One Origin of Christmas

Greetings and Merry Christmas!

One of the origins of Christmas is the pagan holiday of Yule. And Yule is one of the eight sacred days of the year... all of which correspond to the Sun being at 0° of a Cardinal Sign or 15° of a Fixed Sign.

The Cardinal Signs are Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra. Respectively, for the northern hemisphere, the zero degree is the Winter Solstice, the Spring Equinox, the Summer Solstice, and the Fall Equinox. (Reverse the seasons for the southern hemisphere.)

Fifteen degrees of the Fixed Signs are the Cross-Quarter days, that is the days that are halfway between the beginnings of the seasons.

Each of these eight days--all about 45 days apart--was a sacred day in the religion practiced in Europe before Christianity. When Christianity arrived in Europe, the sacred days were introduced into the Christian calendar.

Yule, then, became Christmas, and corresponds to the entry of the Sun into the sign Capricorn. It is actually a couple of days off, which may be due to calendar adjustments over the centuries.

I'll take up the other seven sacred days as they come along. But we have one more vital point about these eight days. These degrees, 0° of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, as well as 15° of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, are important more than any other degrees because they indicate connections to the entire world.

Thus astrological phenomena that occur at these degrees are much more important than those that happen at other degrees--giving an orb around these degrees of plus or minus 2°.

That is why astrologers predict events with charts for the ingress of a planet, usually the Sun, into the Cardinal points (especially). And that is why people with Personal Planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) or Personal Points (Ascendant or Midheaven) at these degrees are fated to impact the world in some way.

Best of the Season to you!