I’m a mathematician by degree so numerology isn’t really my thing. It’s way too arbitrary, especially when considering that it wasn’t until a 6th century monk became obsessed with tracking Easter that the benchmark of calling the “year” of Christ’s birth as the year 0.
Herod was dead by then so that’s obviously not the case. Herod died coincidentally with a lunar eclipse. There were two in early 1 BC. There was another in 4 BC.
Bible scholars have suggested that Revelation 12:1:5 is an astrological record of “the star of Bethlehem”. Signs like Virgo, Leo, Scorpio, Hydra, Ophiuchus, and others may be what that passage is describing. Different theories suggest that confluence of astrological events took place either on 9/11/3 BC or 9/15/7 BC.
That would’ve made more sense since Herod had to be alive. Also, no wise man is traveling in December back then. Traveling back then was not something one did on a whim. They knew this was coming based on their astrology charts. They prepared to travel for some time in advance in order to get to the right place at the right time.
Also, Luke 2:8…most shepherds aren’t going to be camping out overnight in the fields keeping watch over their flocks. It gets down to 50F at that place at that time of year. December makes no sense. The Romans put that holiday there to cover up Saturnalia/New Years/winter solstice just like they put John the Baptist’s feast day on top of the summer solstice, and used All Saints Day to time-economically attack the old Roman feast day called Lemuria (May 13) before moving All Saints Day to coincide with Samhain(Halloween).
There’s astrology symbolism everywhere in Christianity. There’s Kabbalah in it. There’s Hinduism in it. There’s Taoism in it. True Christianity is aligned with the perennial philosophy.
By the way, the “star in the east” referenced in the Bible is more than likely a mistranslation of what is known in astrology as one’s “rising” or “ascendant” sign, which is the sign that is “rising” on the EASTERN horizon at any given moment in time.