Happy Birthday Jesus!

As far as most Americans consider birthdays, May 25th was the Roman calendar day when he was born. Being Jewish, however, he was born on Sivan 5, the day before Shavuot, which is always on Sivan 6. Shauvot is always on a Sunday, so Jesus was born on a Shabbat. That was in the year 9 B.C., which is -8 Julian calendar.

This is also the day of the Hebrew calendar month that Jesus Ascended. It also was on a Shabbat on Sivan 5, the day before Shavuot. That was also a Roman date of May 25th, in the year 26 C.E. (Common Era, which replaced A.D. - "Year of Our Lord"). This means Jesus was in human form, on earth, for 34 years.

Now, in Luke 1 one reads about an angel telling Zechariah that his elderly wife Elizabeth was pregnant with a son that was to be named John. Zechariah is said to be burning incense in the Temple, which was a duty that cycled, relative to the cleansing of the Temple for the coming Passover. When Luke 1:26 says, "In the sixth month," this can be assumed both to mean Elizabeth was pregnant for six months, as well as it was the sixth month of the Hebrew calendar, which is Elul (according to the ecclesiastical ordering). This means when Zechariah met the angel it was near the first of Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical calendar.

When one realizes the sixth month (Elul) is when Mary met Gabriel who told her she was pregnant with a son to be named Jesus, add nine months to Shabbat Elul 4 (September 2,10 BC) and one gets to Sivan 5 (May 25, 9 BC).

Shabbat April 8, 10 BC (Nisan 5 ) would be nine months from Shabbat December 30, 10 BC (Tevet 5). This would be in the neighborhood of a December 25th birthday. John the Baptizer, the son of Zechariah and Elizabeth would be who to celebrate on the day Americans call Christmas.

This is the basic configuration of Jesus' natal (birth) chart. It was this phenominal alignment of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Ascendant, Midheaven (along with the modern planets Uranus and Pluto) that had Magi from Persia get permission to travel (by day) to Jerusalem, so they could Anoint (the Greek word is "Christ" or "Christen") the newborn Messiah (the Hebrew word for Christ). That is how rare this alignment is. It depicts a Sacred Trinity. In astrological terms, it is a T-cross, in cardinal points (a major configuration).