This week, on March 17, is the sacred Jewish New Year, which begins on the first day of the month of Nisan.
The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar which is based on the phases of the moon. The first day of the month occurs when there is a new moon, and was celebrated in accent Israel with a feast of the “Born Again”. As we know, the “Born Again” moon is symbolic of the Believers (Psalm 89:37).
As the new moon sets in the west shortly after sunset, in the East arises a constellation which will dominate the night sky and contain the full moon 15 days later, when many Jewish feasts like Passover occur. For the past 2,500 years the constellation which rose with the new moon and held the full moon of the first month of the sacred year, Nisan, was the first constellation of the Star Bible, Virgo (The Virgin).
The constellation Virgo (The Virgin) tells of God’s promise to send the seed of Woman who will be bruised in the heel and will crush the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15). The name of the first month, Nisan, is not of Hebrew origin, but is linguistically similar to the Hebrew word for son, “Miyn”. The constellation Coma Berineces in Virgo, known anciently as “The Desired son” conveys the same message. Another name for Nisan, Abib, means “Ear of Grain” and is reminiscent of the name for a star in Virgo, Subilon, which means “Ear of Wheat”.
Revelation 12 speaks of a woman, clothed in the Sun with the moon in her feet, about to give birth. This vision matches the night sky during a Lunar Eclipse or Blood Moon on Passover, March 23, 5BC, the night we believe Christ was born. Thus, the promise of the virgin born son of Virgo came to pass during Nisan, the month of the “Son”. Thirty four years later, at Passover season, as Christ was crucified, the grain of wheat died to produce many seeds (John 12:24), as promised in the star named Subilon and the other name of the first month, Abib. Thus the first stellar month of Virgo is linked to the first sacred month of Nisan.
Many of the months following Nisan also appear to have the same relationship to the Star Bible constellations as does Nisan. For example the second month, Zin, means “Brightness”, while the brightest star affiliated with Libra, the second chapter of the Star Bible, is Gemma (The Shining) in Corona Borealis (Northern Crown). Gemma was at Zenith over Jerusalem when Jesus came, and was a sign of His coming in the Sun, Moon and Stars. The third month, Sivan, is a Persian word meaning “tempestuous”. The third chapter of the Star Bible, Scorpio (The Scorpion), shows a tempestuous picture of a man (Christ) wrestling with a snake (Satan), about to crush a Scorpion. The name of the ninth month, Kislev, comes from a foreign name for the constellation Orion (Coming Forth as Light), which is affiliated with the ninth chapter of the Star Bible, Taurus (The Bull). The name of the last month of Adar comes from a foreign word for “fire”, a fitting match for the last month of the Star Bible, Leo, which pictures Hell.
These examples and other similarities between months and the Star Bible constellations indicate that the 12 months of the Hebrew sacred calendar are matched with the Star Bible Constellations, beginning with Nisan and Virgo and ending with Adar and Leo. This matching, coming from names in Hebrew, Chaldean, Persian, and other languages, may be very ancient and appears to be part of the original starry revelation first given to Adam and Eve.
Unlike the Jewish sacred calendar, the civil calendar is a product of historical times. In 312 BC the Greek General Seleucus captured the city of Babylon and ordered the year to begin in the month of his victory, the seventh month. His subjects the Jews compliantly set their civil year to begin in seventh month of the sacred year, Tishri. Interestingly, the constellation Virgo is behind the Sun at that time and thus the first month of the Jewish Civil Year is also the first month of the Star Bible stellar year.
So on Saturday go out in the early evening and celebrate the festival of the “Born Again” with the new moon in the West. Then watch Virgo rising in the East, the sign of both the sacred and civil Jewish New Years. And tell a friend about the Son who came like a seed to die so that we could be born again.
