{"id":201,"date":"2004-11-04T23:52:49","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T06:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2004-11-05T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T07:02:01","slug":"universe-today-venus-and-jupiters-upcoming-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/universe-today-venus-and-jupiters-upcoming-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Universe Today &#8211; Venus and Jupiter&#8217;s Upcoming Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/am\/publish\/venus_jupiter_upcoming_conjunction.html\">Universe Today<\/a> talks about the conjunction of these two planets early Friday morning. According to them, there was a similar conjunction in August of 3 BC, and some scientists theorize that this is possibly the event that the Zoroastrian Magi saw which led them to travel to Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible &#8211; it&#8217;s not like supremely accurate records were kept back then. No written records from the Magi exist, and we know the Church fudged the calendars in a number of ways. (You&#8217;ll notice that all the current Christian holidays fall on roughly the same days as popular pagan holidays. Simpler for the Church to convert people if they didn&#8217;t have to give up their favorite feasts.)<\/p>\n<p>If that was the event the Magi saw, it means Jesus was a Leo. Kinda fits, when you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Hey B &#8211; get the camera out, eh?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article at Universe Today talks about the conjunction of these two planets early Friday morning. According to them, there was a similar conjunction in August of 3 BC, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/universe-today-venus-and-jupiters-upcoming-conjunction\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}