The Christmas Season is wrapping its holiday festivities around us like ribbons on a package. Time takes a breath as the past merges with the present when we all become kids again. Cookie baking, carol singing, tree decorating and gift wrapping are all part of this holiday ritual as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Yet historical research has discovered that Jesus was born on September 29th. What, then, is Christmas all about? It is the celebration of the Christ Mass, and although the inner meaning may be buried deep beneath the outer wrappings of Christmas morning, it is still there within you. This is the tale.
Many, many centuries ago, as time was charted by the sun, moon and stars, special celebrations centered around the Earth's four major turning points; the Spring and Autumn Equinox, and the Summer and Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice occurs on December 21st, marking the shortest day of the year.
The ancient Roman celebration for this event was called the Feast of Saturnalia. The crops were harvested from the fields and the long, dark days of winter stretched ahead like bony fingers. On this chosen day, which celebrated the birth of the Sun as it finally moved out of the "death period" and was reborn into the Zodiac sign of Capricorn, the peasants and land owners came together for feasting and drinking.
This revelry would last for three days, during which time there was no class distinction. All was fun and games, and the peasants performed skits, mimicking and making jest of their land masters with no fear of punishment.
This was an opportunity for all the people to release the pressures from a life of hard work and toil. It also helped to cast aside fear and superstitions they had towards the immense world and heavens around them.
In 300 AD. the Christian Church replaced the
Feast of Saturnalia with their celebration of Christmas. The Roman
festivals were considered to be too crude and pagan for those modern
times. This "overlay" still gave the people an opportunity to have
fun, while discreetly pushing aside their pagan beliefs to make way
for the new Christianity. Over time the official date was set on
December 25, which brings us to the meaning of the Christ
Mass.
The physical birth of Jesus is September 29, under the Zodiac rule of Libra - the Balancer. He was initiated, or christened with the Christ Force Energy in January, under the Zodiac reign of Capricorn. Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn which means Spirit Container. The combination of Capricorn and Saturn represented the outer force, or shell, which contained and held together the Supreme Being's consciousness within the body of Jesus.
After the crucifixion, when Jesus resurrected His physical body to return home to His Father, His energy - the Christ Force - permeated the Earth's atmosphere. The spirit container had spilled open. To get a sense of this, picture a bowl of clear water. Now add a few drops of red coloring and watch the clear water turn pink. His energy has ensouled the planet in much the same way, and now follows the ebb and tide, the wax and wane, of the seasons.
The Christ Force Energy begins its descent down into the earth on the Autumn Equinox, which is the beginning of the Death Period on the planet. This is evidenced in nature by the trees losing their leaves and preparing to go dormant for the winter. On December 21st it reaches the core of the planet and remains entombed there for seventy-two hours. At midnight on the 25th it begins its ascension back up to the earth's surface, marking the rebirth and regeneration for the renewal of life.
December 21st can also mark the day for death and the beginning of rebirth for you on an energy level. It is the perfect time for you to release from your psychical space those qualities that you no longer want to experience and to put your attention on that which you do want to experience. By energizing your "new life" in mind during this period come spring you will begin to experience outwardly what you have nurtured inwardly during the long, dark hours of winter.
Just as our ancestors rejoiced in the birth of the Sun, the Christ Mass is our opportunity to participate and rejoice in the birth of the Father's Son, as a new chance for us to live each day with His Light and Life activated within us.
Follow your heart, walk in faith and have a very merry Christmas!
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