Passover and the Zodiac

There is indeed deep astrological significance to the date of Passover. We celebrate the festival of freedom on the 15th of the Jewish month of Nissan, the night the Israelites were freed from Egypt. This is the full moon of the month of Aries, the ram.

 

The Egyptians worshipped the ram as a god. Aries is the leader of the star signs, the first and most powerful, and the Egyptians saw themselves as the leaders of the world, receiving their strength and fortitude from their god, the ram.

 

So the strongest time for the Egyptians would have been the month of Aries, when their god is ascendant, and the strongest day of that month would be its full moon.

 

Egyptian power would reach its zenith on the 15th of Nissan, and that is exactly when the Israelites left Egypt. Aries was rendered impotent at its very moment of strength.

 

But there’s more. The Israelites ate a festive meal on the night before the exodus, and the main course was lamb roasted on a spit. They were openly eating the Egyptian deity—the ram—in front of the Egyptians, under the full moon of the strongest month. God’s wisdom is much higher than man’s wisdom. He has used His higher wisdom to confound and shame worldly wisdom.

 

The message is unmistakable. The world is not run by capricious forces and amoral star signs. There is a GOD who rules heaven and earth, who cares for the innocent and exacts justice upon the corrupt. To the stars, our actions make no difference. To, God, our actions matter tremendously. The zodiac demands nothing from us. God, however, demands we live a life of goodness.

 

The Israelites themselves didn’t always get this message. After the Exodus, some in the Israelite camp suggested that while the ram of Egypt (Aries) had indeed been trumped, it was not God’s doing, rather the next star sign, Taurus the bull, who had beaten Aries. And so they built the Golden Calf—an idol honoring Taurus. It’s tempting to fall back on idolatrous beliefs because they relieve us of responsibility to God Himself, the Creator of the universe. Idolatrous beliefs also rob us of our freedom, which comes from God.

 

Passover celebrates not only the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery, but also freedom from being bound by a destiny that is formed by created things, rather than from our Creator. Our lives are not subject to the impersonal forces of the zodiac. We are free to rise above the limitations of fate and conquer our birth signs. This idea of FREEDOM was brought home on the night of the full moon of Aries. You are free to see the truth about your destiny as God has established and we come to understand this TRUTH from reading God’s own Word.

 

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