ASTRONOMICAL ASPECTS OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST (SUPPLEMENT FIVE)

Figure 9. Second conjunction of Jupiter with Venus in Leo, after the triple conjunction of Jupiter with Regulus in Jupiter’s retrograde motion.

Figure 10. The meeting of planets in Leo: Jupiter, Mars (Ma), Mercury (which is the last one at the right), and Venus (at the bottom). The Sun is also in Leo in August, as in the Figure 2. The Sun is the transparent circle on the ecliptic. Mercury is coming from its second retrograde motion in Leo, having had three conjunctions with Regulus, as Jupiter had before. Venus, as seen here at the bottom, is also in the midst of its retrograde motion (as "to meet" with the other planets).