) really alludes more to Christ’s death than his birth. Just to be clear, the actual birth day of Jesus is not at Christmas. Between the shepherds and sheep still being out at night together and John the Baptist’s conception after his father’s temple service, whose dates are known, the Bible indicates that Jesus was born in mid September to early October.
The Bride of Christ & Her Wedding Day
The premise of Christ’s sacrifice is to atone for Adam’s original sin and as a result all mankind can be found worthy of a relationship with god. Christ’s crucifixion allows Christ’s bride, his group of followers now believed by most Christians to be the church, to gain salvation and obtain a relationship with Christ’s father.
As a wedding horoscope, the bride of Christ is the retrograde 22° Pisces Venus on the Sabian symbol “a man bringing down the new law from Sinai”. She is in the seventh house of marriage. His death is also his wedding to his bride. This relationship was also based on a new law. No longer the wordy law of Sinai, Christ had told his followers to love God and love their neighbor as thyself. As his consort, the bride of Christ, is also the Aquarius Juno. There was no one bride but an entire Aquarian group of people, the congregation, who were his wife.
As the retrograde 17° Leo Uranus in the twelfth opposing the Aquarius Juno, his ascension into heaven (twelfth house) has separated him from his consort who remains on the shifting sand known as earth. Leo is the zodiac sign of nobility that is established by a close relationship with a god or a king.
The Opposition of Jupiter and Pluto, the Death and Rebirth of God
The chart has an opposition between the Gemini Jupiter and Sagittarius Pluto. Both Jesus and the Pharisees hand this role to each other at his crucifixion. Jesus was the King of the Jews who was crucificed publically. Gemini Jupiter in the tenth. As Jupiter, he ruled his own death. Pontius Pilate attempted to release him. Jesus did not seek his own release. He is opposed by the Sagittarius Pluto who are directly influenced by Jesus.
Upon his death, he becomes the god corpse. Sagittarius Pluto in the fourth. From seeking his death as Pluto, the Pharisees now take the public role as the Jewish religious leaders, Gemini Jupiter in the tenth, who orchestrated his murder. As Pluto, Jesus now has the archetype of rebirth and, according to the Bible, in a short three days he is resurrected. His eyes are openned. He is not only resurrected but enlightened. This again highlights his role as the 17° Leo Uranus in the twelfth.
It is his death and resurrection, Scorpio and the retrograde Sagittarius Pluto, that sit at the Imum Coeli of the horoscope. They become the corner stone of his foundation of a new church. The 19° Taurus Ceres in the ninth sits on the symbol ” a newly formed continent”. The ninth represents the new temple he is building. That temple, Christianity, is built on the account of Jesus’ death (Scorpio) and a belief in his resurrection (retrograde Sagittarius Pluto).
Neptune transits from Capricorn into Aquarius
Neptune represents the collective ideals of a society. When Neptune transits the zodiac, major collective ideals culminate as the old sign passes out of fashion and a new collective ideal begins. Neptune has the role of influence and so these are major energies that affect multiple parts of society.
Christ’s new religion forms as Neptune transits Capricorn into Aquarius. The new Christian ideal is no longer based on Jewish hierarchy and the tradition of Capricorn. That law of Sinai had prescribed roles for Levite priests and has meticulous laws about everything. Blue strings on some clothing. Prescription based sexual and moral codes. Think don’t sleep with your domestic animal. Or your sister. Or your mother. Or your brother’s wife. Henry VIII used this one to get out of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Or your father. Or your stepmother. Or your uncle. Or your uncle’s wife. Or a woman and her daughter. And on and on. Bathing and washing featured prominantly. Women and menstration led to rules on utensils and furniture that can only be used some parts of the month. And on and on. Some people say there are 613 commandments.
Christ’s disciples wrote that Jesus fulfilled the law of Sinai. In other words, the old Jewish law culminated in Jesus death. The new Christian Neptunian ideal shifted to the liberty and revolution of Aquarius. Aquarius has a role in schisms. Breaking things up. Shaking things up. Those are Uranian characteristics. New fixed thoughts led to breaks and exiles. Christianity has broken and split numerous times. While claiming to be the bride of Christ many churches and denominations are only years or just centuries old. The Catholic Church is one of the oldest remnants and it keeps going through renewals to incorporate new revolutionary ideas just one step behind the rest of society.
According to the horoscope, Jesus Christ entered heaven as Uranus and is ultimately a Promethean figure. European Christianity led directly to the ideals of the Enlightenment. The ideals that the blind should begin to see. The ideals of resurrection. Aquarius Neptune. At the darkest part of the year, Christmas and its lights remind us that Matthew wrote that at the nativity of Christ, “the people living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those living in the shadow of death a light has dawned.” For Christians that light is Jesus, the resurrected god.