Merry Christmas

I love Christmas.


Christmas is when the three stars of Orion’s belt, known throughout the ages as the ‘Three Kings’, align with the Brightest Star in the sky, which rises in the east. You can draw an imaginary line through all these stars, and where that line touches the earth, that is where the Sun rises on Christmas Day.

In fact, for three days prior to this the Sun doesn’t appear to move its position, which it reaches on the shortest day, December the 21st. It’s almost as if the sun has been dead for three days; and then risen again. It does it every year.

I’d love to get my kids interested in Astrology. I could point out to them the ‘Three Kings’ and the ‘Star in the East’ rising in the constellation of Virgo, or House of Bread, which incidentally means Bethlehem in Aramaic.

But I don’t think I’d get their attention. Maybe if I made up a story about it that would help? I could make the ‘Sun’, the Son of God, the Three Kings could be ‘following’ the star in the east to the House of Bread where the Son of God is born.

That might get their attention. But they’d know it was just a story. I mean, they may be kids, but they’re not stupid.

Merry Christmas