Capricorn is the tenth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Saturn and related to the element earth.
Christ is born on the 24th of December, at midnight, in the zodiacal sign of Capricorn.
Who rules the sign of Capricorn? Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. Saturn is related with Saturday. Saturday is related with Shabbat, the holy Shabbat, the Sabbath. When we kabbalistically study the planets that rule the Zodiacal signs, we just discover that Binah, the Holy Spirit, the 3rd Sephirah of the Tree of Life, is ruled by Saturn. The Gospels state that the Father of Christ is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit in Sanskrit is Shiva; in Christianity, it is the white dove. It is intriguing to see how the planet Saturn relates to Christmas.
What is the tree that is governed by Saturn? The pine tree. This is why we find that the Christmas tree is always related with the pine. The pine, according to Master Samael Aun Weor, relates to the mind. Saturn is the mind. Saturn is called “the Ancient of Days”; it is the Theomertmalogos. Saturn rules Capricorn, the sign of the goat. Saturn is also known as Chronos, in Greek mythology. So, we see how the goat, the symbol of fire, relates to the fire of the Holy Ghost.
Our physicality is known in esotericism as the “earth.” Of course, Saturn is in heaven, and in the earth, that is why it is written:
ברא-תיש ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
“Bara-Taish Bara Elohim Ath HaShamayim VeAth HaAretz ”
The creative fire (goat) created Elohim (את-Ath - the Shekinah) in heaven and (את-Ath - the Shekinah) in earth.
“In her shrine Vesta tends your fires, Capricorn: and from her you derive your skills and callings. For whatever needs fire to function and demands a renewal of flame for its work must be counted as of your domain. To pry for hidden metals, to smelt out riches deposited in the veins of the earth, to fold sure-handed the malleable mass — these skills will come from you, as will aught which is fashioned of silver or gold. That hot furnaces melt iron and bronze, and ovens give to the wheat its final form, will come as gifts from you. You also give a fondness for clothes and wares which dispel the cold, since your lot falls for all time in winter’s season, wherein you shorten the nights you have brought to their greatest length and give birth to a new year by enlarging the daylight hours. Hence comes a restless quality in their lives and a mind which is often changed and floats this way and that; the first half of the sign is the slave of Venus, and that with guilt involved, but a more virtuous old age is promised by the conjoined fish below.”
― Astronomica, Manilius - Book 4 - Page 241 (1st Century AD)
Vesta (Roman name; known in Greek as Hestia) Hestia is the gentle, virgin goddess of the hearth-fire (both private & municipal), the home and family. She voluntarily relinquished her position as one of the twelve Olympians in place of Dionysos. As recompense she was made goddess of the sacrificial flame and granted a portion of all sacrifices to the gods. She is clearly a symbol of the Divine Mother Kundalini, the root fire of all that exists. She was highly honored in every household from early times to the beginning of Christianity, when her worship was outlawed. Her public cult maintained a sacred building in which her priestesses, the vestal virgins, tended the communal hearth and fire, which was never allowed to die out.
"To Hestia, fumigation from Aromatics. Daughter of Kronos, venerable dame, who dwellest amidst great fire’s eternal flame; in sacred rites these ministers are thine, mystics much blessed, holy and divine. In thee the Gods have fixed their dwelling place, strong, stable basis of the mortal race. Eternal, much formed, ever florid queen, laughing and blessed, and of lovely mien; accept these rites, accord each just desire, and gentle health and needful good inspire.”
― Orphic Hymn 84 to Hestia
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