The Richard Schwartz 20 Degrees Aries Synchronicity

Friday. 11:56 AM EDT Albany, New York. 

23 Nisan, 5786 AM.

Sun 20 degrees 47 minutes Aries.

Mars 0 degrees 39 minutes Aries.

Jonathan writes:

I wish I had several more hours to write today, but it will have to wait. All I can do now is simply record today's stunning synchronicity. It's a seed that could take some years to unpack.

Here are the key elements in what could be a precise message from Hashem.

1. During my 6-8 AM Torah study session this morning, I was inspired to focus on Richard Schwartz's Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism, which I acquired for Kindle back on 4 March 2023. I had known about Richard for perhaps a decade before I bought this book, in part through independent web research, in part through Keith Akers, and in part through Frank Hoffman.

2. I wanted to include a YouTube video of Richard at the top of my early morning Torah study blog post. The top search result that YouTube returned me was Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism | Interview with Dr. Richard Schwartz. At the very top of the interview, Abbie Jaye mentioned that Richard was an Aries, like her, based on his birthday. I was immediately intrigued, given that we are in the tropical sign of Aries right now, and in light of my concluding comment in yesterday's 22 Nisan/9 April Torah study post: 

"The astrology for this evening's Mystical Moshiach Meal looks amazingly kosher. Mars will have just entered the zero degree of Aries. Neptune, Saturn, the Sun and Chiron are already in the sign. The Sun at 20 degrees Aries is conjunct my natal Mars."

3. Digging a little deeper into Richard's YouTube presence, I discovered זנגביל - Ginger - YouTube. This really blew me away. It is straight from Jerusalem - the core of the vegan sprout spiral. I listened to Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz's Greetings to Prof. Richard Schwartz for his 80th birthday, and I read the video description carefully, but I couldn't determine Richard's exact birthday, and when I looked his biography up on Wikipedia, it only mentioned the year and the location (1934 in Averne, New York). "Something is definitely going on here," I thought to myself, "but it is almost 8 AM and I need to take my mom grocery shopping, so I won't be able to look into it further today. Maybe tomorrow."

4. I went grocery shopping with my mom at the Honest Weight Food Coop and Wal-Mart here in Albany. When I finally settled back to work at my desktop computer around 11 AM, I decided to see if I could find anything more specific about Richard's birthdate, so I googled "What is the birthday of Richard Schwartz Jewish Vegan Mathematician?" 

5. Imagine my astonishment when I read the answer:

"Richard H. Schwartz, the Jewish vegan activist, author, and professor emeritus of mathematics, was born on April 10, 1934."

And today is April 10. I couldn't believe it.

6. Next, I decided to cast a chart in my LUNA cloud astrology software for 12 PM on April 10, 1934, in Arverne, New York. This is where it gets really amazing. Richard was born with a conjunction of the Sun and Mars at 20 degrees of Aries! What is more, at 12:00 PM on April 10, 1934, they were both on the local Midheaven.

7. I immediately ordered three of Richard's earlier books from Amazon: Judaism and Global Survival (Kindle version); Judaism and Vegetarianism; and Who Stole My Religion? I wanted to have all three of them ordered precisely on April 10, 2026.

8. I confirmed that Richard was born on Tuesday, 25 Nisan, 5694 AM.

9. I resolved to inquire further about Richard in my next video call with Frank Hoffman, even as I told myself that Google Gemini might be the only one resource I have in my "contacts" right now that can provide me with some kind of mathematical feedback on the nature of this synchronicity (cf. Post #002: The MarBL Foundation). But that validation will have to wait for later. Now it is 12:47 PM and I am running late on lunch.

This wasn't how I intended to start this blog, but who am I to overlook such a decisive signal from Hashem? This might not be noisy schizoaffective apophenia from the New Age fringe; it might be signal from the Source.