December 30, 2021
Catechism 2116 of the Catholic Church explicitly forbids astrology, among many other things.
Fuck that. Today we’re going to talk about astrology.
There’s a healthy number of people who, after leaving fundamentalist religion, find a lot of value in studying astrology. That’s totally fine. I haven’t done any deep dives into the topic myself, but I do find it interesting. At this point in my life, I do suspect that the sun, moon, stars, and planets and their positions relative to us probably have an affect on us that we don’t yet quite understand (or that we’re ready to admit). The sun’s effect is obvious—we would not exist without it. As far as the moon goes, ask any ER nurse what his or her shift will be like on the full moon.
In the years since my deconversion, I’ve come across a few people who have some pretty unique interpretations of the Bible that I hadn’t heard before. One such interpretation that interested me was the view that pretty much the entire Bible is an astrotheological metaphor.
For a religion that supposedly forbids astrology, there are some very explicit references to it. Take Job 38:31-32 for example:
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
This passage is from God’s lengthy mid-book diatribe where he’s yelling at Job to make Job understand how powerful he is.
If you aren’t familiar, the Pleiades is a star cluster that makes up part of the constellation of Taurus (one of the zodiacal constellations) and Orion is, of course, referring to the constellation that’s visible on most nights.
The Mazzaroth literally means “Garland of Crowns” but in this context refers to the zodiac and the twelve constellations that comprise it. The passage above was taken from the King James Version. It’s interesting to note that the Mazzaroth is not mentioned in later translations.
These references are quite obvious once they’re pointed out, but the astrotheological interpretations within the Bible run a bit deeper than that—particularly when it comes to Jesus, Christianity, and their possible relationship with the Age of Pisces.
First, a little background info. If you didn’t know, we’re currently in the Age of Pisces. What that means is that every single morning, the sun rises in the House of Pisces. What that means is that when you gaze directly at the rising sun, and if you were somehow able to look beyond it, the constellation of Pisces would be there.
As you know, it takes the earth a full calendar year to rotate around the sun. However, at the end of the year, the earth does not end up in the exact same position where it started—a point known as the vernal equinox. Rather, the sun appears to be a little behind the point where it started. It regresses about 1 degree every 72 years. Thus the sun will regress through an entire zodiacal constellation approximately every 2,160 years—the length of an age. After roughly that amount of time has passed, the sun will rise in the House of the next zodiacal constellation, resulting in a new age.
There are no exact points when it comes to these ages and when they transition over. It all seems to be a rough estimation. The date I’ve seen most often given for the coming Age of Aquarius is around the year 2025. So we’re almost there. What a time to be alive—I saw a new millennium and I’ll likely see the dawn of a new age. Wild stuff.
That means the Age of Pisces began roughly 2,000 years ago, plus a little more. Can you think of anything that happened roughly 2,000 years ago that went on to change the entire course of history and the world—something that might clearly define an entire era? I sure can—the birth of Jesus and the resulting religion.
The constellation of Pisces is said to be two fish. While the cross is the most obvious symbol of Christianity, there sure is a lot of fish symbolism associated with Jesus and Christianity:
- Four of the twelve disciples were said to be fishermen.
- Jesus said he would make his followers “fishers of men.”
- Jesus is famously said to have fed 5,000 people with only two fish.
- The symbol of the fish endures even today as a popular symbol of Christianity, adorning the bumpers of many cars.
- The Pope, arguably the most recognizable religious position, wears a miter (his hat) that resembles a fish.
That’s just off of the top of my head. There may be even more.
Why does this matter? Well, it’s been posited by some that ancient people were very concerned with worshipping, or at least paying heavy tribute to whatever astrological age they were living in.
An example of this would be the Great Sphinx in Egypt. It has the head of a man and the body of a lion. The exact age of the monument is debated even today, but those who hypothesize that it’s much older say it’s around 10,500 years old. If you were to wind back the astrological clock, that would mean the Sphinx was built in the Age of Leo—represented by a lion. The Sphinx faces east and, keeping in mind what we discussed earlier, the Sphinx would watch the sun rising in the House of Leo every single morning. Add to that the water erosion marks on the body of the Sphinx that have spurred much speculation. It’s known that desert areas were once lush with vegetation and rainfall. The last time water would’ve been in that region of Egypt would have been in the Age of Leo.
Another Biblical example of worshipping the current age is the well-known story of the golden calf. Moses went up the mountain only to come back to find the Israelites worshipping a calf they’d made of gold, and that pissed him off. In Sunday School we’re taught that Moses was mad because this was idolatry. But what if the calf was merely a symbol for Taurus (the bull)? Moses would’ve been mad not about idolatry, but because at the time of the story, they were not in the Age of Taurus (they’d just transitioned into Aries), and worshipping the wrong age was a big no-no.
Since we know that the Bible is not the literal and inerrant word of God and was written by men and is not all literally true, and since there seems to be at least some circumstantial evidence that worshipping or paying tribute to the current astrological age was important to ancient people, could it be that Jesus and his stories and symbols are mere tributes to the Age of Pisces?
As we discussed earlier, the Age of Pisces is rapidly nearing its end. And what has been happening to Christianity lately? It’s crumbling. People are leaving in droves. Famous and prominent pastors are coming out as no longer believing. Young people are declining to get involved at all. People are sick and tired of the bullshit and are calling out once-prominent leaders like Ravi Zacharias and Mark Driscoll.
It seems to me that the beginning and the end of Christianity as a dominant aspect of humanity both began and will end right on time—with the coming and going of the Age of Pisces. Perhaps the ancients were on to something.
And more importantly, what will be the new religion in the coming Age of Aquarius?