{"id":73162,"date":"2014-01-06T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=73162"},"modified":"2014-01-06T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:58:45","slug":"the-ephphany-astrologers-arrive-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-ephphany-astrologers-arrive-in-bethlehem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epiphany — Astrologers Arrive in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Journey of the Magi by James Tissot, painted c. 1894.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love this painting — something about it, I’m not sure. It’s called The Journey of the Magi, painted by French painter James Tissot around 1894. According to the story, their names were Balthasar, Caspar and Melchior. They are regarded variously as kings, wise men or magi; they were astrologers, as they were well informed (as magi) and following the prophesy of an unusual star. They refused to meet with Herod a second time, despite his instructing them to return to him, and thus did not betray the location of the infant Jesus. I propose that Jan. 6 be elected by all Christian faiths to be the day of tribute to astrologers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love this painting — something about it, I’m not sure. It’s called The Journey of the Magi, painted by French painter James Tissot around 1894. According to the story, their names were Balthasar, Caspar and Melchior. They are regarded variously as kings, wise men or magi; they were astrologers, as they were well informed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}