Back in Moses’s day and in the time of Philo and Josephus, Passover was celebrated when the Sun was in Aries. Aries held the equinox.
But our earth’s wobble has actually changed the equinox star alignment... it is now in Pisces and the sun doesn’t enter Aries until late April- May.
Last year, the sun entered Aries on or around April 11th. There was a new moo at the same time...
I believe it will be later this month.. maybe as late as April 20th or so.. and no new moon would be seen until around the 30th of April.
Some people celebrated Passover at that time, while the sun was in Aries but I think the calendar showed it in march.
It seems the world is using April 14th this year , and the sun will be in Pisces, not Aries?
I can see the age of the fishers (pisces- two fish) of men being a divine ordination but is Aries (the Ram/lamb) one of the signs in the sky God gave Moses and unchangeable even if it is further away from equinox (still I spring)
That doesn’t happen with a new moon until May 1st in 2014...
That would change the fall feasts too.. into Libra, the scales.. which Philo mentions also.. It would fall in Virgo if April 14th is passover( which again, the virgin bride in the ‘church age’ being divinely ordained..
Could passover be made and forced to hit these blood moons by men to start something on their own?
From what I understand the lunar calendar is monitored and regulated very closely by actual observance, and variation from it would be regarded as an abomination, so while someone might be tempted to manipulate in such a manner, it would not likely be without well-known and perhaps even violent protest.
Procession has long been known, understood and accounted for, even in “pop” astrology, for instance all the New Age “Age Of Aquarius” stuff going back to the sixties. So, for serious scholars pursuing the matter in a religious manner, they would not be thrown off by it.
Astrology was practically inseparable from astronomy going back two thousand years ago. That there was meaning encoded in the movement and associated phenomena of the sun, moon, planets and stars was accepted by all. It was the “science” of the day. Now, science says it’s all ordered by physical laws with no further meaning to be derived. This is in opposition to many statements in the Bible.
But, that’s where we are. I don’t think modern science is wrong about the basic ordering of the physical universe, but I do think there is a strong vein of bias against supporting any remotely religious connotation. And, I do believe that there is further meaning. It’s just that it’s all been reduced to opinionated babble with so many bad actors and so many self-interested manipulators that any meaning is very difficult to determine through all the noise and mockery.