A safe opens when every dial stands at its mark at once. This instrument sets four proposed chronological dials side by side and explores selected Venus–Mercury seasons across 5,200 years. The 2025–26 season closes the latest run in the supplied catalogue; later candidates remain on the horizon.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.John 9:4 (KJV)
The instrument uses twelve equal portions of 30°, with Libra 0° set exactly at . These are house sign sectors, not the unequal boundaries of astronomical constellations. Their origin follows Spica rather than the spring ; the relative shift over two millennia is about 28°. This fixes the comparison convention without making it the uniquely recovered ancient frame.
Venus turns for about 40–43 days every 584 days (its ); Mercury does so for about 21 days, three times a year. A pair is a spring when both are retrograde together in Pisces, followed by the next Venus retrograde, about 19 months later, with both retrograde together in Libra.
The supplied catalogue groups many pairs about 40 years apart: 40 years is approximately 25 Venus and 126 Mercury synodic cycles, not an exact common period. A further recurrence is near 243 years, approximately 152 Venus synodic periods. Three spring pair-years spaced by 40 years span 80 elapsed years; including the last autumn makes the run about 81 years. The catalogue includes runs beginning in 25 CE and 1945 CE, with the latter's closing pair in 2025–26.
The house reading divides time into 500 years of day and 500 of night, with a day beginning in 25 CE: 25–525 day, 525–1025 night, 1025–1525 day, 1525–2025 night, and a new day from 2025. The house also reads 525–1525 as the Millennial Kingdom. The outer dial carries this frame.
The weekday above is the continuous seven-day count; Sabbath remains Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. The proposed Nazareth proclamation is Saturday 5 April 25 CE (7 April Julian), distinct from house Nisan 1's sunrise on Monday 31 March. Luke supplies the Sabbath reading, not this assigned historical date.
The four rings use periods of 1,000, 243, 40 and 1,920 years, all measured from the chosen 25 CE anchor. Gold notches mark catalogue run starts or pair-years. These are related representations of a selected chronology, not four independent confirmations. The house gate opens at the evening preceding the first Jerusalem sunrise after the first full moon following the spring equinox; it closes at the live model's autumn Venus direct station. The lock shines gold in a house day band, silver in a night band.
Dot area shows days both planets spent retrograde together (Pisces plus Libra). Gold dots fall in day bands, silver in night bands. Dashed lines mark 1,920-year steps from 25 CE. Select a dot to jump to that autumn. The house reads 1025–1086, the opening of the second day band, as a season of progress; the 1005–1086 run spans it.
These are the submitted PyEphem daily-sample candidates and counts, not a newly reproduced exhaustive search. The 25 CE Venus onset differs from the live engine, and some ancient autumn stations do not resolve near their catalogue dates. The catalogue and its short 1–4-day overlaps need reconciliation before exact recurrence or rarity claims are made. Unresolved gate boundaries are shown as unavailable, not silently assigned a catalogue-day closing time.
| 2553 BCE – 2513 BCE | 40 y | 2553 BCE · 23 / 102545 BCE · 2 / 212514 BCE · 20 / 8 | day | |
| 2342 BCE – 2262 BCE | 80 y | 2342 BCE · 3 / 52302 BCE · 14 / 212263 BCE · 1 / 14 | night | |
| 2099 BCE – 2019 BCE | 80 y | 2099 BCE · 12 / 132059 BCE · 23 / 212020 BCE · 9 / 7 | night | |
| 1856 BCE – 1815 BCE | 41 y | 1856 BCE · 20 / 101816 BCE · 23 / 20 | day | |
| 1613 BCE – 1572 BCE | 41 y | 1613 BCE · 15 / 71605 BCE · 2 / 191573 BCE · 24 / 11 | day | |
| 1362 BCE – 1321 BCE | 41 y | 1362 BCE · 22 / 211330 BCE · 18 / 21322 BCE · 8 / 18 | night | |
| 1159 BCE – 1078 BCE | 81 y | 1159 BCE · 4 / 41119 BCE · 23 / 211079 BCE · 13 / 17 | night | |
| 916 BCE – 835 BCE | 81 y | 916 BCE · 12 / 7876 BCE · 24 / 14836 BCE · 20 / 8 | day | |
| 633 BCE – 624 BCE | 9 y | 633 BCE · 24 / 9625 BCE · 1 / 17 | day | |
| 422 BCE – 381 BCE | 41 y | 422 BCE · 8 / 14382 BCE · 12 / 21 | night | |
| 179 BCE – 98 BCE | 81 y | 179 BCE · 18 / 15139 BCE · 20 / 2199 BCE · 6 / 1 | night | |
| 25 CE – 106 CE | 81 y | 25 CE · 4 / 365 CE · 24 / 11105 CE · 23 / 21 | day | |
| 308 CE – 349 CE | 41 y | 308 CE · 18 / 8316 CE · 4 / 21348 CE · 23 / 11 | day | |
| 559 CE – 600 CE | 41 y | 559 CE · 17 / 21599 CE · 5 / 16 | night | |
| 762 CE – 843 CE | 81 y | 762 CE · 8 / 11802 CE · 23 / 21842 CE · 11 / 10 | night | |
| 1005 CE – 1086 CE | 81 y | 1005 CE · 16 / 81045 CE · 23 / 161085 CE · 13 / 2 | night | |
| 1248 CE – 1289 CE | 41 y | 1248 CE · 12 / 41288 CE · 24 / 8 | day | |
| 1499 CE – 1540 CE | 41 y | 1499 CE · 15 / 211539 CE · 10 / 21 | day | |
| 1742 CE – 1783 CE | 41 y | 1742 CE · 23 / 171782 CE · 16 / 21 | night | |
| 1945 CE – 2026 CE | 81 y | 1945 CE · 8 / 51985 CE · 23 / 122025 CE · 23 / 12 | night | |
| 2228 CE – 2237 CE | 9 y | 2228 CE · 24 / 72236 CE · 2 / 21 | day | |
| 2439 CE – 2520 CE | 81 y | 2439 CE · 5 / 112479 CE · 14 / 212519 CE · 2 / 12 | day |
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.John 2:4 (KJV)
The proposed revision places Cana in late winter or early spring 25 CE, shortly before the Nazareth proclamation rather than before an assumed winter spent in Galilee. The wedding's exact day and duration remain open. The instrument's 27 March setting is an illustration, not a recovered wedding date.
The house reads Jesus's Isaiah 61 proclamation at Nazareth as the formal announcement of the acceptable year and now proposes Saturday 5 April 25 CE (7 April Julian), the first weekly Sabbath after the model's full moon and house Nisan 1. This is house Nisan 6 in that count, not Nisan 1 itself. Luke 4:16–21 supplies the Sabbath reading and declaration, but not the CE year, lunar phase or numbered date. Luke 4:14–15 already reports teaching in Galilee; “formal proclamation” therefore does not mean his first public activity.
“Mine hour is not yet come” can be contemplated alongside that proposed threshold, but John 2:4 does not establish a three-day countdown to it. John's later language connects the coming hour with glorification and death (John 12:23–27). The calendar application remains the author's reading, not the verse's explicit dating.
A calculated sky position is SPINE; a wedding date or cross-Gospel itinerary is SCAFFOLD; the proposed meaning of their correspondence is CONVICTION.
Jesus undergoes forty days of wilderness testing after baptism (Luke 3:21–22; 4:1–2). Matthew 4:8–11 places the unnamed high-mountain temptation last; Luke 4:5–13 places the Jerusalem temple temptation last. Neither account names Hermon. The house proposes Hermon for the mountain episode in early 25 CE, not for a forty-day period ending at the later Transfiguration.
John 1:19–51 supplies successive-day notices, and John 2:1 introduces the wedding “on the third day”; it does not explicitly total forty-five days from baptism. John 1:32–34 recalls the baptismal sign rather than dating that baptism on the day of the testimony. One tested harmony puts John 1:29 after the testing on day 41, John 1:35 on day 42, John 1:43 on day 43 and Cana on day 45 by inclusive third-day counting. The preceding delegation testimony would be day 40. “Again” in John 1:35 does not establish a forty-day interruption in “the next day.”
After Cana, John gives a short Capernaum stay—“not many days”—followed by the journey to Jerusalem as Passover approaches (John 2:12–13). That limits the Capernaum stay, not the unreported length of the wedding, and does not itself insert Nazareth. Luke also mentions Capernaum works already known at Nazareth (4:23), then a return to Capernaum afterward (4:31).
Read the passages: Luke 3–4 · Matthew 4 · John 1–2 · John 12.
Forty-five inclusive dates cover forty-four elapsed day boundaries. If baptism and the start of testing share day 1, a forty-day inclusive testing count leaves five further counted days through Cana. This is a working ledger, not a duration stated by a single Gospel.
| Event / assumption | Example |
|---|---|
| Baptism / testing day 1 | 11 February |
| Testing day 40 / proposed mountain culmination | 22 March |
| Proposed day 41: John 1:29 | 23 March |
| Proposed day 42: John 1:35 | 24 March |
| Proposed day 43: John 1:43 | 25 March |
| Day 45: illustrative Cana placement | 27 March |
| House Nisan 1 sunrise (not the Nazareth Sabbath) | 31 March |
| Proposed Nazareth proclamation / weekly Sabbath | Saturday 5 April |
These dates demonstrate the count, not a verified itinerary. The mountain descent, John 1 encounters and travel to Cana must fit before the undated wedding stay, short Capernaum visit and proposed Nazareth Sabbath. John's station remains geographically unresolved: John 3:23 does not prove a northern relocation before John 1, and a southern station creates return travel not demonstrated by this example. Luke's further Capernaum activity and John's Jerusalem journey need a stated cross-Gospel harmony; an extra Capernaum Sabbath must not simply be forced in before John's first Passover. Moving Cana or changing the baptism/testing boundary moves this example.
The modern Jesus Trail is about 65 km and is commonly walked in four days. A strenuous two-day journey may be possible, but cannot be assumed for Jesus and his companions or treated as the established ancient route. Hermon's seasonal snowmelt supplies regional context, not evidence for the wedding day, a particular thaw in 25 CE, or the origin of the water in Cana's jars.
The author proposes that Venus's retrograde season is an essential clue to the timing of the wilderness testing and its proposed Hermon culmination. The numerical claim tested here is an overlap, not an identification of two exactly equal periods. In the illustrative February–March ledger, the testing ends before Cana and Nazareth, while Venus remains retrograde until April. Its full modeled retrograde therefore cannot also end at that proposed March culmination.
Scripture repeatedly uses forty-day periods in differing settings: Moses on Sinai (Exodus 34:28), Elijah's journey to Horeb (1 Kings 19:8), Nineveh's warning (Jonah 3:4), and Jesus's fasting/testing (Luke 4:1–2). Jesus's testing is not repentance for personal sin. The particular Elul 1–Tishrei 10 framework is a later traditional dating of Moses's ascent, not a biblical prescription assigning every forty-day period to that season; Yom Kippur's tenth day of the seventh month is itself scriptural (Leviticus 23:27).
For the traditional Elul dating, see “Customs of Elul,” citing Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer 46 and later authorities, and the companion Teshuvah exhibit's layered source history and counting notes. Any wider claim that historical teshuvah seasons correlate with Venus requires independently dated examples, a declared search interval and a consistent overlap criterion.
The supplied catalogue groups 1945, 1985 and 2025 into a run extending through autumn 2026, comparable in spacing to 25, 65 and 105 CE. It assigns the 2025–26 pair 23 shared retrograde days in Pisces and 12 in Libra; those counts remain provisional pending reproduction. Its next listed candidate is 2228–29, not an end to all future recurrences.
Two thousand years is approximately 1,251 Venus synodic cycles. The live model places the autumn direct stations in 26 CE and 2026 on 14 November, about seven minutes apart in UT time of day. That is model output, not demonstrated ancient observational precision. Calling the 26 CE overlap the seventh and eighth days of Sukkot additionally depends on the house calendar and proposed Transfiguration chronology.
In 5,200 years, only 25 CE and 2025 CE place a pair exactly on a day/night boundary of the house frame. The frame is anchored at 25 CE, and both planets nearly repeat after 2,000 years, so the second alignment follows from the first; together they bracket the age.
Use the presets to inspect the late-October 2026 retrogrades and the Mercury–Sun passage in early November. The live table reports geocentric longitudes and motion in the chosen Spica frame. Proximity in longitude does not establish equal rising times, naked-eye visibility, or that the Sun is physically between two planets; those require separate geometry and horizon calculations.
The draft identifies a November 2026 backward crossing of Spica, a direct station west of it and a later forward crossing. The instrument lets the reader inspect this proposed hook. Claims about exact crossing intervals, the tightest approach in 5,200 years or the next comparable hook require a separately reproduced search with fixed thresholds; they are not established by the supplied pair catalogue.
Read together, these mark 2025–26 as the culmination of a unique period: the closing pair of the run that Christ's own season opened, landing at the dawn of a new day. Work while it is day.
The live sky is computed in your browser with Astronomy Engine. Positions are geocentric, rotated into the true ecliptic of date, and measured from a fixed J2000 Spica direction rotated into that frame; stellar proper motion is not modeled. Motion is a centered 24-hour longitude difference. The gate's closing instant is numerically resolved from that same rate, not set to 23:00 on a catalogue day.
The supplied pair catalogue is attributed to a separate PyEphem daily search. Its generator and full results have not been independently reproduced here. The criterion is at least one sampled day with both planets retrograde in the chosen Pisces sector, then at least one in Libra at the next Venus retrograde. Known station discrepancies mean a universal ±1-day accuracy is not established. The gate solver searches seven days either side of the submitted autumn date; if no live direct station is found there, it reports unavailable rather than substituting a guessed time. Short 1–4-day overlaps are especially sensitive to method and sampling.
Dates are proleptic Gregorian with Julian labels alongside. UT labels express the model's output precision, not proven minute-level accuracy in antiquity; ancient Earth-rotation timing and ephemeris limitations must be considered. House Nisan follows a full-moon/sunrise rule, not the received Jewish calendar. The historical assignment of the Nazareth reading to the verified Saturday of 5 April 25 CE remains a house proposal. It does not change the weekly Sabbath or identify it with Nisan 1. The chronology, day/night bands and Millennial Kingdom are interpretive house choices, not events dated by the sky alone.
The 40-, 243-, 1,000- and 1,920-year rings share selected anchors and are not statistically independent evidence. “Only,” “unique” and rarity claims require a declared event definition, complete search space and allowance for the periods, dates and frames selected after inspection. A catalogue match or a devotional correspondence alone does not provide a probability or establish the chronology.
Model references: [1] Astronomy Engine documentation and source · [2] PyEphem documentation. The supplied catalogue remains provisional; a model citation is not independent reproduction of its submitted search.