OFF-TOPIC BONUS : ASTROLOGY # 2 - Film Score Rundowns

occupied by someone else—and conquer it because that was going to be their land. And
they did! They took over Palestine from other people. And the Sumarians, who were very
similar in many ways to the Jews in their beliefs with just minor differences, they were
like bitter enemies, always at each other’s throat!
So [amid this turbulent time] there were numbers of those wandering cynics at the
time. I think that’s probably what Seth was referring to when there were a number of
those people who wandered around and tried to tell people how they can live in harmony
and peace with each other, and suggested that you need to share life with your fellow
humans. At the same time, there were also these people leading the rebellions. They
were sometimes called the zealots. Everybody is familiar with that term. They were
zealous for the law, and the law was the law of Israel, for Israelis, for the Jews. They
were zealous for the law and willing to fight anybody who stopped them from worshiping
their own preferred way. There were a variety of names for them. Sometimes they were
called Galileans. Where have you heard that before? Jesus was called a Galilean. And
sometimes they were called the Son of the Star. How’s that for something interesting?
And sometimes they were called Messiahs, leaders of these revolutions. Messiah meant
“anointed one.” They had been anointed with oil and they were specially consecrated by
that anointment to lead the cause. But there were two kinds of anointment. You could be
anointed as a descendant of Aaron, so that you were a holy leader, a religious leader. And
you could be anointed as a descendant of David, and then you were destined to be the
king—the political side of leadership.
So there was a variety of people who believed in their cause. The Dead Sea area
where the scrolls were found in caves was in those days known as Damascus. There was
also a Damascus in Syria, its capital. And Syria was enlarged to include the area of
Sumeria and Judea….
Herod was brought in by Rome to rule the Jews. He was not considered a legal,
authentic Jew. He was considered a usurper! In 4 B.C., he killed the final people who
were the rightful inheritors of the throne. Up until fairly recently, it was believed that
Herod died in 4 B.C., but the latest evidence within the last two or three years is that he
actually didn’t die until 1 B.C. There was a man named Josephus who was one of the few
historians of the day in this Judean area….He was a Jew who was captured by the
Romans. Under threat of death, he became a turncoat, a spy for the Romans. So he
reported what was going on. He was one of the few historians who had material we can
draw on nowadays—until we started getting some of this Dead Sea material. And he said
that Herod died before an eclipse, and that the ceremonies for Herod’s death were
finished by the time of the eclipse. Until recently it was thought to be the eclipse of 4
B.C. (etc….). Also there was a census around 8 B.C. by Augustus to count
everybody….Most people believed that Jesus was born before 4 B.C., think that Herod
had died then (and the Bible stated that Herod was alive when Jesus was born)….The
date most astrologers were looking at for Jesus’ birth was based on a Jupiter-Saturn
conjunction that occurred in Pisces in 6 to 7 B.C. Jupiter and Saturn were the furtherest
out planets to the ancient world. Without telescopes, of course, they didn’t have Uranus,
Neptune, and Pluto, or the asteroids. So Jupiter and Saturn were the two keys for the
transpersonal signs (including Pisces). And when they were together every 20 years
regularly in their cycle, they were used as a keynote to the next 20 years. And for about
two hundred years, they would go thru the sign of a single element—so 200 years of fire
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