Counteracting the Negative Energies of Celestial Bodies

Our sages said that the Moon, Mars, and Saturn were affiliated with negative spiritual energy. The celebration of the ראש חודש (against the Moon), the practice of male circumcision (against Mars), and Observance of the שבת (against Saturn) are how we counteract the negative energy associated with these 3 Celestial Objects. When the Hellenists wanted to spiritually weaken the nation of Israel, they banned these practices. The Greeks were obviously not Jewish but understood this.

Years ago, I learned about how the Celestial Bodies (planets, stars, etc.) were viewed by ancient cultures. It’s interesting how the day after I reviewed the 7 visible Celestial Objects (Moon, Mars, etc.).. Yes, they were used for idolatry. Pagans named various days of the week based on these 7 Celestial Objects. They attributed deities to them. Where do you think “Sunday” comes from? Languages, such as Spanish, reserves more of Roman Pagan names for most of their day names except like Hebrew and Arabic, they call Saturday after שבת.

It’s obvious what these planets represented. Could it be a coincidence that Saturn was attributed as a “resting” planet? All of the original, ancient Middle Eastern cultures affiliated this celestial object with “rest”. And from them, the Greeks and Romans did too. The Hebrew name for planet Saturn has the same shoresh as “Shabbat”. And we all can figure what Mars represents. Even the Pre-Roman Pagans attributed their Mars-like deity to this planet. The concepts were always the same. Tuesday was Mars’s Day.. 

The Jews have an understanding that all Celestial Objects (“the luminaries”) where put up there by the Creator. They have significance. They have a purpose. However, some people took it too far and started worshiping these objects that the Almighty had brought forth. These people are called Idolaters. There’s a good reason why we Jews don’t use the planetary names for the names of Days. Instead we use numbers for the week plus Shabbos. Our sages said that the Moon, Mars, and Saturn were affialited with negative spiritual energy. The celebration of the new moon, male circumcision, and Sabbath is how we counteract the negative energy affiliated with these celestial bodies. 

The Nazi officials were involved in various occults and also acknowledged the significance of Astrology. They even abducted a Swiss Astrologer in the era where the human race had discovered Pluto and attributed it to death.

Why was Idolatry such an issue back in the day? It’s like any of us want to run to a totem pole and kiss it. Right? Well, actually, the desire that our ancestors had for idols was almost like a sexual attraction. It had a crave. Much like anything powerful, there is a force involved with it. So back in ancient times, things like gems and witchcraft could actually manipulate us in strange ways we could never imagine. After the Purim story, we fasted to Ha-Kadosh Barukh-Hu and asked him to change the playing field by getting rid of our attraction to foreign worship. We fasted and prayed…and he listened to our prayers.

However, the change of the field wasn’t unilateral. We ended up losing the ability to have holy Prophecy like that of Daniel. Good and Evil were both weakened. All of our enemies from then – onward – were those that were more humanistic in their force. You don’t see Xtians going around and using gems to manipulate life and death. Now, the world’s powers haven’t been completely erased but rather that its more hidden in the world. Even the miracles of the Chanuakkah story was an example of the hidden abilities of our Creator. His own Holy Name uses the letters of smaller value (all of which can act as silent letters) thus showing how the Creator of The Universe can be hidden in this world.