Those dates would be way much too late. The language of the Avesta is comparable to that of the Vedas, which themselves go back at least to 2000 BCE.
I have to confess that I have not studied the Avesta in depth, although I had briefly investigated it years ago when I was first investigating Christianity.
Check out Richard Tarnas’
Cosmos and Psyche. It’s not just conjunctions; it’s a lot more.
I guess I’ll have to confess in advance that I didn’t actually look at the link. I mean no offence, but I do not believe the harmonies of the astrological bodies (if that is what the article discusses) affect us in this way. Twin studies alone seem to refute this idea.
Well, first you would have to know which conjunctions you’re actually referring to. It’s a bit unclear exactly when Jesus was born, but if you have a date in mind, I can run the astrological calculation and see what I come up with.
There’s a few that occured around the time Jesus is reported to have been born.
This one has caught my attention for the sake of this inquiry.
Consequently, some speculate that Jesus’ birthdate was not specifically mentioned (which is a pretty **big detail **to leave out considering the nature of the Star of Bethlehem) precisely because some would attatch some
astrological significance to his birth.
Astrological symbols have meanings, and if you know the meanings, you can know what the configurations point to.
There’s seems to be no doubt that some significance can be gleaned. For example, in the article I linked above, it appears that Jupiter was considered the regal “star” that conferred kingships - a power that was apparently believed to be amplified when Jupiter was in close conjunctions with the Moon.
Me personally, the only real significance that I can give toward astrology (aside from any potential prophecy) is the idea that it began as a form of
ancient meteorology which was then overlayed with
mystical meanings that the original meteorologists may have
never intended to begin with. Over time, if true, then perhaps as this ancient meteorological knowledge degraded it may have become distorted to the point that people thought that personalities were determined by the “positions of the stars” instead of people’s personalities becoming “affected by the weather”.
In other words, I think that ancient meteorologists probably noticed certain behaviors in terrestrial weather happened when the planets were aligned a certain way.
This, in my opinion, may be related to how the solar wind is attracted to various planets (such as Jupiter for example).
For example, some effects of the solar wind studies suggest that electron density and electric currents in the magnetosphere increase when it is compacted by the shock wave. In addition to this, when the earth passes in-between the Sun and Jupiter, the Earth is often caught in rougher than usual “space weather”. So far we haven’t been able to determine if there is an induced voltage or modulation of the earth’s magnetosphere at times when the other planets are at various angles to the earth, but we are well aware of the fact that there are steams of particles attracted in the direction of Jupiter and Saturn for example.
It’s also suspected that there exists a closeness between the length of the solar cycle and the orbital period of Jupiter for example (the roughly 22 year period seems to fluctuate as Saturn moves alogn with Jupiter during certain time-- recently, when both Saturn and Jupiter were very close to each other, the Sun seemed to have peaked with more active solar flares than usual). Most have not been able to correlate this potential connection yet but I think it exists.
In short, when the earth passes through higher areas of solar wind activity this
may result in some kind of change in the terrestrial weather.
