December 23rd 2007 - More Astonishing facts

Christmas Day, also referred to as Yule in pagan cultures was supposed to always be on the Winter Solstice.
Because of the problems with the calender system, a set date of december 25th was given.

How Britain got the Calendar Wrong
Similarly Christmas Day became December 25 because it was the traditional winter solstice date. But the solstice has slipped to the 21st/22nd.
[link to www.hermetic.ch]

The ancient Pagan celebrations on the Winter Solstice predate Christianity.

Yule is a winter festival celebrated in Northern Europe since ancient times. In pre-Christian times, Germanic pagans celebrated Yule from late December to early January on a date determined by a lunar calendar.[1] During the process of Christianization and the adoption of the Julian calendar, Yule was placed on December 25, in order to correspond with the Christian celebrations later known in English as Christmas.[2]

Wicca

In general, many Wiccan based sects favor a plethora of sources on winter solstice holidays to recreate a type of Yule holiday. While the name "Yule" is used, it is not a reconstruction of the historical holiday. Wreaths, Yule logs, decoration of trees, decorating with mistletoe, holly, and ivy, exchanges of presents, and even wassailing are incorporated and regarded as sacred. The return of the Sun as Frey is commemorated in some groups. In most Wiccan sects, this holiday is also celebrated as the rebirth of the Great God, who is viewed as the newborn solstice sun.
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Lets look at that last bit again.

this holiday is also celebrated as the rebirth of the Great God, who is viewed as the newborn solstice sun

Christianity wanted to Christianiz these ancient Pagans so badly, they incorporated their beliefs into the new christian Mould.

English historian Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum contains a letter from Pope Gregory I to Saint Mellitus, who was then on his way to England to conduct missionary work among the pagan Anglo-Saxons. Pope Gregory suggested that converting heathens would go easier if they were allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditional pagan practices and traditions, while recasting those traditions spiritually towards the Christian God instead of to their pagan "devils": "to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God"

So now, what do we discern from this.
That the whole Christmas Festival is based on the "Rebirth" of the Sun God on the Winter Solstice.
That is where Christmas has come from.
The Celebration and Worship of this event was that important it influenced the Building of many stone circles and Sun temples, such as StoneHenge.

This event must of been that powerful and significant that it has survived be it in whatever form over thousands of years.
I believe the event that happens on the 23rd is a repeat of the event that happened so long ago, one that is the base behind so many belief and religious systems.

Once again, the Sun will be on the Cross.. And it will be reborn anew...



More info on the Remarkable Planetary/Galactic series of events that is happening on the 23rd.
Wiki have updated on the Config. Any doubts about the GC involvement is banished. The whole Solar system is in Allignment with the GC through Pluto, which itself is in an even grander conjunction:-

2007

A very remarkable planetary/galactic configuration occurs on December 23rd and 24th 2007. The configuration on December 23 — Mars, Earth, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Galactic Centre — is shown in the graphic simulation linked below; it becomes even more remarkable in that it will be accompanied by the Full Moon (conjunct Mars) at about 2 a.m. on December 24 when a simultaneous Venus square Neptune occurs. It is even more remarkable in that the Pluto/Sun conjunction appears exactly on the Winter Solstice, just past conjunction with the Galactic Centre.

Link below is the view from Mars toward the Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Mercury, Pluto alignment toward the Galactic Centre on 23 December 2007 which occurs just after the Pluto/Jupiter (Heliocentric) conjunction on 23 November 2007. NASA Solar System Simulator for 23rd Dec 2007

Solar System on Dec 22, 2007. What is not shown is Pluto (which would be to Jupiter's right) Saturn, which follows down from Venus, and Uranus and Neptune. Saturn and Neptune form the cross's t-member. It is a 23/12 configuration. There will be a full moon on Dec. 23, 2007
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

2007 - A grand conjunction in which the solar system will align with the galactic center
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Oh btw, with what was mentioned about Jupiter above, Jupiter will of course be in conjunction with the Sun as well.

JUPITER is too close to the Sun to be seen this month. It is at conjunction with the Sun on the 23rd, and will become visible in the morning sky next month.
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December 23 Jupiter is in conjunction with the Sun, entering the morning