The “Star of David” – Is It Pagan?

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From "Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern European Life"
 By Charles Zika

... And most importantly, the half-eaten body of a child is always shown in the very prominent fashion, hanging from the ogre's mouth. Likewise in the the case of the well-knwon Kindlifresser of Bern, a wooden sculpture from about 1545 which surmounts the fountain in the Kornhausmarkt, the ogre is stuffing a child's head into his mouth while other children are positioned below. Some scholars read this cannibalistic ogre as a murderous Jew figure, related to a case of  ritual murder in Bern in 1294, which seems to have been futher developed on the model of the Simon of Trent case in the later fifteenth century. Others relate it to the close connection which develops between Saturn and the Jews in the later fifteenth century, which is most clearly represented in an alamnach woocut of Peter Wagner published in Nuremeberg in 1494, in which the figure of Saturn devouring a child is clearly identified as a Jew by his hat and Jewish badge. Kinderfesser, Saturn, Jew, Narrenfesser, devouring Satan with the hell-mouth--these are all discrete figures within the late medieval psyche, but at times they tend to adopt elements taken from the other, as they come to represent the savage cannibal.

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When the profane becomes sacred
The Frankist chapter of Jewish history in Podolia, where Jacob Frank was active, lasted for only two years in the middle of the 18th century. It all began with a mystic-erotic ceremony in Lanckorona.
By Israel Jacob Yuval   Nov.30, 2011 | 1:58 PM

The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816

by Pawel Maciejko. University of Pennsylvania Press, 376 pages, $65

 

Many messianic figures in Jewish history bore names with messianic significance. Two of the most famous would-be redeemers whose names testify to their messianic qualities were Jesus ("redeemer," in Hebrew ) of Nazareth and Shimon Bar Kochba (Bar Kochba is "son of the star," in Hebrew ). It may be that Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi, the editor of the Mishna, also saw himself as a messiah, identifying with the tribe of Judah, which established the kingdom of the House of David. I recently came upon a suggestion that Moses Maimonides had messianic pretensions too, stemming from his identification with his name. He saw himself as a second Moses, and therefore, like the first one, he wrote a new Torah (the Mishna Torah ), led his people as the rais (leader ) of the Jews, and was close to the ruler of Egypt. Scholar Moshe Idel argues that Shabbetai Zvi identified with the astrological and messianic qualities of the planet Saturn ("Shabbetai" in Hebrew ). And Jacob Frank, who died in 1790, the founder of the Frankists, the sect that viewed him as the Messiah, identified with the biblical figure of Jacob the forefather, and saw himself as the third Shabbetai, after Shabbetai Zvi and his disciple Baruchia Russo.  

Pawel Maciejko's book about the history of the Frankist movement, soon to be published in Hebrew translation by the Zalman Shazar Center, reminded me of the experience I had several decades back when I read Gershom Scholem's book "Sabbetai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676." It is very rare for a work of scholarly research to offer such a fascinating reading experience. From this point of view, Maciejko's book on Frank and the Frankist movement, which was awarded a 2010 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanities at the Hebrew University, where the author is a lecturer in Jewish thought, is a natural and valuable successor to Scholem's classic volume on Shabbetai Zvi and his followers.

And it is also an innovative book, with not merely one, but many important innovations. One of them is the difference Maciejko discerns between the Frankists and the Sabbateans. Maciejko argues that the Frankists cannot be seen as the direct descendants of the latter. Jacob Frank himself made every effort to distance himself from the Sabbateans as well as from the Doenmeh (the Sabbatean sect in the Ottoman Empire ). To Frank, Shabbetai Zvi achieved nothing, and it was he alone who could be considered an innovator. This search for difference and uniqueness characterizes Frank's life story and his behavior. Everywhere he went, he stood out as different and foreign.

Maciejko takes the time to point out some of the traits that differentiate the Frankists from the previous movement: their public profile and their willingness to involve the government in internal Jewish matters, and as a result, the brutality of the rabbinic campaign against them. While the Sabbateans were considered an internal Jewish problem, with which Jewish laws and theological arguments could cope, the Frankists were seen as a divisive presence within Judaism, and one that was likely to create a new religion.

Dance of the rabbi's wife

The book depicts Podolia (today part of Ukraine, at the time in Poland ), where Jacob Frank was active in the mid-18th century, as a place in which Jewish heresy flourished. Even a century after Shabbetai Zvi's conversion to Islam, in 1666, many Jews in Podolia continued to follow his path. The Frankist-Jewish chapter lasted only two years. It began in 1756, with a mystical and erotic ceremony in the city of Lanckorona. The local rabbi's wife danced naked with a Torah crown on her head and the rest of the participants, Frank's followers, sang and danced with her. They celebrated with bread and wine, and kissed her as though she were a mezuzah.  

The ceremony illustrates a position that equates religious symbolism with real, ontological existence, and some see it as an expression of the abandonment of a medieval symbolism that was detached from real life. This incident presents the Frankists as people who see the profanation of religious commandments as being of central importance in the undermining of rabbinical authority. The affair raised a rabbinical storm and led to the ostracizing of the Frankists.

While the Sabbateans were also officially excommunicated, their ostracism was never enforced. And their excommunication had been undertaken only at the initiative of individuals, and not of the rabbinic establishment. The Frankists were the first to be excommunicated in an organized and methodical way. The reason was that the ceremony in Lanckorona broke the earlier conspiracy of silence. The Sabbateans had acted without attracting rabbinic attention, along the lines of "Don't ask, don't tell." But this incident was the crossing of a line well beyond what had been acceptable in an earlier time. The straw that broke the camel's back was not necessarily the erotic-sexual aspect of the ceremony, but the use of the Christian symbols of bread and wine.

The Frankist Jewish chapter ended in 1759, with the conversion of the Frankists to Christianity. Like the Cathar movement that arose in Languedoc, France, in the 12th and 13th centuries, whose followers were accused of heresy and excommunicated, and which led the Church to establish the Inquisition, those who brought the Frankists to conversion were traditional Jews, headed by the Council of Four Lands (a representative body of Jews from Eastern Europe that met to discuss issues of mutual interest between 1580 and 1764 ), which preferred to see them outside the community rather than tolerate the existence of Jewish heresy within.

But not all the Jews felt this way. Judah Leibes raises the possibility that the Baal Shem Tov (Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the founder of Hasidism ) died in 1760 of sorrow, due to the conversion of the Frankists a year earlier, since he viewed them as an organ of the mystical body of Judaism. But this was his personal opinion, while the rabbinic establishment preferred to expel the rebellious sons. And so, after many generations in which the Jews struggled with all their might against conversion to Christianity, the rabbinic leadership in Poland supported and even encouraged the followers of Jacob Frank to become Christians.

Confirm the blood libel

This push toward conversion was a result of the loathing that the Frankists aroused among traditional Jews. Maciejko points to the Frankists' attempts to confirm the truth of the blood libel (the claim that Jews required Christian blood for their religious ceremonies ), with the support of conservatives in the church establishment, even in the face of opposition by church office holders, headed by conservative circles in the papal curia. The Frankists enlarged the controversy by claiming that proof could be found in Jewish texts - in the customs of Passover, and in the Talmud. The innovation here was that the apparent Jewish demand for Christian blood was not made in the name of healing or magic, as was claimed during the Middle Ages, but as an inherent requirement of religious commandments. From then on not only marginal and deluded groups were suspected of this deed, but all the practitioners of the religion of Moses. In his excellent analysis, Maciejko describes the stance of the Frankists with regard to the blood libel from the perspective of its future impact, as well, and shows that the destructive influence of their claims percolated into the 20th century, feeding even into the infamous ritual murder charge against Menahem Mendel Beilis, in Russia, in 1913.

The exacerbation of internal religious tensions within Judaism was directly connected to the lessening of tensions with Christians. One of the biggest fighters against the Sabbateans, Rabbi Jacob Emden (Germany, 1697-1776 ), viewed Christianity as a religion meant to spread monotheism and the "seven commandments of the sons of Noah" among the pagans, and as a "heavenly church." Whereas Christianity and Judaism were borne, he believed, out of a common denominator, and both were legitimate, though meant for different peoples, he regarded Sabbateanism as a new and dangerous religion. But while his war against the Sabbateans was not a big success, the emergence of Frankism enabled him to extend the battle to the Frankists too.

Emdan's position led him to involve Christians in his struggle against the Jewish heresy. The Frankists responded in kind. And so the two camps stood facing each other, each turning to different Christian groups for aid. The Frankists depicted Judaism as a religion of the uncharitable letter of the law, while the rabbis depended on the revulsion of the church toward ecstatic religious movements and their suspicion of private religious experience which deviated from the church framework.

These processes led to the differentiation of Frankism from Sabbateanism. And this occurred, paradoxically, at a time when Jacob Frank was absent from Podolia, in the decisive years of 1756-7, which he spent in Turkey. But Frank continued to guide his followers even from a distance, a fact expressed in two main principles: adoption of the Christian holy trinity and rejection of the Talmud as filled with errors and sacrilege.

The history of the Frankists did not end with their conversion. Some of them sought to retain marks of their Judaism even after they became Christian: to keep Hebrew names, to refrain from marrying non-Jewish women and eating pork, to rest on the Jewish Sabbath as well as on Sunday, and to study Jewish mysticism. The conversion of the Frankists aroused contradictory responses in the Christian world. The Protestants were disappointed with the Frankists' attachment to "idolatrous" Catholicism, rather than "pure" Protestantism, which seemed to them closer to Judaism. In contrast, the Catholics used their success with the Frankists to serve their infighting with the Protestants, especially after religious tolerance became part of the Polish legal system at the beginning of the 1770s. Frank really was a pious Catholic in his religious consciousness, attracted to the mythic and ritualistic aspects of Christianity.

And so the Frankist movement owed a large debt to the collaboration between the rabbis and the priesthood. When the Sabbatean movement began, when it was still a small group, all it sought to do was oppose the rabbis and their authority. Sabbateanism started out as a mass movement but after the conversion to Islam of Shabbetai Zvi and Nathan of Gaza, it became marginal and had a scattered leadership. The Frankists moved in the opposite direction. Rabbinical rejection turned them into a mass movement in 1759-60. Rabbinical pressure on one side and the rabbis' praise for Catholicism on the other caused the Frankists to define their identity more clearly as separate both from Judaism and from Christianity. These determinations are the most important innovations in this fertile and groundbreaking book.

"The Mixed Multitude" ends with a description of the Frankist movement in three of its largest centers: Offenbach, Prague and Warsaw. It points out that the figures active in the Prague center at first admired Jacob Frank but then had reservations about him and his descendants. This circle is most responsible for the idea that Frankism is a natural continuation of Sabbateanism, and developed the view that sees both of these movements as forerunners of the Jewish Enlightenment.

The story of the Frankist movement in the book is woven into the texture of the political and intellectual history of the period; the result is a wonderful panorama of a Jewish world well-connected with its non-Jewish surroundings.

Israel Jacob Yuval is a professor of Jewish history, and academic head of the Scholion center of Jewish studies, at the Hebrew University.

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/wh ... d-1.398711


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The Worship of Saturn

Saturn, so active in the cosmic changes, was regarded by all mankind as the supreme god. Seneca says that Epigenes, who studied astronomy among the Chaldeans, "estimates that the planet Saturn exerts the greatest influence upon all the movements of celestial bodies." (1)

On becoming a nova, it ejected filaments in all directions and the solar system became illuminated as if by a hundred suns. It subsided rather quickly and retreated into far-away regions.

Peoples that remembered early tragedies enacted in the sky by the heavenly bodies asserted that Jupiter drove Saturn away from its place in the sky. Before Jupiter (Zeus) became the chief god, Saturn (Kronos) occupied the celestial throne. In all ancient religions the dominion passes from Saturn to Jupiter.(2) In Greek mythology, Kronos is presented as the father and Zeus as his son who dethrones him. Kronos devours some of his children. After this act Zeus overpowers his father, puts him in chains, and drives him from his royal station in the sky. In Egyptian folklore or religion the participants of the drama are said to be Osiris-Saturn, brother and husband of Isis-Jupiter.

The cult of Osiris and the mysteries associated with it dominated the Egyptian religion as nothing else. Every dead man or woman was entombed with observances honoring Osiris; the city of Abydos in the desert west of the Nile and north-west of Thebes was sacred to him; Sais in the Delta used to commemorate the floating of Osiris' body carried by the Nile into the Mediterranean. What made Osiris so deeply ingrained in the religious memory of the nation that his cult pervaded mythology and religion?

Osiris' dominion, before his murder by Seth, was remembered as a time of bliss. According to the legend Seth, Osiris' brother, killed and dismembered him, whereupon Isis, Osiris' wife, went on peregrinations to collect his dispersed members. Having gathered them and wrapped them together with swathings, she brought Osiris back to life. The memory of this event was a matter of yearly jubilation among the Egyptians.(3) Osiris became lord of the netherworld, the land of the dead. A legend, a prominent part of the Osiris cycle, tells that Isis gave birth to Horus, whom she conceived from the already dead Osiris,(4)

and that Horus grew up to avenge his father by engaging Seth in mortal combat.

In Egyptology the meaning of these occurrences stands as an unresolved mystery. The myth of Osiris "is too remarkable and occurs in too many divergent forms not to contain a considerable element of historic truth," wrote Sir Alan Gardiner, the leading scholar in these fields;(5) but what historical truth is it? Could it be of "an ancient king upon whose tragic death the entire legend hinged" ? wondered Gardiner.(6) But of such a king "not a trace has been found before the time of the Pyramid texts," and in these texts Osiris is spoken of without end. There he appears as a dead god or king or judge of the dead. But who was Osiris in his life? asked Gardiner. At times "he is represented to us as the vegetation which perishes in the flood-water mysteriously issuing from himself. . . ." (7) He is associated with brilliant light.(

After a life of studying Egyptian history and religion Gardiner confessed that he remained unaware of whom Osiris represented or memorialized: "The origin of Osiris remains from me an insoluble mystery." (9) Nor could others in his field help him find an answer.

The Egyptologist John Wilson wrote that it is an admission of failure that the chief cultural content of Egyptian civilization, its religion, its mythological features again and again narrated and alluded to in texts and represented in statues and temple reliefs, is not understood.(10) The astral meaning of Egyptian deities was not realized and the cosmic events their activities represent were not thought of.

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The prophet Ezekiel in the Babylonian exile had a vision—the likeness of a man, but made of fire and amber who lifted him by the lock of his hair and brought him to some darkened chamber where the ancients of the house of Israel with censers in their hands were worshipping idols portrayed upon the wall round about. Then the angel of the vision told him: "Thou shalt see greater abominations that they do"—and he brought the prophet to the door of the gate of the Lord's house—"and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." Next he showed him also Jews in the inner court of the Lord's house "with their back toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east." (11)

The worship of the sun and the planets was decried by Jeremiah, a contemporary of Ezekiel. But what was this weeping for Tammuz?

Tammuz was a Babylonian god; one of the months of the year, approximately coinciding with July, in the summer, was named in his honor; and by this very name it is known in the present-day Hebrew calendar. Tammuz was a god that died and was then hidden in the underworld; his death was the reason for a fast, accompanied by lamentations of the women of the land. His finding or his return to life in resurrection were the motifs of the passion.(12)

Tammuz was a god of vegetation, of the flood, and of seeds: "The god Tammuz came from Armenia every year in his ark in the overflowing river, blessing the alluvium with new growth." (13) In the month of Tammuz he was "bound, and the liturgies speak of his having been drowned among flowers which were thrown upon him as he sank beneath the waves of the Euphrates." (14) The drowning of Tammuz was an occasion for wailing by women: "The flood has taken Tammuz, the raging storm has brought him low." (15)

Of Tammuz it also is narrated that he was associated with brilliant light,(16) with descent into the nether world, visited there by Ishtar, his spouse. Tammuz' death, his subsequent resurrection, or his discovery in the far reaches, but no longer brilliant, were the themes of the cult that was not just one of the mysteries, but the chief and paramount cult.

The Osirian mysteries, the wailing for Tammuz, all refer to the transformation of Saturn during and following the Deluge. Osiris was not a king but the planet Saturn, Kronos of the Greeks, Tammuz of the Babylonians. The Babylonians called Saturn "the Star of Tammuz." (17) After the Deluge Saturn was invisible (the sky was covered for a long time by clouds of volcanic dust) and the Egyptians cried for Osiris, and the Babylonians cried for Tammuz. Isis (Jupiter at that time) went in search of her husband, and Ishtar (also Jupiter at that early time) went to the netherworld to find her husband Tammuz. For a time Saturn disappeared, driven away by Jupiter, and when it reappeared it was no longer the same planet: it moved very slowly. The disappearance of the planet Saturn in the "nether world" became the theme of many religious observances, comprising liturgies, mystery plays, lamentations, and fasts. When Osiris was seen again in the sky, though greatly diminished, the people were frenzied by the return of Osiris from death; nevertheless he became king of the netherworld. In the Egyptian way of seeing the celestial drama, Isis (Jupiter), the spouse of Osiris (Saturn) wrapped him in swathings. Osiris was known as "the swathed"—the way the dead came to be dressed for their journey to the world of the dead, over which Osiris reigns. Similar rites were celebrated in honor of Adonis, who died and was resurrected after a stay in the netherland(18), in the mysteries of Orpheus.(19)

Sir James G. Frazer, the collector of folklore, came to regard Osiris as a vegetation god(20); likewise he saw in the Babylonian Tammuz, an equivalent of the Egyptian Osiris, a vegetation god and, carried away by this concept, wrote his The Golden Bough,(21) built around the idea of the vegetation god that dies and is resurrected the following year.

A few peoples through consecutive planetary ages kept fidelity to the ancient Saturn, or Kronos, or Brahma,(22) whose age was previous to that of Jupiter. Thus the Scythians were called Umman-Manda by the Chaldeans(23)—"People of Manda"—and Manda is the name of Saturn.(24) The Phoenicians regarded El-Saturn as their chief deity; Eusebius informs us that El, a name used also in the Bible as a name for God, was the name of Saturn.(25) In Persia Saturn was known as Kevan or Kaivan.(26)

The different names for God in the Bible reflect the process of going through the many ages in which one planet superseded another and was again superseded by the next one in the celestial war. El was the name of Saturn; Adonis of the Syrians, the bewailed deity, was also, like Osiris, the planet Saturn; but in the period of the contest between the two major planets, Jupiter and Saturn, the apellative of the dual gods became Adonai, which means "my lords" ; then, with the victory of Jupiter, it came to be applied to him alone.(27)

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137 & 9 The Mystery Numbers- CUBE
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This astrology website appears to subjest that it is a symbol for the Zodiacs! And I believe on it being a sex symbol even the DaVinci Code said that it is like the Chiness Yin-Yang symbol!
http://www.melaniereinhart.com/melanie/astrologyarticles/harmonicconcordance.php

CELESTIAL HEXAGRAM
By MELANIE REINHART

During the next 3 weeks or so, a complete Star of David can be seen in the celestial patterning of the planets' positions. Its most exact configuration occurs on November 8th, although it stays within formation until after November 23rd. If one includes the Nodal Axis, the pattern was almost in place by the recent New Moon (October 25th), and already resonating by Samhain (November 1st).

  I offer here some reflections on the energies depicted in this beautiful hexagram, and would encourage you to take time through meditation and contemplation to attune for yourself and see what arises. The meaning specifically personal to you will surface, given time and intent, and many people find this inner process has more value than abstraction or speculation. This attention to the movements within the soul can benefit your own process and all whom your life touches in thought, feeling or deed. The whole Earth is involved in this pattern, and we can perhaps honour the seeding of the new. Also, we may see coming to fruition the themes and threads in our life that relate back 7 years (see below for further information).



THE GEOMETRY
The six-pointed star pattern comprises two interlocking triangles, evenly spaced, and thus involving alternate signs of the 12 zodiacal signs. Twelve is traditionally a solar number. We have 12 months in the year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 major strands of DNA, and so on. The Sun is related to the heart, being the centre of the solar system as the heart is to the physical body. Indeed the circulation of the magnetosphere of the Sun bears a resemblance to the blood flowing through the ventricles of the heart. This hexagonal figure may therefore be related to the heart chakra, the central chakra within the traditional seven-fold system, balancing the 3 chakras above and 3 below respectively. In the Star of David pattern the heart would be centrally placed in the middle of the two triangles.

The 'above' is related to the 'below', as in the Hermetic maxim. Of course, the 'above' is not only 'The Heavens' with 'The Earth' as 'below', but we have here a reference to the sacred exchange of energy between different levels of consciousness and awareness which itself is the very alchemy of transformation. A triangle is a dynamic figure, which can be seen to funnel or channel energy in one direction, but resting on a stable base. In numerological symbolism, the duality, conflict or stasis of two-ness resolves into action when a third vantage point is added. In the Six-pointed Star figure, whichever way you look at it, both the 'up' and the 'down' are configured equally. Indeed it symbolises the harmonising of opposites, a process of completion and complementarity, which reflects stability and peace. Yin and Yang, up and down, left and right lie evenly in small triangles nested around a hexagon, a six-sided figure reminiscent of the Oracle of Changes whose coins or yarrow sticks are thrown six times in order to request divination, the patterns of which are called 'hexagrams'. (From the Greek word 'hex' which means 'six'.)



THE ASTROLOGY

Eclipses
If the North Node in Taurus is included, because this pattern is made up of some slower moving bodies, it lasts from about now, until just after the Solar Eclipse. There are two points in time when the pattern is rather precise: Saturday evening November 8th. (21.00 – 22.30hr GMT) THE MAIN ONE.
November 22nd and 23rd. (15.00 Saturday – 4.30am Sunday GMT) (No planet on the Taurus point, but North Node is there.)

The day after each precise formation, there is an eclipse:
A Lunar Eclipse, which reaches maximum at 1.13am GMT on November 8th
A Solar Eclipse at 22.59hr on November 23rd (visible at totality only at about 55s/87e in the sea off Antarctica, and some partial visibility across Australia).

The involvement of the two eclipses suggests that this is an auspicious time for acknowledging closure, fulfilment and endings. The ties that bind us into unresolved emotional situations weaken and release, as we are granted deeper understanding. Forgiveness is possible. Old resentments, hostilities, jealousies and rivalries are exposed and can perhaps be laid to rest as our armouring is dissolved. Here I am speaking of the possibilities within the individual human soul. What we may see reflected in the world at large might not appear this way. Eclipses strongly favour the inner process of self-purification through awareness and compassion. Indeed, they are considered in some traditions to facilitate the possibility of a deeper inner union of the Soul with its Source in God, or the Absolute. (See below) For this to occur, our inner space needs to be protected and sanctified to allow the working of the deep energies moving within the cosmos. Eclipses can only happen when the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned very precisely, and thus the metaphor of personal 'alignment' with one's own vitality, energy and destiny also applies.

A Previous Celestial Hexagram – 1996/7
During late 1996 and early 1997, there was a sequence of Star of David patterns. Because not all points of the star formation were occupied by planets, it did not receive much attention within the astrological world. The pattern's completion required a transiting angle to be involved, and so was very fleeting, although recurring several times. However, near the last one, a minor planet eventually named Chariclo was discovered. In mythology she was the wife of Chiron, the Centaur who was wise man and healer, although wounded himself. Incredibly, this small body was discovered exactly on one of the empty points, almost as if she waited until that moment to emerge into view and complete this particular celestial hexagram! (14.2.1997) Chiron lived in a cave on Mount Pelion, we are told, and we can perhaps imagine his wife invisibly having a hand in his destiny as the 'Wounded Healer', caring for the carer, or healing the healer. Her qualities include endurance, creativity in adversity, compassion, forbearance, and gentle strength demonstrated in ability to abide with what is true.

The current pattern – November 2003
In the current Star of David pattern, one axis comprises an exact opposition of Chiron and Saturn, as if to emphasise the theme of healing implied in the 1997 'star' series. Also, at that time the signs involved were all in the elements of air and fire; now the pattern occupies earth and water signs. Together, then, we have had each sign of the 12 signs of the zodiac involved in the two Star of David patterns, and the seven-year sequence suggests the anchoring, grounding and manifesting of something that was seeded, started, suggested or initiated back in 1996/7. Earth and water are the denser, downward-tending elements. They anchor and ground the energy of air and fire. Inspiration is given form, ideas clarify, and images reveal their meaning. Look back to this time of your life for trails unfollowed, ideas not taken seriously, possibilities dismissed. They may return for reconsideration at this time.



TWO TRIANGLES

Earth signs - Moon, Jupiter, Chiron
The main pattern (November 8th) shows two complete grand trines. The first one is in the earthy signs of Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. The Moon is in exaltation in the sign of Taurus, closely aspecting both Jupiter in Virgo and Chiron in Capricorn. The combination of these energies suggests to me healing combined with attending to things practical, physical and material. So while we busily cook, clean, wash, rake leaves, do our chores, we may stay tuned for a quality of unmistakeable relief, release and gratitude.

Water signs – Saturn, Sun, Mars
Being inwardly quiet and receptive during this time may help us to get in touch with the frozen or blocked areas within our emotional body. The trine of water planets includes Sun, Saturn and Mars. This is a good time to be inwardly exploring difficult emotional situations. What may be revealed, if we can allow, is where we harbour toxic emotional waste, collected up from hurt not felt, tears not cried or the fatigue of trying to resolve the unresolvable. Blame, punishment and vengeance are revealed here, and to heartfully include these feelings within goes a long way to clearing the emotional space between others and ourselves. This combination is uncompromising, relentlessly honest and yet also powerful with gentleness and subtlety. The power of Being asserts itself.



THREE PAIRS OF OPPOSITES
The star pattern comprises 3 axes each with one planet on either end. The two planets themselves form rhythms as they move into exact aspect. Here is some of that information:

Chiron opposite Saturn
The healing of authority issues and suffering associated with feeling scapegoated or abused by 'the system' (school, society, cultural and racial definition etc). Also the legacy of the father is understood more deeply, and the 'Tyrant Within' may be located and unseated, as a prelude to deeper healing. Psychologically, the Superego appears more clearly, enabling us to cease the internal criticism and self-punishment which it can activate. Ambition, drive and attachment to attainments, achievements and appearances are challenged. The times below (give about 10 days weeks either side of the dates listed for maximum intensity) may also see the arising of intensely vulnerable states as childhood memories are released in their visceral and physical feeling-state.

This aspect occurs in a sequence of 7 exact oppositions on the following dates:



25 Sep 2003 12°Cn25' D 12°Cp25' D
24 Oct 2003 13°Cn14' D 13°Cp14' D
15 Aug 2004 21°Cn34' D 21°Cp34' R
28 Dec 2004 25°Cn13' R 25°Cp13' D
21 Jul 2005 00°Le37' D 00°Aq37' R
20 Feb 2006 06°Le03' R 06°Aq03' D
20 Jun 2006 09°Le02' D 09°Aq02' R

Note that the signs involved are Cancer and Leo, Capricorn and Aquarius. The first two signs relate to the brow chakra and the last two to the root chakra (in the traditional Vedic attributions). So we have a picture of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, working at the root chakra, and Saturn working in tandem to consolidate the understanding, vision and insight which is represented by the brow. The sequence of seven oppositions can be to mark the healing energy rising through the charkas one by one. It brings the possibility of our wrong understanding showing itself, as projections and misinterpretations are revealed. This may promote recognition of how 'tribal' issues affect our thinking, distort our connection with and acknowledgement of the deeper truths. Equally, the healing suggested here is not about 'rising above' our human life, but is rather the work of including all levels of our experience and valid and valuable.

Mars opposite Jupiter
20 Nov 2003     15°Pi55' D     15°Vi55' D

This is a powerfully expansive energy that moves towards acting on vision, being inspired, and giving credence to one's activities, especially those to do with service to others. Indeed, that is the main thrust of this aspect, where the question 'How can I help?' may be a useful contemplation during the week which precedes it. Mars is the warrior, the planet of action, empowerment and doing. However, here it is in the sign of Pisces, where it has been weaving to and fro since June 2003. Here is an opportunity to explore the power of Being rather than Doing, of non-action and non-attachment to the fruits of our labours and endeavours. This is the compassionate action, perhaps a deep internal shift invisible to all but ourselves, but which changes everything. Although this is a subtle Mars, it also evokes motivation form the very deepest level of soul where we recognise that we are One with All. Jupiter in Virgo, while sometimes tempting us to take on too much and get submerged in detail, also feels deep spiritual joy in the ordinary, simple duties and tasks of life. The 'zen' of list making, or the high art of cleaning the floor!

Sun opposite Moon
As mentioned above, there is Lunar Eclipse at maximum at 1.15am GMT on November 9th. At this time the Sun and Moon are in exactly opposite signs of the zodiac, in this case a Taurus Moon and Scorpio Sun.

Here is a text from the Sufi tradition about the power of the 'eclipse season' (when 'the Sun is at the Nodes') .....



In astronomy, the dragon relates to the nodes, two diametrically opposed points of intersection between the paths of the Moon and the Sun ..... To the mystic, the dragon symbolizes the place of encounter between the Sun and Moon within. The dragon can either devour the Moon, seen symbolically as the mystic's spiritual Heart, or it can serve as the place or contained of conception. By entering the dragon when the sun is at the Nodes, the Moon or Heart conceives. Thus is full consciousness of the perils, one must enter the dragon in order to await the eclipse in its cosmic womb.

(Laleh Bakhtiar, "Sufi - Expressions of the Mystic Quest", Thames & Hudson 1976, p.45)
The Sun may be seen as the Universal Spirit. The Moon represents the Individual Soul, which reflects the light of the Universal, and is illuminated by it.

On another level, the Sun is father; the Moon is Mother, in their archetypal manifestations. The personal psychological material which we work to understand, heal and purify, from our childhood, connects us with these deeper levels, where archetype, symbol and image and vice versa. However, in sensing the energies of an eclipse season, we may allow these forms also to fall away and reveal the bare and splendid simplicity of the union of opposites in the depths of the Soul, recognising its Source.

Three Mystic Rectangles
These pairs of opposites, as mentioned above, also pair up to make three very precise rectangles, called 'Mystic Rectangles' in astrology because they combine the qualities of three aspects in a manner more suggestive of contemplation than action.

The Trine (blue lines –120 degrees of arc) is a flowing and harmonious energy which depending on the nature of the planets involved can result in a sense of ease, relaxation and openness. It is an aspect lending itself to Being rather than Doing.

The Sextile (green lines - 60 degrees of arc) is a very creative aspect, often marking out definite gifts in a chart. There is more of a sense of pace, activity and a desire to work for balanced action.

The Opposition (orange lines - 180 degrees of arc). This is the largest aspect possible, linking the points diametrically opposite in zodiac terms. However, the elements will always be compatible. Hence the keyword is 'Awareness', like two people approaching each other where each is fully visible to the other, and expressing a welcoming and kindly demeanour. Opposition as conflict or oscillation between opposites is sometimes the way we cultivate awareness.

Contemplative Fun
From the word list below, and of course adding your own if you'd like to, you might have some contemplative fun making combinations as you contemplate the chart. For example, choose a word, or a few separate words that you feel best describe each planet, and then create a 'haiku' style short poem. Change the words as little as possible, and add as few as possible in order to make it flow.



1.The three oppositions as described above:

Sun/Moon
Mars/Jupiter
Saturn/Chiron


2.Combining the three pairs into three rectangles will give us the following:

Chiron/Saturn/Sun/Moon
Jupiter/Mars/Sun/Moon
Chiron/Saturn/Jupiter/Mars


3.And the two triangles mentioned above comprise the following:

Jupiter/Chiron/Moon
Saturn/Mars/Sun


Here are some words to use, and you may know other appropriate ones from your own knowledge of astrology. The list could be very long, but here's a sampling:

Chiron = healing, suffering, wounding, conscious path working, philosophical independence
Saturn = experience, restriction, long time, authority, ageing, maturing
Moon = reflection, receptivity, flowing, cyclic, waxing, waning, ever-changing, mysterious

Sun = radiance, warmth, heart, heat, centre, fire, unity, focus, integration, joy
Mars = warrior, agency, service, action, doing, reacting, intending, empowerment
Jupiter = faith, mission, expansion, wanderer, wisdom, guidance, intuition, inclusiveness

The haiku: REFLECTION EXPERIENCES HEALING RADIANCE (Moon/Saturn/Chiron/Sun)

Have fun!




THE SEASONAL ENERGIES
This period of exceptional planetary activity occurs during the time between Samhain, the ancient Celtic Festival that is the precursor of Halloween, and the Winter Solstice (in northern hemisphere). During these weeks, the amount of outer light decreases until the turning point just before Christmas. The Celtic New Year occurs at Samhain, in wise acknowledgement that all new beginnings take place in the protected space of darkness. This year we truly have a 'Star in the Darkness' to lead us to the inner birth of the heartful self. ++

I don't trust a lot of the sources bing used here... Those ex-Satanist when I look them up seem suspect being promoted by The Clown Named Jack Chick! (Jack Shit is more like it!)

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Yes.

http://www.sriyantraresearch.com/Definition/sri_yantra_definition.htm



It's ancient predecessor was the Sri Yantra, a tantric symbol, but some historians of the occult claim it was also a star symbol dating back to ancient Baylon and Egypt...Some claim it represents Saturn, some say Moloch...As far as connection with Israelites, some associate it with Solomon's temple.

In European times, it was found on ancient Khazar coins and found on tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in Prague in 1he 1500s.

Actually, as stated, it is an ancient sun symbol...If you research the Khazars, or 'Kagans', it was used in their heraldry or flags, although not exactly like the interlocking triangles of the Israeli flag.



Flag/symbol of the Kagans, Mongol-Turk cousins of the Khazars

BTW, there is absolutely no mention or association with King David from the Bible in the OT.

The current 'star' is, of course, '666'.

[GermanicAmericanFox]

It is a symbol for the Zodiacs... The Jews adopted sun worship or things from sun worship from the Babylonians... The Tulmud is the creation of the Babylonian Satanist dressed up as a suaquel to the OT!

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There is a strong association between the hexagram and whoever the Canaanites were. It seems to follow the Phoenicians around. Coin from Carthage:


Same thing with the menorah by the way. Here is a Phoenician menorah:

The menorah it seems is also pagan. Notice the bull goddess idol in the middle. Phoenicians and Canaanites also carried around a portable temple for ceremonies and also into battle which was said to hold the spirit of a god. This means there is no single ark of the covenant, there are arks. None of which are special by themselves. This is why every church in Ethiopia has an ark and it's also probably why the Japanese carry around a portable temple with the spirt of a god supposedly contained within. The parallel traditions between the Japanese and "the Jews" are likely Canaanite in origin, introduced by Phoenician merchants in ancient times. Not trying to derail the subject in any way, I'm just highlighting the likely pagan origins for everything Jewish.

The hexagram also has a strong association with the history of Morocco, likely also introduced by Phoenicians. Moroccan coin:

Old Moroccan flag: Curren Moroccan flag:

It's usage as a symbol for collective Jewry was only enforced in the late 19th century with the Zionist movement. Prior to this its association with Jews was mainly specific Ashkenazi Jews and even then only dating back to the 17th century. It was not a Jewish symbol before then, it was a Turkish symbol. The first "Jews" to use it were Hungarian Jews in the 14th century, using it as a sign of their house on "flags" and coats of arms. Kabbalahists and alchemists used the symbol as well dating back to ancient times, but so did Buddhists. Buddhists and Hindus still use it as their Anahata (heart chakra):


Like I said though, it formerly had a strong association among Turks. This is probably one of the reasons it was found among khaganates including in Khazaria. It is definitely the reason why Muslims claim it used to be an Islamic symbol. It was never the Star of David until recent history, it used to be and largely still is the Seal of Solomon (or Suleiman). Eastern tradition claims that Solomon didn't whore himself out to many wives like the bible says, it claims he summoned and commanded demons (jinn) (the biblical wives are an allegory for demons, something that Europeans obviously knew or they wouldn't have associated Solomon with demonology in the middle ages). Solomon was said to have a magic ring that allowed him to summon demons, a signet ring with a hexagram on it. Confusingly, the pentagram too is also called the Seal of Solomon. They are likely both seals representing Solomon, something to do with male and female. Mason rings are a modern variation of Solomon's signet ring and even the masonic symbol:


It is a hexagram when you look at it and connect the points in your imagination. You've probably seen this:


and this:


Sorry if repeat, I haven't gone through the entire thread. Disturbingly it appears on White House ornaments:

And most disturbingly it appears in a satellite photo visible on Google Earth near Nellis AFB:


Some believe this is some sort of pagan temple even. Laughably the disinformationists went out to downplay its significance a few years ago and said it was a compass rose. Compass roses point in the cardinal directions, hexagrams do not.

Turkish pirate Barbarossa's flag:


Modern Turkey on 13th century Catalan Atlas:


The blue one sort of looks like the flag for Israel. The red hexagram has a bunch of "sparkles" surrounding it. This same "sparkly" red hexagram on a white background appears in other Marjorican maps associated with Morocco and Tunisia. I have no idea what it means.

Lastly, here is appears on a Sumerian tablet as a star in the sky surrounded by other stars:


The oldest known Jewish association of the symbol is the oldest Masoretic text, the Leningrad Codex dating to the 11th century. It appears to only be a decorative symbol here. It's first "Jewish" mention as the Star of David appears in a 12th century Karaite document. The Karaites are not, however, Jews as the Jews of today claim them to be (even real Karaites don't like being called Jews). Most Karaites are Turkic peoples.

So yes it is a pagan symbol which was especially popular among Canaanites and Phoenicians, following the Phoenicians wherever they went (possibly as an emblem). It is not exclusively Jewish as it is still used by Hindus and Buddhists among others. It was not originally the Star of David, it was the Seal of Solomon, and it was very common among Turks.

You've probably heard the "as above so below" line before rooted in symbolism with the hexagram. The only real Phoenician history that has survived claims that Thoth invented an emblem for Saturn with four wings and four eyes. Two eyes open when the other two are closed and two wings in flight while they other two are in rest. Therefore symbolizing being awake while sleeping and flying while standing on the ground (and vice versa). Since this is the same as "as above so below", I'm going to conjecture that the emblem of Saturn is in fact the hexagram. I also conjecture that Solomon is Saturn/Cronus.

Saturn was the main god of the Phoenicians (Moloch was Melqart who is Hercules, subordinate to Saturn/El/Cronus). I'm aware that the Semitic root for Solomon is S-L-M (same as the word Islam by the way) and his "Hebrew" name is Shlomo, but there is a Semitic god named Shulmanu who was worshipped in Assyria (which is included in the names of some Assyrian kings ex - Shalmaneser). The name Shulmanu referring to this god was found in Phoenician inscriptions near Sidon. Shulmanu is a god associated with the underworld. The Ugaritic form of Shulmanu is Shamayim. Shamayim in Hebrew means heaven!

The Babylonian Saturn is Shamash and I'm going to conjecture that the two are related to each other. Shamash is understood to refer to the sun, but it also refers to the planet Saturn (as does, in ancient times, Sol and Helios). The term Sabbath is etymologically related to Shamash, the god for Saturn. And it occurs on Saturday which is from Saturn as well. The Babylonian (Chaldean) astrologists venerated Saturn more than any other stars. Very strange for such a slow-moving pin point of light.

I'm pretty sure that Solomon, Sabbath, and Saturn ultimately are referring to the same thing corrupted into multiple things. The Saturn theory claims that Earth or perhaps Earthlings were once much closer to the planet Saturn and that Saturn was a second sun fixed at the north pole. This theory is not as crazy as it sounds. The age of Saturn was a golden age and after it came to an end we had all sorts of problems. This archetypal theme is present in all of the world's mythologies. The most ancient myths do not mention other planets or stars. They only mention two stars, the morning star and the evening star. Today we associate this with the planet Venus, but that is not what the original symbolism meant. This is clear from the Sumerian tablets that show all sorts of crazy things in the sky.

According to the Koran, Solomon commanded Jinn or demons to do his work and when he died, he fell on his cane. Because his cane stood him up, the Jinn were not aware that he was dead. My intuitive gut feeling is that this is somehow related to Saturn being a star and then dying. Like Solomon, Saturn also has a ring (or rings rather). Now what does this have to do with the hexagram? Look again at the above Sumerian tablet. I have a feeling that is supposed to be Saturn and its moons. I also have a feeling that there are people well aware of this and withholding this information. Why would they withhold it? I have no clue, but Benjamin Disraeli alludes to it in his book The Infernal Marriage and this was before the Saturn theory existed. Since Disraeli was an elite Jew, I am guessing that elite Jews are privy to some sort of knowledge we are not.

Another Jew who probably knew about this was Immanuel Velikovsky. He came out and actually said it and it is Velikovsky himself who inspired the Saturn theory. He wrote a book called "Worlds in Collision" and I doubt it is a coincidence that the Jewish Hollywood produced Sherlock Holmes sequel featured this book in a scene alluding to the nature of Moriarity and Holmes being 'worlds in collision'. That is a materialist psychopath/sociopath 'colliding' with the 'Bohemian' and spiritual Holmes. See as crazy as it sounds, I think there is something not entirely human about the human race. Not reptillian like Icke's theory. There is something within human nature or intellect that is not "indigenous". I'll call it "Saturnian".

There is something odd about the nature of a psychopath, a nature that we all seem to have a part of unfortunately. It's a nature that is very characteristic of the primarily Jewish financial elite. It was the Jewish financial elite who associated with the hexagram during the middle ages. Yes it is a pagan symbol, but I don't think the Jews stole it. It's always belonged to them whether they called themselves Jews, Turks, Khazars, Chaldeans, Magi, Phoenician, Canaanite, etc. There are obviously Jews who still sacrifice children to Moloch or to a lesser extent sacrifice their own foreskins. It is their symbol.

[believenothing]

After reading through the thread, good to know that others figured out the association with Saturn. The symbol of Saturn matches the emblem of freemasonry. If you connect the dots you get the Jewish star.

This of course answers none of our questions but it does prove that in the modern era people worship Saturn especially people in power among the elite and especially Jews. What does this mean for the rest of us? That I don't know. Be on your guard though