What is the astrological meaning of Easter?

As the Moon, symbolic of our human nature, arcs back toward the sign of Aries, we come toward a New Moon, when the moon rises with the exalted Sun. This is the essence of Easter. Easter Sunday is not only when we can literally celebrate the mythic resurrection of Jesus as the Christ, a savior.

Why is Pisces associated with Jesus?

With the story of the birth of Christ coinciding with this date, many Christian symbols for Christ use the astrological symbol for Pisces, the fishes. The figure Christ himself bears many of the temperaments and personality traits of a Pisces, and is thus considered an archetype of the Piscean.

What is the Piscean Age?

The age of Pisces began c. 1 AD and will end c. 2150 AD. With the story of the birth of Christ coinciding with this date, many Christian symbols for Christ use the astrological symbol for Pisces, the fishes.

Who was born on Easter Day?

Maria Sharapova also has an Easter birthday, April 19, 1987. Ant-Man funnyman Paul Rudd was born on April 6, 1969. Other famous people with Easter birthdays include Hayden Christiansen, Elle Macpherson, and Anthony Michael Hall.

Are we living in the Age of Pisces?

The general consensus among astrologers is that astrological ages are approximately 2000 years long, and we have been in the age of Pisces for about the past two millennia. However, there is no hard cutoff date for when one ends and another begins.

What age do we live in?

According to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the professional organization in charge of defining Earth’s time scale, we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age.

What does Easter mean to the Christian church?

According to dictionary.com, Easter is “an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.

What was the purpose of Easter for the pagans?

Nevertheless, Easter did not always signify Christ’s resurrection from the dead and the purpose of Easter was considerably different than what Christians observe today. The feast day of Easter was first a pagan holiday of renewal and rebirth. Honored in the early spring, it praised the pagan Saxon goddess Eastre.

Why was Easter celebrated on the first day of spring?

Increasingly, the churches opted for the Sunday celebration, and the Quartodecimans (“14th day” proponents) remained a minority. The Council of Nicaea in 325 decreed that Easter should be observed on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox (March 21).

What kind of a person is a Pisces?

Smart, creative, and deeply intuitive, Pisces can be close to psychic. Pisces feel things deeply, and have incredibly strong gut reactions. A Pisces “knows” things from deep within, and can often judge whether a person or situation is good or bad. That doesn’t mean a Pisces ignores the logical part of their brain, though.