Q&A Forum - January 2009 (best of Elise)

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Another interesting part of this story is that Magi were Astrologers. They traced the child by reading the stars. Most Christian denominations frown upon astrology yet it is obvious that God must speak to us at times through the stars, and the men who read the stars were called “wise”. It has been said that the stars tell the entire Christmas story, as well as the life of Christ. If one reads the Zodiac from the Virgin (Virgo) to the Lion (Leo), it is amazing how the Zodiac lines up with events in the Bible. By the way, the Sidereal Zodiac has Virgo from September 17 to October 17, so the Magi must have determined that the birth of Christ fell within those dates.

I am not a studier of Astrology and I don’t read horoscopes. But I do not dismiss the spirituality of a God that created a Universe of order out of disorder and knew that humans would seek to know God by studying the stars. I think the stars remind us all of how vast the Universe is and if you believe in God, how vast God is. We reduce spirituality into boxes, to greeting card sayings, but no matter if we choose to celebrate Yule or Christmas or Hanukah, what matters is that we open our hearts to the Spirit of God (or the Goddess女神 — a woman treated as divine) and receive love so we can give love.