Well, it encodes mine! That is, the horoscope for this “Jesus” character I’ve been pushing for 18 years, which is September 26, 3 BC, at about 7:14 pm local time by our modern reckoning, that has a lunar occultation of the Pleiades rising:

Before I explain this chart, remember what Ricky used to say: “Loo-zee, you got some ‘splaining to do!” Well, folks, I need to do some simple ‘splaining here.

In the last blog about the WNC, I brought up how the 1717 freemasonry chart and the 1800 Washington DC Federal Gov’t chart were 83 Jupiter “Goal-Year” cycle years apart, and could be mathematically stepped back to the Roman Empire’s first year of 27 BC. By similar math, we can see that the year 1907 is 83 × 27 years beyond 3 BC. This math works because there was no “year zero,” meaning that our back-dated year 1 AD came right after our back-dated year 1 BC.

In other words, the mathematical year of “-2” is the same as the calendar year of “3 BC.” You dig? No? Yes?

In any event, we know that the Sun-Jupiter cycle has a co-return cycle of 83 years. In other words, if I know someone’s 83rd birthday is coming up, I can be sure that both the Sun will return to the same degree of the zodiac as well as Jupiter. This is perhaps the most reliable planetary return math in the solar system, and the Babylonians figured it out well before the Romans invaded Palestine and the need for a Savior story was a thing.

But, that return cycle is not perfect. It is off by maybe one arcsecond per cycle, and it can be more due to the eccentricities of the solar and Jovial orbits. (Yes, yes, I know the Sun doesn’t orbit, but the Earth does, and that eccentricity is projected onto the Sun in the geocentric model that astrologers use.)

But, the math should hold up to a certain extent, and it does in this case. Close matters in more than horseshoes – it also matters in cathedral astrology. Here is a bi-wheel of my Jesus birth chart with the WNC cornerstone chart:

Here we can see that 1907 AD Jupiter is 3°44′ distant from 3 BC Jupiter, and that 1907 AD Sun is 4°17′ distant from 3 BC Sun. 4°17′ minus 3°44′ = 0°33′ difference, which is quite remarkable for 19 centuries of time! We could also do the math like this:

The aspects are similarly about 0°32′ in difference, which is the gist of Goal-Year value math. Thus, even though the precise degree-minute values don’t match in the tropical zodiac, the fundamental aspects do, and quite nicely.

Why were Goal-Year Values Important in the Ancient World?

The answer is simple: the easy calculation of birth charts. With a handy ephemeris that covers 100 years, any current chart can be calculated by subtracting years and then tweaking by a certain number of days, according to the formula specific for each of the seven planets.

For a birth in 3 BC, on September 26, we can consult the ephemeris and look up planetary positions fom prior years in a trusty ephemeris:

• Jupiter’s position is the same as 86 BC, plus one day.
• Saturn’s position is the same as 62 BC, minus three days.
• Mars’ position is the same as 83 BC, minus five days.
• Venus’ position is the same as 11 BC, plus five days.
• Mercury’s position is the same as 49 BC, plus eight days.
• Moon’s position is the same as 21 BC, plus five days.
• Sun’s position is the same as 36 BC.

It’s as simple as that, though the astrologer would have to calculate the correct ascendant and midheaven with separate tables. And, make no mistake, those ephemerides were ubiquitous in the two centuries preceding the supposed birth of the Jesus. They were so commonplace that countless tombs from that era were lined with parchments of planetary tables. It was an industry unto itself, with “gypsy” astrologers plying their trade from Gaul to the eastern frontier.

Horoscopes were big business, and the anticipation of future astronomical alignments were also part of the astrological industry of the many decades leading up to the Roman conquest of Palestine.

Goal-Years and the WNC

So, it’s just a matter of doing the astro-math with the WNC, and then adjusting for whatever other pertinent horoscopes that one wants to be aligned with, which in this case seems to be not only the Jupiter return of the Jesus birth chart, but also the Lunar conjunction to the Sun/Castor/Midheaven position of the 1119 AD Knights Templar chart.

Even though the charts above may not match up, the “eternal return” astrology did. Why did the WNC need to begin to be built in 1907? Because the astrological cycles were prime. Were the visionaries of the WNC also secretly well-versed in astrology?

Seems so.

If 1990 was the return of the birth of the Jesus, what would be the Sun-Jupiter return of the crucifixion of the Jesus?

According to my calculations, either 2022, or 2023, depending upon this particular astro-math.

Is any of this realistic? Perhaps for the Robert Anton Wilson faithful who revel in the unique nature of the “23.” After all, 23+23=46 — the Goal-Year value of Mercury, the Trickster, the Hermetic asexual sage of all higher rascalism. (Who, me?)

Oh, please. The age of superstition seems to keep clinging on, like a hungry cat with serious claws. But, really, we should know better. There was no “Jesus,” no “crucifixion,” no “resurrection,” nor any kind of “ascension.” All of those claims are astromorphic, and are at best metaphorical projections of human dramas and paeans onto the ancient heavenly dynamics.

The saga of the Savior is an astro-gnomical metaphor, steeped in the mystery school tradition of secret wisdom from the East, an outgrowth of Zoroastrianism that taught cosmic math as the way to heavenly bliss.

Yet, in our time, all of this chrono-logo obsession has come down to one person of faith who dared speak peace and decency to a movement of frothing anger and hatred, and who wears an ankh!

You just never know what biological system will crystallize around the highest truth.

-Ed

• astrology
• Star of Bethlehem
• Washington DC