Iyyar 5777/5778 Biblical Month 2 May

Iyyar 5777 Biblical Month 2

Note: The Jewish days are off by 1 day due to the Month of Abib beginning on a 4^th day instead of on Day 3 which this calendar goes by.

Zif (Heb. Ziw; brightness), or I'jar (Iyyar) (2 Chron 30:2), eighth month of the civil year.

Bloom Month  Hodesh Ziw (I Kgs 6:1,37) 1Ki_6:1  And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

968 BC  Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

967 BC Psalm for Solomon (2Ch 1) Psalm 72; Solomon Asks for Wisdom 2 Chronicles 1, 1 Kings 3; Psalm of Korah (1Ki 3) Psalm 45; Solomon's Wisdom    1 Kings 4; Solomon's Preparations for the Temple     1 Kings 5; 4th year of Solomon's reign.

967, 966, 960, 980  (1019) BC  The Building of Solomon's Temple  1 Kings 6:1; The Building of Solomon's Palace  1 Kings 7; The Ark Brought to the Temple  1 Kings 8; God's covenant with Solomon  1 Kings  9;  Solomon Prepares for a Temple and Palace 2 Chronicles 2; Solomon Builds the Temple in Jerusalem    2 Chronicles 3; Temple Furnishings  2 Chronicles 4. Foundation of Temple laid in the 4th year of Solomon's reign 480th year after the Exodus. As Anstey noted, "The 480 years of 1Kings 6:1 being the sum of the periods enumerated, omitting the six servitudes, the usurpation, and the two concurrent judgeships. Total: 480 years of Israel governed by God + 114 years of servitude and usurpation = 594 years".

961  Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

 Iyyar  29 days  April-May  Summer Weather in Israel: showers and thunderstorms are rare (I Sam. 12:17-18). Sky generally cloudless till end of summer. Crops: Principal harvest month in lower districts. Barley harvest general (Ruth 1:22); wheat ripening on the uplands; apricots ripen. In Jordan Valley hot winds destroy vegetation.

 Gen 1:14; Lk 21:25-26. Signs in the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

Abib 30^th. Rosh Chodesh Iyyar; April 27.

Iyyar 1. Rosh Chodesh Iyyar.  New Moon (Num 1:18). Mercury/Uranus Conjunction in Pisces.

 Num_1:18  And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second  month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

2437 (2460) 1489 BCE  Jasher 81:4 "And at the end of 210 years, the Lord brought forth the children of Israel from Egypt"                

                          1487 Sabbath Year (Shemitah)

1488 timeframe for Numbers 1:18

 Iyyar 2. April 28

2Ch_3:2  And he began to build in the second  day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. Solomon’s Temple.

Ezr_3:8  Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

Iyyar 3. Shabbat. Tazri'a-Metzora; Lev 12:1-15:33; II Kgs 7:3-20;

 Iyyar 5. Day 2. Yom Hazikaron;  Yom HaZikaron Lechalalei Ma'arachot Yisrael; Israel's Memorial Day; Israel Defense Forces Memorial Day - Special memorial prayers are said.

Iyyar 6. Day 3. Yom Ha'Atzma'ut; Israel's Independence Day; Fast of three days for excesses during Passover.

Iyyar 8. Day 5. Moon occults (cover’s over) Regulus in Leo.

Iyyar 9. Day 6. Aqurids. Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower. The Eta Aquarids is an above average shower, capable of producing up to 60 meteors per hour at its peak. Most of the activity is seen in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, the rate can reach about 30 meteors per hour. It is produced by dust particles left behind by comet Halley, which has known and observed since ancient times. The shower runs annually from April 19 to May 28. It peaks this year on the night of May 6 and the morning of the May 7. The waxing gibbous moon will block out many of the fainter meteors this year. But if you are patient, you should be able to catch quite a few of the brighter ones. Best viewing will be from a dark location after midnight. Meteors will radiate from the constellation Aquarius, but can appear anywhere in the sky. www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2017.html

Iyyar 10. Shabbat.  Acharei Mote-Kedoshim; Lev 16:1-20:27; Amos 9:7-15; Fast for death of Eli and capture of Ark (I Sam. 4:11-17).

Iyyar 11. Day 1. Jupiter (King planet) kissing the Moon (Queen). Conjunction.

Iyyar 14. Day 4. Pesach Sheni "Second" or "little" Passover, for those unable to celebrate in Abib; in memory of entering the wilderness (Ex 16:1). Full Moon. Flower Moon.

Num_9:11  The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

2Ch_30:2  For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

2Ch_30:13  And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

2Ch_30:15  Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

715 BC    Hezekiah proclaims a solemn Passover  2 Chron 30; Idolatry is Destroyed  2 Chron 31

                                    715 BCE–c. 687 BCE  King Hezekiah of Judah

                        715-660   Manasseh (Judah)

The Seed Moon. This moon has also been known as the Full Corn Planting Moon and the Milk Moon.

This is a time for Growth.

In the calendar system we have provided as an example, this moon is most often called the Seed Moon. This name is meant to indicate the season most appropriate for planting the seeds of that which you hope will flourish in the coming season of growth and fertility.
This is a time of openings. The earth opens to receive new seed, the leaves of the seedlings open to receive the nurturing of the sunlight, and you, too, can open to receive the best of whatever new insights and blessings the spring of a new year has to offer.

This moon traditionally holds celebrations that echo the theme of openings and new growth and discovery also. This moon often holds The Festival of the Lady or the Annunciation which is a celebration of the conception of the light which will be born to the world around December 25th.

Sometimes Easter and Passover (both movable celebrations) are found to fall within this moon phase as well as April Fools Day, a whole day set aside to allow for new perceptions and new ways of looking at things by allowing the Lord of Misrule, or Loki, or Hermes the Trickster, to upset the natural order of things through the playing of practical jokes and generally upsetting the applecart of conventionality.

Whether you know this as the Seed Moon, The Flower Moon, or the Willow Moon, you know this moon as significant of the renewal and regeneration and eager energy of growth found in springtime.
Sacred to all the deities associated with spring such as Eostre, Aphrodite, Tellus Mater (The patron of environmental concerns), Ceres, Persephone, and a whole host of others, this moon exhorts us to "OPEN UP".

Iyyar 17. Shabbat. Emor; Lev 21:1-24:23; Ezk 44:15-31;

Iyyar 18. Day 1. Lag BaOmer;

     Break in the mourning period for the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva (2nd century). Only day in 49-day period when weddings permitted.

Iyyar 19.  Day 2. Comet C/2015 Panstarrs.

Iyyar 20. Day 3. Num_10:11  And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

1488 BCE timeframe.

Iyyar 21. Day 4. Mercury reaches longest elongation.

May 17 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation. The planet Mercury reaches greatest western elongation of 25.8 degrees from the Sun. This is the best time to view Mercury since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the morning sky. Look for the planet low in the eastern sky just before sunrise. www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2017.html

Iyyar 23. Day 6. Feast for taking of Gaza by S. Maccabeus; for taking and purification of the Temple by the Maccabees.

Iyyar 24. Sabbath Be-har-Be-Chukkotai; Lev 25:1-27:34; Jer. 16:19-17:14;

Iyyar 27. Day 2. Feast for the expulsion of the Galileans from Jerusalem;

Iyyar 28. Day 4. Yom Yerushalayim
Jerusalem Reunification Day. Many add special thanksgiving prayers and celebratory feast.
Fast for the death of Samuel (I Sam 25:1);

A few days after the furious storms and tornado that closed down customs in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, this fierce hailstorm hit the North Territory of Baja California – again close to the boarder with the USA – on May 24, 2017. The sound of these huge hailstones falling like bullets from the sky is so terrifying:
strangesounds.org/2017/05/like-bullets-falling-from-the-sky-apocalyptical-hailstorms-mexico-turkey-video.html

Iyyar 29. Day 5. Closes Perigee of the Moon of 5777. Perigee: The closest approach of the moon to the earth.

alertaperiodismoalternativo/videos/1928623684020759/ hailstorm in Turkey either on May 24th or May 25.

1^st Sivan Rosh Choesh Sivan.

We are presently in a lull before the next wave, when Nibiru’s magnetosphere reaches us sometime in September/October.