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The final idea is one or more of the 5 incandescent naked eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn Another Star of Bethlehem explanation could be Uranus, which orbited in the neighborhood to Saturn in 9 BC and Venus in 6 BC. This is implausible because Uranus drifts very slowly and is only remotely visible. In truth, the notion that the Magi could have discombobulated one or more of the acquainted planets with a star actually seems remote.

Sometimes, two or more of these self-propelling wanderers come together in a dazzling conjunction. By some narrow chance a planetary grouping of primary beauty; an exceptionally close conjunction of two planets or groupings of three or more producing an eye-catching abstract figure in the sky may have taken place between the years 7 and 2 BC. A gathering like that would be quite peculiar to the unexpecting eye.

One such event that is often cited occurred on the evening of Feb. 25, 6 BC involving Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and happened in the constellation of Pisces, the Fishes. If you have ever visited a planetarium for the traditional Christmas show, you probably already know the thrill of watching as the planetarium projector races back through time to recreate this unusual event. One such case that is often named came about on the evening of Feb. 25, 6 BC regarding Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and took place in the constellation of Pisces, the Fishes. If you have ever seen a planetarium for the conventional Christmas show, you in all probability already experience the thrill of watching as the recognize the chill of ascertaining as the planetarium projector races back through time to model this unusual event. Another realizable account for the Star of Bethlehem is the three-times conjoining of Jupiter and Saturn between May and December in 7 BC; a exceptional triple or “great conjunction.” Jupiter appeared to move one degree north of Saturn on May 29; practically the identical on Sept. 30; then finally a third time on Dec. 5. There is no uncertainty about the visibility of these outcomes, mostly opposite to the Sun in nighttime skies. As for their astrological affect, the Magi would have absolutely noticed that both planets did not look to separate widely between their conjunctions.

Charity isn’t the easiest virtue to master. And with St. Paul’s warning that our good works mean nothing without charity, we see how important it is to practice. Here’s a few practical ways to install charity into every day life.

Give to people what they want, not what you think is best. We’ve all said it- “If I give him money, he’ll just spend it on alcohol or drugs.” Give your gifts unconditionally, and don’t worry about how someone else will use them. As long as there’s no evil in the gift itself, the way it’s used isn’t on your shoulders. Besides, most of us use this as an excuse to give nothing at all.

Pick out one thing every day to do something special for someone. Not something you already do. Something new and extra. And do it quietly. Mt:6:3:3 “But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth.”

Say five Hail Mary’s every day for someone you don’t like. Pray for their general well being…not for them to change or leave you alone. “Oh Lord, let this man see his evil ways, and turn to You” isn’t a charitable prayer at all.

Ask yourself before you go to bed if you’re holding any grudges. If you are, then stop. Charity is impossible without mercy. Push your anger towards someone to the back of your heart and let it suffocate. Don’t allow yourself to fantasize about revenge, and pray for them.

When you can’t feel it, fake it. Charity won’t always overwhelm you with feel good emotions. Sometimes doing the right thing is difficult. So put your feelings aside and forge ahead. If you have a hard time caring about someone, just treat them as you would want to be treated.

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If practitioners are doing it from their heart, if they’re creating with what they feel, then it is effortless. If they’re intellectually trying to make something happen, intellectually trying to say, “Well, okay, this particular Deity is the one I ’should’ be,”again, hear that value judgment there? “I should be doing, this is the color that should be there.” That’s going to exhaust them, that’s going to be very exhausting. That’s what happens as you get exhausted because you’re trying to force things, and the whole idea in this type of practice is to be at ease. We began this talk with the idea of the Divine Alchemist….

As I begin to have the continuity of expression flowing from the Heart of my Being, and I’m no longer attached to circumstances outside of myself telling me whether I have value or not; then I begin to act in the world, in this milieu of interpenetrating karmic patterns of everybody else and myselfand because I don’t have a value judgmentI begin in my actions to offer options, to offer possibilities, both for myself and for those who are interacting with me that are beyond the patterns that we all were working with. And so, in essence, we’re adding an alchemical quality. The old alchemist would bring in a quality into the solution, into the dance of molecules. And in bringing this quality in, it would enable the molecules to do something that they wouldn’t do normally. And lead would become gold.

And this has always been a symbolic or figurative notion, turning lead into gold. It’s almost like turning the defended personality or the old super-structure that was formed in childhood into a vessel, a holding environment of change.

Basically the analogy of lead into gold is that I can offer into the mix a quality of being that not only creates wholly new possibilities for me, beyond my fate, but alsobecause I’m doing it without any value judgmentit also creates new possibilities for those who are interacting with me. Now that’s pretty far-out.

Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation, The Everyday Sanyasin, and Experiments in Awareness, a workbook for yogis.