You mean to tell me Jesus from the Bible was also an Aries like me?

February 26, 2022

Art by Jave Dali

In an earlier blog I mentioned the Three Wisemen from the Bible (when I discovered that a lot of men in my Patriarchal line were named after one of them called Melchior). During the research for that blog entry I came across an interesting theory that Jesus was born in April. This would mean Jesus was an Aries like me. (side note: Since this really isn't about my ancestry like the other blogs are, I should also mention that Geni.com says that Jesus is my 10th cousin 81 times removed.)

Jesus being an Aries kinda makes sense to me as Aries are outspoken people who tend to make their own paths in life. What do you think? Was Jesus an Aries?

Here are a few things other people have said about it:

"First, Luke 2:7-8 says "We know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at the time of Jesus' birth." As everyone who lives north of the Florida knows, it's way too fucking cold in December to have any living creature out there. This suggests Jesus was born in a more temperate month. Another verse, Luke 2:1-4, says "Jesus' parents came to Bethlehem to register in a Roman census." Apparently, the census was historically taken in the Spring." (April 1st to be exact)

SOURCE: https://babe.net/2017/12/15/jesus-was-an-aries-and-i-have-proof-24893#

"Astrology was widely used at the time, and with the Magi coming from Babylon, it's plausible that they were astrologers. And due to a particular alignment of planets and stars, they may have read a hidden meaning among the stars, leading them to King Herod. For example, Jupiter's display could have been of great significance here, as astrology associated the planet Jupiter with royalty, so the moon passing it in the constellation of Aries on April 17, 6 B.C. could have heralded the birth of Christ."

SOURCE: https://www.space.com/star-of-bethlehem

"Biblical scholars agree that Christ was born sometime between April 1 and September 30, 4 BC. I think that April is the most likely month, because of these 4 arguments:

1) The fact that the shepherds were “keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8), would seem to indicate, according to some historians, that it was “the spring lambing season, when nights would have been balmy and shepherds would have needed to be awake, tending the ewes.” The spring lambing season is mostly in April. (J. I. Packer, Merrill C. Tenny and William White, Jr., The World of the New Testament (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1982), p. 115.)

2) In 243 AD, the church produced an official feast calendar called De Pascha Computus, which placed the date of Christ’s birth on April 2. It is a historical fact that many in the early church celebrated Christ’s birth in April (Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7,700 Illustrations (Rockville: Assurance Publishers, 1979), n. 2714. )

3) There are historians such as Edward Reese and Frank Klassen who wrote The Reese Chronological Bible (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1980), who state that the origin of April Fools Day is in Christ’s Birth. Early Christians were often derided by the Jews and Greeks, and these historians claim that since Christ’s Birth was on April 1, the Christians were called “April Fools.”

4) Another argument comes from the idea that Jesus is the Lamb of God. In keeping with that idea, it would make sense that He was born at the season when other passover lambs were born (John 1:29). The passover lamb was to be “a male of the first year” (Exodus 12:5), which means that it was born the previous April. (Edward Reese and Frank Klassen, The Reese Chronological Bible (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1980), Introduction and p. 1250.)"

SOURCE: https://www.apologia.com/ufaqs/when-was-christ-born-why-do-you-say-christ-was-born-in-april-in-physical-science-2nd-edition/#