Christmas Star - Magi Follow

Christmas Star - Magi Follow mixed media painting by Michele Avanti

As an astrologer, this year is one of the amazing ones in our lifetime.... more

by Michele Avanti

Title

Christmas Star - Magi Follow

Artist

Michele Avanti

Medium

Mixed Media

Description

Christmas Star - Magi Follow mixed media painting by Michele Avanti

As an astrologer, this year is one of the amazing ones in our lifetime. The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs on the Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, 2020. These two planets when they are in aligned in the same zodiac sign and at the same latitude (in declination) they shine brightly creating what may appear to be one great star in the heavens. Legend has it that the Magi followed this very combination to find the Christ Child. This story is known world wide and in this year, the first time in 794 years, we will experience it again. I could not let this pass without creating an painting to celebrate this phenomena. The ancients call this conjunction, the sign of the guru.

I hope you enjoy this painting.Of course I have taken artistic license and added the aurora to the sky as I think when one sees this rainbow of light, it fills us with wonder, and that to me is always the feeling of the journey of the Magi and Christmas.

I have been fascinated with the story of the Magi since childhood. It is a very sketchy tale and leaves much to the imagination. Where exactly did they come from? Who were they? How old were they? How did they come so far? When did they begin their journey? How did they eat along the way? Were the gifts actually frankincense, myrhrr and gold? and so many more thoughts.

Recently I came to find that a Harvard scholar with the same fascination of the Wise Men, followed his guidance and located a rare ancient text in the Vatican library. He, with the help of his Harvard professor translated the Syriac language into English. This bit of history, he found, was written in the first person by someone who either was a Maji or a descendant of one of them. In this historic piece, it stated that the Maji were a pious group who genetically claimed to go back to the third son of Adam & Even, Seth. Seth was the pious one and based on this text, his progeny would pray, watch and wait for the sign that God would return to earth. Then in the year we know as the year of Christ's birth, the sign came to them at the mouth of the cave where they prayed. It was a star that they could see and it slowly turned into a glowing child. Each saw different ages of the child but they were told they must follow this star to see the child. This was a metaphysical experience. The star was not the great conjunction we astrologers, biblical scholars and astronomers speak of, but rather it was a star that only the Magi could see. This of course, makes sense and the text we see written in the bible does not fully realize this fact. But if it were as it is written in the bible, then Herod could easily have found the child, for the Magi had told him they had followed the star. But rather only they could see it and thus Herod would need them to tell him the location of Jesus.

History is fascinating and as we move forward in time and consciousness, more is revealed. This information only surfaced in 2010, just a decade ago, about information from over 2,000 years ago.

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December 13th, 2020