Star of Bethlehem -The Convergence of Saturn & Jupiter
The Star of the King of Kings
The other day I was interacting with Bob Jones in the cloud of witnesses and he told me to look at the stars and see what was going on. I looked into it and found that the planets Jupiter and Saturn were about to converge. Later that same day, a friend mentioned that the star of Bethlehem was about to appear in the sky- so I thought oh wow that must be what Bob was hinting at haha! Bless you Bob we love you a lot.
A little download on these planets and their symbolism:
Saturn represents Binah on the tree of life:
Symbolic of divine understanding, the utterance (Word) of God. It means treasury of wisdom, quarry of the Torah- hewn out from the quarry of God, the quarry of his Word.
Associated with the feminine, the Bahir states, “For you shall call Understanding a Mother”.
Classical Jewish texts state that “an extra measure of Binah was given to women”
Woman symbolic of the flesh of man, a man comes out of the womb of a woman
Jupiter, the King planet (star, celestial body):
Symbolic of divine mercy, lovingkindness.
Represented on the tree of life by “hesed” or “chesed”, which means “eager and ardent desire”, “zeal, love, kindness towards someone”, “the grace, favour or mercy of God towards people”
A person who embodies chesed is known as a chasid (hasid, חסיד), one who is faithful to the covenant and who goes “above and beyond that which is normally required”
Masculine, symbolic of the King
The great convergence of these 2 celestial bodies could only mean one thing to the wise men-
The celestial merging of the Male & Female, the 2 become 1, the Divine Spirit merged with Human Flesh, Male & Female, as in the beginning. Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed (Psalm 85:10). The messiah was born who would redeem man, who would redeem human flesh by His Spirit poured on, covering, all flesh. One like Moses who would lead them to freedom from captivity and into the promised land and the rest God had intended for man to enter.
Hebrews 4:8, NIV: “For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.”
Usually, when Jupiter and Saturn line up they are separated by about one degree, or twice the apparent diameter of the moon. But on Dec. 21 of 2020, Jupiter and Saturn separated by just 6 arc minutes. That is 0.1 degrees or about one-fifth the apparent width of the moon. This isn’t quite enough for them to appear fully as one bright and shining star, but I believe that when the wise men saw this convergence during their time, they fully aligned as one star.
Interestingly, in the tree of life, for Binah and Hesed to converge, they must pass through or converge in Da’at- which means, “The revelation or the concealment of the Divine”. It is quite literally, the unveiling of Christ (Revelation light). The convergence of Saturn and Jupiter- the unveiling of the Christ, understood and recognized by the wise men that came to see Jesus and bring him gifts. Da’at is also the location (the mystical state) where all ten sefirot in the tree of life are united as one. It is referred to as that light that is always shining that not all humans can see.
The appearance of these 2 celestial bodies having become one shining star was a clear sign that the Messiah was born, the Word (utterance) of God made flesh; Saturn and Jupiter shining as One.
