Lesson 009 – Virgo

The Seed of the Woman Virgo – Converting the Soul

The “Grace of the Branch” introduced in Libra is fully apprehended in the sign Virgo. 

In the sign of the virgin, Virgo is the Seed carrier for the promised ‘Seed-Life’ that would come and bring life everlasting.  The name of the sign has a double implication.  Virgo means “A Virgin” and Virga means “A Branch.”  In the more ancient languages, the same meanings are unmistakable; not only is the woman a virgin, but she is a virgin mother.  

The prophecy of the woman and her promised Seed is first mentioned in Genesis 3:15.  In this verse the woman is presented only as a woman; but in later prophecies in the scriptures, she is recognized as “A Virgin,” a reference to the twelve tribes of the nation Israel unto whom the “child is born and … a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6). 

Other sign names include “The Virgin,” “Maid of Virgin,” “Pureness,” “The Pure Virgin,” “An Ear of Corn,” and “The Place of the Desired Branch.” 

Star names in Virgo include “Ear of Corn” or the “Seed of Corn,” “The Seed,” “The Branch Who Shall Come Down” or “Who Shall Have Dominion,” “The Deliverer” or “Branch Who Cometh,” “The Son,” and “Gloriously Beautiful.” 

All life comes from seed; if there is no life within the seed, a body of flesh will not be brought forth after the seed is planted in the earth.  

In the message of the luminaires, the virgin woman is holding a branch in each of her hands.  Two of the star names in the constellation Virgo are “The Branch” and “The Son.”  In her left hand, she holds a branch of grain in a downward position; in her right hand, she holds the same branch minus the ears of corn lifted upward.  In typology, the right hand is symbolic of power and fellowship. 

In the Hebrew, the first star of the constellation is “Zerah” referring to the seed held in her left hand.  The Latin name is “Spica,” which is a term used for a cluster of seeds in a head of wheat or barley grain and is the name most used on modern star charts. 

One of the star names has the ancient meaning of “The Branch” and points to the grain Seed that she holds as “The Branch.”  Thus the personal identity of Him who was to be the Seed of the woman is connected with the prophecies of “The Branch”; “The Branch” of the family tree of the nation of Israel is the bough of Life – the incorruptible Seed, the Word of God. 

The ears of corn, translated wheat in the gospel of John, speak of the Coming One who called Himself the Corn of Wheat (John 12:24) which falls into the ground and dies in order to bring forth fruit of life everlasting – bodies of spirit being, bodies of glory in the image of God. 

“The Branch” “(Zerah)” is the Hebrew word used in Genesis 3:15 where the “seedbed” of prophecy is found.  A seedbed is a plot of ground in which seeds and seedlings are cultivated.  Within this verse are multiple generations of seed:  The woman and her seed (the Jews), the nation Israel; the serpent and his seed (those who willingly follow him), and Christ and His seed.  Prophetically speaking, they are “in” the seedbed. 

God prepared a body for the Coming One, the incorruptible Seed.  As the birthed son of God, Jesus’ body of humanity was prepared in the womb of a virgin by means of the Holy Spirit coming upon her and the power of the Highest overshadowing her (Luke 1:35). 

The mortal body of the Branch was the seed coat of flesh - "barley grain" - the lowest form of the seed grains and the least expensive.  However, this seed coat of flesh, "barley grain," was enlifed by the Father through the channel of the Holy Spirit and thereby the seed coat housed the germ of Life - Seed for Life everlasting, "wheat grain," making it the highest form and most expensive of the grains. 

In the realm of the natural, a man needs a channel to transmit seed.  The Holy Spirit is the channel of the Father to enlife the mortal body with the power of an endless Life.  The body of flesh and bone and blood is the seed coat for the Seed for a forever-living body - a body of flesh and bone and spirit.  The Life of the body of glory is not blood but the Life that God is, Spirit being.  

The star name in the “resurrected” branch in the right hand of Virgo is known as “The Son.”  Resurrected from the dead, God’s birthed Son, “The Branch,” “The Son” of His love, is the first begotten Son of God, the first born from the dead, “The Son” in the image of God who is the King heir of the kingdom of God and the High Priest of the royal priesthood. 

Zechariah 6:12-13:  “…Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and He shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:  Even He shall build the temple of the LORD; and He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne:  and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.’” 

Zechariah 3:8c says, “…behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.”  

Jeremiah 23:5:  “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous BRANCH (i.e., a Son), and a King shall reign and prosper…”  The king heir is the man whose name is the BRANCH, the servant of Jehovah.  

The first decan in Virgo is “Coma.”  The decan is known as “The Desired” or “Longed For.” 

The star names and star-chart drawings of the stellar sign of Virgo, the virgin, and her decan “Coma,” the virgin, reveal two women – one Seed.  This begs the question of how is it that two virgins are in the sign of Virgo.  How can there be two women and only one Seed?  

In the stellar sign, Virgo is the woman, the nation Israel; and the decan “Coma” is the Jewish virgin mother, Mary, who conceives and bears a son – identified in Isaiah 7:14 as Immanuel, God with us.  Immanuel is Spirit being of Deity clothed in a garment of flesh.  Thus, the Child born to the Jewish Virgin Mary prepared in the womb  by means of the power of the Highest overshadowing her is the “Son” given, the “Branch” of the nation Israel (Isaiah 9:6) – the “Longed For Son,” “the Desired” of all nations. 

Star names identified with “Coma” are “Who Bears” and “The Virgin Who Carries.”  The decan names emphasize “the Desired” or “Longed For” ruler of the nations.  Although Israel’s Messiah, Jesus the Christ of God - the Covenant Son is not recognized or acknowledged by the other nations or Israel as “the Desired” or “Longed For,” He is the universal ruler of all the earth - God’s realm of authority - the heavens declare it. 

When the “Longed For” “Son,” “the Desired,” returns to set up His kingdom of God on earth, Israel on that day will look on Him whom she pierced, and mourn Him, as her only son (Zechariah 12:10, John 19:37).  As a regenerate nation, she will be the virgin that the sign of Virgo declares she is.  In her history as a nation, she played the harlot and had many lovers; but on the day of her redemption, she will be a virgin who has never known a man and receives her “Longed For” and “Desired” King.  

The second decan in the constellation Virgo is Centaurus also known as “The Despised Sin Offering.” 

Several star names identified with “Centaurus” are the “Heretofore” and the “Hereafter,” “The Pierced” or “Who Pierces” and “The Appointed Dies,” and “The Bruised.”  “Heretofore” – up to now, Jesus as the “Despised One” – the despised sin offering rejected of men, “Pierced” would not appear as a conqueror, but “Hereafter” at His second coming, all that has been accomplished by the grace of God will be made manifest.  

God will destroy all enemies.  The last enemy death, (1Corinthians 15:26) the false prophets (Ezekiel 34) who have followed the false prophet and the man of lawlessness will be judged and found guilty.  The false prophet and the man of lawlessness will be cast into the lake of fire.  

“Centaurus” is situated directly over the “Cross,” the first decan of Libra.  The cross speaks of life out from the dead, giving the reader insight into the truth that the “Pierced” will also be the one “Who Pierces” all the enemies of God and rises as the conqueror, the power of God unto salvation. 

“The Branch” of the woman and the Conqueror “Centaurus” portray the same message of salvation.  The Law of God’s word, which is able to convert the soul, says you must be born again (John 3:3).  The issue is obedience to this truth. 

“For by one offering He (Jesus) hath perfected forever them that are sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14).  By the obedience of the one offering of Himself, Jesus put to death the power of death to hold the body and the lawlessness that masterfully rules the creation of men.  

The last prophetic revelation in the constellation Virgo is the third decan “Bootes” also known as “The Herdsman – He Who Is Coming.”  Stars names identified with “Bootes” are “The Shepherd’s Crook,” “The Preserver” or “Guardian,” “The Pierced,” “Who Bruises,” “Who Separates,” and “The Most Beautiful.” 

A shepherd is a guide to His flock.  He subdues, rules and governs them.  The tool of the shepherd’s authority is his rod and staff.  The shepherd’s rod and his staff are the same instrument, but they are used differently.  The instrument is a “branch” that has been cut off from its life source.  Cut off, the branch is known as a rod.  The shepherd’s rod is a weapon used against enemies and his staff is the symbol of authority to discipline his flock.  The shepherd’s staff shows the concern and compassion that he has for His flock and is a symbol of comfort and longsuffering. 

“Bootes” is the resurrected Shepherd King Priest, “The Branch” – “The Son,” who comes to be the guardian of His own.  “The Branch” of the family tree, the rod of God’s authority becomes the staff of comfort and longsuffering.  The reigning power and authority of the kingdom will be peace and righteousness.  This kingdom will have absolute rest from its enemies.  The Shepherd King Priest is the guardian of the flock or household of God.  

Two of the star names in “Bootes” convey the idea of the ingathering of a crop.  The star name “He Who Bruises” is identified in the star charts with a sickle in the left hand.  The star name “Who Separates” has the sense of separating sheep from goats and is located in the left “calf” of the Shepherd King Priest in this decan.  This adds the thought of harvest.  The sickle is a tool used to gather the acceptable grain at harvest time. 

After the war of the great day of God Almighty (Revelation 16:14), the day of the Lord, the Son of Man, the Covenant Son, the Sovereign Shepherd King Priest will separate the sheep from the goats.  “He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left … Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:33-41).  

Thus, the kingdom of God will be set up on the earth.  The wheat of His crop, the sons of God redeemed in bodies of glory will include both Old Testament saints who were promised an inheritance of a kingdom and the tribulation saints.  The Old Testament saints will administer the government of God on earth.  The Old Testament saints will be “harvested” from paradise and given bodies of glory because they received the righteousness of God by believing into the Coming One (Christ) (Daniel 12:2-3; Isaiah 24:23). 

The tribulation saints also will receive their bodies of glory and reign with the Old Testament saints; both assemblies will be alive from the dead and will reign with Christ. 

The star name in the head of the decan “Bootes,” “Pierced,” is carried over from the previous decan “Centaurus.”  This carrying over of the name is the revelation that the Coming Shepherd Priest is also the One who was “Pierced” and it is “He Who Bruises.”  This is the first mention of bruising in the star signs.  It brings to remembrance the prophecy of Genesis 3:15:  “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.”  

This prophecy of Israel’s Shepherd King, the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep, was accomplished not as Israel’s King but as the Son of Man, the Seed of the Woman.  The next sign of Leo gives further insight into the bruising of the serpent’s head and the heel of the Seed of the woman. 

Thus, the names in the constellation Virgo give a complete beginning and ending pictorial of “The Grace of the Branch” to convert the soul.  Virgo fully expresses the awesomeness of God’s love and plan for man – may all who hear it and see it, say “yes” to it.  “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul” (Psalm 19:7).  Amen!!

Glossary for Virgo

Names of the Stellar sign of Virgo: 

“The Virgin”

“Maid of Virgin”

“Pureness”

“The Pure Virgin”

“An Ear of Corn”

“The Place of the Desired Branch”  

Star Names in Stellar sign of Virgo: 

“Ear of Corn” or the “Seed of Corn”

“The Seed”

“The Branch Who Shall Come Down” or “Who Shall Have Dominion”

“The Deliverer” or “Branch Who Cometh” and

“The Son”

“Gloriously Beautiful” 

“Zerah” – seed held in Virgo’s left hand.

“Spica” – the term used for a cluster of seeds in a head of wheat or barley grain. 

Names of Decans in Virgo: 

“Coma” – known as “The Desired” or “Longed For.” 

Star Names Identified with Coma:

“Who Bears”

“The Virgin Who Carries”

“Centaurus” – known as “The Despised Sin Offering.” 

Star Names identified with Centaurus:

“Heretofore”

“Hereafter”

“The Pierced”

“Who Pierces”

“The Appointed Dies”

“The Bruised” 

“Bootes” – known as “The Herdsman – He Who Is Coming.” 

Star Names identified with “Bootes”: 

“The Shepherd’s Crook,”

“The Preserver”

“Guardian”

“The Pierced”

“Who Bruises”

“Who Separates”

“The Most Beautiful” 

Virga means “A Branch.”  

Virgo means “A Virgin.”