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Reply to "Astrological origins of Christmas-are you Sirius?"

Here's a link that seems to be the most scientific and the least speculative on the Planetary Conjunction dates and the abberations of the Roman Calendar.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/star_bethlehem_021220.html

I found a few other pages of speculations, some making statements such as "the conjunction was not close enough to make a Jupiter mars saturn conjunction look like a star." But there were two close conjunctions in the specified time period, the other being a Jupiter Venus conjunction within a degree.

One page (by someone who claimed to have a "copyright" to his speculations suggest that one degree is more than enough distance to see the conjunction as two objects. I would tend to disagree and would cite Neil Michelson who wrote the mathematical formulae that both astronomers and astrologers use to speculate on planetary positions past present an future. He states that there will always be some uncertainty about the actual positions. If by his calculations there was a single conjunction in the early days of Caesar Augustus that was especially close and within a degree, isn't it possible that it was in fact closer to a point at which the Morning Star and the brightest object would appear so bright as to be seen in the day?

Most astronomers prefer this explanation to all others. Sirius was not visible in the day, and with the exception of a small number of documented supernovae and comets there is probably no better explanation than that the actual star in the east was one of those two conjunctions.

I'm rather fonder of "Faith" as a stance to take in life over "Belief." The word "Belief" according to some word etymologists (not all of them) means to "be-lie" as fact that of which one is uncertain. I'm sure this is a fact but then, I tend to like Buddhism a rather atheistic view of the universe. The Buddhists may favor awareness of what actually is to a belief of what one would would like to think was so. We still a sense of the miracle of life and the "divine." Surely the miracle of Christ was to recognize that to "love one another" is the path to the Divine.

My intent wouldn't be to offend anyone with this observation, but to re-emphasize the validity of the many paths that we all tread that are really one path as part of one life in which we are all interdependent and interconnected.

To proceed with love and awareness would be my way. What I believe or what you believe is not so important.

Peace, Love and Harmony.

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