[mdmathis6]

That was the “sense” of the phrase I was asking about(a seen star in the east vs “we of the east have seen his star”.

How ever I do believe the star looked and stayed “fixed” no matter what time of season and what time of night...that is what would have captured their attention since the heavenly bodies appear to move thru the night as well as thru the seasons except this
star...much in the same way Moses kept looking at the burning bush(many such bushes would catch fire in that region because of the oil resins and the intense heat of the sun) and kept looking before realizing that the bush wasn’t being consumed.

I believe the star came out and stayed fixed and may have done so for nearly 2 years....hence Herod ordering the destruction of children 2 years or younger, planning those ages based on having learned for what time the star had appeared before the Magi had arrived. Heavenly bodies normally shift with the time of night and with the seasons...this was no ordinary anomaly they were looking at...but it may have taken 2 years to really get a look at the star, watch it’s apparent lack of position changes before deciding that something extraordinary was happening that needed to be investigated.

[imardmd1]

Do some reasearch, and you will see that they had to be looking south, and had to go south (follow the star) when it ceased to appear for a few minutes at night above the horizon; the star being the brightest of the Southern Cross constellation, which is a physical symbol of the Roman Torture engine.

And south from where? Well, northerly from Bethlehem (which is a hundred feet or so in altitude above Jerusalem. So it is not goofy for them to be from what is now "Turkey," th location of Padan-Aram (Genesis 25:20), the Plain of Aram, where the outflow of descendants coming down from Mt. Ararat a few miles away found arable land to raise flocks, herds, and to farm for food. These then also perpetuated the truths from the holy man Noah, who knew Jehovah personally, receiving wisdom and prophecy from Him; doubtless the clear prophecy of the blood sacrifices for the remission of sins, and typified by the then clearly visible sign of the Southern Cross symbol appearing from the heights of the crags of the Chaldee mountains, but generation by generation drawing theologians and their astrographers more anfd more to the south to keep it in view, as well as its eternal promise of a Savior from sins.