The Sun of Man, the Savior, and Messiah – The Story of Jesus is the Story of the Sun
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Aaron Eschenburg is an Ayahuascero and Astrotheologer. He is the Founder and creator of Ancestral Herbs, a natural plant medicine company, and MiTranscendance Entheo Religious Society.
Each year, the Virgin Mother Earth gives birth to the Sun on December 25th. The Sun that lights the world, who sits in the heavens, and in reflection walks on water.
Capricorn
Jesus, the Sun, born on December 25th in the constellation Capricorn the Goat, the scapegoat of Israel, took on the sins of the world. The Sun lights the world, and all vegetation grows from its light. All life flourishes in abundance from the light of the Sun. It is fair to say the contrast of all the elements is important, but without the Sun, the fuel for balance and growth would not exist. Life would cease to exist. When the Sun begins to rise north again each year after its six month descent, we should be humbled and celebrate.
Aquarius
Years are days in the Bible. Thirty days or years after Jesus is born is when his story really begins. Jesus meets John the Baptist and is baptized as the Sun moves into Aquarius, the Water Bearer. Aquarius rains the waters down from the heavens to the earth. Snow falls in the northern hemisphere, while it is the rainy season in the southern hemisphere. The rain can be talked about as the semen of the gods impregnating the Earth, which gives birth to vegetation.
Pisces
John the Baptist is then put into prison as Jesus continues on to Galilee. The Sun leaves Aquarius and enters Pisces, the two fish, where Jesus meets the two fisherman brothers, Simon and Andrew.
The Bible mentions Jesus on his path onto Galilee seventy one different times. Galilee translates to circle or circuit, which is a closed loop or circular path for a current to flow. The Sun is in a closed loop circuit that follows the same circular path each year.
John 3:30, John the Baptist is speaking about Jesus: “He must increase, but I must decrease.” As Jesus, the Sun, moves out of Aquarius, the sign itself becomes less visible in the night sky. The light of the days increases as John the Baptist, Aquarius the Water Bearer, decreases. Six months later, when the Sun starts its descent on its southward journey, we begin to see the sign Aquarius increase in size as the days decrease in length.
Aries
Pass Over and Easter are celebrated as the Sun passes over the equator into Aries. As we start the first days of spring with more light in the northern hemisphere, our days continue to get longer and the nights shorter. Aries is the Ram and head of the zodiac, which is about our relationship with ourselves, our brain and body, and our relationship with God. Rabbits mate, ducks lay eggs, animals are born, and we celebrate the movement of the Sun. The lion lays with the lamb, and the burnt offering is symbolic of the Sun traveling in Aries.
Taurus
Taurus is about our relationship with the earth, fertility, carpentry, and plowing the fields to prepare to plant crops. Jesus plowed the fields and became a carpenter.
Gemini
Between the constellations Taurus and Gemini lies a portion of the Milky Way galaxy that looks like a lake or river running between them. Jesus talks about crossing the lake. In the book of Acts 28:11: “After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island. It was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux.” Castor and Pollux are the two brightest stars in the constellation Gemini. Three months, third house.
Gemini is about language, communication, information, and teaching. At the age of thirty, Jesus became a teacher. This is an allegory for the Sun moving into the constellation Gemini, the third house of the zodiac. Thirty is also a Saturnian number, as it takes twenty eight to thirty years for Saturn to return to the same spot and move around the zodiac. This Saturn return is known as a time of becoming an adult, as Saturn applies pressure and tests while offering tough love lessons as an individual matures into adulthood.
Cancer
At the height of Jesus’ teachings is the height of the summer solstice, where the Sun has reached its highest point in the northern hemisphere in the constellation Cancer.
The Sun walks sideways like a crab for three days before heading south for its six month journey down through Sagittarius. The two bright stars in the constellation Cancer are Asellus Borealis and Asellus Australis, also known as the Northern Donkey and Southern Donkey. Matthew quoted Jesus as riding a donkey and a colt, the two donkeys of the Old Testament as well, on their way to the land of milk and honey. The Milky Way galaxy and Beehive Cluster can be seen clearly this time of year.
Leo
Leo season is the dry heat and high Sun with long nights in the summer. While the Sun is in Leo, its opposite is Aquarius, John the Baptist, who appears again in the story after he was imprisoned. Six months after Aquarius season in February is Leo season in August, and we start to see just the head of John the Water Bearer Baptist in the constellation Aquarius on the eastern horizon during sunset.
Matthew 14:2: “and he said to his attendants, This is John the Baptist, he has risen from the dead. That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”
Jesus, the Sun, travels to the top of a high mountain and shines brightly.
Matthew 17:1 to 2, The Transfiguration:
“1 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.”
Virgo
Farmers tend to the earth, till the soil, and plant the seeds during Taurus season. They give it water, nutrients, and protection, and look after it, preparing their crops for harvest in Virgo. They work the soil of the Virgin Mother Earth in preparation for when she is ready to blossom and give birth. They will take her bearings during harvest season. A husbandman is a person or farmer who cultivates the land. Virgo, the Virgin, represents the goddess of grain. In Hebrew, Bethlehem or Beit Lechem are two words meaning house of bread. Goddess of grain, house of bread, this is all the constellation Virgo, harvest season. Everyone is fat and happy during harvest season, so when Jesus the Sun enters Virgo, the house of bread, it is a cheerful time of celebration of the abundance of crops.
Virgin also means one who is free to make their own decisions.
Libra
Libra is the balancing scales of the zodiac, and scales are used to weigh out Virgo’s harvest and decisions. It is the judgment season, if we put in the work through the first nine months of the year, it will be weighed before us. A good harvest means more food or funds through the winter months into the next season.
Wine is in season, and it is the end of fig season when Jesus curses the fig tree.
Jesus Curses a Fig Tree and Clears the Temple Courts
Matthew 21:19: “And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away.”
Jesus represents the Sun here during its transit in the sign of Libra. Fig fruit is simply out of season toward the end of Libra, October, as the Sun moves further south and the trees will lose their fruit and their leaves, and wither as they begin to hibernate for the winter months ahead.
Jesus also represents the Age of Pisces, the 2,160 year cycle that follows the 2,160 year Age of Aries. Aries, represented by the Ram, has its shadow or opposite in Libra, which was recognized by many references in the Bible as wine and figs. Fig leaves represent the Old Testament, while Jesus is a personified allegory for the Sun, representing the new Age of Pisces. Jesus proclaiming “this tree shall bear no fruit again” is a powerful statement declaring the end of the age of the Aries or Libra axis and moving forward into the Age of Pisces with the Pisces or Virgo axis. He fed everyone with a loaf of bread and two fish. Virgo is bread, and Pisces is the fish.
In the highly misinterpreted passage of Matthew 21:12 to 13:
12 “Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
13 It is written, he said to them, My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.”
If you have a fresh pop up farmers market in your town, the merchants start to disappear around October during Libra season, when the Sun starts moving below the equator. It gets colder, and there is no longer fresh produce. It is also a great message to be an honest business person, fair, reasonable, ethical, and authentic.
Scorpio
The Sun descends downward as Jesus is sold out and betrayed for thirty pieces of silver, representing the thirty nights of Scorpio. Gold is the Sun, and silver is the Moon, something that goes hiding and only reflects part of its illumination or intention, in this case the story of Judah. It is also a clue that the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. The kiss of Judah is the kiss of Scorpio. A scorpion sting looks like a pair of lips, as opposed to a bug bite, which is circular.
Sagittarius
The Sun descends into Sagittarius as Jesus is received by Pontius Pilate. Pontius Pilate translates as of the great waters armed with spear. Scorpio is the great water sign that comes before the fire sign Sagittarius. Sagittarius is represented as a centaur with a spear in its hand or a bow and arrow, signifying hunting season.
Pontius Pilate washed his hands with water as they crucified Jesus on the center of three crosses. There are three crosses in the zodiac, cardinal, fixed, and mutable, and the Sun dies on the center, cardinal, cross on December 21st at the winter solstice.
We know the Sun has reached the southernmost point on its journey when it is pierced in its side by the arrow or spear of the Sagittarius centaur. The Sun does not move south or north for three days, December 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, until December 25th, when the Sun rises north one degree in the sign of Capricorn, beginning its new journey north for six months until the summer solstice, the goat that strives to get to the top of the mountain.
Jesus and his twelve disciples, Joseph and his twelve brothers, Hercules and his twelve legions are all representations of the Sun moving through the twelve signs of the zodiac. The four gospels are the four seasons.
On December 25th, each and every calculable year, the Sun rises one degree north, beginning its new cycle again. Showing humanity that the Sun that lights our world, that gives us the ability to grow food, is coming back to save us from the dark, cold depths of winter. We have to follow the Sun to survive. Our savior. Our solar messiah has returned. Following the Sun is how we know when to plant seeds, harvest crops, hunt, and prepare for winter.
Now, we follow our phones and technology, the clocks and calendars over our natural world, slowly losing this information over time.
Whatever we are celebrating this holiday season, give thanks to the Sun that unconditionally shines for us all, showering us with its gifts each year and every day.
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Aaron Eschenburg, Ayahuascero, Astrotheologer
Aaron Eschenburg is an Ayahuasca Shaman and creator of the natural plant medicine company Ancestral Herbs. Being hit by a drunk driver at 21 spiraled him into a journey of exploring alternative medicines to get away from the side effects of pharmaceuticals. Astrotheology and plant medicines then came into his life at the same time, creating a better understanding of humanities relationship with our living planet solar system, and Universe. He now dedicates his life to helping others explore the options of natural healing, entheogenic practices, and embracing the Aquarian Age.
