SIGN: TAURUS April 20 – May 20
- Hebrew Month: IYYAR (2rd month of the Hebrew & Star Calendar Year)
- Israelite: SIMEON (2nd born to Jacob (Yacob: Israel)
- Breastplate Stone: CARBUNCLE / GARNET (2rd Breastplate Stone)
- Modern birthstone : EMERALD
- Season: SPRING
- Angels: ASHMODEI & ARIEL
The Hebrew calendar is the calendar that coincides with the astrological months of the star signs, making March the first month of the year; not the third. And February the last month and not the second month of the year.
In the Torah, Iyyar is called “the second month”Iyyar usually falls in April-May on the Gregorian calendar. Beginning with Rosh Chodesh (the first day of the month), the month always last 29 days. This month falls between the great month of redemption (Nissan) and the great month of revelation (Sivan), and is primarily remembered as the “month of passage”.
The word Iyyar in Hebrew is an acronym for the phrase Ani Hashem Rophecha, which means, “I am God, your Healer.” It is a month that is especially auspicious for all forms of healing. The manna that fell from heaven and sustained the Jews in the desert for 40 years fell on the 15th of Iyyar. This food spiritually brought awareness of the degree to which The Most High is involved in our material needs. Having the consciousness of the degree to which The Most High is involved in our lives, and the degree to which our deeds affect our fate. Trusting in the Most High to be actualized by our day-to-day reliance upon Him for our food.
The star sign of Iyyar is Taurus, an ox eating grass. The ox is an animal of great strength (in fact the ox is the strongest of the domesticated animals) eating, growing and progressing. According to the Book of Genesis, Simeon (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן orˈsɪmiən, Modern Shim’on, Tiberian Šim‘ōn) was, the second son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Simeon. In the Testament of Simeon line 3; Simeon tells his children that he was strong; shrank from no achievement, nor was I afraid of anything.
BIRTHSTONES
A carbuncle is a term used in English for any red gemstone, though most often for the red garnet. Garnet is said to have been one of the twelve stones in the Breastplate of the High Priest. And is used in various places in the bible.
- Exodus 28:17 and 39:10 both refer to the carbuncle’s use as the third stone in the breastplate of the Hoshen.
- Ezekiel 28:13 refers to the carbuncle’s presence in the Garden of Eden.
- Isaiah 54:12 uses carbuncle to convey the value of the Lord’s blessing [and promise to] His faithful barren woman servant: (KJV Is 54:1) “Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child;”) Her husband and Maker is God, “Thy Maker is thine husband.” (Is 54:5 KJV)
- “And I will make thy her windows of agates, and thy her gates of carbuncles, and all thy her borders of pleasant stones.”
Garnet has been used as a sacred stone by the Native American Indians, the South American Indians, the Aztecs, the African tribal elders, and the Mayans. It acts with speed to expand one’s awareness due to the flash of lightening contained within, and enhances one’s internal fire to bring creative powers to implementation.
Garnet is also known for its utilization of creative energy. It grounds spirit forces within the body and helps in the ability to work lovingly on the physical plane. Yet Garnet is a sensual stone. It represents primordial fire, the creation of the world out of chaos, purification and love. It is a stone of strong, intense feelings.
The distinctive title Garnet is derived from the Latin name Granatum, a pomegranate, because of the resemblance the granular varieties of Garnet bears to the seeds of that fruit. Garnets vary in size from a grain of sand to the size of an apple. According to the Roman historian Pliny, the large dull-colored “Carbunculus of India” (a variety of Garnet) used to be hollowed out into vessels which would hold as much as a pint.
The modern birthstone the Emerald is a valuable and highly prized grassy-green variety of beryl. Emeralds were well known among the people of the Bible lands. One of the earliest known source of emerald were mines located near the Red Sea in Egypt. There is evidence that these mines were in operation as early as 1650 BC (the time that the Hebrew people would have been in Egypt). Later these mines became known as Cleopatra’s Mines, who was quite fond of emeralds and was reported to wear them to enhance her beauty. Emeralds were engraved with her likeness and given as gifts to her guests. The word emerald comes from the Greek word smaragdos by way of the French word for emerald esmeralde and simply means “green gemstone.” The emerald (Gr. smaragdos) is the fourth stone of the New Jerusalem. Most scholars agree that the emerald was the stone meant here. According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, the Hebrew word for emerald is most likely bareqet, which is the third stone in the first row of the High Priests’ breastplate.
Sayings: “To Be Green with Envy”
(Ex 28:20, 39:13, Ezek 28:13, Rev 4:3, 21:18)
The emerald called the “Stone of Successful Love,” Emerald opens and nurtures the heart and the Heart Chakra. Its soothing energy provides healing to all levels of the being, bringing freshness and vitality to the spirit. A stone of inspiration and infinite patience, it embodies unity, compassion and unconditional love. Emerald promotes friendship, balance between partners, and is particularly known for providing domestic bliss, contentment and loyalty. Emerald is also a stone of great vision and intuition, associated with the eyes and sight, long believed to foretell future events and reveal one’s truths. It is a stone of wisdom, enhancing memory and increasing mental clarity. It combines intelligence with discernment, and brings to the conscious mind what is unconsciously known.
Ashmodei: Angel of Patience. Dominion angel over the sign of Taurus. Inspires patience, practicality and physical comfort.
Ariel: Angel of Nature
MONTH OF IYYAR IN THE BIBLE
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
[ Manna and Quail ] The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.
[ The Census ] The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said:
and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,
but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
[ The Israelites Leave Sinai ] On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law.
[ Solomon Builds the Temple ] In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord.
In charge of the division for the second month was Dodai the Ahohite; Mikloth was the leader of his division. There were 24,000 men in his division.
He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
The king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month.
A very large crowd of people assembled in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month.
They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the temple of the Lord.
In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the Lord.
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